Patent ID: 6902393

Claim:
Plant for manufacturing cement clinker comprising a preheater which comprises at least one last cyclone and at least one next-to-last cyclone which is connected in series via a gas duct to and fed with gas from the last cyclone, a calciner which comprises at least one inlet opening for introducing preheated raw meal from the last cyclone, and which is connected to a subsequent separating cyclone, a gas duct which connects the separating cyclone to the last cyclone, and which comprises at least one inlet opening for introducing preheated raw meal from the next-to-last cyclone, wherein the inlet opening for introducing preheated raw meal from the next-to-last cyclone into the gas duct which connects the separating cyclone to the last cyclone in a vertical plane is located under at least one inlet opening for introducing is preheated raw meal from the last cyclone into the calciner.