This photo of the week shows the inside of a coating drum while in operation at the FEECO Innovation Center. Coating pellets is desirable for many reasons, including to control dust, caking, or moisture absorption, or to improve flowability of a material. Coatings are also …
This week’s photo comes from the FEECO Innovation Center, where a sample is ready for a solubility test. Solubility tests, or dissolving tests, look at how agglomerates behave in water. By submerging the agglomerated product in beakers of water, our process experts specifically analyze if …
Limestone is a versatile commodity used to create products for agricultural, environmental, and industrial purposes. Cement, paint, soil amendments, and even breakfast cereals all contain this resourceful mineral. Of course, mined limestone is not naturally found in a suitable form for many of these products. …
Limestone is prone to a variety of processing challenges, all of which depend on the unique deposit and the type of processing itself. Abrasion can occur during limestone drying. Heavy-duty rotary dryers are recommended to handle raw limestone’s abrasive characteristics, in addition to adding custom …
Phosphates are essential to life on Earth, providing the vital nutrient phosphorus, which contributes to a multitude of biological processes that make human, plant, and animal life possible. Phosphates can be made into an array of products, from fertilizers to food and consumer products, and …
This week’s photo highlights a moisture analyzer from the FEECO Innovation Center. FEECO’s process experts use the moisture analyzer prior to, during, and after processing materials, to record the amount of moisture in each sample. With most materials, reaching a specific moisture range, or even …
This week’s photo highlights a material before and after processing in the FEECO Innovation Center’s batch pin mixer. Pin mixers are adept for mixing, agglomerating, conditioning, micro-pelletizing, and de-dusting applications. The intense spinning action allows them to densify material and create small pellets, an ideal …
Biochar is continuing to make a name for itself in a myriad of industries, with new applications making headlines all the time. Uses in water treatment, energy production, animal husbandry, and more have created a flurry of activity around this carbon-based material produced from biomass. …
Each agglomeration method in FEECO’s Innovation Center can produce pellets or granules, sometimes both, of different sizes, shapes, solubility, and densities, among other things. Similarly, within each method of agglomeration, manufacturers are often targeting a set of parameters that will ensure their agglomerates perform as …
Agglomeration labs are regularly conducted at FEECO International, as our Process Experts test materials for feasibility, optimize current processing methods, and help customers create their ideal product. And while we’ve worked with hundreds of materials over the years, one that we frequently see in the …