Application Notes & Case Studies

Orifice Gate with Flanged Spool Adapter Handling Plastic Pellets

This 12” Quantum Orifice Gate is equipped with custom flanged spool adapters that set the valve at a 15° angle. The access door was fabricated into the spool piece to allow for washout of the system after the lot is complete. The door also serves as maintenance/inspection hatch. A proximity switch senses if the door is open or closed.

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System Flow Diagram – Pearlite, SAP, Flame Retardant, Gypsum, Mannitol, Organic Vapor Carbon, Silica Gel Crystals, Pulverized Lime

Coperion K-Tron example flow diagrams for various chemical applications including the handling of Pearlite, SAP, Flame Retardant, Gypsum, Mannitol, Organic Vapor Carbon, Silica Gel Crystals, Pulverized Lime

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Conveying and Feeding in Laundry Detergent Production (Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Perborate, Sodium Sulphate, etc.)

Laundry detergent production is typically a continuous process. There are a large number of ingredients which must be continuously, simultaneously and accurately fed into a mixer or onto a conveyor belt, which in turn supplies the continuous mixer.

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Explosion Proof Bag Dump Station for Calcium Stearate

NBE provided a bag break station with rotary airlock and remote dust collector. The rotary airlock discharged into an existing hopper that fed a pneumatic conveying system. The equipment was designed to meet a Class I Div II and CIass II Div I area classification. To assist and promote product discharge, all material contact parts are electropolished, the hopper included 77 degree sloping walls and a dust collector to pulse clean the filters and discharge all material out of the Bag Break Station. Customer had height constraints and a section of the bag break station hopper went through a mezzanine to keep the grate height at operator level.

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Bulk Bag Discharger with Liquid Slurry Delivery System – Trisodium Citrate, Sodium Chloride, and Sodium-Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)

The customer will make-up a complete batch of concentrated soap solution starting with heated DI water and adding the three (3) solids, by weight, sequentially. The recipe data will automatically compensate for the ‘heel’ of dry solids which remain in the transfer conveyor between ingredients. The solids are added using the integral flash-blend addition tank and circulated through the in-line high sheer blender and transfer pump specifically designed to integrate with the customers’ existing large process tank. The solution will continuous to circulate through the blending system until all solids have been added and fully dissolved. Once the batch (approx. 30,000 gallons) has been completed, the concentrated soap solution is blended with other ingredients in preparation for consumer packaging.

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Titan Slide Gate with Epoxy Coated Air Cylinder Handling Pet Feedstock

These valves will be utilized in a feed system that comprises of two Titan Gate Valves, separated by an intermediate feed hopper. The valves will operate in tandem to facilitate semi-continuous feeding of solid waste pet material via a feed hopper into a feed trough. The valves are designed to handle feedstock up to 50mm to a design temperature of 205° C and are ATEX rated.

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