Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works, a large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame.
Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works, a large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame.

Kiln Discharge Cooler

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/10 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The immense Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works now sits silent. Its corrugated steel shell shows deep rust and peeling paint. This structure once cooled hot clinker.

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Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works, a large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame.Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works, a large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame.Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works, a large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame.Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works, a large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame.Kiln Discharge Cooler at Kandos Cement Works, a large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Kiln Discharge Cooler
Series
Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue
KCW-016
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 February 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/10 s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Kandos, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity
C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Kandos, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The kiln discharge cooler at Kandos Cement Works sits at the lower end of one of the rotary kilns, catching the red-hot clinker as it left the kiln and cooling it down to a temperature where it could be moved by conveyor to the clinker shed. The cooler is a steel-cased grate cooler: a series of inclined plates with air blown up through them from below to draw heat out of the clinker as it passed across. The casing is steel plate, lagged and clad, with inspection doors along one side. A discharge chute drops from the cool end of the grate to the conveyor below. The walkway alongside the cooler is steel grating, scorched in places from the heat that radiated off the steel when the plant was running. Daylight gets in through the open door at one end.

A rotary kiln produces clinker at around 1,400 degrees. The cooler is the piece of plant that brings the clinker temperature down to something the rest of the works can handle, and recovers some of the heat back into the combustion air going into the kiln. The grate cooler design at Kandos was standard for cement works of this era. The plant ran kilns and coolers like this one across the operational life of the works, from August 1916 to September 2011. At closure the kilns were shut down for the last time. The cooler grates have not moved since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A large blue cylindrical cooler dominates the right side of the frame, its steel casing scuffed and pitted. Three circular access ports sit capped on its face. To the left, a narrow concrete staircase climbs between the cooler and a wall dense with pipework. Cement dust coats every surface. Light falls through the steel framework above, casting long grid shadows across the floor.

Brett Patman

Kandos Cement Works

The series

Kandos Cement Works

2016 · 40 photographs

The town's first name was Candos, an acronym of the directors' surnames at the NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company. They bought 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior for £2,000 in 1913 and had surveyor James Dawson lay out the township. The Postmaster General ruled the name change to Kandos in 1915, and by August 1916 the kilns at the new cement works were firing.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM KANDOS CEMENT WORKS

39 other prints in this series

All prints
Number Six Raw Mill at Kandos Cement Works, a ball mill sits heavy in the half-light, its riveted steel drum tilted toward.
Number Six Raw Mill $100.00
Clinker Shed at Kandos Cement Works, steel trusses span the full width of the shed, supported by heavy columns streaked.
Clinker Shed $100.00
Cyclonic Separator at Kandos Cement Works, steel mesh grating covers the floor, open to the darkness below.
Cyclonic Separator $100.00
Number Six Ball Mill Drive at Kandos Cement Works, the motor and gearbox that once drove the ball mill, now sitting.
Number Six Ball Mill Drive $100.00
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