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Processed powders: sugar and salt
Powdered egg production
This customer is a specialist in egg processing for industrial customers. This manufacturing process requires an aqueous solution that must include a high percentage of salt and sugar. Both ingredients are delivered in bulk bags or 50 lbs. sacks.
The customer’s objective was to increase his production volume while improving the ergonomics of his workstation with a controlled introduction of raw bulk materials.
The requirement was to regularly feed two dispersion tanks of 10,000 liters each and a powder wetting machine at 3,000 kg/hr. Further objectives were regular feeding without sending too many powder " packets ", minimize maintenance costs, modular design for future expansion and easy to clean equipment features.
Palamatic Process has installed a combined big bag and sack discharging system in a production room; the Duopal® DP station is connected to a pneumatic conveying system. Bulk bags are loaded by hoist and the sacks are loaded by hand. The entire set is weighed in order to ensure that the quantities shipped in bulk bags are controlled. A valve mounted on the unloading station controls the opening and closing of the discharge spout. The products are then collected by pneumatic conveying featuring "vacuum dense phase" operation. Each of the two hoppers and the powder wetting unit are fitted with cyclones that use an introduction valve with variable metering to adjust the fluid flow. An electric pump common to all three cyclones supplies the process points in sequence to each other.
"Perfect line flexibility on inbound calls, repeatable throughput, shipment control, perfect cleanability and accessibility as well as very low maintenance" were the comments of the plant's production manager and quality manager one year after the start of production of this powder coating installation.
Palamatic Process has developed two turnkey process lines related to the production of egg products:
- A process for the incorporation of salt and/or sugar into liquid egg tanks - PowderEgg®01
- An additive incorporation line dedicated to the preparation of liquid eggs before drying or packaging - PowderEgg®02
