This week’s highlighted resource showcases our pelletizing webpage. Pelletizing is an essential agglomeration technique used in many industries to process powdered materials into round pellets that are easier to transport and handle, and are significantly less dusty. Click here to go to the pelletizing page! …
Bed disturbers are used in both direct and indirect-fired rotary kilns to promote uniform heating of the material. The bed of material should roll, not slide, throughout the kiln in order to expose fresh material to the process. This rolling action allows for even heat …
Material handling is an aspect of every industrial process that starts with the transportation of raw material from its original location and ends when the final product arrives at market. During the process, bulk material handling equipment helps move raw and processed materials from one …
While the disc pelletizer has long been the standard for producing granular limestone and gypsum, the industry has found that the addition of a preconditioning step prior to the disc pelletizer significantly improves both processing and product quality. In this application, the pin mixer has …
This week’s highlighted resource is a page on heap leaching. Heap leaching is an essential technology in mining used to extract metals from low-grade ore sources. This technology is known for its ease of operation and low capital expense. Click here to view the web …
This week’s photo shows the expanded metal on a disc pelletizer (pan granulator). During pelletizing, a layer of build-up across the surface of the disc is needed to aid in pellet formation. This layer allows the pellets to roll on top of like material, which …
A booming population, combined with many other factors, has put market traction around potassium sulfate (K2SO4) in recent years. Data Bridge Market Research estimates that the potassium sulfate market will exhibit a CAGR of 5.5% between 2017 to 2024, landing at 10,535.84 thousand tons by …
This week’s highlighted resource is a brochure on advanced particle analysis. The brochure highlights how advanced particle analysis technology is used in the FEECO Innovation Center to improve process transparency, as well as how the technology can be integrated into commercial production facilities. Click here …
A reversing shuttle conveyor is essentially a belt conveyor mounted onto a rail system, and offers numerous advantages to a bulk material handling system, including: A stationary inlet: the stationary feed chute allows for processed material to be directed to one central location. Reversible belt …
Rotary kilns have become an integral processing device throughout many industries. Capable of facilitating chemical reactions and phase changes, they are applied to a diverse range of applications, from metal recovery, to specialty chemical production, and carbon activation, to name a few. In fact, the …