2017 was an exciting year for many industries; themes such as the battery and electric vehicle boom, a push toward renewable energies, and feeding a growing population, saw many industries, particularly metals and minerals, ramping up for potentially big changes. Looking back over the year, …
FEECO is being featured in the 2018 issue of PotashWorks magazine, the industry’s go-to resource for the latest news and advancements in all things potash. FEECO has been involved in the potash industry since our founding in 1951. We’ve become the industry’s leading provider of …
Tailings, or the material remaining after a valuable component has been separated from the gangue, have long plagued the mining industry with management costs, liability risks, and disposal challenges. Due to their toxicity, tailings pose a number of risks if not properly managed. Furthermore, the …
Over the past few weeks, the FEECO website has seen some exciting additions of new content, including information regarding bauxite, alumina, and aluminum processing, as well as three new brochures. New Material Pages We have added a number of new material processing pages in response …
Red mud is a byproduct of aluminum production, in which alumina is extracted from bauxite ore via the Bayer process. Unfortunately, for each ton of aluminum produced, around 1-2 tons of red mud are also produced, creating a massive amount of industrial waste to manage. …
Due to their flexibility in processing virtually any bulk solid material, rotary dryers have made their way into an abundance of industries around the globe. The following is a brief overview of some of the most common industries FEECO’s rotary dryers are employed. Agriculture Selected …
The 2014 Farm Bill is due to expire in September of 2018. An expansive piece of legislation, the bill covers a wide variety of issues surrounding the agriculture industry, including everything from crop insurance and credit, to nutrition, research, and even renewable energy. As groups …
Today’s photo is a 3D combustion chamber. Combustion chambers are used to keep material from coming into direct contact with the burner flame in either a rotary dryer or kiln. The combustion chamber houses the combustion reaction, and directs the airflow into the drum. The …
Micro-pelletizing can be carried out in a pin mixer, or in a pin mixer/disc pelletizer (pan granulator) combination. Pin mixers alone often provide efficient results when full-scale pelletizing is not necessary, or when only smaller pellets or conditioning is needed. To begin, the pin mixer …
Our photo this week is a sand dryer used in processing frac sand. The 8’-6” x 50’ long dryer utilizes co-current airflow to reduce the moisture content of mined sand. The rotary dryer contains an additional 5’ shell length to incorporate flame cut openings to …