Headquartered in Chennai in southern India, Ramco Cements has been at the industry’s forefront in adopting innovative products and processes. These include sustainability initiatives, wind farm technology — and the latest spectrometric solutions for process analysis.
Ramco’s Haridaspur plant is located in the Jajpur district of India’s Odisha state. In its QC lab, the chemists must swiftly and accurately analyze the component elements of clinker and cement processing samples to ensure the exact specifications of the finished product. Older cement works relied on wet chemistry analysis. But this was extremely time-consuming: so the process might continue turning out off-spec product for many hours until analysis results could flag a problem. Some modern plants have turned to wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WD-XRF) spectrometers — which deliver excellent analytical performance, but at a high cost.
When the Haridaspur plant opened in 2020, it was instead equipped with an instrument recommended by the Ramco Research and Development Centre: a SPECTRO XEPOS energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) spectrometer.
Learn more in this informative XRF case study.
