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 …
Customer: Proprietary Plant Location: Michigan, USA Industry: Environmental/Pulp and Paper Major Equipment: Pug Mill (Paddle Mixer) Material Handled: Coal Fly Ash Engineer: FEECO International, Inc. Process: The customer was landfilling the coal fly ash produced as a by-product of coal-fired power generation at their paper …
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 …
This week’s photo shows Alex Ebben, FEECO Process Sales Engineer, at the Phosphates 2017 International Conference and Exhibition in Tampa, Florida (USA). Phosphates 2017 is a must-see for those in the fertilizer, industrial and feed phosphate markets, and unites over 400 professionals from around the …
This week’s photo is a compactor from the FEECO Innovation Center. Here, a heat lamp is set directly on the compactor’s feed chute, so the metal of the cold chute would not take away the heat from the pre-heated feed material. FEECO’s process experts are …