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