Application Notes & Case Studies

Custom Drag Conveyor for Hot Pellets in Cargill Animal Feed Plant

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Cargill is one of the largest producers of animal feed products in the world, generating over 20 million tons of feed per year. Cargill feed products support livestock production that ultimately touches the plates of more than one billion people every day. Cargill Animal Nutrition in Ogden, Utah required a custom replacement drag conveyor to handle hot pellets fed directly from their pellet mill. The existing equipment was located within a highly confined area, making the outer dimensions of the replacement drag conveyor critical. The pellets also needed to be conveyed downstream while maintaining their shape and avoiding damage. KWS designed and engineered a long-lasting custom conveying solution for Cargill.

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Powderization of Dried Chili Peppers

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Chili pepper is a “hot” spice used in the majority of Mexican-style dishes. The size reduction of chili pepper is limited by the hard chili pepper seeds. These hard seeds are very difficult to mill. Therefore, it is important to select a screen with holes that are slightly larger than the chili pepper seeds. Also, chili peppers are heat sensitive. Therefore heat rise may be a concern at a finer particle size.

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Extruded Breakfast Cereal Manufacture

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Coperion K-Tron highly accurate feeders and pneumatic conveying systems are used for transfer, weighing and feeding to the mixer and/or the extrusion step. In addition, Coperion provides food components that fulfill the highest demands in hygiene ,easy cleaning and gentle product handling. Coperion high efficiency extruders are usedfor the production of a variety of cereal types, including cold formed pellets for flaked cereal, direct expanded and coextruded cereals, as well as puffed cereal types. Innovations in material handling and extrusion for RTE cereal manufacture are an integral part of the overall Coperion systems solution.

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Screening Lumps and Foreign Particles from Sugar

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Each of the high-capacity VIBROSCREEN units can screen up to 36 tons/hr. The rate at which material passes through the screeners depends in part on the last time they were cleaned. In conformance with GMP requirements, SBS cleans the screeners with steam and hot water either once a week or after a load. Personnel inspect the screeners after every loading operation to see if immediate cleaning is required. All material contact surfaces are of 304 stainless steel.

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Heavy-Duty Tubular Incline Screw Conveyor to Convey Extremely Abrasive Alumina for Major Recycler

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This project offered a unique bulk material handling challenge due to the extremely abrasive characteristics of crushed alumina. KWS offered years of experience and expertise in conveying alumina and other extremely abrasive products. Because of the existing plant layout, Aleris required a 54-foot long screw conveyor to transfer crushed alumina from a screener to another conveyor. Aleris had used screw conveyors in the past with very disappointing results. Their previous solutions were poorly designed and a maintenance nightmare. Internal screw conveyor components such as screws, coupling shafts, hanger bearings and trough liners were only lasting a few weeks and adding tremendous amounts of downtime and additional labor costs.

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Easy Clean-Out Screw Conveyor for Milled Grain Industry

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One of North America’s largest food and ingredient companies operates a plant in Indiana and mills a wide variety of premium corn masa flours used in the production of tortillas and corn chips. The plant can produce nearly 32,000 tons of corn masa flour annually. KWS engineered and manufactured a screw conveyor to transfer corn flour from a cyclone with a rotary airlock and then to a rotary distributor that divides the material into four ports for the sifting process.

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Screw Conveyors for Corn in Masa Making Process

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A large North American food and ingredient company was expanding operations at their plant in Texas. Corn is processed and milled to make corn masa, the primary ingredient in tortillas, tortilla chips, and masa for tamales. KWS designed and manufactured several screw conveyors to be fed by weigh belt feeders and loss in weight feeders on the raw grain side of the process.

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Optimizing Frac Sand Transportation: A Case Study on Truck Trailers Equipped with Vortex Roller Gates

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In 2021 this customer was in the beginning phase of converting their pneumatic trailers to gravity trailers and was looking for a slide gate solution when they happened to see a Vortex Titan gate at a Frac Sand facility where they were providing services. Intrigued by the gate they asked the Frac Sand company about the equipment and found that the customer was very satisfied with their Vortex gates. The Frac Sand company suggested they reach out to Vortex for a solution. This customer contacted Vortex and initially trialed some Titan gates on their trailers. After a trial of the Titan gates the decision was made to use a custom Roller Gate instead to cut some weight. Vortex assisted by custom designing these roller gates that are used on the three outlets of each trailer. These gates are also sold with two air controllers so that they can be utilized from either side of the trailer.

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