Session 300: Implementing a Robust Feed System to Achieve Product Quality
Instructors: Eric Maynard, Senior Consultant, Jenike & Johanson
Topics Include:
- Advantages and disadvantages of various types of bin flow patterns
- Difference between a feeder and a conveyor
- Design techniques for screw feeders under elongated outlets
- Single vs. multiple screws and U-trough vs. Vee-trough
- Screws used for sealing against gas pressure gradients
- Design techniques for belt feeders under elongated outlets
- Comparison of screw, belt and rotary valve feeders
- Feeders for special applications
- When to use a gravimetric feeder
- Attendees’ questions
Topics Include:
- Common mechanisms of caking
- Review of caking testing techniques
- Review of external factors affecting caking
- Discussion of caking problems and their solutions
- Common mechanisms of particle attrition
- Review of attrition testing techniques, discussion of factors that affect attrition behavior
- Discussion of particle attrition problems and their solutions
- General recommendations to prevent or minimize damage to particles
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