Cement Energy and Environment

The stakes were bought from the promoters of Dirk India which has 2,500 tonnes per day processed fly ash manufacturing capacity. "During the financial year 2010-11 , Dirk India generated sales revenue of Rs. 55.40 crore and earned EBITDA of Rs. 6.8 crore," said a spokesperson of Ambuja Cement. In 2001, Dirk India had obtained a 30-year contract of exclusive recycling of all pulverized fuel ash from Nashik thermal power station of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board. Georg Dirk, Chairman, along with the existing experienced teams of employees in areas of operations, has been retained . Courtesy: Konstruction Review September, 2011, P 9. Maintenance KILN DOCTOR Phillips Kiln Services (India) Pvt. Ltd. I India Why we need to carry out the Hot Kiln Alignment once in every 2-3 years ? Normally the Kiln Mis-Alignment could occur due to following reasons: • Kiln shell temperature variations near the tyres:– Kiln shell temperature variations would cause the center of that particular pier to either move up or down depending upon the increase of decrease in temperatures and may cause Elevation misalignment in the kiln if CENTURY CEMENT BIZ SET TO MERGE WITH ULTRATECH Kumar Mangalam Birla seems to have finally agreed to go ahead with the long awaited merger of the cement business of Century Textiles, owned by his grandfather B K Birla, with UltraTech. Sources told Business Standard the merger process had started and the deal was likely to be inked in a few months. B K Birla group has its ce– ment business under Century, Kesoram and Mangalam Cement with a collective cement capacity of around 17 million tonnes. Of that, Century Textiles alone controls 7.8 million tonnes of capacity. If the deal goes through, it will mark the group's third consecutive cement deal in • • the variation is excessive in comparison with the earlier al ignment condition. Settling of concrete foundation:- Settling of concrete foundation can occur at any time because of various factors like loose soil, vibration near the piers etc. and may lead to Elevation & Plan misalignment in the kiln. Wear of tyre, support rollers, chairpads, bearing liners:- Wear of tyre, support rollers may cause due to excessive roller rncent yeaffi after i~ oveffieas acquisition of ETA Cement and merger of Grasim's cement division with UltraTech last year. On several occasions in the past, B K Birla had indicated his cement assets would go to his grandson. Even in several annual gen– eral meetings, shareholders had been suggesting a merger of the Birla family's cement assets under one company- UltraTech. Kumar Birla is also a director on the board of Century Textiles. Speculation over a possible merger had increased when Kumar chaired one of the AGMs of Century Textiles a few years ago. Courtesy: • The Business Standard, October 14, 2011, Mumbai formation of grooves on the shaft would lead to change of the roller slope , which further lead to improper contact between the tyre & roller. Any repair job carried out on the kiln:- During repair job like tyre, roller, chairpads, base frame replacement etc. if proper compensation for the difference between existing & replaced components is not done then the same could lead to misalignment in the kiln. skew, leakage of product As the above parameters dust from the inlet & outlet can cause misalignment in the seal, inadequate tyre I roller kiln and if the same is not metallurgy would lead to .- checked for every 2-3 years Elevation & Plan then the quantum of misalignment in the kiln . misalignment could increase and Wear in the bearing liners or lead to failure of the 8