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Precision IBC Becomes a Powder and
Bulk Dot Com Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that
Precision IBC has become a sponsor of Powder and Bulk Dot Com.
Precision
IBC, Inc. is a full service manufacturer and distributor of IBCs
with corporate headquarters in Fairhope, Alabama and with an
additional distribution and rebuild facility in Broussard,
Louisiana. Precision IBC provides rental, sales, leasing, parts, and
UN/DOT retesting services for intermediate bulk containers to the
chemical, petroleum, food, pharmaceutical and oil industries.
Precision's new
distribution and service center in Broussard is more centrally
located to our customer base and enables us to better serve
companies requiring liquid storage both offshore and onshore. We
offer a complete line of IBCs in stainless steel, carbon steel,
aluminum, and polyethylene, parts and accessories, reconditioning
and testing service.
New
Combination Metal Detector/In-Motion Checkweigher System
These new systems provide a reliable
and accurate method for production line quality control in the food
and pharmaceutical industries, meeting the most demanding quality
control requirements and are available in configurations to suit a
wide variety of production industries from small parts manufacturers
to packaged food processors. Eriez engineering consultants can
design a system to suit virtually any product application.
Fast
and efficient, these systems combine Eriez’ proven metal detection
technology with the accuracy and flexibility of Thompson Scale
Company’s check weighers. Check weigher models TSC 350, Sonic 350,
4693 and 4693i cover capacities from .002 lbs. to 200 lbs. (1g to
90.7 kg) with speeds from 40 to 350 units per minute. Conveyors are
available in either stainless steel, painted mild steel or, for
harsh environments, can be painted with a corrosion resistant epoxy.
Optional Statistical Programs and Serial Feedback loops are
available.
These systems are available in
configurations to suit a wide variety of production industries from
small parts manufacturers to packaged food processors. Eriez
engineering consultants can design a system to suit virtually any
product application. Eriez is recognized as the world authority in
advanced technology for magnetic, vibratory and metal detection
applications.
Eriez' magnetic lift and separation,
metal detection, materials feeding, screening, conveying and
controlling equipment have application in the process, metalworking,
packaging, recycling, mining, aggregate and textile industries.
Eriez manufactures and markets these products through eight
international facilities located on five continents.
For more information visit the Eriez
web site at: Eriez
Magnetics
"...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."
Polymer
Powder Technology
by M. Narkis (Editor), N. Rosenzweig (Editor)
Paperback, 644 pages, September 1995
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The theme of the MHEA BULK2002
Technical Awareness Seminar, which is to be held on the 11-12 April
2002 at the Manchester Airport Moat House, is in essence to address
issues arising from UK environmental legislation and its effect on
the power generation and quarry industries. Plant &
equipment design is also to be featured with a focus on problems in
service which can increase risk.
The areas of UK environmental
legislation which affect the handling and storage of bulk and
powdered materials are those pertaining to:
Dust
Noise
Fire & Explosions
Equipment Design
Operational Safety Standards.
Chairing this Session is Andrew G. Mc
Nicholl who is a Senior Environmental and Occupational Hygiene
Consultant with the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in
Edinburgh. He specializes in noise, vibration, air quality
assessment and control, in both industrial and environmental
contexts and has been closely involved with the planning process for
open-cast coal & quarry sites throughout the UK.
In the field of fossil fuel thermal
power generation the areas of transporting, stockpiling, reclaiming
and bunker storage will be reviewed particularly with regard to coal
and ash. Chairing this Session is Andy Rackham who is a Director of
AR Management - Power Utilities. His background includes the Station
Manager's position at the Tilbury and Littlebrook Power stations,
now Innogy owned. His main contribution to materials handling came
from time spent at the Drax Power Station as the Materials Handling
Manager early 1990's, where investments in excess of £7m were
initiated, and included some novel handling designs considered
radical at the time.
In the field of quarrying the theme
will be pursued of raising the standard of investments, measured in
terms of safe working and impact on the environment as well as
productivity. Chairing this Session is Terry King who is a Special
Projects Engineer with Tarmac Northern. Initially with the Dowty
Group, Terry designed and developed mining equipment and conveyors
in the UK and South Africa including belt conditioning and the drive
life of large conveyors. Since 1988 when he joined Tilcon he has
been involved in the purchase of quarry plant and energy covering
major projects such as (i) a railhead at Leeds (£10M) and (ii)
2Mtpa limestone quarry development at Skipton (£15M) for Tarmac
Northern.
The risk management session will
explore the strategic issues at the interface of finance and
engineering. Chairing this Session is Alfred Gracey who is a
Director of Alfred Gracey & Associates. Over many years he has
researched risk management in technology-based ventures for the
European Commission and Kingston Business School. He has led
multi-disciplinary teams in appraisal of port development and
materials handling projects for international financial institutions
and shipping companies. A notable project was the leading of a task
force for the ODA with regard to the request by the PRC for a $100m
loan to build a 10mt/y coal storage and ship loading facility at
Port of Tianjin.
Design technology continues to be at
the center of the MHEA's on-going fundamental strategy for their
Technical Awareness Seminars. Of late, the influence of
environmental legislation on the design of plant and associated
equipment related to the handling, storage and physical processing
of bulk and powdered products has been immense. Chairing this
Session is Daphne Wassermann who is Technical Director, Cadogan
Consultants Ltd. Daphne trained in Metallurgy and worked for over 12
years with Mitsui Babcock. In 1989 she joined Cadogan Consultants
and since then has gained particular knowledge of power stations
with regard to preparing evidence for legal disputes. She also works
in other areas of mechanical and combustion engineering and has
company responsibility for environmental matters particularly
concerning legislation as it applies to engineering. In the recent
past she has Chaired the Design Committee of the IMechE's Process
Industries Division.
A key MHEA objective is that all of
their technical seminars relating to materials handling will give a
factual awareness of the nature, causes and effects of problems in
service and how these can be solved in a safe and efficient way at
realistic cost. Chairing this Session is Dr Allan Shuttleworth who
is Engineering Director of Ingenco Limited. Allan specializes in the
provision of consultancy, design and engineering services to the
power generation sector. He has more than 35 years experience in
providing engineering solutions for service problems on operating
power stations, including coal, oil, nuclear and renewable power
plant and has particular interests in cleaner coal technology
including the retrofitting of flue gas desulphurisation processes to
UK power plant.
For more information and to register
visit the MHEA website at: www.mhea.co.uk
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Fits
Between Conveyors and Equipment
New Compact Insertion Weigh Belt
Feeder
This unique feeder has been designed
to easily fit into an existing belt or vibratory conveyor line. A
short support framework and a suspended 24" (inch) long
"V-Guided" conveyor (12", 18" and 24" wide)
makes this the only practical weighing module for insertion into a
transition space between existing conveyors or equipment.
Unique
benefits result from suspending a short "V-Guided"
conveyor from the Thayer Force Measurement Suspension System
(15L-FMSS). Since load measurements are not affected by the
physical characteristics of the belting and its supporting
means the construction of the belting and its material can
be chosen on the basis of durability and belt-tracking
ability without concern for accuracy compromise. Also, on
new installations, the combination of the most suitable
volumetric pre-feeder and the Series SI often proves the
best approach considering cost, space, and materials
handling requirements.
The conveyor portion is
normally 24" long and is suspended from the scale on an open
cantilevered "C-Frame" pipe support, which greatly
simplifies belt removal and replacement for wash down applications.
Because the belting is more robust than that used for
"under-the-belt" load sensing feeders, and because the belt
is positively tracked using a V-Guided tracking system, the operating
life of the belt is substantially longer than with conventional
designs.
The SI Insertion Weigher
uses Thayer Scales patented model 15L precision flexure plate
suspension scale with FMSS technology. The scale provides for complete
mass counterbalancing of the dead load of the conveyor permitting the
load sensor to react only to the net material load. This unique system
is not affected by dirt, shocks or vibration, and can withstand
overloads in access of 1,000 pounds without causing damage or
affecting calibration. The highly advanced and extremely robust
sensing technology is based on the marriage of the LVDT, embedded
temperature sensing and properly linerizing and temperature
compensation algorithms.
The Series "SI"
can be supplied with Thayer instrumentation and controls to function
as either a process stream weigher only, or as a flow stream
controller/weigher ( providing the additional controller output to
regulate the upstream delivery system. Thayer's patented "SLC"
(scale location compensation) features can also be supplied to move
the point of measurement further downstream adjacent to associated or
"slaved" equipment.
For more information
contact: Thayer Scale Inc
91 Schoosett St.
Pembroke, MA 02359
Telephone: 781-826-8101
Web site:
http://www.thayerscale.com
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minerals. It can be a cylindrical briquette about 3" dia.
x 4" tall or any shape.
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This
week's homepage photo is of the Thayer Scale weigh belt feeder -
insertion weigh belt module. This unique feeder has been designed to
easily fit into an existing belt or vibratory conveyor line.
Photo courtesy of Thayer
Scale
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"...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."
Unique
benefits result from suspending a short "V-Guided"
conveyor from the Thayer Force Measurement Suspension System
(15L-FMSS). Since load measurements are not affected by the
physical characteristics of the belting and its supporting
means the construction of the belting and its material can
be chosen on the basis of durability and belt-tracking
ability without concern for accuracy compromise. Also, on
new installations, the combination of the most suitable
volumetric pre-feeder and the Series SI often proves the
best approach considering cost, space, and materials
handling requirements.