Kohlhaas B., Labahn O. (eds.) Cement Engineers` Handbook

4 edition. — Intl Public Service, 1982. — 800 p.Since the publication of the first edition of "Cement Engineer's Handbook" 28years ago, this book has gained an established reputation as "Labahn" in the cement industry. In its conception it has survived its original author. In form and contents it has become an entirely new book, however. This change reflects the great technical developments that have taken place in cement manufacture in the intervening years.The first edition was, with the exception of the chapter on quarrying, written entirely by Otto Labahn. The fully revised fourth German edition of 1970 was still within the range of one individual author, Wilhelm Andreas Kaminsky, who undertook the revision. When it was decided to produce the present sixth edition, it soon emerged from the preliminary discussions that in this age of specialization the preparation of the new text for a book of this scope would have to be entrusted to a team comprising authors from a wide variety of technological disciplines associated with cement manufacture.In this effort we have been fortunate in having had the services of Bernhard Kohlhaas as editor, co-ordinator and author.He proved indefatigable in seeking suitable co-authors for this project and he himself undertook the revision of a number of the manuscripts supplied. These duties made greater claims upon his time and attention than had been expected. We are indeed grateful to him for his unflagging devotion to the task.The guiding principle of this new edition is the same as that which Kaminsky enunciated in the preface to the edition which he had revised:The subject matter of the book as a whole corresponds approximately to the range of problems which concern the engineer engaged in present-day cement manufacturing practice. The guiding principle remains: to present all that is essential and important in a conveniently assimilable form. At the same time, this approach rules out any very detailed treatment of individual subjects.