PDF Energy and Emission Reduction Opportunities for the Cement Industry
The United States has 118 cement manufacturing facilities operating 192 kilns. These plants manufactured over 88,900,000 tonnes of cement in the year 2001. On average, they required 4,982,000 Btu to produce one metric ton (tonne) of cement, not including the energy required for quarrying raw materials. The production of concrete consumes nearly all