Today’s photo highlights a girth gear (left) and gear lubrication nozzle (right), both components of a rotary drum. The gear drive assembly is mounted on the outside of the shell circumference. It meshes with a small gear drive, and causes the rotary drum to rotate. …
Customer: Proprietary Plant Location: Arizona, USA Industry: Mining Major Equipment: (2) 15’ Dia. x 45’ Long (4.6m Dia. x 13.7 Long) Agglomeration Drums Material Handled: Copper Ore Engineer: Fluor Daniel Process: FEECO was commissioned to provide two heavy-duty copper ore drums for one of the …
FEECO offers a variety of agglomeration equipment, with each equipment falling in either the non-pressure (tumble growth) or pressure categories. Non-pressure agglomeration techniques use a binding agent to process material fines into larger agglomerates. This is done by tumbling the fines in the presence of …
This week’s photo highlights a rotary dryer combustion chamber from FEECO’s Fabrication Facility. In regards to rotary dryer components, the combustion chamber houses the combustion reaction. From here, the drying air is directed through the rotary drum. FEECO offers a variety of combustion chambers including …
Customer: Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) Plant Location: Canada Industry: Steel Major Equipment: (4) Balling Drums Material Handled: Iron Ore Engineer: FEECO International, Inc. Process: FEECO was contracted to assist the Iron Ore Company of Canada in an expansion of their existing operation. After …
Customer: Multiple, Proprietary Plant Location: Domestic and International Industry: Power Generation, Pulp and Paper Major Equipment: (90+) Pin Mixers Material Handled: Coal Fines, Dust Engineer: FEECO International, Inc. Process: If sufficiently aerated, coal fines are combustible, making de-dusting a top priority when working with coal …
In the copper production via smelting process, pugmill mixers are used for mixing and conditioning. Pug mills are highly proficient at combining both solid and liquid feeds into a homogenous mixture, and are therefore an ideal mixing device in the smelting process. Numerous components are …
Each year, we update FEECO.com with the information you need to help make your material testing, equipment selection, and aftermarket service searches a more successful endeavor. As 2016 comes to a close, we’d like to highlight some of the advancements made to our corporate website. …
FEECO’s chicken manure granulation method begins with pre-conditioning. Raw manure is typically too wet or clumpy to use as a uniform feedstock; it must first be pre-conditioned into a workable feedstock via composting or thermal treatment (or drying). In either scenario, it is likely that …
This week’s photo highlights an agglomeration test in process at the FEECO Innovation Center. Pellets on a disc pelletizer are pictured. The FEECO Innovation Center is equipped for both pressure and non-pressure agglomeration tests on either a single piece of equipment, or in a continuous …