- Customer: Proprietary
- Plant Location: Proprietary
- Industry: Dairy and Fertilizer
- Major Equipment: System engineering and complete granulation plant utilizing pug mill, rotary dryer, rotary cooler, screening, recycle, gas handling, process controls, material handling, and ancilliary equipment
- Material Handled: Digested Dairy Manure and NPK Minerals
- Engineer: FEECO International, Inc.
- Process: FEECO was commissioned by a large-scale dairy farm to develop an on-farm granulation plant to process digested dairy manure and NPK minerals into fertilizer-grade granules.
Through batch and pilot testing in the Innovation Center, FEECO developed a process around the farm’s unique source of manure. We then scaled up this process and engineered and fabricated the equipment to provide a complete system integrating agglomeration/mixing, drying, cooling, screening, recycle, gas handling, process controls, and all necessary material handling equipment.
In addition to our role in process design and equipment manufacturing, we also provided a variety of systems engineering services, including but not limited to plant general arrangement drawings, vendor interface, bid evaluation and analysis, P&IDs, control system interface, electric plant device drawing development, project management, start-up assistance, and more.
FEECO worked with vendors and engineering firms to integrate the granulation plant as part of a complete manure processing line with pre-treatment, storage, blending, and other necessary support systems to serve as a commercial scale fertilizer production facility.
FEECO continues to serve the project through remote support capabilities
facilitated by Rockwell Automation and Allen-Bradley controls integration. - Download: Manure Granulation Plant