ABB in cement

ABB’s new permanent magnet (PM) motors for medium-power gearless conveyor drives (GCDs) reduce production costs and increase competitiveness. A PM motor, combined with gearless technology, also fulfills eco-design requirements, saves energy, reduces failure rates and lowers maintenance overheads.

ABB delivered a complete integrated ABB AbilityTM System 800xA centralized Distributed Control System (DCS) to upgrade the existing ABB Infi90 system

ABB’s Advanced Process Control and Analytics Suite comprises tools, online and offline, to deploy advanced controllers and analytic models; this gives process and power industries monitoring, predictive analytics and closed-loop control abilities at the device, edge and cloud and ensures real-time operation efficiency gains.

Bulent Kolanci, ABB, describes the upgrade of Cement Knowledge Manager and LIMS at The Monarch Cement Company

A leading U.S. cement company’s immediate response to general maintenance is to perform it in-house rather than turn to a service provider. However, the North American supplier of aggregates and building materials did not yet know the analyzers in its Texas, USA plant were becoming obsolete. 

GCDs have been available for over 30 years, but are now receiving a new impetus. Len Eros explains how, with a medium power solution that uses low voltage permanent magnet motors.

Innovative solution fulfills eco design requirements, improves reliability, saves energy costs and reduces overall maintenance costs for mining and cement operators. 

Vigier Ciment in Reuchenette, Switzerland, recently added an ABB Ability™ Knowledge
Manager to improve its use of process, quality, maintenance and environmental data in
production decisions.

ABB successfully increased process stability and reduced energy cost at Votorantim Cimentos.  Read more about this project

ABB successfully commissioned a MPC-based optimization system for the cement kiln at Bursa Cimento plant in Turkey.  Read more about this project

ABB improves production process at Podilsky Cement plant.

How ABB helped to build up conceptual design and supply management know-how for the Thai Nguyen new cement plant in Vietnam

A complete quarry to lorry solution was provided by ABB to Dalmia Cement Bharat Ltd facility in Kadapa, India. The solution for the cement producer included design, engineering, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of automation, instrumentation and quality control system.

ABB’s Expert Optimizer was first installed at Votorantim Cimentos’s Itau and Salto plants in 1995. Aging hardware needed to be replaced in 2008/2009 and at the same time the opportunity to upgrade the optimization solution was taken.

Qassim cement line 1 upgrade and line 3 total electrification

Mahmut Selekoglu, Adana Cement Inc. (part of the Oyak Group), Turkey, describes the application of an optimization system for process control of the rotary kiln line, raw mill and coal mill at the Adana plant.

When ABB built its first gearless mill drive (GMD) for a cement plant in France, no one would have imagined the road of success this technology would take over the years. Close to 90 units have been installed worldwide and mill sizes have constantly grown since then.

Total plant solution for the Cam Pha cement plant