The microscope has become a more common tool in the cement industry. Evaluation of clinker using microscopy is a powerful technique that can help improve clinker production and cement quality. The key to using the microscopy is understanding the process of clinker production namely how raw materials are transformed into clinker. These transformatio...

By Nevzet Merdić, Nedžad Haračić, Ilhan Bušatlić, Nadira Bušatlić, Adis Merdić

Gypsum is added to the Portland cement clinker in the amount of 3 to 5% in the grinding phase as the binding rate regulator. When it comes to the hydration of cement, if sufficient amount of gypsum is added, fast cementation will not occur because gypsum by its presence reduces the solubility of tricalcium aluminate and thus slows down rapid reacti...

By Ilhan Bušatlić, Amna Karić

Basic raw materials for paper production are cellulose fibers and water. Water plays a major role in the process of cellulose and paper production and it is present in almost all phases of the cellulose fiber production process. Because of that the cellulose and paper industry is considered to be one of the largest consumers of natural resource pol...

By Ilhan Bušatlić, Šefkija Botonjić, Azra Halilović

This study is about possibility of the production of CEM I 52,5 in cementplant Kakanj satisfying some requirements for cement quality issued by EN 197-1. By EN 197-1, CEM I 52,5R consists of 95-100 % clinker and minor additional constituents of 0 - 5 %. Fly ash and granulated blast furnace slag are used as minor constituents in this study. The lowe...

By Ilhan Bušatlić, Nadira Bušatlić, Nevzet Merdic, Nedzad Haračić, Amila Music