# Cement and Waste-heat power (steam Rankine)

Waste-heat power (steam Rankine) needs cement; their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/cement-and-waste-heat-power-steam-rankine/

[Cement](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/cement/) (commodity) and [Waste-heat power (steam Rankine)](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_whr_rankine/) (energy): 2 relationships.

## How they are linked

### 1. Material need

*Physical flow · Direct · Cement → Waste-heat power (steam Rankine)*

Building or running Waste-heat power (steam Rankine) needs cement.

### 2. Price link: host industry

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Cement kilns are the largest users of steam waste-heat power, especially in China and India, using hot exhaust from the kiln and clinker cooler. Monthly moves correlate at just 0.01 with the cement index, as equipment prices follow turbine makers, not cement markets.

- **0.01** monthly change correlation
- **-0.08** 12-month change correlation
- **0.41** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.