In 2023, China produced 1.77 billion tons of clinker and 2.23 billion tons of cement. Almost 60% of the total clinker is produced at the plants of the country's 16 largest cement companies. The article identifies the challenges faced by the market players and the me...
The main indicators of the Russian gypsum market in 2023 are presented: volumes and trends of gypsum stone mining, data on the gypsum binder and gypsum building materials markets. The main attention is paid to the situation in the gypsum plasterboard (GPB) and gypsu...
It is highly subjective to decipher which cement or a binding material is new, as this understanding is intimately linked with time, space and context of application. Whether the genre of Portland cements can still have some novelty in their derivatives or only othe...
Cement hydration is a complex chemical and physical reaction process, which directly determines the microstructure and macro-property of hardened cement paste. Since conventional experimental methods are in general timeconsuming, laborious and expensive, computer si...
The article is concerned with improving the methods of finite element modeling of the structure and operational properties of cement concrete. The relevance of the development is determined by the prospects for expanding the capabilities of finite element (FE) model...
The article discusses the properties of a Portland cement-based composite modified with a suspension of copper/carbon mesoscopic Cu/C MK composite based on a polycarboxylate plasticizer. A copper/carbon mesoscopic composite (nanocomposite) is a nanoscale formation f...
The possibility of cementing secondary waste from sorption purification of the solution portion of accumulated high-level waste (HLW) located in storage tanks was studied. The flows of secondary waste generated after sorption purification were determined, and second...
The concept and results of mathematical modeling and laboratory studies of the heat exchange system at the cement plant of Kerman Momtazan Cement Company (Iran) are described, in which the heat of the rotary kiln shell is used to heat the working fluid (water and hy...
The effect of shrinkage deformations of cement compositions being reduced when additives, surface tension modifiers, are introduced in the composition, has been studied. It was established that it is advisable to use additives based on ethylene glycol ethers in this...
On 18 – 19 May, 2024 in Nanjing, China, the World Cement Association 7th Annual Conference took place. An overview of the papers presented at the conference is provided.
