Evaluation of chemical, mineralogical and clinker burnability properties of mudstones as cement raw materials

Abstract

The Turkish cement sector aims to contribute to sustainability by considering economic, social and environmental conditions and by using technological facilities. It is very difficult to create a sustainable economic development in an environment where resources are becoming more and more diminishing and expensive, while preserving environmental resources. In the cement sector, where energy and raw materials are used heavily, replacing fossil fuels and natural raw materials with alternatives has become one of the most important issues in the cement sector in recent times. In this process; primary fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum coke, lignite and natural raw materials such as limestone, marl and clay have been used extensively to solve the problem of sustainable raw materials in mining and to accelerate the search for alternative and new raw materials. For this purpose, as an alternative to cement clay, the use of mudstone as a raw material in the cement industry has been investigated. Keywords: Cement, Mudstone, Claystone, Clinker, Alternative raw material