Verder Scientific: Solutions for the

cement industry
Published by Angharad Lock, Digital Assistant Editor
World Cement, Monday, 02 October 2017 15:23

To produce high-quality cement, the mineralogical and chemical composition of raw

materials as well as intermediate and finished products needs to be determined. At each
stage of production, samples are taken, processed and analyzed to ensure quality control
without gaps. CARBOLITE GERO, ELTRA, RETSCH and RETSCH Technology offer
high-quality solutions for heat treatment, elemental analysis, sample preparation and
particle sizing of a vast range of products in the cement industry.

CARBOLITE GERO: Heat treatment

CARBOLITE GERO offers a range of
furnaces for quality assurance of raw
materials and process testing. The AAF
1100 C Ashing Furnaces and CWF 1200
C or 1300 C General Purpose Furnaces
are ideally suited for 'loss on ignition tests'.
For combustibility testing the RHF
Furnace (1600 C) is the perfect choice.
ELTRA: Elemental analysis
With its offering of combustion analysers using resistance or induction furnaces or both,
ELTRA covers a wide range of applications for C and S determination in organic and
inorganic samples. Thermogravimetric analysers for LOI testing are also part of the
product portfolio.

RETSCH: Size reduction and particle size analysis

RETSCH provides size reduction and sieving equipment designed for sample preparation
and characterisation of solids: Jaw crushers for crushing and disc or ball mills for
pulverising samples; pellet presses for producing smooth tablets for XRF analysis; air jet
sieve for standard-compliant grain size analysis.

RETSCH TECHNOLOGY: Particle characterisation

RETSCH Technology is the leading manufacturer of image analysers for measuring
particle size and particle shape of bulk materials. The CAMSIZER systems use Dynamic
Image Analysis to produce precise and reproducible results in real time.

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