Engineering Case Studies

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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 ...

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Vessel Analysis: Ensuring Metal Concentrate Cargo Stability

The Need The “Code for Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes” provides rules of safe ...

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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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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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Achieving Reliable Gravity Discharge from Ore Stockpiles

The Need As a result of segregation, even the presence of as little as 10% fines (...

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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 ...