Clinker Produced And Fuel Consumed By The Cement Industry In The United States, By Process

TABLE 7
CLINKER PRODUCED AND FUEL CONSUMED BY THE CEMENT INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES, BY PROCESS¹

				Fuel consumed²					Waste fuel
	Clinker produced³				Petroleum		Natural gas	Tires	Solid
		Quantity		Coal⁴	coke	Oil⁵	(thousand	(thousand	(thousand	Liquid
	Active	(thousand	Percentage	(thousand	(thousand	(thousand	cubic	metric	metric	(thousand
Kiln process	plants	metric tons)	of total	metric tons)	metric tons)	liters)	meters)	tons)	tons)	liters)
2005:
Wet	23	11,807	13.5	1,480	586	29,300	22,800	85	9	479,000
Dry	79	70,809	81.0	7,340	1,740	58,000	310,000	315	110	894,000
Both⁶	4	4,790	5.5	679	21	--�	62,000	5	10	93,300
Total⁷	106	87,405	100.0	9,490	2,350	87,300	395,000	405	130	1,470,000
2006:
Wet	23	11,659	13.2	1,530	518	33,700	18,000	90	19	585,000
Dry	79	72,742	82.1	7,340	1,860	46,700	306,000	323	283	360,000
Both	3	4,154	4.7	661	13	--�	44,800	5	--	42,600
Total⁷	105	88,555	100.0	9,540	2,390	80,400	369,000	418	302	988,000
-- Zero.
¹Data exclude Puerto Rico.
²All fuel data have been rounded to three significant digits.
³Clinker data were all reported; although unrounded, data are thought to be accurate to no more than three significant digits.
⁴Essentially all reported to be bituminous.
⁵Distillate and residual fuel oil. Excludes used oils that were reported under liquid wastes.
⁶Fuel quantities may not represent normal operating conditions owing to the inclusion of a plant that underwent conversion from wet to dry technology
the year.
⁷Data may not add to totals shown because of independent rounding.