Cement Production Technology: Principles and Practice

by Anjan Kumar Chatterjee

Overview

This comprehensive guide covers the complete cement production process—from raw material extraction to finished products. The new edition incorporates recent technological advances while maintaining focus on established practices and underlying principles. Key updates include alternative fuels and raw materials, carbon capture and utilization trends, and the emerging low-carbon cement sector. A new chapter explores modern automated cement plants, covering production scale, operational complexities, integrated resource planning, and manufacturing execution systems.

Key Features

• Covers cement production technology including process flow from the extraction of raw materials to the bagging and shipment of cement
• Explains back-up theoretical inputs behind the industrial practices
• Highlight the roadmap of elevating the global cement manufacturing to Industry 4.0 standard with digitalization
• Illustrates process-related quality control practices
• Explores advances in the use of urban and industrial wastes in cement manufacturing

This book is aimed at cement industry professionals and related researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040691809
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/19/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480

About the Author

Anjan Kumar Chatterjee is a Materials Scientist and has spent almost five decades in the cement and concrete industry as a researcher and a corporate executive. He completed his graduation and post-graduation studies at the Presidency College (now a University) in Kolkata, India, and later obtained his doctoral degree from the Moscow State University, Russia. He carried out his research studies at the Institute of Metallurgy in Moscow and the Building Research Establishment in the United Kingdom. His research work encompassed metal refining slags, phase equilibrium studies of the oxy-fluoride systems, cement manufacturing processes, development of blended and special-purpose cements, refractory cements and products, ready-mixed concrete production, cement and concrete materials science and chemistry, and restoration and renovation of concrete structures.

Table of Contents

1. BASICS OF MINERAL RESOURCES FOR CEMENT PRODUCTION. 2. RAW MIX PROPORTIONING, PROCESSING AND BURNABILITY ASSESSMENT. 3. FUELS COMMONLY IN USE FOR CLINKER PRODUCTION. 4. ALTERNATIVE FUELS AND RAW MATERIALS. 5. PYROPROCESSING AND CLINKER COOLING. 6. CLINKER GRINDING AND CEMENT MAKING. 7. COMPOSITION AND PROPERTIES OF PORTLAND CEMENTS. 8. ADVANCES IN PLANT-BASED QUALITY CONTROL PRACTICE. 9. ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION AND POLLUTION CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES. 10 TRENDS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN CEMENT MANUFACTURE AND APPLICATION. 11 GLOBAL AND REGIONAL GROWTH TRENDS IN CEMENT PRODUCTION.