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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 34, February 28, 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
This is a 100% opt-in newsletter with news and information
for the materials handling professional. The Newsletter is
currently sent to 1,352 materials handling professionals at
the time of this mailing. Unsubscribe instructions are at
the end of this newsletter.
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Lots of people needs help and employees this week! Check
it out.
Our goal is to provide information to improve your business
by using the resources available on the internet.
Thanks,
Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> Your Company's Ad Could Be Here For ONLY $100
> QNI Yabulu Refinery Gets a Samson
> 'Cool' On-line Magazine Probes 'How Stuff Works'
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> Flowline Announces New Level Transmitter for Small Tanks
> We had over 14,000 visitors in January!
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Sponsorship & Archive Information
> ReferWare
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Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
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Do you have company news, a new product, new service or other
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
We give full credit to contributing authors.
DEADLINE for the next issue is March 1st. Please try to
submit articles via email. If you have photographs to be
included with article, post the photo on your web site and
include the URL of the photo with your article. (Though we
do want "action-shots" for our home page!)
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
...or visit our news and information submission page at:
Click here to submit a press release
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QNI Yabulu Refinery Gets a Samson
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QNI Yabulu Refinery choose the new Samson 800 Series Surface
Feeder for inclusion in their ore handling facility at Townsville
(Australia) to receive solar-dried Nickel Ore direct from
Dump Trucks discharging to an existing overland conveyor.
Installed entirely above ground the Samson provided the ideal
solution requiring the minimum of civil works and eliminating
the need for any additional transfer conveyors.
Compared to traditional underground pits and hoppers the Samson
solution proved very cost-effective with the benefit of complete
flexibility of location plus the added benefit of easy relocation
for future plant development.
With a holding capacity of over 50 tons the Samson receives
the entire dump truck contents providing a buffer holding
capacity allowing the truck to "Tip and Run" minimizing the
truck discharge time for maximum mobile plant utilization.
Using the unique Samson "Levelling Blade" discharge rate control
system along with remote variable belt speed control the discharge
rate may be set to suit the plant demands to a design maximum
of 900 tonnes per hour continuous output.
The Samson 800 has proven an effective solution for the handling
of this difficult material under extreme working conditions
eliminating the traditional problems of blockage and bridging
associated with conventional handling systems.
For more information contact:
B&W Mechanical Handling Limited
Lancaster Way
Ely, Cambs
CB6 3NP, England
Telephone - +44 1353 665001
Fax - +44 1353 666734
mailto:sales@bwmech.co.uk
Web site: http://www.bwmech.co.uk/
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'Cool' On-line Magazine Probes 'How Stuff Works'
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RALEIGH, NC - February 17, 2000 (INB) -- An on-line magazine
called HowStuffWorks.com http://www.howstuffworks.com
is
taking the Internet by storm with its approach to
demystifying everyday life through clearly written and
"cool" articles, such as How a Car Engine Works, How
Caffeine Works and How Tattoos Work.
The 19 month old educational magazine, the brainchild of
professor-turned-entrepreneur Marshall Brain, has caught on
with teens, parents and teachers as well as other adults
looking for help with household projects or hobbies.
HowStuffWorks.com receives over 650,000 unique visitors each
month, placing it in the top 1,000 websites, and Brain gets
hundreds of email comments and suggestions from across the
globe each week.
HowStuffWorks.com, which was incorporated in September 1999
after more than a year as a successful one-man-show, has
already grabbed many of the top educational website awards
- most recently being included in Forbes Magazine's list of
best parenting Web sites. Since its creation,
HowStuffWorks.com has also been named to Popular Science's
50 Best of the Web science and technology sites, earned the
Coolest Site on the Internet designation from
Coolsiteoftheday.com and received the 1999 Reference Site of
the Year by LibrarySpot.com.
"We offer something for everyone - from the middle school
kid who's trying to learn how a smoke detector works for a
homework assignment; to his parents, who are trying to keep
up with him; to teachers looking for good, high-quality
classroom material; to the guy who just wants to fix his
water heater," Brain said. "That's why we're heading in the
direction of writing about how everything in the world
works!" When Brain began writing How Stuff Works articles
"for fun" in July 1998, he says he was writing for the
teenager he once was, a curious kid who loved to take things
apart and read magazines about taking things apart. "I
started out writing about things like engines and
electronics because that's what I was interested in as a
teenager," he said.
Prior to incorporating HowStuffWorks.com, Inc., Brain was
president of Interface Technologies, Inc., a software
development firm based in Raleigh. For his work there,
Ernst&Young/CNN recognized the 38-year-old as one of the top
25 entrepreneurs in North and South Carolina for 1999.
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Top picks from Amazon.com this week are:
"Plant Layout and Material
Handling"
by Fred E. Meyers
Hardcover, January 1993
"Materials Handling Handbook
(McGraw-Hill)"
by David E. Mulcahy (Editor)
Hard Cover, 768 pages, September 1998
"Powder Technology
Handbook"
by K. Gotoh, H. Masuda and K. Higashitani (Editors)
Hard Cover, 2nd Edition
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:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
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Ask Joe Column!
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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.
For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at:
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE
"Caking of Powders - A Common Process Problem" a guest article
by Mr. Richard J. Farnish, The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids
Handling Technology
You can read Richard's article at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
Ask Joe! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
Web Address for Ask Joe Archive is:
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Flowline Announces New Level Transmitter for Small Tanks
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Ricochet™ Breaks the Price/Performance Barrier in Small Tank
Level Sensing with LA15 Series Ultrasonic Level Transmitter
Los Alamitos CA: The non-contact, corrosive level measurement
solution for intermediate bulk containers (IBC) small process
vessels and 55 gallon drums has arrived! Ricochet™ breaks
through all price, feature and size barriers to offer the most
innovative solution for small tank level measurement up to
6 feet. For only $495, this microprocessor based, two-wire
ultrasonic level transmitter provides cutting-edge features
and process intelligence. In fact, Ricochet™ is so cost
competitive that hundreds of OEM and process users can now
upgrade from point level sensors to continuous level measurement.
To maximize filling capacity using the least amount of
installed space, the 3/4” NPT transducer features a revolutionary
design with an ultra-tight 3.5” dead band and narrow 8-degree
beam width. These unique features enable the transmitter to
be applied in vessels with limited measurement space around
other instrumentation, fill pipes and mixers without
obstructing the acoustic signal. Ricochet’s™ compact size
is very deceptive.
The transducer protrudes only 0.7” into the tank and the
NEMA 4X enclosure stands as little as only 3.6” above the
tank top.
Ricochet’s™ plug-and-play design features echo fail-safe
intelligence and automatic temperature compensation to
eliminate false echo signals and maximize process performance.
Out of the box, the transmitter is pre-calibrated to a range
of 0.3-6’and connects directly to the user's remote PLC,
indicator or controller. No field calibration is necessary!
For more information contact:
Flowline, Inc.
10500 Humbolt Street
Los Alamitos CA 90720
Telephone: 562-598-3015
Fax: 562-431-8507
mailto:sdo321@aol.com
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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. Crowley needs a better chute:
Looking for material suggestions to replace 24" diameter A36
steel grain loading chutes. Chutes are a nominal 40' long.
Need to evaluate material change, lining existing chutes with
a plastic material such as UHMW, or use a spray-on lining.
Desire to increase the service life of the existing chutes.
Would appreciate sources for information to evaluate the cost
and benefits, along with an increased life expectancy.
Thanks in advance,
Jim Crowley
JD Engineering
Telephone: 503-297-2539
Fax: 503-292-2703
mailto:jcrow72359@aol.com
Mr. Verdoorn needs help will milling perlite:
As a new subscriber to your newsletter, I am not quite
sure where to address the question for which I am seeking
an answer. Pardon me if I am saddling the wrong person
with the task of posting my request.
An acquaintance of mine, Gerhard Verdoorn,
[ mailto:gerhardv@citec.net ], wants to know if there is
any producer of perlite filter aid using opposed jet mills
(or similar) to mill expanded perlite?
I am posing the request on his behalf as he was involved
in a motorcycle accident and presently has trouble
operating his keyboard. Replies obviously to his address.
Thanks and kind regards,
Storm
Ms. Bailey needs flow properties of spices:
I'm looking for any and all information on powder flow
ability in the food industry. This would be dry seasonings.
It would include: caking of the product, bulk index, bulk
density, and etc.
For any information please contact:
Robin Bailey
mailto:Robin_Bailey@mccormick.com
Ms. Monroe need a filling machine:
Greetings! Your site has so much information that I am a
little lost. I am looking for a machine to weigh and fill 1 oz.
to 1 lb. of a variety of dried mushrooms. One I have found
is the AEF-7 Multi-Trix Single-Head Net-Weigher Triple Pan
Configuration. I am trying to shop around and get the best
deal but am not sure where to go from here.
Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated.
Thank you so much for your time!
Lynn Monroe
Fungus Among Us
http://www.fungusamongus.com/
mailto:shrooms@premier1.net
Dr. Aslanoglu needs an air classifier:
We are interesting a second hand (used) air classifier. I
didn't find any web page about air classifier. If you help
me I will thank you.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Ziya Aslanoglu
mailto:ziyaaslanoglu@hotmail.com
Mr. Russo wants to buy silica gel
Greetings, I am interested in purchasing silica gel in quantities
of 100 lbs. and up. Any contacts in your network would be
appreciated.
Thank you,
Philip Russo
mailto:lalena@webjogger.net
Mr. Milosevic is looking for a weigh feeder:
I am looking for a piece of equipment capable of continuously
measuring the mass flow of urea going from the hopper tank into
a processing system.
The system has to be mounted underneath the hopper. Please
advise on the system availability and characteristics.
Thanks,
Veselin Milosevic
mailto:vmilo@alphachemical.ns.ca
Mr. Webb is looking for a way to load his silo:
I am looking for a piece of equipment to feed abrasive dry bulk
material into a silo line from a truck . I have looked at screw
pumps and rotary seals . The materials range from cement to
sand and alumina. Any comments appreciated.
Russell Webb
mailto:cavbros@quicknet.com.au
Mr. Dorow needs help with a solids flow problem:
I'm developing a vehicle-mounted hopper to receive and transport
a variety of rock/soils ranging from 6 inch stones to sand to wet
silt. Hopper is to be wedge type with large-door discharge. I'm
looking for sources of information on hopper design for prevention
of arching.
Handbook values for cohesive strength, rule-of-thumb calculations
for arch strength, good reference book for this phenomenon, etc.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Dave Dorow
mailto:david.r.dorow@loram.com
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
expertise with others, you can find these & other messages at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photograph is the new Samson 800 Series Surface
Feeder for inclusion in an Australian ore handling facility
to receive solar-dried nickel ore direct from dump trucks
discharging to an existing overland conveyor.
Photo courtesy of B&W Mechanical Handling Limited
Web site: http://www.bwmech.co.uk/
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 email 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,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
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From the Job Fair
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SYSTEMS DESIGNER
Mission: To provide high quality technical support with
regards to system layout and design, evaluation, standardization,
equipment selection, and/or materials for turnkey projects
required to meet customer’s needs and to expand the company's
overall business base. Key Objectives:
Utilizes Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software/equipment in
the preparation of preliminary and detailed working drawings.
Applies a basic knowledge of engineering principles and techniques
in systems layout of separation projects. Assist in on-time
delivery and start-up of turnkey systems. Customer contact and
follow-up projecting company’s professional image.
Responsibilities:
-Provide drafting support to the Technical Project Manager.
-Prepares a variety of preliminary/working drawings, layouts,
and sketches that contribute to the design of project.
-Prepare engineering designs including plan and elevation
drawings involving site planning, structural layouts,
general arrangement drawings, electrical and industrial
equipment drawings, and space allocation.
-Maintains CAD system files and assures proper file storage
and retrieval procedures are implemented.
-Ensure satisfied customers through technical consultative
problem solving.
Computer experience (Microsoft Project, ACT, AutoCAD 14,
Internet accessibility)
Contact:
Trebor Resource Recovery, L.L.C
Attention: Tom Cihlar
8553-1 Argyle Business Loop
Jacksonville, FL 32244
SALES POSITION
Mid-west salesman wanted for analytical instruments
For more information contact:
Mr. Peter Faraday
Sympatec Inc.
3490 US Route 1
Princeton, NJ 08540
Telephone: 609-734-0404
Fax: 609-734-0777
mailto:sympatec@aol.com
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or other talented people you need. ...Or one can post their
resume for companies who are looking to add talented people
to their staff.
Do you have a position you need to fill, visit the Job Fair:
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