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- Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
- Powder and Bulk Dot Com Welcomes a
New Sponsor: Nippon Magnetics
- Multi-Frequency
Adapter Delivers Rapid Screening of Fine Powders
- Top Picks at Amazon.com
- Ask Joe Column!
- World Batch Forum 2002 N. American
“Meeting of the Minds”
- Powder and Bulk Dot Com had over 35,000+ visitors in July!
- Installation on Thames Addresses
Cement Storage Problem
- Hot Messages from the Help Forum
- Call For Photographs!
- From the Job Fair
- Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Sponsorship & Archive Information
- ReferWare
- About Us
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for posting job openings and the other for posting your resume.
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Steady
Flow From Bins and Hoppers
Powder and Bulk Dot Com Welcomes a
New Sponsor:
Nippon Magnetics
MagHammer™
The
MagHammer's patented design provides an easy-to-install and
easy-to-use solution for previously difficult problems of material
handling for solids, powders and bulk dry materials. Operating
on electromagnetic principals, it delivers a powerful impact
performance for complete and steady flow from bins, hoppers,
cyclones and transfer lines. Since the MagHammer is sealed and
has only one moving part, maintenance is very low.
Safety is very important in any
workplace. Bins and hoppers are usually located high and in
difficult locations not easily reached. The MagHammer can
eliminate the need to send someone climbing to "bang" or
"beat" on the bin or hopper, greatly reducing the
potential for injury. Also minimizes the abuse to the
equipment!
TubeMagnet™
The NTM42 Series tube magnets are
designed specifically for OEMs and magnet grates users. Standard
sizes include: 23.6 mm diameter x 150 mm and 23.6 mm diameter x 250
mm. Other lengths and diameters to meet individual requirements are
available on request.
Consistent high quality construction and powerful rare earth
magnetic material combine to make these tube magnets the perfect
choice for food magnetic grades or industrial separation
applications.
For more information contact: Nippon Magnetics USA, Inc.
444 South Flower Street, Suite 1650
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Multi-Frequency
Adapter Delivers Rapid Screening of Fine Powders
New Rochelle, NY - Kroosh
Technologies Inc. presents new generation of the Kroosh
Multi-Frequency Adapter, the "Kroosher", for vibratory
screening. The Kroosher outperforms most conventional screeners and
ultrasonic systems by as much as 6 times on metal powders. Kroosh
has been successful with screening ultra-light powders with 10-15
times greater productivity. Increasing efficiency from 50 to 95 per
cent has been achieved on variety of difficult-to-screen materials.
The
Kroosher is a purely mechanical device, without any electronic or
pneumatic components, that attaches to a vibratory screen. It
induces a wide spectrum of frequencies over the surface of the
screen. This device allows for finer screening, fights mesh
blinding and particles agglomeration, significantly increases
throughput rate and improves quality of oversize. Kroosher can be
used with dry material or slurries, metallic and abrasive powders,
with any mesh opening (from 10 micron to over 50 mm), it can be
retrofitted to most round or rectangular vibratory screeners.
This device's effect allows for more
efficient use of energy and constant stability of the resonance mode
on the screening surface.
For the complete list of test results
visit our web site. Testing is free of charge at Kroosh's New
Rochelle, NY facility. A rental program is available.
For more information contact:
Mr. Robert Grotto Kroosh Technologies Inc.
59 Plain Ave.
New Rochelle, NY 10801.
Telephone: 1-800-283-5226 or 914-235-0161
Fax: 914-654-9835
Web site: http://www.kroosh.com/
Email: elcan@kroosh.com
The
Reading Room
Top Picks at Amazon.com
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"..presents a set of
design tables for use in the design of circular concrete
tanks. These tables can also be used in the analysis of silos,
pipes, or any circular-cylindrical shell subjected to
arbitrary axi-symmetrical loading and support
conditions."
"...ranging
from fundamental concepts to complete principles, this expert
guide offers engineers, system designer, component
manufacturers, and service engineers a "total
system" approach to pneumatic systems."
"...single source
reference is designed to meet today's need for updated
technical information on planning, installing and operating
materials handling systems"
Thank You! We thank you for your continued support of the Reading
Room. Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that
we should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will try to include it!
We Need Your Guest Articles!
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials, have you solved a difficult materials problem? You too, can be an Ask
Joe! guest author! Share your knowledge with others and promote yourself (the
old publish or perish is true!) by contributing an article to the Ask Joe! Column.
World Batch Forum 2002 N. American
“Meeting of the Minds”
Best Practices for Management,
Operation, and Automation of Batch Processes Call For Papers
Phoenix,
AZ - World Batch Forum is seeking quality papers for their 9th
Annual North American “Meeting of the Minds.” The conference
will be held April 7-10, 2002 in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey at the
Hilton Woodcliff Lake (Newark area). Papers should promote the
understanding of emerging batch processing technologies and
automation standards. Papers based on applications with a problem
and solutions approach that include measurable economic benefits are
of special interest and are encouraged.
Abstracts are due September 1, 2001
with notification of tentative acceptance on November 1, 2001. Final
papers will be due March 8, 2002. WBF is seeking papers to
include the following areas, but not limited to:
Case Studies: Cost savings,
operational savings, problems and successful solutions
Regulatory: 21 CFR Part 11,
Electronic Batch Records, Validation, and GAMP
Standards: Reaping the benefits of
international and corporate standards
Life-Cycle Analysis: Product and
Process life cycle analysis
Batch Automation: Concept,
planning, design, implementation, testing, and operation
New for this year is a mentoring
program where novice writers can team up with an experienced writer
who will advise and guide them in producing a paper. This will
include a more interactive review process than the traditional
abstract, draft, review, and final paper process. This is intended
to help and encourage the novice writer with quality batch
experience to develop into a published author. Application to the
mentoring program must be made by August 1, 2001.
To request paper and presenter
guidelines or apply to the mentoring program, please contact:
Thomas E. Crowl
WBF North American Program Committee Chairman
Telephone: (215) 646-7400 ext. 2549
Email: :thomas.crowl@sea.siemens.com
or
Heather Nudo World Batch Forum Headquarters
Telephone: (480) 893-8803 heather@kc-a.com
World Batch Forum is a non-commercial
professional society devoted to the understanding and application of
emerging batch processing technologies and automation standards
worldwide, including ISA S88, ISA S95, IEC 61131 and IEC SC65A.
For more information on World Batch
Forum call (480) 893-8803, info@wbf.org
or visit our website at www.wbf.org
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Floating
Pontoon Installation
Installation on Thames Addresses
Cement Storage Problem
Portasilo Bulk Handling Systems has
supplied the cement and pulverized fuel ash (PFA) storage
installation needed by Hanson Premix to supply Canary Wharf
Contractors Ltd at Canary Wharf, London. This is part of the
burgeoning Canary Wharf South development area where intensive
building operations have citied as London's latest tourist
attraction.
Restricted
Thames-side land availability and supply via cement supply boat,
prompted use of a floating pontoon for installation of this storage
complex, which comprises four silos.
Three of the silos are filled
conventionally, from road tankers. Two each store 100 tons of cement
and the third 62 tons of PFA. The fourth, 200 ton capacity cement
silo is filled from a cement supply boat and transfers cement to the
other two cement silos using a pneumatic conveying system.
The silos were specially reinforced
for the anticipated pitch and roll of the pontoon. The installation
was completed in a very short time frame during Hanson's Christmas
shutdown, in order to avoid interference with the program for this
massive construction project.
Portasilo Ltd was founded in 1953, on
the basis of an innovative and successful approach to onsite cement
storage and discharging in the days before pre-mixed cement road
tankers were available. Since then the company has developed a wide
ranging of tailor made bulk storage and handling solutions for
particulate materials throughout process industry. This latest
application has seen the Company utilize its now considerable broad
experience and expertise to assist a client in construction, the
first sector in which it made its mark.
For further sales information please
contact:
Mr. Ian Birkinshaw, Sales Manager Portasilo Ltd
Telephone: 01904 624872
Fax: 01904 611760
E-mail: Ian.Birkinshaw@portasilo.co.uk Web Site: www.portasilo.co.uk
Help
Forum
Hot Messages from the Help
Forum
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Maitland needs a pneumatic
conveying system:
I would like to transfer a bin load
of 'max Cover' (kitty litter size granules) approx 500kgs through a
hose/pipe arrangement 11/2" diameter to spray a distance up to
5-10 meters onto a steel ladle. Using a pneumatic system of some
form. e.g. venturi type arrangement. What would I need to do to the
bin & what equipment would be best to install to do the above
job? I only want it to be as simple as possible.
We have a process that requires the
feeding of dry burnt lime powder into a wet, steamy environment. Any
ideas as to the best type of feeder would be gratefully appreciated.
This
week's homepage photo is of Triple/S Dynamics' Slipstick conveying
cereal in a manufacturing plant. Built in lengths from 4 feet
to 200 feet, the Slipstick horizontal motion conveyor is the most
productive advance in horizontal conveying equipment since the
invention of vibrating conveyors.
We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials
process, packaging, conveying or handling "action shot" for our home
page. If you have a favorite photograph of bulk materials handling at its best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo
with a description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be
given. Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give
everyone a chance to be included. Send your photograph and description
to: news@powderandbulk.com
Jobs
From the Job Fair
Manufactures Reps Wanted
Phoenix Technology & Engineering,
Inc. is looking for qualified manufacturers reps in the Mid
Atlantic, New England, and Midwest area of the United States.
Phoenix is a turnkey bulk material handling company that specialized
in hard to flow materials, mechanical conveying, dilute and dense
phase pneumatic conveying, batching systems, dust collection and bag
house equipment.
We have design and manufacturing
capabilities including and ASME code shop. Industries Served:
Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Food Stuffs, Agricultural, Mineral and
Pharmaceutical industries.
Send your resume or prospectus
to:
Mr. Gary Wildgoose Phoenix Technology & Engineering, Inc.
gary.wildgoose@phoenixtechinc.com Telephone: 813-792-9200 X116
Fax: 813-792-0804
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guide offers engineers, system designer, component
manufacturers, and service engineers a "total
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