Calcining Kiln, 1,000 °C
Make lime, cement clinker and brick on sunlight. The kiln calcines and fires at 800 to 1,050 degrees Celsius, and holds temperature overnight.
1,677Tonnes of quicklime a year
SunlightRuns on the array, unattended
The Chemistry of Construction
- Cement clinker
Ground with gypsum into blended cement, 1,709 tonnes a year from the Cells that make it - Quicklime
1,677 tonnes a year, produced for $37.74 per tonne against a conventional price of $60 to $75 - Calcined clay
Supplementary cementitious material, fired at 800 degrees Celsius - Fired brick
2,289 tonnes a year, with the Crushing and Milling Plant and the Solar Drying Kiln - Pure carbon dioxide
A clean process stream, captured as a product, and the release step of the Carbon Capture Cell - Activated carbon
47 tonnes a year of water filter grade, steam activated from the char of the Pyrolysis Reactor in resource recovery
Specification
| Rated input | 850 kilowatts |
| Materials | Off the shelf components |
| Temperature | 800 to 1,050 degrees Celsius |
| Duty | Sunlight hours. Holds temperature overnight |
| Energy capture | 100% of array output |
| Intensity | 0.65 to 1.10 megawatt-hours per tonne |
| Accepts | Limestone, clay, shale, gypsum, metal concentrate, calcium oxide |
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