Intermediate programme
The kiln as a chemical reactor: controlling the burning zone to make clinker of the quality you intended.
Everything upstream of the kiln is preparation and everything downstream is handling. This week is about the kiln itself: the reaction sequence through the preheater, calciner and burning zone, flame shape and its effect on the clinker, coating and refractory behaviour, and the control strategy that keeps a line stable. Fuel and combustion are treated in detail because they determine the flame, and the flame determines the clinker.
It runs 5 times over the published calendar, in 3 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.
Kiln operators and production supervisors, process engineers, burner and combustion specialists, and refractory engineers.
This is an intermediate level programme. It assumes you are working in or moving into the area it covers, and it is built around your own material rather than a case study. If you are unsure, ask an advisor before registering rather than after.
Ask an advisorShort 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.
Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.
Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.
The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.
Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.
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.
Register on a published date, or tell an advisor what you need and they will come back with something specific rather than a brochure.
Cement Manufacturing
The closed grinding circuit: mill, separator and recirculation working as one system.
Cement Manufacturing
Process engineering across the clinker and cement grinding sections, from design basis through to daily performance.
Cement Manufacturing
The three core process sections covered in sequence, with the interactions between them made explicit.
Cement Manufacturing
The test programme that runs alongside production, and what each result is actually for.
Cement Manufacturing
Producing blended cements: material selection, grinding strategy and the quality control they demand.
Cement Manufacturing
Maintaining a cement plant for availability, and finding the optimisation that maintenance work makes possible.
Cement Manufacturing
Operating and troubleshooting cement grinding systems, across ball mills, vertical mills and roller presses.
Cement Manufacturing
The technology of cement grinding: equipment design, wear, and the choices that set long term performance.