Engineering Case Studies

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Coal Feeding: Pressure-Sealing Solids Pump® Improves Feed

At Lone Star Industries’ Cape Girardeau, Missouri cement plant, reliable coal feed to the kiln ...

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Alumina Powder Silo Retrofit Improves Product Quality

The Need Alumina is a fine powder that is used in the manufacture of aluminum, ...

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Fixing Costly Limestone Flow Problems at Titan Cement

Titan America manufactures Portland cement at their Medley, Florida USA plant, and in June 2004 commissioned ...

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Concentrate Bins Prevent Flow Problems at Chino Mines

The Need Part of a modernization project for Chino Mines Company involved new bins for ...

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Cohesive Clay and Limestone Raw Material Handling at Cemex

Cemex produces over 1 million metric tonnes of cement per year at their Clinchfield, Georgia (USA) ...

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High Flow Rates and Densities with Fine Kaolin Clay

The Need One of our clients had a problem of packaging different grades of kaolin ...

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Alumina Trihydrate Flows Reliably with New Silo Design

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. produces alumina trihydrate which is calcined to make alumina, or ...

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Overcoming Poor Flow and Segregation with Dolomite

The Need Engineers at Martin Marietta Magnesia Specialties, Inc. were in the process of designing ...

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Silo Design for Handling Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA)

The Need A client of Jenike & Johanson was expanding storage and handling capabilities for ...

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Handling Improvements with Trona Ore at FMC Wyoming

The Need The world’s largest known source of natural sodium carbonate (trona) lies in ...

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Fluidization Needed to Achieve Reliable Fine Powder Flow

Manufacturers of asphalt roofing shingles often use fine, hot limestone as filler with liquid asphalt.  ...

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Feeder System Redesign for Flash Furnace at BHP Copper

The Need Demands for increased production from existing flash smelting furnaces have led to increased ...