Publications
Project Management
Pond, Ellen J., and Peter Kalkert, PhD
"Good Vibrations"
World Cement, December 2005
Pond, Ellen J., Andrew M. Jansen, Ben L. Cardwell, and Ed A. Buehler
"Cost-Effective Corrosion Control, pp. 35-38"
World Cement, December 2003
Benavides, F.M.
"Engineering of Projects for Cement Plants Methods and Economics"
Applied Automation 2nd Annual Latin American Cement Seminar in Mexico City, Mexico, 1996
Benavides, F.M. and R.M. Schuster
"Economic Comparison and Evaluation of an Overland Conveyor Versus Alternate Transportation Methods"
AIME Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 1980
Process and Enviromental Engineering
Young, G.L., N. Jayaraman and J. Saha.
"Use of SNCR to Control NOx Emission from Cement Plants"
10th NCB National Seminar on Cement and Building Materials, New Delhi, India, November 2007
Young, G.L., N. Jayaraman and J. Saha
"Formation and Control of SOx in Portland Cement Kiln System"
10th NCB National Seminar on Cement and Building Materials, New Delhi, India, November 2007
Young, G.L., N. Jayaraman, H. Tseng, A.F. Hollingshead, J.J. Stroker, K. Haris, S. Price and M. Morgan
"Recommended Guidelines for Solid Fuel Use in Cement Plants"
Portland Cement Association, PCA Serial No. EB123, 2007
Kychakoff, G., A.F. Hollingshead and S.P. Boyd
"Use of Acoustic Temperature Measurements in the Cement Manufacturing Pyroprocess"
Proceedings of the IEEE-IAS/PCA 2005 Cement Industry Technical Conference, Kansas City, MO, May 2005
Kychakoff, G., PhD, S. P. Boyd, and A. F. Hollingshead
"Acoustic Measurement"
International Cement Review, Aug. 2005
Hollingshead, A.F. and Neumann, E.W.
"From Mill Audit to Profit"
International Cement Review, March 2004
Miller, F.M., G.L. Young, and M. von Seebach
"Formation and Techniques for Control of Sulfur Dioxide and Other Sulfur Compounds in Portland Cement Kiln Systems"
PCA R&D Serial No. 2460; Portland Cement Association; Skokie, IL; 2001
Young, Gerald L. and Michael von Seebach
"NOx Abatement in Kiln Plants in the Cement Industry"
Zement-Kalk-Gips, Volume 52, Number 6, 1999
Young, Gerald L. and M. von Seebach
"NOx Variability, Emissions and Control from Portland Cement Kilns"
Rock Products International Cement Seminar, Salt Lake City, UT, December 1998
Young, Gerald L.
"Review of NOx Control Technologies for Cement Kilns, Associated Costs and NOx Reduction Efficiencies"
Portland Cement Association, R&D Serial No. 2227, Skokie, IL, 1998
Turnell, Victor J, G.L. Young, and J.D. Macfadyen
"Review of Activated Carbon Injection for Control of Mercury"
Portland Cement Association's HAPs Task Force, PCA Serial No. SP128, February 1996
Young, Gerald L.
"Pulverized Fuel Firing Systems: Direct, Semi-direct, and Indirect Fired, and Conversions from One to the Other"
Rock Products International Cement Seminar, New Orleans, LA, December 1996
Young, Gerald L.
"Environmental Affairs in Cement Plants in the U.S. "
Association of Cement Producers of Peru (ASOCEM), October 1996
Young, Gerald L.
"Review of SO2 (HCl) Scrubbers for the Portland Cement Association's HAPs Task Force"
Portland Cement Association's HAPs Task Force, PCA Serial No. SP129, January 1996
Dengler, T., A. Hollingshead and S. Shermetta
"Scrap Tyre Burning at Lafarge"
World Cement, April 1996
Young, Gerald L.
"Passamaquoddy Technology Recovery Scrubber - Process Update"
Specialty Conference on Waste Combustion in Boilers and Industrial Furnaces, Air & Waste Management Association, Kansas City, MO, April 20-22, 1994
Young, Gerald L.
"Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's Model Kiln Scenarios and Cost Estimates for Control of Hazardous Air Pollutants from the Portland Cement Industry"
Portland Cement Association, PCA Serial No. SP127, December 1994
Young, Gerald L.
"SO2 and HCI Scrubbing Through Use of Cement Kiln Dust or Other Alkaline Wastes and Subsequent Production of Marketable By-Products"
86th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Air & Waste Management Association, Denver, CO, June 1993
Young, Gerald L.
"Use of Cement Kiln Dust (and Other Alkaline Wastes) for Capture of SO2, HCI, and CO2 from Flue Gas and Subsequent Production of Fertilizer & Kiln Feed"
Proceedings of the Emerging Technologies Symposium on Cement and Concrete in the Global Environment, Portland Cement Association Gen. Technical Committee, Chicago, IL. March 1993
Benavides, F.M.
"Air Regulations and Their Effect on the Minerals Industry"
SME Annual Meeting and Joint SME/CMA Exhibit in Denver, Colorado, 1991
Young, Gerald L. and Garrett L. Morrison
"The Passamaquoddy Technology Recovery Scrubber at the Dragon Products Company, Inc. Cement Plant"
Proceedings of the Rock Products 27th International Cement Seminar, Atlanta, GA, December 1991
Croom, J.M., M.S. May, G.L. Young, C. Phillips, and R. Mac Mann
"NOx Formation in a Cement Kiln: Regression Model"
Proceedings of the 1987 Joint Symposium on Stationary Combustion NOx Control, Electrical Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, 1987
May, M.S., J.M Croom, R. Mac Mann, J.C. Phillips, and G. L. Young
"Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Reduces from Cement Kiln Exhaust Gases by Process Modification"
Proceedings of the 1987 Joint Symposium on Stationary Combustion NOx Control, Electrical Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, 1987
Young, Gerald L., Russ Mac Mann, and John Croom
"Technical Report of the Demonstration of the Feasibility of NOx Emissions Reduction at Riverside Cement Company, Crestmore Plant"
South Coast Air Quality Management District, El Monte, CA, 1986
Young, Gerald L.
"The Development of a Production Batch Size Planning Program to Improve The Profitability of a Large Southern California Cement Plant"
M.A. Thesis, Redlands University, Redlands, CA, 1982
Structural Engineering
Etse, G., E. Martel and R. Fernández
"Dynamic Computational Analysis"
World Cement, May 2003
Etse, G., D. Sfer, I. Carol, G. Gettu
"Failure Analysis of Concrete under Multiaxial Stress States"
Computational Mechs. in Applied Sciences and Engg. CIMNE. Barcelona. 2000
Etse, G
"Fracture Energy-based Plasticity Formulation for Failure Analysis of Anchor Bolts in Concrete"
Int. Journal of Nuclear Engineering, Ed. Int. Association for Structural Mech. in Reactor Technology, 1998
Moller, O., G.Etse, A.Giuliano, M.Rubinstein
"Computational Analysis of Non Linear Dynamic Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Frames"
IV World Congress on Comput.Mech. Buenos Aires, 1998
Etse, G. and K. Willam
"A Fracture Energy-based Constitutive Theory for Inelastic Behavior of Plain Concrete"
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Soc. of Civil Engg. September 1994
Etse, G. and K. Willam
"Numerical Description of Tensile Failure Processes in Concrete"
Numerical Models in Fracture Mechanics of Concrete. A.A. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam/Brookfield. 1993
Etse, G., P. Steinmann, K. Willam
"Rechnerische Erfassung von lokalisiertem Betonversagen im Zug-- und Druckbereich (in german) "
Finite Elemente --Anwendungen in der Baupraxis--, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1992
Electrical & Automation Engineering
Dugan, T.B.
"Reducing the Flash Hazard"
Cement Industry Technical Conference, 2006. IEEE Phoenix, Arizona, 2006
Green, Jack, Stroker, John J.
"New Power System for Monarch Cement"
IEEE IAS/PCA Cement Conference, Kansas City, Kansas, 2005
Stroker, John J.
"Power Grid Reliability for the Cement Industry"
IEEE IAS/PCA Cement Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2004
Stroker, John J.
"Higher Efficiency - What is the Real Cost? "
IEEE IAS/PCA Cement Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 2002
Stroker, John J. and Jack H Green
"Ball Mill Drive Motor Choices"
IEEE/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2000
Jenkerson, David L.
"The Challenges and Benefits of Computer Automation at River Cement"
Rock Products Cement Seminar in San Francisco, CA., 1992
Stroker, John J.
"Moving the Crusher to the Stone"
In Gateway Engineer, Dec. 1991
Stroker, John J. and Dewey Gray
"Electrical Equipment Specifications: Design vs Economics"
I.E.E.E. Cment Industry Technical Conference, Lancaster, PA, 1981
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