Modeling of rotary cement kilns: Applications to reduction in energy consumption

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2315-2330

  Mujumdar, Kaustubh S ^a   Arora, Amit ^a   Ranade, Vivek V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING;

CLINKERS; MODELING; ROTARY CEMENT KILNS; SUBMODELS;

ROTARY KILNS;

CEMENTS; COATINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; ROTARY KILNS;

EID: 33646445622     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie050617v     Document Type: Article

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