Equipment and Process Functions in the Cementing Industry: Part (2)

The second part takes the hottest and most expensive equipment in the plant. It covers preheater cyclone design and the separation efficiency that governs it, calciner types and their combustion behaviour, the rotary kiln as a mechanical machine with tyres, rollers and a drive, burner construction, and clinker coolers with their recuperation duty. Mechanical condition is given real attention here, because a kiln out of alignment is a problem that takes a shutdown to fix.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Describe the function and design logic of each pyroprocessing component.
• Explain cyclone separation efficiency and pressure drop.
• Assess kiln mechanical condition and alignment.
• Compare cooler types on recuperation and reliability.
• Relate an equipment condition to a process symptom.

Kiln operators and production supervisors, mechanical and maintenance engineers, process engineers, and refractory and burner specialists.

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 pyroprocessing equipment register with functions and limits.
• A kiln mechanical inspection checklist.
• A cooler performance assessment.

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.