A scientific visit for the students of the Civil Engineering Department of the second level to the Amran Cement Factory

 University media

 The Civil Engineering Department at the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the university organized a scientific field visit for the second-level students of the department to the Imran Cement Factory, as part of the field training for the students.

 The students, from specialists in the various departments and production units in the factory, listened to an explanation of the departments in the factory, as well as an overview of the production capacity and the stages the factory went through.

 The students were divided into three groups under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Al-Anwa, the course supervisor at the College of Engineering and the research studies officer at the Omran Cement Factory, and Eng. Mohammed Osama Al-Maqtari, the student representative - Emirates International University, took each group separately to the factory’s laboratories, which are the labs of chemistry, physics and radiology, where the chemical, physical and radiological properties were studied, and then they were taken on a tour to the logic control department, in which the mechanism was explained from the beginning of production to packaging through The automatic control panel.

 Then the students were taken on a qualitative tour to the detectors, where Dr. Ahmed Al-Anwa accompanied the students to the excavation, which contains stratigraphic sedimentary layers for the basic materials that are included in the installation and manufacture of cement. This was a qualitative visit through which they learned how to extract the materials, as the method (blasting using Explosives as well as the use of bucklins) and the four types of oxides were known, which are included in the cement industry, which are oxides (calcium, iron, aluminum, silicon). One and a half million tons of cement annually.

 During the tour, the students learned about the mechanism by which they are searching for limestone ore, since the factory is close to the quarry that is very rich in limestone (calcium carbonate) in addition to the three basic oxides (silicon, iron, aluminum), where the quarry of the Amran factory represents a value of 95% of the materials The raw materials in the factory that help in the production of cement, especially the ordinary Portland cement, which is required in mountainous areas.

 The visit concluded with the students visiting the mill, which operates with an electric power of 20 to 25 thousand watts, which grinds and crushes limestone coming from the quarry, in addition to clay rocks coming from other areas.