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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 1, No. 19, November 8, 1999
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
This is a 100% opt-in newsletter with news and information
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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!
> Sponsor This Newsletter
> New Feeder Technology, Simple and Elegant
> Engineered Solutions For the 'Heart' of Food Processing
> This Week's Top Picks From The Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> EnviroControl '99
> We had over 130,000 hits in September!
> Large-Hopper Sugar Extractor Installed in Chile
> 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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New Feeder Technology, Simple and Elegant
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With a single moving part, the Posimetric Feeder offers a
truly elegant solution to bulk feeding problems, by providing
exceptional accurate feeding.
Compared with a belt, paddle or vibratory feeder, which cannot
assure positive displacement of feed material, the Posimetric
responds linearly to a change in demand (that is, a 5%
increase in desired feed results in a 5% increase in actual
feed rate!). This is accomplished with a one-time calibration.
The feeder is flexible and will feed the most difficult solids-
especially those that are extremely sticky or abrasive. There
are no flights or vanes to adhere to the feed material, so the
feeder is self-cleaning.
Near-Zero Maintenance. Due to extremely slow operating speeds,
even the most abrasive materials will not cause wear. No
existing feeder component has ever been replaced (or shown
any wear, for that matter!)
Reliability. Since Posimetric Feeder components cannot fail
catastrophically, and the feeder is virtually incapable of
plugging, feed-related process interruptions are eliminated.
How It Works:
Bulk solid materials will bridge over a particular span. This
universal fact, which is to blame for many feed disruptions,
is actually the operating principle behind the Posimetric
Feeder. Material simply bridges between two disks, and moves
with them as the machine turns. When the material finds an
opening, it simply falls out into the downstream process.
This bridging, or lock-up, means that the feed material does
not move relative to the rotating disks, so abrasion is
eliminated.
For more information contact:
Mr. Lee Doyer
Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Pennsylvania Crusher Corporation
600 Abbott Drive, Box 100P
Broomall, PA 19008-0100
Telephone 610-544-7200
Fax: 610-543-0190
mailto:buster@penncrusher.com
Web site: http://www.penncrusher.com/
Editor's Note: I was given a demonstration of this feeder
at the Powder Show and the design is really different than
other feeders. It works especially well for materials that
bridge and cause problems in conventional feeders. The
"bridging principle" is actually what makes this feeder work!
-Joe Taylor
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Engineered Solutions For the 'Heart' of Food Processing
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For the growing number of processors who must integrate bulk
material handling into their operations, K-Tron America now
offers engineered, turnkey solutions that can save you time
and money, and increase your productivity.
From vacuum conveyors to feeders, K-Tron can be your single
source provider for custom-engineered material handling systems,
including control integration into your plantwide supervisory
system. K-Tron offers application-specific expertise and can
provide everything from mobile, skid-mounted systems to complex
installations with multi-stream conveying and feeding.
Feeders perform a small but crucial function in processing
materials into products of higher value. It has been estimated
that on average feeders might account for 15 percent of the
equipment cost of a new plant. But it is an essential 15
percent-the heart that feeds the lifeblood, you might say,
to the world's process industries. Many processes simply could
not function without the reliable, predictable, consistent flow
of materials.
For more information contact:
Mr. Don Dunnington
K-Tron America
Routes 55 and 553
Pitman, NJ 08071
Telephone: +1-856-589-0500
Fax: +1-856-589-8113
mailto:info@ktron.com
Web site at K-Tron
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This Week's Top Picks From The Amazon.com
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Top picks from Amazon.com this week are:
"Pneumatic Conveying of Solids: A Theoretical and Practical Approach"
(Powder Technology Series)
by G.E. Klinzing, R.D. Marcus, F. Rizk
Hardcover, 2nd edition, April 1997
"Stacking Blending Reclaiming of Bulk Materials"
(Series on Bulk Materials Handling, Vol. 1, No 5)
by Reinhard H. Wohlbier (Editor)
Hardcover, January 1977
"Materials Handling Handbook (McGraw-Hill)"
by David E. Mulcahy (Editor)
Hard Cover, 768 pages, September 1998
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
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try out our new Amazon Book Search feature for the Germany,
UK and US Amazon stores at:
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Ask Joe Column!
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GUEST ARTICLES
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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 - Packaging Powders - The Great 'Give Away'
This week's article is called "Packaging Powders - The Great
'Give Away'" is a guest article by Richard Farnish of The Wolfson
Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology.
You can read Richard's article at:
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EnviroControl '99
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Pollution Control technology has assumed an important role in
in our industrial development and activities. It is important
that we maintain our environment clean and safe . This has
led to the adoption of the processes and operating systems
which are least polluting and environment friendly.
The seminar will cover such aspects of chemical, petrochemical,
power, urban planning and construction sectors. The main topics
shall include the identification of the pollutants of water, air
and land ( soil).Water pollution control, waste water treatments,
water reuse, air pollution control systems including hydrocarbon
vapor emissions, solid waste managements will be covered
during the seminar.
Special processes and equipment and related development will
also be included in the presentations.
Date: 18th December 1999
Time: 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Venue: Hotel Express Alkapuri, Alkapuri, off RC Dutt Road,
Vadodara 390005 (Ph. 0265-337899 , 337991)
Fees: Rs. 1200 (Rs One Thousand Two Hundred only) per participant,
which is inclusive of providing supporting literatutes,
tea/coffee and lunch.
Note: Registration before 10th December,1999 will entitle the
participants to get free Email copy of J-PEP (Journal for
Process Equipment & Piping Technology ) for 6 months (6 issues).
Expert Faculty: Mr. N.K. Roy; Mr. R.J. singh; Mr R.D. Patel
Registration: Send in the name of participants on your letterhead
along with DD/Cheque drawn in favour of Gramya Research Analysis
Institute, payable at Vadodara, addressed to;
Conventions Division
Gramya Research Analysis Institute
P.O. Box 4016
8, Manusmriti
14, J.P. Nagar
Old Padra Road
Vadodara- 390015, India.
Telephone: (0265) 338309, 341457, Fax : (0265) 338309
mailto:grai@pi.zaverchand.co.in
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Large-Hopper Sugar Extractor Installed in Chile
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One of STARVRAC’s largest units - a Rotodome – has been
installed into a dome of 60,000 t in Chile, 250 km (150 miles)
south from Santiago.
The diameter of the dome is 54m (177 ft). This installation has
been made in July 99. This equipment is made of a frame with
an open tubular structure which supports an Archimedes screw.
The movement of this screw is made by one drive unit which is
installed in a tight casing located in the silo center.
The screw collects the residue of sugar and discharges it with
an output capacity of 100 t/h. A second unit also placed inside
a tight casing, situated on the opposite side of the structure,
drives radially the equipment through a ring-shaped rack fixed
on the ground near the silo wall.
This independent and automatic system is totally secure, needs
no human handling, and allows considerable savings on operation
costs.
Starvrac, an industrial French company, designs, manufactures
and installs a wide range of rotary screw reclaiming systems for
silos and domes. Starvrac has opened a subsidiary in Montreal,
Canada last year.
Starvrac bin unloaders deliver outstanding results in bulk material
installations around the world. Planétaire, Symétrix and Hydrovrac
work within material mass to empty flat bottomed silos by the
rotating and the sweeping movement of a tapered screw. This range
of unloaders works in silos up to 30m (100ft) in diameter with
extraction outputs up to 400tph and is suitable for materials as
diverse as sugar, plaster, cement, coal, petroleum coke, gypsum,
household refuse, fly ash, mud and wood waste, grain, meals,
soybean, etc.…
Since 35 years more than 4,000 systems have been already installed
around the world.
For more information contact:
Mr. Vianney Courbon
STARVRAC
1255 Boulevard Laird
Town of Mount Royal, Quebec
Canada, H3P 2T1
Telephone: 514-738-6493
Fax: 514-738-6726
email:vianney@hotmail.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. Houston needs help with his worms:
We manufacture soft plastic fishing lures, worms and grubs, etc.,
and package in plastic bags using hand labor to count and bag.
We are interested in automating this process. Our products vary
in size and are sticky due to being coated with mineral oil. Do
you have any bulk weigh and fill solutions ?
Dan C. Houston
Controller
Southern Plastics Co. Inc.
Eufaula, Alabama
Telephone: 334-687-5758
mailto:southernplastics@zebra.net
Mr. Miller wants to test flowability:
Does anybody know of a company that will make up simulate powders
to trial powder handling equipment? We have limited quantities
of active material that we could test to determine flowability
from which we would like to develop simulate powder for equipment
trials.
Tony Miller
Kvaerner
http://www.kvaerner.com/
mailto:tony.mills@kvaerner.com
Mr. Hartog wants a contract packager for horse products:
We are looking for a contract packaging company in Southern
California (preferably in Orange County) that can fill and
measure powders and package in one pound increments. The
containers will be HDPE jars with a screw-top lid. There
will also need to be a plastic bag inserted in the jar
before filling.
Nick Hartog
Grand Meadows Nutritional Supplements
1539A. West Orangegrove Avenue
Orange, CA 92868
Telephone, toll-free: 1-800-255-2962
Fax: 714-628-1690
mailto:nick@grandmeadows.com
http://www.grandmeadows.com/
Mr. Morrison needs a shrink wrapper:
I am looking for a vendor (preferably UK-based) who can
supply me with quotes for an automatic pallet shrinkwrapper.
While I can find several companies who deal with auto
stretchwrapper I am struggling to find any who produce
auto shrinkwrappers. Can anybody point me in the
direction of a few companies who can help?
Colin Morrison
Rohm Haas
mailto:Colin_Morrison@rohmhaas.com
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