Grilled mouth of the Bauxite hopper. the suction duct and bag-filter for reducing the fugitive dust can be seen at the back of the hopper grill. Limestone mine of Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd., Darlaghat, Himachal Pradesh
Building housing two truck tipplers for unloading the coal. Two suction ducts from the housing to the bag-filter and a vent are seen which releases the dedusted air into the atmosphere.
Truck tippler for unloading coal from the trucks. On the back, the dedusting chambers with suction duct on the top can be seen. Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd., Darlaghat, Himachal Pradesh
Vent for releasing the dedusted air into the atmosphere, besides the Coal carrying trucks' tippler House. Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd., Darlaghat, Himachal Pradesh
Name Plate of Impact Crusher used for crushing coal coming by trucks before it is stacked in the storage yard. Some details of the crusher are : Capacity : 200 T p h, Feed size : 500mm 10% (max), Product size : 30mm 95%, Max 40mm, Motor : 150KW
Bag filter at the coal crusher. Vent for releasing the dedusted air into atmosphere also seen. The solids collected by the bag filter are transferred to the conveyor, the hopper on top of the conveyor can be seen.
Left : Raw Meal Blending Silo, Next : Preheater Tower, Next : D G Sets stacks, Next : Glass Bag-house stack, Right : Coal Stacker at Gujarat Ambuja Cements Ltd., Darlaghat, Himachal Pradesh
Left : Stack for Glass-baghouse, Next : Duct carrying the dedusted gas from the glass bag-house to the stack, Next : Fore-ground - Glass Bag-house, Back-ground - Raw meal blending silo & Preheater tower, Right : Exhaust ducts of Raw mill & Coal Mill to the Glass bag-house
Left foreground : Central Control Room, Left Background : Clinker Cooler E S P, Center & Right : Covered Conveyors carrying clinker from the cooler to the two covered stockpiles
Rotary cement bag packing machine. The operator puts the empty bags onto the discharge tubes. Cement filling and bag stitching is done automatically by the machine. Notice the hood covering the operator's head to protect himself from fugitive cement dust.
Truck being loaded with clinker for being sent to Ambuja's grinding unit at Ropar, Punjab where it is located near a power plant for utilizing the flyash generated for making PPC.