Adding a pre-conditioning step to a process offers many benefits. Pre-conditioning prepares a material for agglomeration, and helps to streamline subsequent processing steps. Advantages include: Various pieces of equipment can be used to pre-condition material for agglomeration. Most commonly, pre-conditioning equipment includes rotary dryers, pin …
Made up of sylvite (KCl) and halite (NaCl), sylvinite is an evaporite mineral that serves as the world’s primary source of potash – a nutrient critical to maintaining global food security. Froth flotation is widely used for separating KCl from NaCl and other undesirable components …
Rotary drum tires, or riding rings, are one of the primary support components of a rotary drum, resting on trunnion wheels and allowing rotation of the unit on its base. As technology has advanced, the approach to mounting drum tires has evolved, with each change …
This week’s photo highlights FEECO’s custom rotary drums, from our early days, to present day. The image on the left was taken in August 1961, ten years after our founding, and the image on the right was photographed in May, 2016. FEECO has custom designed …
Agglomeration equipment such as pin mixers and disc pelletizers are essential components in industrial processing operations everywhere, converting powders to granules, conditioning dusty materials, and improving production processes. Though not requiring replacement often, acquiring agglomeration equipment that performs as well or better than the existing …
Pugmill mixers are a type of continuous horizontal mixer used for mixing, conditioning, and granulating bulk solid materials of nearly all types. These industrial mixers can be used as a stand-alone agglomeration device, or as part of a larger agglomeration setup. However they are used, …
The pugmill mixer, also known as a pug mill or paddle mixer, is a type of horizontal industrial mixer used for processing bulk solid materials in conditioning, de-dusting, and granulation applications. This type of mixer is widely employed throughout various industries as a means of …
Potassium and ammonium salts are essential in supplementing crop nutritional requirements. While the granulation of these materials has traditionally been carried out via roll compaction, the demand for a more round and less angular product is causing some fertilizer producers to introduce an additional production …
A pneumatic hammer knocking system is designed to control material build-up inside of a rotary drum. The hammer is mounted above a strike plate on the drum, and delivers an adjustable amount of force as set by the operator. This force “knocks” the drum and …
Disc pelletizers, also commonly called pan granulators, are a type of agitation (tumble-growth/non-pressure/wet granulation) agglomeration equipment used throughout various industries to pelletize fines into rounded granules. These diverse pelletizing discs are often selected for the refined granular product they produce, their low recycle rate, and …