To 2009, 97 cement production lines have been put into operation in the whole country, with the total designed capacity of 57.4 million tons. In 2010, it has been estimated that 13 more production lines would be completed, which will raise the total capacity by 11.7 million tons. In 2011, 12 more lines will be put into operation, the total capacity is estimated to increase by 9.36 million tons.
In recent years, although the cement sector has made some breakthroughs in
technology as well as in production scale, the use and re-use of energy have
not been thoroughly investigated.
To solve that problem, at the end of 1997, Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (VICEM) had approached the rotary-kiln-heat-utilization technology to generate electricity for cement factories, retrench the amount of power purchased from thermal power plants which were introduced by the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, the Ministry of Construction and NEDO organization. After a survey period, at the early 2008, Ha Tien 2 Cement Company had been selected to implement the pilot project “Reducing power consumption in cement plants”.
Energy-intensive industry
Cement sector is a key industry which contributes to the infrastructure construction and boosts the industrialization and modernization of the country. However, this is also a high energy-consuming industry which dramatically affects the environment and the surrounding landscape. The energy use and reuse has attracted great interest of scientists and investors in cement production.
According to Mr. Tran Van Huynh, Chairman of Vietnam
Association for Building Materials,
Currently, the main sources of energy of cement production are coal and electricity. During the manufacturing process, a large amount of exhaust heat and dust is discharged into the air which causes environment pollution, waste of energy, waste of resources and reduction in investment efficiency.
When all dry rotary kiln cement production lines of
As Mr. Huynh estimated, each ton of exhaust heat could
generate 3-4kWh of power. If all cement plants of
The exhaust-heat-utilization technology is currently an
energy conservation solution in cement sector which is a big interest in
Energy efficiency
After 4 years of construction and load testing, on 26 March 2002, the technology to utilize exhaust heat from rotary kiln to generate power was officially applied in Ha Tien 2 Cement Company and initially showed high economic and environmental efficiency.
“Upon receiving the rotary kiln
exhaust-heat-utilization power system, we just thought about the economic
benefit that we would utilize heat to generate electricity and not have to
buy from the grid. After putting the system into operation, it has also given
us technical benefits. After being absorbed to generate power, the heat of exhaust
has been significantly reduced, so the system has operated very stably”, said
Mr. Ngo Chi Tam, Deputy Manager of Ha
Tien 2 Cement Company.
By 2009, after 7 years of operation, the exhaust heat power
station in the Company had generated 105 million kWh, bringing about obvious
economic and social benefits, saving energy, protecting the environment, and
significantly reducing the cost of cement production. The device system of the
station had operated stably and not affected cement production.
Mr. Do Cao Duong, the technical manager of VICEM, explained the operating principle of the exhaust-heat-utilization power system in Ha Tien 2 Cement Company: the 350 – 380oC exhaust from the rotary kiln is taken into the boiler to exchange heat to create superheated steam which will be used to make the turbine rotate to spin the generator. The remain of the exchanged heat which is about 230oC is used to dry materials for powder grinders.
So, besides utilizing the redundant heat to create steam to spin the generators, the system also reduced the heat in the grinders and filtered dust.
Only from March 2002 to October 2006, this system had
provided the total power of 72 million kWh to production lines of Ha Tien 2
Cement Company. Besides, from July 2004 to October 2006, the company had also
saved 2.1 million liters of
According to Vietnam Association for Building Materials,
this technology is easy to apply in cement plants in
By Minh Duc