This summer, COSE’s Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department has sent two SCSU students, Paige Ehalt and  Pratiksh Patel, to India. The students are completing an internship at JK Cement Company. The internships were arranged through the JKLU-SCSU Internship Exchange program, a partnership between SCSU and a university in India. The partnership creates internship abroad opportunities for students from both institutions. We are tracking the students’ progress here on the COSE International Programs blog. Check back periodically to hear more about their experiences abroad.

Paige’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 4:

We just completed our fourth and  final week of training at JK Lakshmi Cement. This last week, we visited the DCS room, which stands for Distributed Control System. We learned how the system is connected using networks for communication and monitoring of the entire plant.

We also learned about SAP, which stands for Software Application Programming. SAP is how the company places maintenance orders for different types of plant maintenance and material management.

Next, we learned about the engineering projects done at JKLC. This department of the company deals with replacement of components or machines, as well as creating and managing upcoming projects.

The last department we visited was WHR, which is the Waste Heat Recovery system for the plant. We learned how they used titration to determine the concentration of a substance in a sample.

Our last remaining days were focused on wrapping up our final report and presentation for JKLU. Finally, Friday morning we departed for the university. We spent the day on a train, which was actually more comfortable than I was expecting. The cabin was air conditioned and had beds to lay down.

Our cabin on the train

This summer, COSE’s Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department has sent two SCSU students, Paige Ehalt and  Pratiksh Patel, to India. The students are completing an internship at JK Cement Company. The internships were arranged through the JKLU-SCSU Internship Exchange program, a partnership between SCSU and a university in India. The partnership creates internship abroad opportunities for students from both institutions. We are tracking the students’ progress here on the COSE International Programs blog. Check back periodically to hear more about their experiences abroad.

Prat’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 4:

This week is my last here at the cement plant. The entire trip has been a great experience. We visited so many cool places in the State of Rajasthan.

As far as the learning experience goes, the internship has also been great from start to finish. This internship was definitely worth my time and my money; words cannot describe how happy I feel. Now that it is ending, I am very content. The internship and my time in India was invaluable for me. It really bridged the link between my studies and a career in industry.

This summer, COSE’s Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department has sent two SCSU students, Paige Ehalt and  Pratiksh Patel, to India. The students are completing an internship at JK Cement Company. The internships were arranged through the JKLU-SCSU Internship Exchange program, a partnership between SCSU and a university in India. The partnership creates internship abroad opportunities for students from both institutions. We are tracking the students’ progress here on the COSE International Programs blog. Check back periodically to hear more about their experiences abroad.

Prat’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 3:

My internship is going great! I have learned so many things related to mechanical engineering.

This internship has exceeded all of my expectations. I never expected to learn so much in such great detail in just one month.

The thing I like best about the internship is the guidance I have received from the senior engineers at JK Cement. The engineers have really taken me under their wing and they train me just like I am their apprentice.

This summer, COSE’s Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Department has sent two SCSU students, Paige Ehalt and  Pratiksh Patel, to India. The students are completing an internship at JK Cement Company. The internships were arranged through the JKLU-SCSU Internship Exchange program, a partnership between SCSU and a university in India. The partnership creates internship abroad opportunities for students from both institutions. We are tracking the students’ progress here on the COSE International Programs blog. Check back periodically to hear more about their experiences abroad.

Paige’s Experience in India, Journal Entry 3:

For the next week of our training at JK Lakshmi Cement, we continued to follow the flow of the material through the plant. Since we just finished the vertical roller mill, the next process was “the pyro process”. This process includes the preheater, kiln, and the cooler. The preheater is a series of cyclones and riser ducts that slowly heat the material before reaching the hottest temperature of 1400 degrees centigrade in the kiln.

JK Cement Kiln

During the kiln stage is when the limestone is transformed into clinker. Clinker, which includes a gypsum additive, is the final cement product.

Clinker

The clinker then flows into the cooler, which cools the clinker back down to about 100-150 degrees centigrade. After the pyro process, the clinker goes through the cement mill, which crushes and grinds the lumps of clinker into finer particles. Once the clinker is in a fine powdered form, it is transported to the packing plant, which packs the cement into bags and prepares them for shipment.

JK Cement Packing Plant