precalciner

English

Etymology

From precalcine +‎ -er.

Noun

precalciner (plural precalciners)

1. (cement manufacturing) A chamber in which rawmix is heated and partially calcined prior to entering the cement kiln.
   • 1999, “Cement Manufacturing”, in Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook, 1998: Toward Cleaner Production, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank Group, →ISBN, page 275, column 1:

     The dry process, using preheaters and precalciners, is both economically and environmentally preferable to the wet process because the energy consumption—200 joules per kilogram (J/kg)—is approximately half that for the wet process.

Related terms

• calciner

 

Further reading

• precalciner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia