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Excerpt from The Design of a Portland Cement Plant: Utilizing Blast-Furnace Slag
The object of this thesis is the design of a plant for the manufacture of Portland cement/which is to have a capacity of 500 barrels per day of 24 hours. The raw materials to be utilized are blast-furnace and other slags produced in iron and steel industries. The plant is to manufacture a true Portland cement using a slag-limestone mixture, where the slag takes the place of the clayey materials usually employed in Portland cement manufacture. Beside the object above stated the author had the end in view of becoming acquaninted with the chemical Sude of the manufacturevas well as the engineering so before entering into a discussion of the plant and machinery, a brief concideration of the former will be made.
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