This week’s photo comes straight from FEECO’s lab, where a technician is examining pellets on a disc pelletizer (pan granulator). While processing a material, it is often necessary to stop and examine pellets, checking for uniform binder distribution, pellet size, and other factors, and then …
This week’s photo shows synthetic gypsum pellets that were agglomerated in FEECO’s lab facility on a disc pelletizer. Disc pelletizers, also commonly referred to as pan pelletizers, are just one of the many options in agglomeration equipment at FEECO. Our line also includes paddle and …
Our photo this week is a disc pelletizer in action. Also known as a pan granulator or pan pelletizer, this agglomeration equipment transforms raw materials into round pellets. Here’s how it works: material is fed onto a rotating pan, where it tumbles against itself in …
This week’s photo shows the base of a pin, the fundamental component of a pin mixer. Pin mixers are industrial mixing devices that use rotational forces to blend, agglomerate, and condition fine materials. They rely on 3 main pieces of equipment for processing: an internal …
This week’s photo shows a semi-truck transporting a rotary drum. Transporting any equipment can be a challenging task, but that challenge seems to multiply when shipping rotary drums. Since everything is highly customized, no two pieces of equipment are necessarily alike. Thus, no one size …
This week’s photo shows an 8’x60’ rotary drum inside FEECO’s facility. FEECO provides a vast range of rotary drums including ore agglomerators, granulators, kilns, calciners, coolers, and dryers for your processing needs- all designed in nearly any configuration. From parallel or counter-current flow, direct or …
Our photo this week is a paddle mixer from 1964. Paddle mixers agglomerate, condition and mix various materials- wet and dry- via two rotating shafts with outward-extending paddles. As the shafts rotate, the paddles move the material, creating a kneading and folding over effect. Though …
What a customer brings to feasibility testing and how they approach the process will often vary greatly. One customer may require precise formulations and product characteristics such as weight, size, and crush strength, while another may only know the end product they would like to …
Our photo this week is a briquetter, a machine which transforms particle fines into a larger, more useful shape through compaction. A briquetter uses a roll press to compact material fines and ultimately create briquettes. The machine works when the rolls force the fines into …
This week’s photo shows a 24 inch disc pelletizer (pan granulator) with a vibratory feeder, liquid storage tank, pump and movable base. This pelletizer was built for a proprietary company to use for testing purposes. In the process of disc pelletizing, raw material fines such …