About the Book:

“Handbook for Designing Green Cement Plants”, second edition, addresses the challenges a cement designer faces for developing Technical concepts/designs by providing relevant guidelines focussing on installing Higher capacity cement plant Up to 12000 TPD Kin systems, 100% Pet coke utilisation and the Sustained Development initiatives taken by industry.

This book can be looked as a major source for guidelines for the basic design, Selection criteria for various options available for Cement Plant designers to Conceptualise & finalise a most suitable technology & optimal engineering solution for setting up modern cement, large Capacity (~12000 t) with various sustainable development technologies in place.

The basic Design Safety norms/standards, which are included in this edition provides as Ready Reckoner for reference to Plant Engineers (Maintenance/Process/Safety) for assessing the design adequacy of existing equipment/Plant areas for implementing immediate remedial measures (e.g. Augmenting or replacement of structural supports, working platforms, walkways, ladders etc.) to prevent accidents.

All the new sections covering various developments taken place over the last decade are well integrated and fully compliments the other design criteria and guidelines of the First Edition.  Retention of the chapters of old process technologies   such as Wet process & Semi dry process, Planetary and Rotary Coolers, makes this edition as a Comprehensive Cement Design Encyclopaedia, which covers the entire gamut of Technology & Design Development aspects of the Cement Manufacture over a period of > 100 years.

The book also provides guidelines to arrive at the expects levels usage of Energy, Raw materials, Fuels, Additives, Correctives and all utilities to enable for preparing the initial Production Cost & Capital Investment to arrive at Pre-Investment Feasibility of a greenfield/Brownfield expansion and also for Plant upgradation for Modernisation/Capacity Balancing.

This Handbook is a “Compendium of Cement Technology Development and Plant designs till year 2020”, which takes into account all concepts for Plants designs, including the  trends observed in the Cement Manufacturing in the decade 2010-20. The book can be considered as a sources of guidelines/data for Entry level/experienced technical teams of cement plant & Designers for basic sizing of all equipment, storages, Section wise Selection of Suitable Technologies, Preparation of Flowsheets, Conceptual Layout & Land/Utility Requirements.

To conclude, this book is recommended as must buy for:

?       All cement manufacturing units for as reference book for In-house Cement Plant Designers and Operation & Maintenance teams

?       Engineering Consulting Companies

?       Libraries of Engineering Colleges/Institutes, offering courses in Cement Technology/Plant designs/Chemical & Mechanical Engineering.

Contents:

Section - 1 Basics

Section - 2 Machinery Used in Making cement

Section - 3 Technoeconomic Feasibility Studies

Section - 4 Civil Design and Construction

Section - 5 Electricals and Instrumentation

Section - 6 Layouts and Detailed Engineering

Section - 7 Selecting and Ordering Machinery

Section - 8 Sustainable Development

Section - 9 Web Pages

Section 10 – Sources

Section 11 - Recommended Reading

About the Author:

Mr. Deolalkar is a first class graduate in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. He is also Associate Member of British Institute of Management.

He joined the Cement Industry in 1956 and has been associated with it for more than six decades.

He has had firsthand experience in cement plants in erection, operation and commissioning in ACC. Mr. Deolalkar then worked for 23 years in AVB -ACC's division of making cement machinery.

           He has been associated with designing cement plants ranging from 300 to 3000 TPD capacities and including the latest in process and machinery on the way. The first indigenously designed cement plant of 3000 TPD capacity containing, 5 stage preheaterfluid bed calciner, vertical mills for raw materials and coal, esps for kiln, coal mill and clinker cooler was designed under his leadership.

Since 1987, Mr. Deolalkar has been working as Consultant from Hyderabad. He helped a great many mini cement plants with rotary kiln to increase their capacities by adding a second stream of preheater, calciner, and grate cooler.

           Mr. Deolalkar was associated with National Institutes related to cement industry like National Council for Cement and Building Materials, Cement Research Institute, National Committee for Science and Technology, Bureau of Indian Standards and others. He also served as Secretary of Cement Machinery Manufacturers' Association for some time.

He has also written a number of papers in National and International Publications.