Inflationary pressures on margins with higher fuel costs, electricity prices and raw material costs have trigged much of the cement price increase. Most Egyptian cement plants (16 out of 18) still use coal as part of their operations and have had to pass the cost on to customers, with coal hitting a 13-year high at US$170/t in August.
Use of alternate fuels not only saved the cement industry of Egypt but has addressed many other issues as well, like meeting regulatory requirements, saving money and growing public health threat from waste etc. An extract of a report from the International Finance Corporation. The Egyptian cement industry is the world?s 12th largest and a […]
Results show that the decision of replacing the existing used fuels in cement industry by coal will carry an additional burden on the environment approximately by 20%. Based on a midpoint method, the global warming potential and respiratory inorganics recorded highly negative impacts of 20% and 25% respectively when using the coal compared with ...
Potential for biomass use in the cement industry. ... However, the availability of coal fly ash, a commonly used cementitious material, ... The role of biomass as a cleaner energy source in Egypt's energy mix. J Clean Prod, 172 (2018), pp. 3918-3930, 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.05.049.
Cement is a key construction material used throughout the world as a binding agent in concrete and mortar. The history of cement dates back nearly 2,000 years to ancient Rome and Greece, when lime ...
The COP26 agreement only really covers power generation, and sets no targets for industrial use of coal. A number of domestic industries do rely on coal, particularly the cement industry. Some 16 of its 18 cement players use coal in at least a portion of their manufacturing processes.
Egypt: 90% of cement plants have agreed to use coal to increase their cement production, according to Egypt's Industrial Development Authority. The authority is facilitating plant upgrades to enable coal use and ensuring that the necessary quantities of coal can be supplied, according to the head of the Industrial Development Authority, …
2015 allows Egyptian cement companies to switch to using primarily high CO 2 intensive fuels such as coal and petcoke. This fuel switch will significantly increase CO 2 …
Lastly, however, the European cement industry uses coal in the oven kiln stage, although there are limitations 123 1066 A. A. M. Ali et al. 300 275 250 225 Eco-points (ept) 200 175 150 125 100 75 50 25 0 Swiss cement plant (SCP) Egyptian cement plant (ECP) Egyptian hypothetical plant (EHP) Comparing 1Kg of Egyptian cement plant (ECP), …
Ultimately, it may take regulation to phase out coal from the industry, and that appears to be happening. A decision to get cement companies to integrate at least 10% renewable energy into their mix is …
Results show that the decision of replacing the existing used fuels in cement industry by coal will carry an additional burden on the environment approximately by 20%.
Cement consumption in the Egyptian market in 2019 was 48.7 million tons, and in 2020 was 44.9 million tons (Ministry of Trade and Industry).
Arabian Cement Company. Mr. Gabry is a graduate of the Faculty of Commerce - Ain Shams University - Cairo Egypt, year 1991, with 24 years of Commercial Experience, 11 of which are in the Cement Industry as a Senior Commercial Director. The Cement journey started with Lafarge Sudan, moving to ASEC Algeria, GFH Bahrain, Khalij Holding …
electricity and coal. The third one was a Swiss cement plant2 (SCP), which is operated using mixed fuels. The main reason behind the comparison between the two Egyptian …
The cement industry in Egypt has witnessed a steady growth since 1927 after the establishment of the Tora Portland Cement Company [33]. The cement industry in ... while the used coal exceeds 70% during 2016–2020 and the natural gas reduced to less than 1% during 2015–2018 and not used 2019 and 2020. Accordingly, the percentages
What is the role of cement in clean energy transitions? Key strategies to cut carbon emissions in cement production include improving energy efficiency, switching to lower-carbon fuels, promoting material efficiency (to reduce the clinker-to-cement ratio and total demand), and advancing innovative near zero emission production routes.
The good news is that the cement industry is poised to sustain its gross margin expansion, ... In 2023, while the world witnessed a significant drop in energy prices, particularly in steam coal and …
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a useful tool for assessing the environmental impacts of a system, product or service. Cleaner production and pollution prevention opportunities for the cement sector include: 1) use of alternate fuels in cement kilns; 2) NOX reduction; 3) reduction of dust emissions; 4) reuse of bypass dust; and 5) treatment of hazardous waste.
The company began testing coal use at its Kattameya plant in September 2014. Two other major players in the industry have already taken significant strides in transitioning to coal. Arabian Cement was estimated to have imported close to 1m tonnes of coal from markets such as South Africa, Spain and Ukraine in 2014. Lafarge Cement, the French ...
GLOBAL CEMENT: COAL Osama Aly Ahmed, Independent Consultant & Khaled Ramadan Osman, Process Expert The rise of coal mills in the Egyptian cement sector Egypt's cement industry is a crucial pillar of growth for the country's economy but its growth has been hampered by a complicated energy picture in the past few years.
For example, in Egypt, where heavy industry is struggling to meet its energy demand via natural gas, some cement plants operate at 75% capacity and are seeking to switch to coal and/or co-firing …
Consequently, Egyptian cement production would be within the 2% most CO 2 intensive worldwide. Furthermore, the Egyptian cement sector's economic performance and competitiveness is below optimal: • For the last five years the Egyptian cement industry has operated at about only 70% capacity utilisation. Such low
Coal Use in Cement Factories, Egypt. With the support of the EBRD and profiting from the political instability, business tycoons of the cement industry pushed to advance the coal agenda, when the …
Around 40% of the total expense of making cement is the energy used to produce clinker in the furnaces. On top of that, another 15% of the final bill goes on electricity. The energy for the furnaces, natural gas, used to be supplied to cement manufacturers in Egypt at a rate of $2 per million British thermal units (mBtu).
The new coal regulation and the Low-Carbon Roadmap seek to set the pathway for the Egyptian cement industry to reduce its CO 2 emissions, so that the 15% …
Writing a cautious letter as to whether EBRD would, or is intending to, fund the switch to coal for Egypt's cement industry and detailing the negative effects of such a decision, ECESR received a …
The Egyptian cement factories continued to use natural gas as fuel until 2014, but by 2015 the availability of natural gas to cement companies became …
decision of replacing the existing used fuels in cement industry by coal will carry an additional burden on the environment approximately by 20%. Based on a midpoint ... In 1975 the Egyptian Cement Industry comprised four factories, which produced 4 million tons/year. Now there are 16 factories, producing 46 million tons/year of ...
The cement industry in Egypt has witnessed a steady growth since 1927 after the establishment of the Tora Portland Cement Company [].The cement industry in Egypt ranks twelfth in the world in terms of economic and vital strength that supports the construction sector, which represents about 5% of GDP for Egypt [] and represents one …
