Brian Vernet

Inclined Screw Feeder for Metering Sprouted Grain at Bakery

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A bakery received sprouted wheat grain in bulk bags and needed to precisely meter it to a hopper to begin the bread making process. KWS provided a unique, food grade solution for the application. KWS provided a special inlet to match the incline of the screw feeder and the discharge of the bulk bag unloader. The inlet was round and tapered down to match the tubular housing for the screw feeder. KWS added a sock bead on the inlet to attach a flexible connection to the bulk bag unloader. The discharge of the inclined screw feeder also had a sock bead for attachment of a flexible connection to downstream equipment. To provide accurate metering, the screw conveyor had variable pitch flighting under the inlet area to accurately meter the sprouted wheat grain up the incline.

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Major Canadian Bakery Standardizes on Centrifugal Sifter for Large-Scale Screening of Flour

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Flour is stored in two 70,000 lb (31,752 kg) silos equipped with rotary airlocks feeding a pneumatic conveying system that delivers material to the sifter. The flour enters a vertical inlet at the feed end of the centrifugal sifter, a horizontal, cylindrical machine that houses a 30 mesh (516 micron) stainless steel cylindrical screen mounted on a central shaft that is fitted with helical paddles. A 3 hp (2.2 kw) motor rotates the paddles, which accelerate the speed at which on-size flour passes through apertures in the screen and drops into the pneumatic line below. Oversize debris is ejected through the back end of the cylinder into a sealed quick-release receptacle. Each sifter processes about 34 kg/min (75 lb/min) of flour.

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Munson Machinery Batch Rotary Mixer – Case History – New England Coffee

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After the successful tests, New England Coffee installed a model 700-TH-25-SS rotary batch blender. The stainless steel blender’s drum has a 25-cubic-foot batch volume and a 500-pound capacity. The unit has an internal sprayline to apply liquid flavoring to the coffee beans. The sprayline and nozzles are mounted off-center in the drum. The mixing action continuously replaces the coffee beans in the spray zone so that a thorough coating occurs with no overspraying. The rotary batch blender’s internal lifters and baffles, which provide the blending action, are bolted to brackets that are welded to the drum wall. For more stringent sanitary applications (such as food and pharmaceutical production), the lifters and baffles can be continuously welded to the drum wall.

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3D Printing Powder Recovery System Cuts Material and Labor Costs

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Millburn, NJ — A new dust-tight, fully automated 3D-ReKlaimer Powder Recovery System for 3D Additive Manufacturing (AM) printing systems recovers and reconditions used powders to exacting particle sizes, reducing waste and lowering operating costs while preventing contamination of the product and plant environment.

The system can reclaim metal powders utilized in all current additive manufacturing technologies including Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Binder Jetting, Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS), Selective Laser Melting (SLM), Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), Laser Metal Fusion (LMF), and Electron Beam Melting (EBM). The metal powder recovery system is offered in custom configurations to suit any AM requirement.

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Rotary Batch Blending of Heavy Metal Powders

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Tumbling action benefits powdered metal application: The rotary mixers consist of a horizontal, rotating drum that has a stationary inlet at one end and a stationary outlet with a discharge gate at the other. The mixing vessel, which has no internal moving parts, is supported by two robust trunion rings, which ride on heavy-duty alloy roller assemblies. Material is loaded through the inlet chute while the drum is rotating.

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Integrating A Roll Compactor Into An Isolator

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A pharmaceutical clinical production application required both cGMP conditions and OEB 5 operator protection as high potency solids were being used in the process. The Fitzpatrick Company’s Contained Compaction System CCS320 was selected by the customer for the dry granulation operation stage due to its ability to achieve the desired capacity and particle size distribution. Although the CCS achieves OEB 3 & 4 containment levels with an on-board PCS system, in order to enhance the safety levels and reach OEB 4 & 5, further design solutions were needed.

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In-Line Dilute Phase Vacuum Conveying for Conical Screen Mills

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Conical Screen Mills (also referred to as Cone Mills) are gentle size reduction mills which are often used to precondition the material prior to its entry into a process, either by delumping or coarse size reduction. These mills utilize a rotating propeller/stationary screen combination to gently compress material against the screen wall and size the material accordingly. Vacuum conveying is often used to move material through the conical screen mill, help improve overall throughput of the process, contain dust or exposure, and also to assist in improvement of end product quality.

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Tablet IBCs for Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical Manufacturing

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Handling tablets in larger batches reduces the labor associated with moving containers and making/breaking connections. It leads to improved inventory control and traceability. Matcon Tablet IBCs are designed for the gentle handling of tablets (coated or non-coated) and capsules. The integrated entry spiral lets tablets gently slide into the bin, minimizing the drop height, acceleration and impact thereby reducing any risk of damage.

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Tumbling Blends Herbal Supplements Five-Times Faster Than Agitating

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Products are batched according to recipes that may contain between 15 to 60 raw materials, including vitamins, minerals, enzymes, RNA/DNA tissue factors, amino acids, and botanicals. Materials are reduced to the desired particle size in a hammer mill, transported in 44-gal (194 l) lined food-handling containers, and then gravity fed into the Rotary Batch Mixer, a 40 cuft (1132 l) model 700-TS-40-SS from Munson Machinery.

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Plant-Based Proteins: TVP and HMMA

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Coperion’s ZSK Food Extruders with ZGF Pelletizer or specialized cooling die, Coperion K-Tron’s line of high-accuracy Loss-In-Weight (LIW) feeders, and Coperion and Coperion K-Tron’s material handling equipment for ingredient delivery, are designed to reliably produce high-quality TVP and HMMA products with highest efficiency and flexibility. We offer standard recipes for TVP and HMMA utilizing a variety of different proteins and also support in investigating the use of any protein in our comprehensive equipped test centers.

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