Microscopy
Goals:
- Evaluate the impact of raw materials and burning conditions on clinker quality
- Enhance quality performance of cement
- Optimize energy consumption (thermal and electrical) on clinker production
- Improve staff qualification
Program:
- Production. Major issues affecting process
- Raw materials. Importance, characteristics and impact on process and quality
- Mineralogy of clinker
- Clinker phase identification
- Etching for phase identification
- Interpretation of clinker texture and correlation with process and quality
- Considerations about clinker grindability
- Quantitative analysis through microscopy
- Microscopic data vs Bogue data
- Microscopy Analysis of clinker samples at the plant
