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Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Waste Heat Recovery Power Plant

Features
◆ The waste heat recovery boiler recovers electric
energy from the heat energy in the high-temperature
waste gas discharged from various plants.

◆ Many cement plants have installed the system

because of its excellent energy-saving effect.

◆ The system is being used to recover waste heat not

only at cement plants but also at steel-making and
non-nonferrous smelting plants.

Waste heat recovery power plant for coke oven

(SOL CST in Brazil)

PH boiler
AQC boiler

Waste heat recovery power plant for cement plant Waste heat recovery power plant for sintering cooler
(Conch Cement in China) (Wuhan Steel in China)

Basic Concept or Summary

PH waste gas
◆ The principle is explained based on a waste heat
recovery power plant for cement plants where many AQC waste gas
systems have been installed.

◆ The waste heat recovery power plant for cement plants

consists of two waste recovery boilers - a PH boiler
and an AQC boiler - both of which are installed in the
waste gas line.

◆ The PH boiler recovers waste heat from the pre-heater

used for pre-heating raw materials (Boiler inlet gas Waste heat recovery power
plant for cement plant Steam turbine Generator
temperature: 320ºC).

◆ The AQC boiler recovers waste heat from the air Con-
denser

quenching cooler that quenches baked clinker (Boiler Cooler

inlet gas temperature: 320ºC). The heat exchangers PH boiler

using the heat from the two boilers are sequenced to

ensure high efficiency.
AQC boiler

System diagram of waste heat recovery

power plant for cement plant
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Effects or Remarks
◆ Self-developed technology

◆ Cement plants have reduced electric energy used at the entire plant by 30%.

◆ At a standard plant where daily production of clinker is 5,000 tons, 95,000 kW can be saved at the
generating end, worth ¥550,000,000 annually (assuming the unit price of electric energy is ¥7.9/kWh).

◆ In terms of CO2 emission, this reduction is equivalent to 540,000 tons, which is significant for the clean
development mechanism.

Installation in Practice or Schedule

Domestic ◆ Since the first waste heat recovery power plant was delivered to a cement plant (Sumitomo
Osaka Cement, Gifu Plant) in 1980, we have supplied about 10 of the 21 plants installed in
Japan.

◆ Three waste heat recovery power plants for sintering coolers were delivered to JFE Steel
and other companies.

Overseas ◆ Waste heat recovery power plants for cement plants have been delivered to Taiwan, China,
India, Vietnam, and Korea since 1990. Especially in China, our plant with a high heat
recovery rate has been highly evaluated, and we received a bulk order for 11 plants for the
eight cement companies affiliated to Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited, the largest
cement maker in China, in March 2005.
And our company established a joint venture in January 2007, which is primarily engaged
in the design, procurement, and manufacture of waste heat recovery power plants for
cement plants.

◆ We delivered a waste heat recovery

power plant for a coke plant of American
Suncoke, which was constructed in the
Arcelor-Mittal-Turbarao Ironworks in
Brazil. This is the third largest waste heat
recovery power plant in the world, and is
designed to recover electric energy from
dusty high-temperature waste gas at
1,000ºC or more. It was the largest plant
and the first plant to be installed outside
of the U.S. The generating capacity is 98
MW x 2 systems. Waste heat recovery power plant for coke oven
(SOL CST in Brazil)

Contact: Kawasaki Plant Systems, Ltd., Overseas Sales Department, Power Group
Tel: 03-3615-6974 Fax: 03-3615-9667
URL: http://www.khi.co.jp/kplant/products/PowerPlant/02.html