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About This Presentation
Presented by
Martin Weng of aixprocess at the 2024 Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference.
Summary
The cement industry contributes ~8% to global CO2 emission, with ~50% from fuel emissions. Whilst substitution of fossil fuels by waste material plays a major role in CO2 emission reduction, it significantly affects the pyro-process with changes in retention time requirements for burnout, fuel-air ratios, and increased levels of minor components. This presentation provides an example of Alternative Fuel process engineering in an existing South-American cement plant. Barracuda Virtual Reactor was applied to predict the reacting gas-solid flow behavior in the calciner part and engineer feeding points and necessary geometry adaptations.
About the Speaker
Martin combines engineering skills and entrepreneurship: while working as an assistant scientist in process engineering at Aachen University of Technology, he founded aixprocess company for technical consulting and simulation services in 2001. In the following years, he established aixprocess as one of the leading simulation providers in Germany, building up a team of more than 20 highly qualified experts for modeling and simulation. In 2015, Martin initiated the development of aixProM software platform for real-time Big Data Analytics and online process digitalisation.