This week’s photo shows synthetic gypsum pellets that were agglomerated in FEECO’s lab facility on a disc pelletizer. Disc pelletizers, also commonly referred to as pan pelletizers, are just one of the many options in agglomeration equipment at FEECO. Our line also includes paddle and …
This week’s photo is a crush strength tester, a piece of equipment commonly used by Lab Engineers in FEECO’s testing facility. The crush strength tester determines how much weight, in pounds, a pellet can withstand before it breaks. The analysis provides significant value in regards …
Our photo this week shows a sample of briquettes. Briquettes are dusts, powders or material fines that have been compacted into a dense mass via a briquetter, or briquetting machine. The equipment operates under the supposition that a material, under abundant force, will self-adhere. Briquetting …
This week’s photo shows an assortment of super sacks awaiting toll processing in the FEECO tolling center. Tolling is an agreement in which a company with specialized equipment processes raw materials for another company. This is beneficial for a number of reasons: It allows …
This week’s photo shows pelletized, or granulated, manure. FEECO offers numerous process design and equipment options to turn raw wastes, such as cow or chicken manure, into a high quality, organic fertilizer granule. This process, known as organics granulation, utilizes various types of equipment, including …
What a customer brings to feasibility testing and how they approach the process will often vary greatly. One customer may require precise formulations and product characteristics such as weight, size, and crush strength, while another may only know the end product they would like to …
This week’s photo shows a batch pin mixer from the FEECO Lab. Pin mixers are a type of industrial mixer that can be used for a wide variety of materials, either as a stand-alone agglomerator, or as part of a larger agglomeration process. They are …
This week’s photo showcases a variety of agglomerates made in the FEECO Lab Testing Facility. FEECO’s state of the art testing & tolling facility offers a variety of batch and continuous testing to determine feasibility of agglomerating a material. In addition to determining feasibility, the …
This week’s photo comes from FEECO’s batch lab in Australia. The photo shows a process engineer testing out a binder on a pan pelletizer. Binder choice is a critical component in the process of testing agglomeration feasibility, and can take some fine-tuning to get just …
This week’s photo shows a pilot kiln in the FEECO Lab Facility. The FEECO pilot kiln is used in a variety of applications as part of process development. The kiln simulates a continuous process and allows for various customizations. The kiln can be run in …