KHD Humboldt Wedag received the order for engineering, equipment supply, supervision of erection, and commissioning, including on shore training, for Askale Cimento´s new 4,000 t/d pyro-processing system at Gümüshane cement plant, near the town Gümüshane in North-East Black Sea region of Turkey.

Under a contract with Sintek Madencilik Ltd. as general contractor, KHD´s scope of supply includes various auxillary equipment, automation and instrumentation, as well as core components with KHD design, including:

• 5-stage Humboldt preheater with PYROCLON®R calciner, equipped with PYROTOP®compact mixing chamber and tertiary air duct with dust settling chamber, and PYROBOX calciner firing system for coal dust.
• PYRORAPID® two-tire rotary kiln with diameter 4.6 m x 54.0 m long.
• PYRO-JET® kiln burner for coal and fuel oil.
• PYROFLOOR® clinker cooler equipped with a hammer-type clinker crusher and controlled by PFC Control System.

Askale´s previous orders given to KHD since 2006:

• New 3,500 t/d kiln line II at Erzurum cement plant in East Anatolian region of Turkey.
  - ordered in 2006 and in operation since end of 2007 -
• New PYROFLOOR clinker cooler.
  - ordered at the end of 2008, after one year of trouble-free operation of Erzurum kiln line II –
• New 3,500 t/d kiln line at Van cement plant in East Anatolian region of Turkey.
  - ordered in January 2011, with similar design as Erzurum kiln line II -

Commissioning of the plant, which will be erected near the existing Gümüshane cement grinding unit, which has a capacity of 100 t/h, is scheduled for the beginning of 2013.