Kiln Feed Station at Kandos Cement Works, a heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick.
Kiln Feed Station at Kandos Cement Works, a heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick.

Kiln Feed Station

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Within Kandos Cement Works, the Kiln Feed Station's massive concrete structure dominates. Rust creeps across its metal components. Dust settles thick on every surface, marking the end of its industrial purpose.

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Kiln Feed Station at Kandos Cement Works, a heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick.Kiln Feed Station at Kandos Cement Works, a heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick.Kiln Feed Station at Kandos Cement Works, a heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick.Kiln Feed Station at Kandos Cement Works, a heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick.Kiln Feed Station at Kandos Cement Works, a heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Kiln Feed Station
Series
Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue
KCW-017
Process
Giclée
Captured
13 February 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.8s 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 feed station at Kandos Cement Works sits at the upper end of one of the rotary kilns, the point where ground raw meal entered the kiln from the preheater tower above. The station is built into the structural steel of the tower, a working level of platform grating and pipework surrounded by inlets and instrumentation. The feed chute drops into the kiln through a refractory-lined collar. A row of meter and pressure gauges line one face of the panel above the chute, with cabling running back to the control room. The walls of the feed bay are clad in steel sheet, patched in places where the heat from the kiln below has worked at the seams. Light comes in through a small window high in the cladding.

In a rotary-kiln cement works, the feed station is the point where the chemical recipe of the cement is finalised. The raw meal entering the kiln has already been ground, blended, and preheated to several hundred degrees, and is now ready to be calcined in the kiln itself. Operators monitored the feed station from the control room, adjusting feed rates against the chemical and thermal readings coming back from the kiln. Kandos Cement Works ran rotary kilns from the early decades of its 95-year operational life. The plant closed in September 2011, and the feed has not moved through the station since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A heavy gearbox drive sits low against the concrete floor, its casing thick withite powder. Steel mesh grating underfoot throws a lattice of shadow across the walkway. Corrugated metal sheeting lines the left wall. Light falls from above through open grates, catching the dust that coats every bolt, every surface, every seam. The air looks dense. Everything is grey.

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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