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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Preventing Stuffing Mix Segregation at Kraft Foods

The Need Most industries view segregation as a major problem.  Particle segregation is prevalent in ...

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Innovative Hopper Design for Decaffeinating Coffee Beans

The Need T. Anthony (“Tony”) Royal, a vice president with Jenike & Johanson, was named ...

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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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Furnace Feed Problems Solved at Knauf Fiber Glass

The Need Knauf Fiber Glass blends glass batch in an aerating blender and then pneumatically ...

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Product Quality Improved by Reducing Segregation

The Need Particle segregation or demixing is a major concern, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, ...

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Minimizing Direct Compression Content Uniformity Variations

The Need A domestic pharmaceutical manufacturer was producing a highly segregating direct-compression blend of an ...

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Fluidization Segregation During Pneumatic Transport to Bin

The Need A contract pharmaceutical manufacturer was experiencing segregation of a fine powder blend during ...

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Processing (Purge) Vessel Improves Product Quality at BP

The Need A new polypropylene (PP) plant was built by BP Amoco Chemical at Geel, ...

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Mass Flow Blender Ensures Pellet Mix Product Uniformity

The Need A client had a need to blend a highly segregating mixture, consisting of ...