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- Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
- K-Tron Traveling Truck Demo on the Road
- Chilworth Invites You to Attend Their 5th Annual Open House
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- Ask Joe Column!
- A New "Phoqus" for British REMA
- Powder and Bulk Dot Com had over 31,000+ visitors in September!
- New Feeder Combines "Ruggedness and Flexibility"
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A Free Onsite Demonstration
K-Tron Traveling Truck Demo on the
Road
PITMAN, NJ (October 1, 2001)-Feeder
manufacturer K-Tron America of Pitman, New Jersey, has expanded its
traveling truck equipment demo schedule to year round operation.
K-Tron hit the road in August in a brand new 24-foot truck outfitted
like a mini Trade Show booth.
The
truck averages two stops a day, pulling right up to manufacturing
plants, enabling engineers, operators, maintenance staff, production
managers and purchasing managers to tour the truck and see the
equipment first hand. Time and budget restrictions make it harder
each year for customers to come to trade shows or even free
seminars. K-Tron found they reach prospects more easily by bringing
the equipment demonstration to the factory door.
The heated and air conditioned van is
outfitted with a Smart Weigh Belt feeder, a twin-screw
loss-in-weight feeder, a vibratory model, a Smart Flow Meter, a K2G
feeder integrated with a Hurricane vacuum loader, a sanitary
pharmaceutical feeder, a single screw volumetric feeder, a Hurricane
vacuum loader and controls demonstrations.
The truck will be covering the
South-East US, Texas, and the Mid-West before it returns to Pitman,
NJ at Christmas time. Early in 2002 the Truck will continue its
journey across the USA.
Chilworth
Invites You to Attend Their 5th Annual Open House
Princeton, NJ - Chilworth Technology
invites you to attend their open house this November 15th, 12:30 to
4:30 PM. Open house includes three free lectures plus a tour
of Chilworth's laboratory facilities.
Lecture
1: Static Electricity - How Will This Effect You?
The purpose of NFPA 77 is to provide assistance in controlling the
hazards associated with the generation, accumulation, and discharge
of static electricity. In addition to including more practical
information on the prevention of electrostatic hazards in industrial
applications, the NFPA 77, 2000 edition (compared to the 1993
edition) includes the combustibility parameters, and electrostatic
characteristics of many common solvents and solid materials that are
in widespread use in industry.
Lecture 2: Systematic Search
for Thermal Hazards
It is of primary importance to introduce safety aspects into the
early stages of process development to realize an integrated process
development. By this way, the chance of obtaining an inherently safe
process is maximized. The check list approach, which has proved
effective in the search for hazards in processes involving specialty
chemistry, will be discussed. In addition, the compilation and
critical interpretation of the basic data of all chemicals involved
and the basic conditions and limitations of a safe process in
question will be discussed. The objective is to define the critical
limits of time, temperature, dosing rates etc. for thermal process
safety.
Lecture 3: Handling and Processing
of Combustible Particulate Solids
- In the year 2000, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
revised NFPA 654 - Standard for the Manufacturing, Processing, and
Handling of Combustible Particulate Solids. The most significant
change in the revised standard is the inclusion of material
previously contained in NFPA 650 - Standard for Pneumatic Conveying
Systems for Handling Combustible Particulate Solids - which has been
withdrawn. The revised standard also includes additional
requirements for: (1) determination of dust explosion hazard data;
(2) containment and the use of dust-tight equipment; (3) exclusion
of ignition sources; (4) documentation of the basis of safety; (5)
specification of explosion prevention and protection; and (6)
training. These changes and additional requirements, and their
implications for your company, facility, and operations, will be
discussed during the presentation.
Lab Tour: Chilworth's
facilities include four laboratories - with state-of-the-art
equipment.
As the world's leading one-stop
source for industry's process safety and optimization needs, the
Chilworth Technology Group has international consulting bases and
laboratory testing facilities with state of the art dust explosion
and electrostatic laboratories (with low humidity facility), and a
specialist laboratory for the evaluation of thermal runaway
reactions.
For more information contact:
Victoria R. Jones Chilworth Technology Group
RSVP by November 8th
Tel: 732-274-0900
Fax: 732-274-1371
Web site: http://www.chilworth.com/
Email: safety@chilworth.com
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We Need Your Guest Articles!
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Leading powder processing company
British Rema Ltd has designed and built a micronizing and
classification system at Phoqus Limited. The equipment has been
manufactured from stainless steel and has been designed to satisfy
the stringent requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.
Installed
and commissioned within the GMP Suites at the Phoqus R&D facility
in West Malling, Kent, the equipment is an integral part
of the processing of formulated powder systems, that are used with
the LeQtradose drug delivery systems created by Phoqus.
A total turnkey system has been
supplied by British Rema, which includes an Aerojet Micronizer -
Classifier Unit with associated equipment such as screw feeder, high
efficiency cyclone, dust collector, suction fan, inter connecting
ducting, dampers, collection bins, all incorporating tri-clover
quick release fastening connections.
British Rema also supplied all the
necessary PLC control equipment, which provides manual or automatic
operation of the system and links up to clients' computer systems.
Depending upon your specific
requirements for particle size reduction, British Rema's range of
comminution equipment, combined with the skills and experience if
our team of particulate and process engineers can help you to
produce the final specification you need. Our range of ball mills,
rotary impact mills, air micronizers and closed-circuit grinding
systems have been developed to accommodate the widely differing
characteristics of the many feed materials processed by the mineral
and chemical industries.
For more information contact:
Mr. Malcolm Cunningham British Rema Manufacturing Limited
Dronfield, Sheffield, UK.
Tel No +44 (0)1246 411771
Fax No +44 (0)1246 417216
Web site: http://www.britishrema.co.uk/
Email: processeng@britishrema.co.uk
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An
Affordable, Heavy-Weight Feeder
New Feeder Combines "Ruggedness
and Flexibility"
Whitewater, WI - "Rugged configurability" are terms which accurately describe AccuRate's
newest member of the Mechatron feeder family. Designed to
accommodate feed rates in excess of 1100 cubic feet an hour and
headloads of up to 5000 lbs, both volumetric and gravimetric
configurations of the new "HC" feeder feature a cast
aluminum and stainless steel frame, conical flexible hopper with
external paddle agitation, 2 or 3 HP AC drive packages and fully
integrated and pre-wired controls.
Steve
Becker, Senior Development Engineer, stated, "our goal was to
create an affordable "heavy-weight" feeder that featured
the non-process side configurability, Mechatron feeders have won
design awards for - we accomplished our goal."
Other "HC" Mechatron feeder
features include: The ability to disassemble, clean, reconfigure or
service from the non-process side. 10 ft3, 20 ft3, 50 ft3 and 100
ft3 conical stainless steel extension hoppers Gravimetric Version
360 degree connection clamps to eliminate material leakage Space
efficient 42"x48" (1066mm x 1220mm) foot print (feeder
only) "Mechatronic" integrated, pre-wired, volumetric or
gravimetric control packages Profibus, DeviceNet, Modbus or Ethernet
communications interfaces (optional) Volumetric Version
Overall, the Mechatron family of Coni-Flex (flexible walled) and
Coni-Steel (all stainless steel)
feeders are available in a variety of configurations capable of
handling most dry materials at feed rates from 10 grams per minute
to 1100 cubic feet per hour.
For additional information contact: SCHENCK AccuRate
746 E. Milwaukee Street
Whitewater, WI 53190
Phone: (262) 473-2441
Toll free: (800) 558-0184
Fax: (262)473-2232
Web site: http://www.sarinc.com/
Email: mktg@sarinc.com
Help
Forum
Hot Messages from the Help
Forum
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Shuleski needs a packaging
system:
I'm having difficulty convincing my
"superiors" that the type of packaging system. I
have proposed is the correct path for us to follow. Specifically
I am packaging both a powder and granular product into valve bags on
rather old machinery. I have considered form fill and seal,
open top, and valve baggers. My conclusion was to stick with
valve bags and air packers with automatic placers due to the
established nature of the equipment, it's ruggedness, ability to
handle both powder and granular and just plain less complicated
technology. This also happened to work out as the lower cost
option.
In the meantime a director brought up
the possibility of wanting sealed bags. He didn't say it was a
necessity, but wanted to consider it an option. Now I'm not
suggesting it's impossible, but either I pay more for another type
of packaging system, or add ultrasonic sealers to the valve bag
systems. It turned out they redirected me to consider all
types of packaging systems and to not focus on cost. I guess
that leaves me with reliability and accuracy. Accuracy isn't a
problem +/- 8 ounces for 50# bag, so that leaves reliability.
If cost wasn't an option and you
needed to package both a powder (100-200 mesh) and a granular (10-50
mesh) at 12-15 50# bags per minute, what system would you choose and
why? Complicated question....(Click
here to post a reply)
This
week's homepage photo is of a Mavi heavy-duty vibratory conveyor in
operation at Latin America's most advanced foundry, LuK in Mogi
Mirim, Brazil. Thirty tons per hour of castings are being conveyed
and simultaneously cooled from 150 to 50 Celsius.
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