Cement, Energy and Environment

CONCLUSIONS Cement production involves highly energy intensive production processes. Substantial potential for energy efficiency improvement exists in the cement industry and in individual plants. Persistent efforts are being made to continue improving energy efficiency and reducing the energy cost for the cement industry for survival and growth. For all cement plants with varying types of cement machinery, energy saving options for both thermal and electrical energy are available for implementation as discussed above. Now a days, the cement industry is moving towards the use of alternative secondary fuels, waste heat recovery systems and captive power generation apart from energy saving measures initiatives. The efforts to improve energy efficiency including use of alternative secondary fuels and waste heat recovery systems go a long way to reduce the cost of cement production and minimize greenhouse gas generation, contributing to mitigate the environmental problems associated with cement production. NCCBM is serving cement industry through energy audit and process optimization studies. Till now more than 200 energy audits have been completed and industries are benefitted with the NCCBM subject expertise. NCCBM is a key stakeholder in implementation of BEE PAT schemes in cement sector. 38