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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 58, August 21, 2000
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> Sponsors Message
> Blend Uniformity Workshop Coming Soon
> AccuRate Receives Governor's New Product Award for MECHATRON
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!, "Frequently Asked Questions"
> Port Terminal and New-Generation Portalink in Sharjah
> We had over 17,000 Visitors in July!
> Vibratory Conveyor Offers Metal Detection Capabilities
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Sponsorship & Archive Information
> ReferWare
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Blend Uniformity Workshop Coming Soon
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PQRI Workshop on Blend Uniformity
September 7-8, 2000
Crystal Gateway Marriott
Arlington, VA
Blend Uniformity Working Group Research Objectives
Pharmaceutical blending operations are designed to provide
uniform distribution of drug particles in a powder blend. In
addition to drug content uniformity in the final product,
blending operations can also affect certain other product
attributes such as drug dissolution and tablet hardness.
Legal precedence and current regulations suggest that blend
testing should be carried out for each production batch to
minimize the likelihood of releasing a batch that does not
truly meet end product specification. However, the general
manufacturing experience suggests that, for most powder blends,
blend testing for every production batch is not necessary,
and unit dose sampling using a sampling thief can pose
significant problems.
The gap in the scientific understanding and regulations are
a source of continued debate, and from an industry perspective,
may produce undesirable regulatory action. Also, limitations
of current powder sampling procedures may be diverting
significant time and resources to address a redundant
question. The PQRI research efforts will fill the existing
science-regulation gap by;
-Identifying when blend uniformity tests are needed to
assure product quality,
-Developing a more effective method for testing blend
uniformity when such tests are necessary,
-Enhancing confidence in end product content uniformity
tests to assure batch-to-batch content uniformity without
the need for an in-process blend uniformity test and
-in the long term improve the fundamental understanding of
the blending process to minimize uncertainty and accelerate
development of pharmaceutical processes.
For more information about the Blending Workshop contact:
Mr. David C. Pang, Ph.D.
AAPS Director,
Scientific Affairs
2107 Wilson Blvd,
Suite 700
Arlington, VA 22201
Telephone: 703-248-4710
Fax: 703-243-9650
Web site: http://www.pqri.org/
mailto:pang@aaps.org
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AccuRate Receives Governor's New Product Award for MECHATRON
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SCHENCK AccuRate, Whitewater, WI was honored by the Wisconsin
Society of Professional Engineers during the 31st Annual
Governor’s New Product Award (GNPA) program. The SCHENCK
AccuRate MECHATRON took top honors for the Large Company
Division among Wisconsin corporations demonstrating innovations
in new product development.
Announcing the MECHATRON family of feeders. Schenck AccuRate
has not only engineered a superior feeder design that makes
sense, but introduces revolution automation features that
drastically reduce capital investment and installation costs.
The new MECHATRON feeder features "Mechatronics", a new
design philosophy used to describe the total integration of
mechanics and electronics. All control components and motors
are integrated and pre-wired in the feeder so that commissioning
is accomplished by bringing power and communications to the
unit for near plug and play functionality. The MECHATRON
was chosen for the Governor’s New Product award due to the
following product attributes:
-The MECHATRON is a bulk solids feeder that completely
disassembles from the non-process side. Augers, hoppers and
other components easily clamp in and out for maintenance,
cleaning and reconfiguration or service. The extension hopper
can stay in place during cleaning, reconfiguration, or service.
-The feeder concept of the MECHATRON accommodates both flexible
wall and stainless steel hoppers, conically shaped for better
mass flow.
-The MECHATRON is a feeder that can be purchased for
volumetric use and upgraded for gravimetric operation,
supports single screw or twin-screw configurations, internal
or external agitation, multiple motor/control arrangements
and more.
-A separate control enclosure is built into the support
structure for the MECHATRON®. The unique hanging design
reduces costs and offers multiple hanging alternatives.
For more information on the MECHATRON, contact:
Ms. Jill Holthaus
Schenck AccuRate Inc.
746 E. Milwaukee Street
Whitewater, WI
Telephone: 262-473-2441
Fax: 262-473-2232
Web site: http://www.sarinc.com/index.html
mailto:jah@sarinc.com
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Time to advance your skills over the summer, check into these
great books to broaden your processing knowledge.
"Roark's Formulas for Stress and
Strain"
by Warren C. Young
Hardcover, 763 pages, 6th edition, February 1989
"Mechanical Vibrations: Book and
Disk"
by Singiresu S. Rao
Hard Cover, 912 pages, February 1995
"Machinery's Handbook: A Reference Book for the Mechanical Engineer,
Designer, Manufacturing Engineer, Draftsman, Toolmaker &
Machinist"
by Erik Oberg
Hard Cover, 2,543 pages, large print, January 1997
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!
Thank you for your continued support of Powder and Bulk Dot
Com and for our Reading Room. You can visit the Reading Room at:
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Ask Joe Column!, "Frequently Asked Questions"
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THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE
"Frequently Asked Questions"
By Joseph Marinelli
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For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at:
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Port Terminal and New-Generation Portalink in Sharjah
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In the new port of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), the
International Foodstuffs Co. has constructed a new port
terminal with a storage capacity of about 83,000 metric tons.
The company now additionally operates a new Buhler Portalink
600/80 RK in Hamriyah Port.
The new installation now allows very large vessels (up to
Cape-size) to be unloaded, which has a very beneficial impact
on the freight and unloading costs. The port facility was
designed so as to permit an expansion at a later date to
double the existing storage capacity and unloading capacity.
Terminal as transfer station
The port terminal is currently designed as a transfer station,
which means that the mill is not located at the same site.
The unloaded material is placed into intermediate storage
consisting of ten large steel bins holding 7350 metric tons
each and three small steel bins with a holding capacity of
3360 tons each. Before the material is weighed on an MWBS
receiving scale, it is screened by MKZM drum sieves and
DFRA magnetic separators. The storage bins are loaded at a
throughput rate of 600 tons per hour by belt-and-bucket
elevators and chain conveyors. An aspiration system keeps
all the equipment dust-free.
Constructed in only six months
Material discharge from the flat-bottom bins at a rate of
400 tons per hour is performed by chain conveyors and
belt-and-bucket elevators. The material is either loaded
out in bulk onto trucks via loadout bins, or it is weighed
and packed by two bagging or Big Bag stations before also
being loaded onto trucks. The installation of the electrical
and mechanical installation was completed within a mere
six months.
Optimized ship unloader
Since 1995, the International Foodstuffs Co. has been
operating a ship unloader of type Portalino in the port
of Sharjah, with a throughput of 300 tons per hour. The
low operating costs and high availability of this machine
are likely reasons why this same technology was applied
a second time for the new grain terminal in Hamriyah Port.
The new Portalink 600/80 unloader is based on the same
technical design as that of the standard machine with
a throughput of 600 tons per hour. But because "Cape-size"
bulk carriers of up to 120,000 DWT must be unloaded in
Hamriyah Port, the sizing of the support structure had
to be increased. The result of this new development
is a boom that is five meters longer and a central
section that is also five meters taller. This support
structure will also be used in the future as a new
standard platform for the revised Portalink 800/80
(800 tons per hour).
Same technology, lower cost
This modularization of the range of unloader types
enables Buhler to offer the same technology and same
quality at significantly lower cost. By optimizing
the design using state-of-the-art calculation methods,
it has additionally been possible to reduce the total
weight compared with the unloaders existing up to
now by some 30 percent while maintaining the throughput
at the same level. Thanks to the lower resulting pier
and rail loadings, unloaders offering a higher throughput
can be applied on existing pier infrastructures without
requiring expensive reconstruction.
For more information, please contact:
Mr. Roman Salzmann
Buhler AG
CH-9240 Uzwil
Switzerland
Telephone ++41 71 955 33 99
Fax ++41 71 955 38 51
mailto:roman.salzmann@buz.buhler.ch
Web site: http://www.buhler.ch/
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Vibratory Conveyor Offers Metal Detection Capabilities
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ERIE, PA - Eriez introduces its new VMC Vibratory Conveyor
with integral Model VC Metalarm metal detector. The system
provides precise and efficient conveying of dry bulk materials,
while the metal detector helps protect the product from
metal contamination.
The VMC Series has the advantages of a mechanical conveyor -
higher deflection and lower frequency - with the trouble-free
service of an electromagnetic conveyor - no belts, bearings
or parts to wear out. Specially designed fiberglass springs
amplify the trough stroke and are adjustable to provide easy
fine-tuning of conveyor motion.
A variety of trough sizes are available to match the conveyor
to specific application requirements. The VMC Series
Electromagnetic Conveyors can be specially designed to help
food processors meet and exceed their sanitary standards.
Eriez new Model VC Metalarm Metal Detector can easily be
retrofitted directly to the tray of existing vibratory
conveyors. The metal detector head, which contains the
electrical coils, is mounted in up to a 3.3 ft. (1 meter)
cut out in the floor of the vibrating tray.
The Model VC is a simple way to protect downstream equipment
such as crushers, granulators and chippers. Packaging
operations can also benefit from the assurance that packaged
products are metal-free. This unit includes the search coil
and a Model 3500 Control (designed for 115V/240V 50/60 Hz
service). Audible and visual alarms are available as
optional extras.
For more information regarding the VMC Series Electromagnetic
Conveyors, visit here:
Eriez
Magnetics 
Additional information about Eriez' Model VC Metalarm Metal
Detectors can be found here:
Eriez
Magnetics
Eriez, recognized as "world authority in advanced technology
for magnetic, vibratory and metal detection applications,"
designs, develops, manufactures and markets advanced
technology equipment for magnetic separation, metal detection
and materials feeding, screening, conveying and controlling
applications.
For more information or brochures contact:
Mr. Keith Jones
Eriez Magnetics
P.O. Box 10608
Erie, PA 16514-0608
Telephone (toll free): 800-345-4946
Outside the United States: 814-835-6000
Fax: 814-833-3348
mailto:kjones@eriez.com
Web site: Eriez
Magnetics
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. Altmann need help with SAN resin milling
We need to mill SAN resin (styrene acrylonitrile)from 2 mm
down to 100% less than 45 microns. Anyone with experience
with this product? Same for PET.
mailto:altmann@collore.com.br
Mr. Deshpande needs advise on transportation of alumina:
We wish to transport 15,000 tonnes of alumina per month through
truck mounted bulkers over rough roads and hilly terrain
having curvacious roads. We have apprehensions that the bulkers
will be damaged due to rough roads and hilly terrapins vis-a-vis
transportation through fibc on a truck. Kindly advice.
Mr. P.D.Deshpande
Transport Equipments & Services
4,Roshni
Plot 86/1A/1B,Shastrinagar
Kothrud,Pune
411029, India
Telephone: 91 20 5382606
Fax: 91 20 5380873
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of a PulsePleat® filter being installed
in a baghouse at a Brazilian cement plant. One-piece pleated
filter elements replace traditional filter bags and cages and
can significantly increase airflows through a baghouse while
decreasing installation time.
Photo is courtesy of BHA Group, Inc.
web site: http://www.bha.com/
We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials process,
packaging, conveying or handling "action shot" for our home page.
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at its best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo with
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Send your photograph and description to,
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MANUFACTURING REPRESENTIVE
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400013, India
Phone: 91 22 4944108
Fax 91 22 2187750
http://www.frigmaires.com
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