OPTING FOR Marco Rovetta, CTP Team, considers how cement producers could work towards achieving carbon neutrality, starting with the optimisation of existing plant equipment.
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educing the cement industry’s carbon footprint involves two challenges – optimising the efficiency of equipment and recycling wasted energy which, in the cement industry, is concentrated in the excess heat from the manufacturing process. The primary actions to reduce industrial emissions and protect the environment began around 50 years ago, and technologies were developed that, seen with today’s eyes, have had a considerable impact on the balance of the environmental sustainability of the cement plant.
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