Aalborg Portland’s supply of surplus heat from production in the form of district heating
16 April 2019
Aalborg Portland
Description
In order to produce cement, raw materials such as limestone and sand must be burned at temperatures of up to 1500°C. Due to this high temperature process, the Aalborg Portland cement factory has enormous supplies of excess heat.
One of the main sources of waste heat is the flue gas streams from the white kilns. The solution to this energy loss was to implement a heat recovery system, in which the flue gasses from the five white kilns are utilized in heat exchanger installations to transfer the thermal energy from the flue gas to Aalborg’s district heating network. The Aalborg Portland cement factory supplies surplus heat from production in the form of district heating to the residents of Aalborg. In 2017, this surplus heat corresponded to the annual heat-consumption of approximately 24,000 households. There are also other projects in the works to utilize excess heat, such as reusing the hot air from the grey kiln’s clinker cooler as primary inlet air to all the white kilns and one of Aalborg Portland’s coal mills.
Contact
Henriette Nikolajsen