FEECO was founded in 1951 as the Fertilizer Engineering and Equipment Company. We sought to bring better equipment and process solutions to the fertilizer industry, and quickly became experts in granulation. Today, FEECO continues to be an industry leader in fertilizer equipment manufacturing and process …
This week’s photo features two lifter designs. Lifters, also known as fins or flights, are commonly added to the interior of a rotary dryer to assist in the industrial drying process. Their overall objective is to promote efficient heat transfer between the material and the …
The transformation of organic wastes into premium fertilizer products is becoming increasingly popular. In turn, expansive research and development is being done around the processing of these wastes. This is particularly true in the agriculture industry where various types of manure are being processed into …
Compactors and briquetters both operate under the assumption that some material fines, when put under extreme pressure, will self-adhere. While the overall pressure agglomeration concept is similar between the two, the ways in which compactors and briquetters actually process materials differs slightly. Compactors use two …
Customer: Proprietary Plant Location: Southeastern U.S.A. Industry: Agriculture Major Equipment: Rockwell Control System, Disc Pelletizer, Chain Mill Material Handled: Chicken Litter Engineer: FEECO International Process: A large agri-business working in broiler production was facing an issue: chicken litter from their growing farms was making …
Today’s photo comes from the FEECO Innovation Center. A Process Expert is adding binder to a humate sample, as it is being processed on the batch disc pelletizer. While some materials may be self-binding, in most cases, the right binder is critical to agglomeration success. …
Today’s photo highlights a batch pin mixer in the FEECO Innovation Center. Our team of Process Experts use the small-scale mixer during agglomeration lab tests for a variety of purposes. The batch pin mixer is commonly used for pre-conditioning material samples, blending moisture or binder, …
Haldor Topsoe Awarded Billion Dollar Fertilizer Plant Job in Tanzania Haldor Topsoe has been chosen for the engineering design, licensing, proprietary hardware, catalysts and additional services of a new billion dollar fertilizer plant in Tanzania. As the first fertilizer plant in Tanzania, it is expected …
No matter what equipment you’re working with, your preventative maintenance program should require a routine, thorough inspection of the equipment at hand. The same holds true for belt conveyors. The following belt conveyor components should be regularly inspected to ensure ideal operation, and to extend …
Our photo this week shows proppant samples from the FEECO Innovation Center. Proppants are used to help extract natural gas from shale formations in a process called hydraulic fracturing. As drills dig deep down into shale formations, they fracture the formation with a liquid solution …