Abstract: A process for producing cement clinker may involve preheating raw meal in a preheater, calcining the preheated raw meal in a calciner, burning the preheated and calcined raw meal in a furnace to give cement clinker, cooling the cement clinker in a cooler, branching off a portion of the furnace offgases flowing out of the furnace as bypass gas, cooling the bypass gas in a mixing chamber with a cooling gas, and separating out dust present in the bypass gas. The cooling gas is formed at least partly or completely from the bypass gas and/or the calciner offgas and/or the preheater offgas. The cooling gas is introduced into the mixing chamber in a ratio of 2-10:1 relative to the bypass gas.

Abstract: An installation for thermal treatment of free-floating raw material, in particular cement raw meal and/or mineral products, may include a riser line through which hot gases can flow. The riser line has at least one fuel inlet for introducing fuel into the riser line. The riser line has at least one raw meal inlet for introducing raw meal into the riser line, which raw meal inlet is arranged upstream of the fuel inlet in a flow direction of gas inside the riser line. Further, a method for thermal treatment of free-floating raw material may involve introducing fuel via a fuel inlet into a riser line for guiding hot gases and introducing raw meal into the riser line. The raw meal is introduced into the riser line upstream of the fuel inlet in the flow direction.

Abstract: A process includes operating a burner of a rotary kiln, wherein the gas streams supplied to the rotary kiln comprise in total more than 50% by volume of oxygen, wherein the burner has a burner orifice from which a fuel-gas mixture is discharged and wherein at least one state variable of the burner flame, in particular the ignition distance, the flame shape, the flame length and/or the flame width, is determined, wherein the flow velocity, the amount and/or the momentum of the fuel-gas mixture and/or the fuel properties is under open-loop/closed-loop control in accordance with the determined state variable.

Abstract: Processes and plants for producing cement clinker, in which an oxygen-containing gas having a proportion of 15% by volume or less of nitrogen and a proportion of 50% by volume or more of oxygen is conveyed from a first section of the cooler directly adjoining the top of the furnace into the rotary furnace and is optionally additionally conveyed to the calciner, and where the total gas streams fed in to the combustion processes consist to an extent of more than 50% by volume (preferably more than 85% by volume) of oxygen.