Gossman Consulting, Inc. has been marketing alternate cement kiln fuels technologies for years. GCI's principals are leaders in this field. Although GCI has always been able to provide the technology to reduce limited amounts of solids into liquid fuels, we have not been able to offer a systematic method of reducing large quantities of solids into a dry form able to be blown into the kiln with coal or to be blended into a fine slurry with liquid fuels. In a marketing agreement with Continental Cement Company, LLC, GCI can now provide Continental's solids reduction technology to our clients outside the United States.

What is This Technology?

Continental's system of solids reduction utilizes a number of grinders and shredders of various sizes and designs, classifying equipment for both liquids and solids, a ball mill of a proprietary design and a complex monitoring and control system. Many of the individual parts that make up Continental's method of solids reduction are not new. Similar pieces of equipment have been in service for decades reducing solids. So what can Continental offer that makes it worthwhile to purchase their solids reduction technology? Experience! The knowledge that you would not have to repeat Continental's expensive and time consuming development of the equipment and methods needed to handle a wide range of solid wastes. This is a significant cost savings. Consider this: There are any number of firms which can provide the equipment to reduce anything to a powder. Simply give them a sample and a design will be forthcoming. But wastes come in a nearly infinite variety of physical and chemical characteristics. The equipment to handle a dry, hard, high alumina waste would be different and be operated differently than that which would reduce a rubbery, gritty, solid containing water and petroleum distillates.

Equipment selection and operation have always been a problem for commercial waste management facilities. Anyone who has proceeded to order a device seemingly as simple as a centrifugal pump is besieged with questions. For an alternate fuels waste management facility, the conversation would go something like this: What is the temperature range the pump will operate at? Ambient except for XYZ Petroleum's bottoms wastes which is 150 C. What is the viscosity range of the fluid? 1 cps to 300 cps. We think. What is the specific gravity of the fluid? From .6 to 1.2, possibly higher. You can see what will happen, the pump will be grossly over-designed for the service and there will be some fluids it will simply not pump. GCI has seen this happen, we have been called in a number of times to correct such problems. Extend this to the reduction of a wide variety of waste solids which change in character as their production processes are improved or abandoned and you quickly see that experience is literally the only guide.

How You Can Get More Information:

Continental's solids reduction technology, which has grown out of their years of experience and costly development, is a proven system with a demonstrated performance, clearly well worth your consideration. If you wish further information call David Gossman at (563) 652-2822, or send a Fax to (563) 652-2824. You can also E-Mail us at dgossman@gcisolutions.com

Click here to view some pictures of the Continental facility. You can also visit the Continental web site at http://continentalcement.com.