Cape Girardeau's low cost 100000 ton clinker expansion

Lone Star Industries, Inc. (LSI) operates a cement plant at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. The Fuller Company was requested to study the operation of the plant's raw grinding and pyro-processing systems and evaluate if an increase in the nominal clinker production could be achieved. The impetus for the evaluation was Lone Star's desire to meet the future cement sales demand for the Mississippi Valley market, The evaluation team involved Fuller process and mechanical specialists who visited the site and surveyed the existing plant operations to determine the limitations of the process machinery, recommend operational changes and develop a report with their findings. All recommendations had to emphasize re-using as much of the existing equipment as possible in order to arrive at an economically justifiable solution, in terms of both capital investment and the shortest possible downtime.