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FEECO Waste Transformation

Whether you have a material you’re currently landfilling, or a process by-product that goes to waste because it’s not usable in its current form, FEECO can develop a process around your intended goal to transform your material into a value-added product. We utilize our unique testing facility, The Innovation Center, to test your material at both batch and pilot scale in order to determine the feasibility of the intended process and simulate commercial process conditions. We then use the data gathered during testing to scale up the process and engineer the equipment needed to carry out the process.

 

Our process experts can apply a variety of methodologies to upgrade your waste material or process by-product. This can include agglomeration, granulation, drying, and high temperature thermal processing, or a combination of these techniques. Our process experts frequently develop processes to:

 

  • Create a marketable product from a waste or process by-product
  • Upgrade the value of a material through refinement
  • Recover valuable materials from valueless carriers
  • Increase the value of a material through improved characteristics

 

Some transformations include turning sludges into organic-based fertilizers, clays and saw dust into cat litter, fuel pellets from petroleum coke dust, and recovering valuable metal from spent batteries.

 


“What the world today calls waste — to FEECO International, they are really just raw materials for products that haven’t been invented yet.” – Dan Madigan (President)


When FEECO converts a customer’s waste into a usable, profitable product, we are also helping that customer prevent wastes from ending up in landfills, creating a win-win situation for both the customer and the environment.

 

 

Partial Materials Converted to Higher End Use Products
Beginning Material Final End Product
Ammonium Sulfate Granular Fertilizer
Ash (Wood, Fly) Granular Fertilizer
Bentonite Clay Cat Litter Granules
Biomass Biochar, Activated Carbon
Bone Meal Granular Fertilizer
Calcium Carbonate Granular Fertilizer
Calcium Chloride Ice Melt Pellets
Calcium Sulfate Granular Fertilizer
Carbon Black Dust De-dusted Pellets
Cell Phone Batteries Lithium, Zinc Metal Recovery
Cement Kiln Dust Granular Calcium Fertilizer
Ceramic/Aluminum Refractory
Clay Proppants
Clay Cat Litter, Oil Dry Granules, Encapsulate Seeds
Coal Dust De-dusted Coal Pellets
Composts (Yard Waste) Granular Fertilizer
Copper Dust Metal Recovery Pellets
Corn Cobs Cat Litter, Oil Dry Pellets
Diatomaceous Earth Filter Agent
Dredge Sludges Non-leaching Granules
Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) Dusts Metal Recovery
Ethanol Plant Waste (DDG) Animal Feed
Foundry Dust Metal Recovery
Glass Batch Glass Blend
Gold Ore Dust Precious Metal Recovery
Grain Dust Non-explosive Pellets
Gypsum Granular Fertilizer
Gypsum Wallboard Waste Granular Fertilizer, Cat Litter Pellets
Humate Granular Fertilizer
Iron Ore Metal Recovery Pellets
Iron Oxide Metal Recovery Pellets
Kaolin Clay Paper Coating
Lime (Wastewater Treatment Sludge) Granular Calcium Fertilizer
Limestone Granular Calcium Fertilizer
Manure – Cattle/Chicken/Hog Granular Fertilizer
MAP Fertilizers Granular Fertilizer
Mined Frac Sand Dried Frac Sand
Municipal Wastes Granular Fertilizer, Fuel Pellets
Nickel Ore Metal Recovery Pellets
Nitrogen Fertilizers Granular Fertilizer
NPK Blends Granular Fertilizer
Paper Sludge Granular Fertilizer, Cat Litter
Paper Sludge Bright White Clay
Petroleum Coke Dust Fuel Pellets
Phosphates Powder Granular Fertilizer
Potassium Chloride Granular Fertilizer
Raw Coal Purified Coal
Saw Dust Cat Litter, Fuel Pellets
Soda Bottles Recycled Plastic
Soy Flour Animal Feed
Steel Dusts and Sludges Metal Recovery Pellets
Sugar Sugar Pellets
Sulfur Dust Non-explosive Pellets
Sulfur Stack Emissions Granular Fertilizer
Talc Ore Sterilized Baby Powder
Tar Sands Waste Sludge Substitute Fuel Pellets
Titanium Dioxide Pigment Pellets
Titanium Metal Shavings Metal Recovery
Tungsten Oxide Metal Recovery Pellets
Zinc Oxide Metal Recovery Pellets

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