The bale opener in the cement industry

The experience of using a bale opener by ReTec Miljø ApS (Denmark) for opening bales of packed wastederived fuel at the Cemex Latvia plant in Broceni, Latvia, is described. The fuel from opened bales is separated from the oversized fragments of packaging, and then used on the clinker burning line. The test results in conditions when the fuel bales froze and became as hard as rocks, demonstrated the reliability of the bale opener

Author: P. Cederberg

Section: Waste utilization

Keywords: bail-opener, RDF, SRF, biomass