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 …
FEECO International will be exhibiting at the Phosphates 2017 International Conference and Exhibition, now celebrating its 10th year. The event will be held in Tampa, Florida (USA) from March 13-15, 2017. Phosphates 2017 unites experts within the fertilizer, industrial, and feed phosphate markets to discuss …
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 …