Pendulum Grate Cooler

A speciality of IKN is the replacement of satellite coolers. The demolition of an existing satellite cooler and the installation of a preassembled Pendulum Cooler are accomplished during a routine annual outage. The photo on the left shows an entirely preassembled Pendulum Cooler at Titan Cement’s Kamari plant which was laterally pushed into its final position on slide tracks. The entire on-site procedure took less than three hours to complete.

The pendulum suspended mobile frame of the IKN cooler as shown on the photos is supported on a steel structure which is part of the cooler foundation.The support arrangement combines several advantages and permits a large degree of preassembly. In addition to the simple installation of steel supports, the design also requires little space by sharing a common foundation with the cooler housing without compromising on the structural integrity of the pendulum system.

IKN's continuous focus on clinker and air distribution and on mechanical precision was awarded with a contract to build a 10.000 t/d Pendulum Cooler at Union Cement Company, UAE. The picture shows a view of the imposing cooler housing.