Can cement mixing station generate electricity from solar energy

Can solar energy be used in cement production?

Recently the use of solar energy in cement production has drawn significant research and scientific interest. Licht et al. (2012) developed a method for cement production, which results into near zero CO 2 emissions.

Can solar clinker be used for cement production?

For the first time ever, CEMEX and Synhelion successfully connected the clinker production process with the Synhelion solar receiver, producing solar clinker. This revolutionary innovation is an initial step to develop fully solar-driven cement plants.

How clinker can be produced from concentrated solar radiation?

The Synhelion and CEMEX R&D teams set up a pilot batch production unit to produce clinker from concentrated solar radiation by connecting the clinker production process with the Synhelion solar receiver. The pilot was installed at the Very High Concentration Solar Tower of IMDEA Energy, located in Spain.

How much electrical power can a cement plant generate?

The results agree with the 13 % thermal efficiency of the ORC reported by Ustaoglu et al. (2017). For comparison, the results available from a German cement plant indicate that 1.1 MW of electrical power can be generated from the waste heat output of exhaust air of 14 MW and temperature of 300 °C ( Schorcht et al., 2013).

Should cement plants be solarized?

Typically, more polluting solid fuel sources, such as petcoke, are used in several cement plants. However, NG was selected as the cleanest possible choice among fossil fuels (Fadayini et al., 2021) to compare the potential of solarizing cement plants with the "best case" scenario.

How does a solar tower work?

Elsewhere on pv magazine... Synhelion's solar tower technology harnesses energy from a field of solar mirrors and concentrates it onto a receiver. The receiver converts the solar radiation into high-temperature process heat, which is then directed to a thermal chemical reactor.