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Home >> Industries >> Cement >> Mix ADEX Contoller (MAC)

Mix ADEX Contoller (MAC)


The quality control (QC) modules of the raw mix for the kiln feed in the cement industry can be
controlled by proportioning the flow rates of different raw materials such as limestone, sandstone,
marl, iron ore and others. The most generally used QC modules, i.e. Lime Saturation Factor (LSF),
Silica Modulus (SM) and Iron Modulus (IM), are non linear functions of the concentration in the
mix of four metallic oxides (i.e., calcium, iron, aluminium, and silicon), but the concentrations of
these oxides in the different mix sources are generally unknown and time-varying. Thus, the
cement raw mix process is of a complex, unknown, multivariable, time-varying and non-linear
nature. The Mix ADEX Controller (MAC) for the cement raw mix process, is based in the use of
ADEX controllers and QC modules measurements, provided by on line PGNAA or XRF systems.

MAC Control Strategy

The patented MAC control strategy processes the QC module measurements provided periodically
by an analyzer to generate an ADEX control signal for each quality module under control and then,
using the said ADEX control signals, computes the flow rate set point values for the different
sources of the mix process. This control strategy, for the case in which LSF, SM and IM are the
selected QC modules, has been depicted in the attached figure.

MAC features

Basic MAC features: 1) No need for precise knowledge of the source compositions; 2) no need for
controllers tuning; 3) robust control under source compositions discontinuous and stochastic
changes; 4) diagnoses of source compositions deficiencies; 5) use of corrective feeders to
compensate composition deficiencies; and 6) handles time delays and can manage any number of
feeders. These features allow MAC to optimize the use of raw materials. The attached figure shows
MAC operator interface.

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