Excerpt from The Design of a Portland Cement Plant: Utilizing Blast-Furnace Slag The object of this thesis is the design of a plant for the manufacture of Portland cement/which is to have a capacity of 500 barrels per day of 24 hours. The raw materials to be utilized are blast-furnace and other slags produced in iron and steel industries. The plant is to manufacture a true Portland cement using a slag-limestone mixture, where the slag takes the place of the clayey materials usually employed in Portland cement manufacture. Beside the object above stated the author had the end in view of becoming acquaninted with the chemical Sude of the manufacturevas well as the engineering so before entering into a discussion of the plant and machinery, a brief concideration of the former will be made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.