This week’s photo shows a damaged rotary drum tire. Tires can become damaged if: Tire replacement is often the best solution to tire damage. Welding can also be an option, though it is a last case resort, and a temporary solution. Regular inspections and maintenance …
A recent white paper by William Strauss, PhD of FutureMetrics LLC, looked at a strategy that could breathe life back into the dying US coal industry, and the answer comes from an unlikely place: implementing policy to support the co-firing of wood biomass pellets (biocoal) …
Customer: Proprietary Plant Location: Proprietary Industry: Dairy and Fertilizer Major Equipment: System engineering and complete granulation plant utilizing pugmill mixer, 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 …
Customer: Proprietary Plant Location: Canada Industry: Aggregates Major Equipment: Rotary Pre-heater, Coating (Coloring) Drum, Rotary Kiln, Rotary Cooler Material Handled: Roofing Granules Engineer: FEECO International, Inc. Process: FEECO was commissioned to engineer and manufacture a complete production line for processing mined rock into roofing granules. …
This week’s photo highlights a pan pelletizer’s binder spray system. The spray system, or nozzles, are used to disperse binder. Non-pressure agglomeration technologies, such as pelletizing on a pan pelletizer (also known as a pan granulator or disc pelletizer), often requires the assistance of a …
As one of the key nutrients required for plant growth, nitrogen is essential to life on Earth. It plays a critical role in crop production and ultimately, producing food for the Earth’s inhabitants, particularly as the world looks to feed an exponentially growing population. One …
This week’s post highlights a series of images: rotary tire wear patterns. A rotary drum tire is a support structure for the drum, and provides a place for pressure to be absorbed. As with any piece of equipment, they must be inspected and serviced, if …
A sieve analysis measures particle size distribution, and more specifically, what percentage of on-size, over-size and under-size pellets are produced from the agglomeration process. The analysis is an important part of agglomerate process and product development, as it confirms whether or not the agglomeration process …
This week’s photo shows coal fines (left) and coal pellets (right). The sample was agglomerated in FEECO’s state-of-the-art Innovation Center. The Innovation Center allows customers to test their material at batch and pilot scale, in order to establish the equipment setup and parameters necessary to …