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Optimizing the Cement Making Process with Bulk Material Simulation

April 21st - May 26th, 2025 | Webinar Series

Cement manufacturers face the critical challenge of improving energy efficiency while maintaining high-quality cement production.

This exclusive webinar will showcase how advanced DEM simulation can help you optimize material handling, enhance equipment performance, and reduce costs—all while maintaining the highest standards of cement quality.

Each session will last 1 hour and include a live Q&A with our technical expert.

Key Takeaways: 

  • Analyze material flow and behavior to understand how raw materials interact during processing.

  • Optimize existing equipment to improve performance, reduce wear, and extend lifespan.

  • Streamline complex processes such as raw material handling for greater efficiency.

  • Validate and refine analytical models to ensure accuracy and reduce reliance on trial-and-error methods.

  • Reduce full-scale testing costs by using simulation to validate designs and processes before implementation.

Webinars

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Optimizing Rotary Dryers for Energy Efficiency with Advanced Simulation and AI

April 21st, 2025 | Monday | 02:00pm - 03:00pm MYT

Optimizing the performance of rotary dryers is crucial for improving efficiency, reducing energy consumption, and enhancing product quality across various industries. This presentation shows the integration of machine learning and simulation techniques to refine rotary dryer operations. By leveraging data-driven models and advanced simulation tools, we identify key process parameters, predict system behavior, and optimize performance in real time. The approach combines computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the Discrete Element Method (DEM) with machine learning algorithms to gain deeper insights into material flow, heat transfer, and drying efficiency. The presentation demonstrate how AI-powered optimization can lead to more sustainable and cost-effective drying processes, offering significant benefits to industries such as cement manufacturing.
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Optimizing Cement Plant Efficiency and Sustainability with Advanced Ball Mill Performance Using Altair EDEM

May 12th, 2025 | Monday | 02:00pm - 03:00pm MYT

This webinar series explores how Altair EDEM enhances efficiency and sustainability in cement manufacturing, with a special focus on ball mills. Learn how advanced bulk material simulation optimizes material flow, reduces energy consumption, and saves on unscheduled downtime. Discover real-world case studies and best practices for maximizing productivity in cement plants.
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Maximizing Throughput & Reducing Downtime: Smarter Raw Material Processing in Cement Plants with Altair EDEM

May 19th, 2025 | Monday | 02:00pm - 03:00pm MYT

This webinar explores how Altair EDEM optimizes raw material processing in cement plants by improving the design and performance of transfer chutes and material handling equipment. Discover how bulk material simulation enhances flow efficiency, minimizes blockages, and reduces maintenance downtime. Additionally, learn how EDEM enables the efficient handling of next-generation eco-friendly raw materials, including RDF and alternative fuels, ensuring optimal equipment performance, reducing wear and tear, and enhancing overall process efficiency to support sustainability and lower operational costs.
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From Blockages to Free Flow: Improving Cement Storage Efficiency with Altair EDEM

May 26th, 2025 | Monday | 02:00pm - 03:00pm MYT

This webinar explores how Altair EDEM enhances cement storage and silo efficiency by addressing material flow challenges. Learn how bulk material simulation helps prevent blockages, optimize discharge performance, and reduce maintenance issues, ensuring smooth and reliable operations in cement plants.

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Speakers

Prasad Avilala-1

Mr. Prasad Avilala

Sr. Technical Specialist

Based out of Altair India, Bangalore. Prasad role is to support EDEM Global Technical Team in consulting, sales and technical support. He is holding Master of Engineering in Mechanical with 17 years of Experience in Numerical simulation. Prasad has been supporting and training customers in the application of DEM and Multiphysics using EDEM-OptiStruct, EDEM-AccuSOlve and EDEM-MotionSolve for a wide range of industries, participating in the development of the EDEM software and delivering consulting projects.

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Additional Resources

Transfer Chute Optimization

Transfer Chute Optimization - Longking Employs Altair EDEM BulkSim Software for Transfer Chute Redesign

Longking is a large engineering and manufacturing company in China. Longking Bulk Materials Science & Engineering Division is a specialized group that designs and supplies bulk handling and storage equipment to clients around the world. EDEM simulation technology was used to evaluate issues of blockage and dust emission with a transfer chute and propose a new design that would solve the problem.

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Guide to Process Manufacturing

Any industry that produces bulk quantities of goods such as pharmaceuticals, food, chemicals, or cosmetics, is seeking to produce these products consistently while reducing cost factors like waste and down time. Due to the nature of process manufacturing, multiple ingredients are combined to be mixed, coated, or sorted, so understanding the behavior of these processes is of paramount importance for manufacturers. Through the use of simulation modeling and Smart Manufacturing principals, manufacturers are now able to optimize these processes, leading to greater productivity and profitability.

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Coal Transfer Chute Upgrade

Upgrading a Coal Transfer Chute - Hatch Deploys Altair EDEM BulkSim Solution for Mining

Hatch Ltd. is a global supplier of engineering, project and construction management services to the Mining, Metallurgical, Energy, and Infrastructure sectors. Hatch deploys EDEM BulkSim software to explore “what-if” scenarios, while performance testing and verifying complex conveyor transfer point designs.

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