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Mining
Zeroing out emissions in mining
Deon de Kock, president, sub‐Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, FLSmidth.
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Deon de Kock, president, sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia and Alistair McKay, vice president Mining, sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and South Asia, FLSmidth, speak to Technical Review Middle East regarding FLSmidth’s MissionZero programme enabling mining and cement industries and its focus in the Middle East and Africa region.
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It is important to collaborate with customers, governments, and technology partners.
How is the MissionZero programme enabling zero emissions for the mining and cement industries? How are FLSmidth’s digital solutions helping to enhance productivity? Deon de Kock (DDK): MissionZero is more than just zero emissions, it is our ambition to assist customers to operate cement plants and mining processes with zero energy waste and zero water waste, as well, by 2030. This requires a paradigm shift in collaboration, innovation, and adoption of newer technologies in the industries. For the cement industry, MissionZero firstly enables fossil fuels substitution. The next step is to reduce the clinker factor with industrial scale clay calcinations. Lastly, it involves carbon capture, carbon storage and its use.
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For each of these stages, we have technology and solutions, for example, products using alternative sources of fuel to replace fossil fuels. We already have pilot projects with partners in Europe for clay calcinations. It is important to collaborate with customers, governments, and technology partners. What is of foremost importance is to ensure that your existing plants are operating at full capacity. We can assist customers with increasing production and reducing energy consumption, hence protecting the environment. Alistair McKay (AMK): The digitalisation drive is integral to MissionZero. I think digital solutions bring an additional push to plant operators. For instance, in South www.technicalreview.me
