Background / Requirement
A laundry detergent manufacturer disposes of a large amount
of oversized material in its current production process. To
utilize this material, the company has presented 2 options:
sell it, or size reduce it to useable material.
In the current process, a drier discharges hard, brittle
and compressible lumps that are then sifted to separate and
remove material larger than 14 USS mesh. The company proposes
to convey this material to an offline bulk bin where it can
then be de-agglomerated to the required particle size.
The company has plans to phase this process step into main
line production in the future.
Summary
88% of the lumps were reduced to the correct particle
size at 1,850 lb/hr (840 kg/hr) with a Comil.
The resulting savings in production and disposal losses
would payback the cost of the Comil within 2 years.
As planned, placing the Comil at the drier discharge
would further reduce production costs by removing offline,
rework procedures.
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