By replacing fossil-fuel-driven calcination with electric heating, the ECem project aims to revolutionize cement production, reducing CO2 emissions while improving efficiency. The cement industry is ...

The cement industry is one of the largest producers of carbon dioxide. It is responsible for up to eight percent of global man-made emissions – almost three times as much as the global air traffic. To ...

This process also uses an enormous amount of energy ... the latter of which could be used as a clean-burning fuel to heat the ...

Ordinary Portland cement, the most common form, is made by heating crushed limestone and clay together in a large rotary kiln. Heating the kilns using fossil fuels contributes 40% of the process's ...

The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board had earlier imposed fines worth Rs 1.29 crore on the ACC cement plant in ...