Kiln Feeder

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/6 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Beneath the kiln feed floor at Kandos Cement Works, a corroded hopper and distribution pipework hang above standing water. Debris and creeping vegetation cover the ground. Steel conduit runs the full length of the ceiling.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Kiln Feeder
Series: Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue: KCW-018
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 February 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/6 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 feeder at Kandos Cement Works sits below the discharge of the preheater, the mechanism that metered raw meal into the rotary kiln at a controlled rate. The feeder is built into the structural steel of the preheater tower, a small enclosed bay with a feed chute dropping in from above, an instrumented weighing belt or apron at the floor of the bay, and a discharge into the kiln itself at the far side. Cabling and pneumatic lines run from the feeder back through the panel to the control room. The bay around the feeder is clad in steel sheet, darkened from heat and dust over decades of operation. A small inspection door in the side cladding stands part open. Light from the cladding gap falls across the chute.

A modern cement kiln runs to a tight chemical and thermal specification. The feeder is what holds it there: the device that meters raw meal into the kiln at the rate required to keep the kiln in balance, against the chemical readings coming back from the lab and the thermal readings coming back from the kiln itself. The feeder at Kandos was wired to the control room and adjustable by the kiln operators on shift. The plant closed in September 2011 after 95 years of continuous cement production. The feeder stopped on the day the kiln did and has not moved since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

This was the feed pump for No. 5 kiln, responsible for transferring dust from the kiln feed station into the kiln itself. A critical part of the process, it ensured a continuous and controlled flow of material into the system, keeping production running efficiently.

Brett Patman

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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