Engineering Case Studies

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CSL Innovator Self-Unloading Ship Operates Efficiently

Built for world-wide ocean trade by Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), the CSL Innovator is a ...

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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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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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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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Quality Improved with Reduced Segregation at Libbey Glass

The Need Libbey Glass is the leading producer of high quality, machine made glass tableware ...

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Problems at Owens-Brockway: Retrofit Solves Glass Quality

The Need Owens-Brockway Glass Containers, a unit of Owens-Illinois, produces flint and green glass in ...

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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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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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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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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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Feeder System Redesign for Flash Furnace at BHP Copper

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

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Hot Lime Plugging Problems Eliminated at Weyerhaeuser

The Need Weyerhaeuser Company’s New Bern, North Carolina facility operates a 1,000 ton per day ...