Advanced Process Technology of Cement Manufacturing

This week assumes the process is understood and goes after performance. It is built on measurement: a proper heat and mass balance, gas and solids flows established rather than assumed, and separator and mill efficiency calculated from samples. From that base it works through the levers, in the order they usually pay: false air, cooler efficiency, calciner combustion, separator tuning and alternative fuel substitution. Every recommendation is expected to be supported by a number.

It runs 6 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Build a heat and mass balance for a real line.
• Locate energy losses and rank them by recoverable value.
• Assess cooler, preheater and separator efficiency from measurement.
• Identify the bottleneck rather than the loudest complaint.
• Build an improvement case with figures behind it.

Process engineers and plant managers, production superintendents, energy managers, and technical staff responsible for plant performance.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A heat and mass balance for your own line.
• A ranked loss register.
• An optimisation plan with expected savings quantified.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.