Keeping kiln shell temperatures under control
Jun 01, 2017 Above - Table 1: Example calculation of the costs of production loss due to an unplanned kiln stop, assuming two days for stop/cool down, two days to work on the refractories, one day for drying and one day for start-up. This simple calculation already shows the steep increase in the cost of production loss when simply replacing the 4000t/day by higher production rates like 10,000t/day or more