Making Cement in New Factory and Mine - Cities: Skylines - Altengrad 61
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Building an open-pit mine and a cement factory to fulfill the need for more concrete. Explaining how cement is made and why it was needed so much after the war.
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Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
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It's so nice to get all this information WHY the cities were built like they are! Thanks for this great series!
hey man, you produce a special level of content. Thanks a lot!
My favorite series on RUclips
Oh man I can't believe youre a material engineer, me too
All the stuff you were saying in a previous episode about the new steel bridges sounded very suspicious to me and now I know why :D
What an episode! Loved it, not only you managed to build something realistic and informative, but you also did it in an entertaining way.. great episode!
a post to please the a.i overlord
Thats a pretty cool build 😮.
I by myself would add two things to the factory.
1. a narrow gauge field railway into the mine
2. a harbor where the cement is loaded onto ships via conveyorbelts.
Would add a lot i think 😊
Loved the lesson on cement manufacturing
Cement lore
I love how you sneak in all those little fun facts and not only show us this beautiful city growing, but also teach us new things! I really appreciate that.
Altengrad Cements Company
Would you consider adding a small train station anyway? I know you mentioned it feels too small for it but you could take example from a place like British Redcar Steel, which to this day still has its own train station (although it is disused now since the plant has closed). It would actually work really well with the little rail bus trains you’ve got running and it could literally be as simple as one ground level platform with a single switch to allow trains from the city to terminate there.
Just a thought. Absolutely love the build!!
I think there would be a single train that picks up workers in the morning, and brings them back in the evening. Because this doesn't seem to small for that kind of connection
@@jan-lukas exactly!
If I am not mistaken, most cement factories, just like power plants, are situated near large bodies or streams of fresh water, because they need to dump large amounts of heat, and use the water in their cooling systems (as heat sinks).
One can sometimes see the large pipes carrying the water to and from the factory/plant, and even sometimes large water basins.
That would be a huge waste of energy to just dump it into water, that's what the heat exchanger is for, to transfer ideally all heat into the raw material. The excess gases just blow out the top, there is no cooling circuit or anything like that, the kiln is cooled by air, sometimes with fans around it.
The water basins you mention are tailing ponds usually, or in a coal power plant they're used to store coal ash on its bottom so it doesn't get blown away.
@@Akruas Do you plan on building a power plant in Altengrad ?
@@MrGustavier maybe nuclear at some point
@@Akruas. Would make the most sense given the timeframe.
I major in political science in NZ, we focus a lot on Eastern Europe for various reasons and it is pretty astounding to me how well you manage to cover some of the most taboo political subjects of Central/Eastern Europe so neutrally and matter-of-factly. I can seee it takes a lot of effort to dance around these topics in a respectful manner, even my prof who did his dissertation on the Habsburg Dynasty struggles not to crack crude jokes when talking about the Soviets and the Eastern-bloc. It's almost like you have a little version of my prof. in your head critiquing every word you use making sure you don't use any 'analytically problematic' terms or whatever, I keep waiting for you to misstep or say at least one ahistorical/revisionist thing but you just keep spitting fax, keep it up. The city is also great too.
This is close to me! My home village had a cement factory that sadly got destroyed a good 15 to 20 years ago.. Its a shame really but old stuff just has to go i guess. My village also had a brick factory that also doesnt exist anymore. Same goes for the aluminium works that got destroyed. The last remnant are some old rails and there are some steelworks that got recycled into apartments but its still a shame. But its interesting because you can still make out remnants of some stuff. Like old tram and traintracks, leftover concrete and so on. But i feel that we should treat old once important industries the same as old city houses. I like a good mix between modern and old :)
So i still saw the cement factory before it got destroyed and it was just a small one not compareable with the one youre building. XD
The aluminium factory i just saw a couple of times.
The steelworks i saw a lot! A beautiful brick building exactly what you think of when you think about old industry! At least they kept the faccade of it but i feel like a museum would have been nicer. Or just destroy it like the cement factory even though thats also sad. But i personally think they defaced it by putting skyscrapers inside of it.
You should look at the Polish city of Puławy, its a mid sized town that had a massive (i think the biggest around here) fertilizer factory built nearby, and the city has been built up from a village all the way from 1950s to 1970/80s. Looks really interesting, could be a great source of inspiration for whats to come
cool to see that you are integrating the new busses, considering a tram all the way out here wouldn't make much sense
I got a bonus cement lection
My face lit up when you mentioned the Carbon Capture on the cement factory in Norway as it was a part of my master thesis. It's a really exciting project where the cement factory (Norcem) is going to capture 400 tons of CO2, which is around half of their emissions.
Capturing CO2 is nothing new however. The exciting part is what happens after which is called the Northern Lights project. Here they will put the CO2 on a boat and ship it to west coast Norway. From here they will transform the CO2 to a super critical state (in-between liquid and gas) and pump the CO2 into old aquifers (underground water reservoir) where it will be stored.
Over time the CO2 will have a chemical reaction and bind with the rock formations of the aquifer and turn into lime stone, making it go full circle.
Great content as always! I'm enjoying watching city skylines and learning something new every time. Its also great when you can combine your "professional" career with your hobby!
Always super entertaining, best cities skyline builds!! Can’t wait for next episode !
Are you going to introduce trolleybuses in your city?
Can you put up your source material. Would be interested to see how close you came to the real deal
I was in a tour in the Čížkovice factory, the inspiration for the build is mostly from Radotín in Prague (1960s maps and pictures) www.google.com/maps/@49.9956283,14.3409196,517m/data=!3m1!1e3
@@Akruas wow cool! You did quit well!!
i got nothing to say but im leaving a comment for the algorithm cos this channel deserves more subs for sure
15:14: "It's just like super simple detailing project"
Great Build! Looks just like the cement factory in Maastricht. You should add another harbour next to the factory for barges!
It's nice that you are focusing on industry and enough workplaces too. It's even good to see that you let the city sprawl more into the country side. It looks more organic that way. It's not just one huge blob but different businesses and projects are growing more away from the city. It even makes more sense because some businesses need to be based somewhere far from the city or someone just prefers some small house at the edge of the town.
I would also like to know if you are planning some farms and ranches around the city. Just like JZD in communist Czechoslovakia where businesses from the city could get fresh food and where people from the city could work.
And thanks for those kinds of videos. I really love Altengrad videos. Your commentary adds value to you videos and you working on your city is really amazing. It's like art. :3
I really loved this episode. I'm also building a cement plant and steel mill in my own Storm City, and one of the most interesting parts of the project was to learn some materials science and how the process works. The one I have built is based off a LaFarge plant in Michigan, USA, and has three animated, rotating kilns. (I want to build a preheater tower as well but haven't found the right assets for it - might have to consider modeling some of my own).
Ironically, in Storm City, the minerals that went into cement were considered a waste product from the iron/copper/nickel mine, until sintering technology was learned by the inhabitants. Then the cement plant was built right alongside the steel mill.
This episode gave me flashbacks to my time at the University. My Professor for Controlling used to be a Manager at Germany largest cement factory. He regularly would bring in real life examples of it and even implement some of it into exams.
Yay!
Just a little realism note. Your rails, when splitting into a branch or station, should go directly to the furthest track, and branch all junctions from there. Ie say your station starts from the left, and has a few branch tracks all to the right. Draw in the right side track first, then branch all of your other tracks off that one.
It's visible that you like architecture history ! Thanks for that it's instructive and good to look at
The explanation of how cement is made is greatly appreciated. But I guess the Romans had an easier time making it.
Great content!
I feel like you had a good time with this episode and had a special point of view, which is always nice to see :)
AKRUAS you outdo yourself every episode!!! congratulations on another banger!
It's been so long since I last watched it. I'll be getting back to one of my favourite series on RUclips
I think there should be a larger pile of unused material nearby. I mean dirt and stones from the pit, that don't end up in the cement production
Dude the cement factory looks like a chernarus industrial zone
Limestone quarries and rotary kilns are common here in Ohio, and they look basically like that. I’ve been in more than one of them, looking for minerals and/or fossils.
I can’t tell in the video, but do the kilns rotate? IIRC there is some form of animation support in Procedural Objects, but I don’t know if it could do that.
Nice of you to call out the CO2 emissions, as well as attempts to mitigate. When concrete sets, it absorbs CO2, so if it could be captured and stored at the kiln then concrete would be a net consumer of atmospheric CO2.
Yes PO has the rotation module, I forgot about that.
Next on Altengrad; the 1960's era!
Excellent video as usual, informative and entertaining.
That cement factory would make a great COD map 🧐
Already kind of does; Just needs some more variety in the terrain and maybe a couple of parked vehicles for cover.
Ah I like how it starts to coincide with WR:SR 🙈
The term is quarry - not mine.
very nice. You can also visit my city. 🤗
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I love your series! I have been binging it these past few days. Unfortunately, the episodes from 61 onwards are unavailable to me. I tried vpn but still unavailable. Does anyone have tips?
They're not out yet.
@@Akruas gotcha....i am not very smart:)
It's really cool that you know and explain how and why are you doing things in the game
Love this so much
Great episode!
You ever gonna start replacing the steam locomotives around the map with diesel engines? After all, by the late 1950's, the reign of steam locomotives across the world was starting to collapse as diesel locomotives became more and more popular over the following years until steam engines became more and more relegated to tourism purposes like theme park transportation or railroad museums. That's not to say you can't have any more steam locomotives, those things would still be around and still be produced for a few more years, but it was a gradual replacement of steam engines with diesel that you would need to replicate.
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@@Akruas. Yeah, I know about that segment, but you can't just stick to steam locomotives forever if you intend to follow real world history; Up to you on the pacing and choices regardless. You could also build a brand new locomotive workshop when you reach the 60's where workers are constructing new prototype electric trains as electric trains were already a thing by the 1950's, though they weren't very common depending on location. Either way, I'll still enjoy your content.
@@dragonbornexpress5650 I did not find any diesel engines for the 50s from this region in the Workshop, simple as that. It's not like I'm purposefully avoiding them for some weird reason. There are plenty for 60s.
@@Akruas. I didn't even imply you were somehow doing it on purpose; Can't wait for the 60's either way! Love this series.
Thank you for introducing into cement! 🙂
This is your idea of minimal effort? Makes us mere mortals feel inadequate.
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Excellent episode.
Love this series sm!
That was a really interesting Episode of Altengrad. Thank you a lot for the great content!
Also, some Akruas lore!