precalciner
English
editEtymology
editFrom precalcine + -er.
Noun
editprecalciner (plural precalciners)
- (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.
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