This week’s photo is a traveling belt tripper under fabrication. Traveling trippers are used to dislodge material off of the conveyor at designated locations between the terminal pulleys, traveling continuously at a constant speed for layered stacking. FEECO’s trippers are customized to accommodate your desired …
This week’s photo highlights FEECO’s booth at the 2018 Phosphates Conference, currently taking place March 12-14th in Morocco. Shane Le Capitaine, Process Sales Engineer, is representing FEECO at booth #18. Phosphates 2018 is the premier gathering for senior decision makers in the fertilizer, feed and …
Granulation can be considered the same as pelletization, the method of agglomeration or particle size enlargement, but it often refers specifically to applications within the fertilizer industry. Granulation is generally carried out in a granulation/agglomeration drum if a chemical reaction is involved. The process works …
This week’s photo shows the leveling of trunnion bases. Leveling a rotary drum’s trunnion bases is part of a new drum installation, and is done prior to laser aligning the bases. The goal is to get the bases to within 1/16” with respect to spread, …
The once beleaguered US mining industry is seeing a flurry of indications that the sector is headed for an upward swing; efforts to move toward a low carbon economy, combined with pro-mining legislation are causing excitement within the industry, promising long awaited growth in many …
Agglomeration is commonly used to upgrade material fines into a granular product. It can also be used to transform sludge-like materials into a dry, granular form. There are many reasons to agglomeration a material. The choice to agglomerate often stems from a material problem, be …
This week’s photo is a 3D image of a rotary dryer flight curtain. Flights, or material lifters, are affixed to the interior of a rotary dryer. They work by picking material up, carrying it over, and showering it through an airstream as the drum rotates. …
FEECO International will be exhibiting at the 2018 SME Annual Conference & Expo in Minneapolis, Minnesota from February 25-28th. The conference unites over 6,000 industry professionals from around the globe on a variety of mining related topics, from innovation and best practices, to cutting-edge research …
Our photo this week is a frac sand bucket elevator. FEECO designed and constructed several centrifugal-style bucket elevators for a frac sand processing plant located in Wisconsin. The various bucket elevator capacities were 10 TPH, 250 TPH, and 500 TPH, with the discharge heights of …
As the global population expands and water quality issues continue to make headlines, never has it been more important to conserve water resources to our fullest ability, and to ensure that the water available to us is clean and contaminant-free. Simultaneously, researchers and scientists everywhere …