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Cement & Building Materials

Raw Meal, Clinker, and Loss on Ignition Quality Control

Raw meal, clinker and cement QC — elemental analysis of major and minor oxides, loss on ignition and free-lime testing for pyro and grinding circuits.

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Cement & Building Materials
Key Challenges Solved

Critical Analytical Demands in Cement & Building Materials

How our instrumentation overcomes measurement bottlenecks, improves repeatability, and maintains high throughput.

1

Accurate Loss on Ignition (LOI) testing of raw meal, limestone, and finished cement

2

Rapid grinding and fine milling of abrasive clinker without cross-contamination

3

Total carbon and sulfur determination in alternative fuels (AFR) fed into cement precalciners

4

Trace moisture determination in gypsum, fly ash, and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS)

Regulatory Compliance

Applicable ASTM, ISO & BIS Testing Standards

Our instrumentation is factory-calibrated to strictly comply with recognized national and international testing methods:

ASTM C114

Standard Test Methods for Chemical Analysis of Hydraulic Cement

Full Compliance
EN 196-2

Methods of testing cement — Chemical analysis of cement

Full Compliance
ISO 29581-2

Methods of testing cement — Determination of loss on ignition and chemical composition

Full Compliance
IS 4032

Method of Chemical Analysis of Hydraulic Cement (Bureau of Indian Standards)

Full Compliance
Applications Breakdown

Key Laboratory Workflows

Loss on Ignition (LOI)

Automated multi-sample thermogravimetry replacing muffle furnaces and analytical balance desiccation steps.

Application 1

Clinker Grindability & Sizing

Vibratory disc milling achieving < 75 micron analytical fineness in under 60 seconds.

Application 2

Alternative Fuel Characterization

Calorific value and halogen content testing for shredded tires, refuse-derived fuel (RDF), and biomass co-processing.

Application 3
Specialized Lab Engineering

Need a Custom Proposal for Your Cement & Building Materials Facility?

Our application engineering group provides detailed equipment sizing, utility requirement schedules, and ASTM/ISO standard compliance matrices.