Our photo this week is an unideal sample of briquettes. The briquettes are almost all not uniform in shape, many with broken edges. An ideal briquette would be the contrary- cylindrical in shape and smooth around the entire circumference. The purpose of this photo is …
This week’s photo highlights a FEECO pin mixer. It is one of our rental units, available for your on-site processing convenience. The continuous mixer is 10”, with the capacity varying significantly from material to material and process to process. The pin mixer also features a raising …
This week’s photo highlights a pugmill mixer. FEECO’s Assembly Team is currently constructing the machine at our Fabrication Facility in Green Bay, WI (USA). A pugmill mixer, also known as a paddle mixer, is a horizontal mixing, conditioning, and agglomerating device ideal for processing heavy-duty …
Because compaction is a dry process, usually not requiring binder, drying is often not needed. However, drying can be added to the process set-up to improve resistance to attrition, or the breakdown of granule edges. The granules created during the compaction process can be wetted …
Compaction granulation is an immensely effective, cost-efficient agglomeration option for potash and other salts, and it is an ideal method used to turn potash fines into a usable fertilizer product. Compaction granulation operates under the principle that under extreme pressure, some materials will adhere to themselves …
This week’s photo highlights potash granules produced via compaction (left) and granules produced via pelletizing (right). Potash compaction granulation and pelletization are two agglomeration methods, each offering a set of advantages and disadvantages. Compaction granulation does not use a binder or drying during processing, a …
Compactors and briquetters both operate under the assumption that some material fines, when put under extreme pressure, will self-adhere. While the overall pressure agglomeration concept is similar between the two, the ways in which compactors and briquetters actually process materials differs slightly. Compactors use two …
Today’s photo comes from the FEECO Innovation Center. A Process Expert is adding binder to a humate sample, as it is being processed on the batch disc pelletizer. While some materials may be self-binding, in most cases, the right binder is critical to agglomeration success. …
Today’s photo highlights a batch pin mixer in the FEECO Innovation Center. Our team of Process Experts use the small-scale mixer during agglomeration lab tests for a variety of purposes. The batch pin mixer is commonly used for pre-conditioning material samples, blending moisture or binder, …
Compactors use pressure to form dense, jagged granules from material fines. They are frequently used in the fertilizer industry to produce fertilizer granules, but are also an effective solution for a multitude of materials including chemicals, metallic oxides, and more. Here’s how they work: material …