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- Cleveland Cascade Chute Selected for
Cement Plant
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- Wet Grinding Process for Inkjet Inks
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Handles
Alumina and Finished Cement
Cleveland Cascade Chute Selected for
Cement Plant
Louisville, Ky - PEBCO was selected
for the design and manufacture of a Mark III design Cleveland
Cascade Chute with a moveable trolley system for CEMEX - Kosmosdale
Cement facility in Louisville, Kentucky. This chute was designed for
loading 1,000 tons per hour of cement into barges. This chute
features lightweight fiberglass cones with abrasion resistant steel
liners, a heavy duty shroud, a cement adapter with material probes
and a special dust enclosure attached to the bottom. The Cleveland
Cascade Chute requires minimum maintenance and operates free of
product spillage and dust leakage.
Two
of the most difficult products to handle are alumina and finished
cement. The solution to loading these products is the Cleveland
Cascade Chute. This design chute has successfully handled a diverse
range of dry bulk solids from finished cement and alumina to
calcined petroleum coke, calcined lime, wheat, soda ash, potash,
phosphate, lead oxide, etc.
The truncated, oppositely-inclined
cones, supported by straps and covered by a wind shroud, enable
material to be loaded in mass flow at low velocity. In this way, the
bulk particles remain tightly packed together; thereby minimizing
the release of small dust particles. Operating on the principle of
mass flow at low velocity, dust emission is minimized without
recourse to secondary extraction systems, while degradation and
segregation are considerably reduced. This patented chute has
applications in ship, barge, truck, railcar, and silo loading as
well as conveyor-to-conveyor transfer.
PEBCO Incorporated of Paducah,
Kentucky has entered into an agreement with Cleveland Potash of
England to manufacture and sell the CLEVELAND CASCADE Chute in North
and South America. As part of this agreement, PEBCO has purchased
all the patent rights to the CLEVELAND CASCADE Chute in these
territories.
For further information, please
contact:
Mr. W. Edward Barker PEBCO, Inc.
Phone: (270) 442-1996 Ext. 211
Fax: (270) 442-5214
E-mail: barker@pebco.com Web Address: http://www.pebco.com
Silo
Level Monitoring System
i-Level
Inventory Manager
SPARTANBURG, SC, November 2001—
Bindicator’s i-LEVEL Inventory Manager Software may be used with
Bindicator’s Phase Tracker silo level monitoring systems to
provide up to the minute, real time silo levels at a glance.
i-LEVEL
software provides easy Windows 95/98 and Windows NT interface to
view numerical and graphic data. The display may be customized to
your site’s measurement requirements to show pounds, gallons,
feet, meters or other engineering units of your choice. The software
allows inventory levels to be communicated to your suppliers,
relieving the frustration of scheduling fill cycles and running out
of material.
Other i-LEVEL features include
trending and data logging, multi-system windows, multi-page display,
remote access via modem and DDE data interface.
Bindicator manufactures a complete
line of point and continuous level control instrumentation in
Spartanburg, South Carolina.
For more information regarding
systems software or any of Bindicator’s Level Control products
visit our web site at http://www.bindicator.com,
e-mail us at sales@bindicator.com
or call 864-574-8060.
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With its ZR120 Centrifugal Microbead
Mill, the global Buhler Technology Group offers state-of-the-art
process technology and equipment for new digital printing
techniques. The system delivers superb results in the manufacture of
pigmented inkjet inks.
Have you ever asked yourself how the
lay date comes on the eggs or how the huge advertising boards that
cover entire façades of buildings are printed? These are ideal
applications of the inkjet printing process.
Process for numerous applications
Among the different digital printing
processes currently available in the market, inkjet is definitely
the most fascinating and widespread as well as the fastest-growing.
Beside desktop printing, a number of other applications already
surround us: date coding on food packaging, printing of tickets and
labels, bar coding, large-format color graphics, photography and
book printing, and many others. This technology is highly
competitive and dynamic, with some 200 patents being filed every
month! One of the reasons for this booming success is that inkjet
printing is a non-impact process. This opens unlimited opportunities
to print on a wide variety of substrates: paper, plastic, metal,
glass, textile fabric and even food. In addition, it allows
extremely high quality to be achieved at reasonable cost.
Pigmented inkjet inks promise a
bright future
Traditionally, the colorants used for
making inkjet inks have been dyes. They are soluble in the liquid
carrier – water or solvent – and offer high color saturation and
bright colors. But they are not completely light-stable. On the
other hand, pigments are light-stable but not soluble in the liquid
carrier. This means they have to be ground to a size matched to the
nozzle diameters of the inkjet heads. These are typically between 20
and 80 microns, depending on the technology and application. The
required pigment particle size is typically below 1 micron for
industrial applications and below 200 nanometers for office
applications. After some initial resistance, pigmented inkjet inks
are now starting to penetrate the market.
ZR120: the ideal choice
The new Buhler ZR120 Centrifugal
Microbead Mill is the ideal choice for the sub-micron wet grinding
process. Its microbeads with diameters of 0.2 to 0.8 millimeters are
separated from the product exclusively by centrifugal forces. In
this combination of a centrifuge and a bead mill, the drum also
rotates. This allows the grinding media pressure to be selected
independently of the product flow. The ZR120 is primarily designed
for use in recirculation mode to achieve a narrow particle size
distribution and a mean particle size in the submicron range. This
technology results in high specific grinding performance with
negligible wear.
Superb laboratory results
Trials carried out at the Buhler
headquarters in Switzerland in collaboration with several inkjet ink
manufacturers produced superb results. They demonstrate that the
ZR120 technology is the ideal choice for submicron wet grinding. The
elegant K8 bead mill, which has microbeads as small as 0.3
millimeters, may also be operated in recirculation mode. It has been
especially designed for laboratory tests and small production runs.
The inkjet ink business is still small compared to that of
traditional printing inks. It is estimated that less than 20,000
metric tons of inks were used in the year 2000. This is still a
small volume compared with the over 2.5 million tons of traditional
printing inks produced each year. Nevertheless, Buhler is ready to
keep up with the latest digital printing technology.
Buhler is the global technology
partner for efficient production systems, engineering solutions and
the associated services in the food processing industry, in chemical
process engineering and in die casting.
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New "Press Lock" Latch for
Quick Clean Orifice Gate
Salina, KS - The Salina Vortex Quick
Clean Orifice Gate is now manufactured with a press lock latch. This
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The
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Help
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Hot Messages from the Help
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People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Tunner needs to feed
sterile powder:
I need to add a gamma-sterilized
powder to a mixing vessel in a class 100 sterile clean room.
Air flow velocities are normally
around 90 feet per minute with hundreds of room air changes per
hour, meaning I can't expose the powder to the room environment or I
will loose it and contaminate the room.
I need to make a sterile (aseptic)
connection and transfer all of the powder into the mixing vessel
without releasing any powder into the air, without loosing a lot of
it, and without exposing the powder to the external environment.
It would be possible to recirculate
the solution in the vessel through the device the powder is
sterilized in if I can find such a device that can be gamma
sterilized and has appropriate connections.
Can anyone suggest equipment
manufacturers who may have experience with such a problem? This
is currently at a small pilot scale.
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Mr Kuruvilla has insect
contaminated plastic resin:
We have 400,000 lbs of k-resin that
has been contaminated with wasps. Any ideas on how to clean it or
someone who will do it preferably on site.
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This
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operation at Latin America's most advanced foundry, LuK in Mogi
Mirim, Brazil. Thirty tons per hour of castings are being conveyed
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