HAVER NIAGARA

Making more products, reducing waste and cutting costs in the quarry

All Haver & Boeker OHG

1 Greatly simplified diagram of cement production, showing innovation clusters

All Haver & Boeker OHG

2 Structure of the overall plant, showing integrated armourstone production at the Kleinhammer greywacke quarry

left: 3D view of project

right: Implementation at the Kleinhammer greywacke quarry

3 Niagara DS 1600 x 5000 eccentric screening machine

4 Flow sheet for the preparation facility at Wietersdorfer & Peggauer Zementwerke GmbH’s plant in Peggau

5 Diagram in principle of the Hydro-Clean

$6 System diagram for grit-fraction preparation$

6 System diagram for grit-fraction preparation

$7 Haver Fine-Line HD 1850 x 3750 fine-fraction mechanical screens$

7 Haver Fine-Line HD 1850 x 3750 fine-fraction mechanical screens

8 Diagram in principle of clinker screening with downstream separate grinding

9 Haver Niagara clinker screen, with three decks

Illustration: Thierry Bogaert*

The first part of the Haver & Boecker “The cement plant of the future” series of articles focussed on preparation technologies. The subsequent parts examine groundbreaking solutions for storage and handling, packing, palletising and loading, ship loading, unloading and automation.

1 Introduction

Haver & Boecker has made up its mind. The company located in Oelde/Germany wants to shape the future of the cement industry. Its objective is to begin designing the cement plant of the future. First stop – Mineral Processing. The basis for quality and cost of the cement starts here. Process-engineering research in the cement industry has always aimed at

Reducing energy consumption in cement production

Optimizing quality and uniformity of produced cement, and

Minimizing emissions from the cement-production process [1, 2]

The starting point for all these goals is naturally the starting...