Clinker is a nodular material produced in the kilning stage during the production of cement and is used as the binder in many cement products. The lumps or nodules of clinker are usually of diame…

Cement and clinker are not the same material. Cement is a binding material used in construction whereas clinker is primarily used to produce cement. The main differences between clinker and cemen…

Extraction and Preparation of Raw Materials

The main raw materials (limestone, clay chalk or basalt) are quarried from natural rocks. They are crushed and transferred to pre-blending storage wher…

Cement, a popular binding material, is a very important civil engineering material. This article concerns the physical and chemical properties of cement, as well as the methods to test cement pro…

The size of the particles of the cement is its fineness. The required fineness of good cement is achieved through grinding the clinker in the last step of the cement production process. As t…