Abstract: Provided is a method and plant for reducing SO2 emissions in which a catalyst for catalyzing the formation of cement clinker is extracted from kiln exhaust gas and recycled.

Abstract: A description is given of a method as well as a plant for reducing the SOx emission from a plant for manufacturing cement clinker by which cement raw meal is preheated and burned in a plant comprising a cyclone preheater (1) and a kiln (7). The method is peculiar in that a catalyst in the form of a chloride compound and/or a mixture of several chloride compounds is introduced into the preheater (1) at its uppermost or next-to-uppermost cyclone stage (2, 3), that the catalyst is directed down through the preheater (1) to the kiln (7), that a partial amount of the kiln exhaust gas stream containing the catalyst in vaporized form is extracted from the kiln (7), that the extracted exhaust gas stream is cooled off so that the catalyst is present in solid form, that solid matter is separated from the cooled exhaust gas stream and that at least some of the separated solid matter containing the catalyst is recirculated for renewed introduction into the preheater (1).