biomass engineers Articles
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Storage Solution for WDDGS
You’re familiar with the issues: Wet cake / WDDGS has a short life. It spoils after a few days in the summer. And because it’s kept outdoors, it attracts rodents and other animals. Besides this, it makes a mess. It doesn’t pile high and can spread into roadways. So, what would it be worth if you could reduce the mess and increase the lifespan of your wet cake? By storing wet ...
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Best Practices for Drag Chain Conveyors
Are you experiencing problems with your material handling systems? While some problems are related directly to the machine itself (e.g. dust piles up under your cheap chain conveyor because … well, it’s a cheap chain conveyor), others occur from choices that occur after or during installation. In other words, the problems arise because personnel do not abide by best practices. So ...
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BIOAUGMENTATION MAINTAINS AMMONIA DISCHARGE CONSENTS
A market leader in biomass engineering has launched a 24-hour biological safeguard system to protect organisations operating treatment plants against discharging illegal levels of ammonia. North East-based Cleveland Biotech (CB) has seen an increase in enquiries for its Amnite NS5000 product from companies which are obliged to prove to authorities they adhere to legal constraints over their ...
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Smart Chain Conveyor Options
In this article, we discuss why customers should add optional components to their chain conveyors and how these components benefit their conveyor systems. What are Options Biomass Engineering & Equipment Offers for their Drag Conveyors? SMART Conveyors are highly customizable, and we have the engineering capabilities to design them to spec. Standard options we supply include: Variable ...
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Considerations for Conveyors that Handle Hot Materials
At thirteen years old, I didn’t realize polystyrene would melt in the microwave. So, I expected my foam bowl to hold up as I heated my instant mac and cheese. Of course, I was disappointed in the result, if not a bit hangry as I avoided what plastic-tainted noodles I could as I ate supper. Similarly, operations personnel too often choose drag conveyors unsuited for the application in which ...
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SMART Containers vs. Silos: Four Advantages
Tall, vertical silos are the go-to technology for storing large volumes of material. However, they aren’t the best solution for every application, and recent innovations in competing technologies make the alternatives worth considering. Horizontal silos—SMART Containers from Biomass Engineering & Equipment in specific—offer advantages over traditional silos. We’ve ...
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Conveyor Maintenance & Operation Mistakes
We do everything possible to supply our customers the highest-quality drag chain conveyors, but even so, much can go wrong after startup. Oftentimes, what’s gone wrong stems from from operational error. Customers (and anyone owning a drag conveyor) can avoid these mistakes, however, thereby increasing the lifespan of their conveyors and preventing failures. Altering the Material and Infeed ...
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Pallet Recycler Finds Success with Advanced SMART Conveyor
As the president of Challenger Pallet & Supply, Inc. Tad Hegsted needed a system to transport waste from his company’s pallet grinder to a loading bin at his new plant in Idaho Falls, Idaho.[1] For this, he planned on purchasing a pneumatic blower with associated airlocks and cyclones. But when he learned the system required a 60hp fan, he decided to find another solution. Sometime ...
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Deluge System for Enclosed Conveyor Fire Mitigation
The 2020 edition of NFPA 664 states that manufacturers must supply fire protection and explosion mitigation systems where fire, flash fire, and explosion hazards exist. Come September when operations are required to complete their dust hazard analysis, we suspect many will realize they’re noncompliant with the rules. When that time comes, be assured that Biomass Engineering & Equipment ...
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Herbaceous energy crops for cleaning of soils contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons
There is a possibility to create a sustainable method of biomass growth in mid-low contaminated sites soil system using phytoremedial methods in biomass engineering. Main aim of the research was to assess herbaceous plants abilities of clean the soil contaminated by oil hydrocarbons. Results show, that the proper selection of herbaceous energy crops can reach high level of sites treatment at ...
By Biovala
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Reducing and Eliminating Carryback in Mechanical Conveyors
Conveyor carryback increases operational costs, decreases efficiency, and increases the chance of conveyor-related injuries during clean up. Reducing carryback and tailings should therefore be a goal of every manufacturer who owns a mechanical conveyor system. Why Address Carryback By carryback, we refer simply to material that adheres to or embeds into a conveyor belt or chain rather than ...
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Nitrification Insurance
A market leader in biomass engineering has launched a 24-hour biological safeguard system to protect organisations operating treatment plants against discharging illegal levels of ammonia. North East-based Cleveland Biotech (CB) has seen an increase in enquiries for its Amnite NS5000 product from companies which are obliged to prove to authorities they adhere to legal constraints over their ...
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CBio provides round-the-clock safeguard against illegal levels of ammonia case study
A market leader in biomass engineering has launched a 24-hour biological safeguard system to protect organisations operating treatment plants against discharging illegal levels of ammonia. North East-based Cleveland Biotech (CB) has seen an increase in enquiries for its Amnite NS5000 product from companies which are obliged to prove to authorities they adhere to legal constraints over their ...
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The Baccelerator from CBio solves discharge consent problems at college case study
A large residential College in the north of England housing 550 live-in students and 450 non-resident staff operates its own on-site effluent treatment plant to treat all foul waste arising before discharge to local sewer. The effluent plant constructed in 1991 comprises an inlet settlement tank at the head of the works from where the clarified influent feeds by gravity the coke filtration ...
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The baccelerator from cleveland biotech solves discharge consent problems at college case study
A large residential College in the north of England housing 550 live-in students and 450 non-resident staff operates its own on-site effluent treatment plant to treat all foul waste arising before discharge to local sewer. The effluent plant constructed in 1991 comprises an inlet settlement tank at the head of the works from where the clarified influent feeds by gravity the coke filtration ...
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Alternatives to Storing Biomass in Vertical Silos
Vertical silos are standard storage devices in many industries. But for biomass, they’re hardly ideal. Biomass tends to bridge, especially in round containers, and vertical silos have trouble reclaiming it. Because of these issues, companies that store biomass will want to consider the advantages of a horizontal system instead of a vertical one. Without even considering biomass, there are ...
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Granular Segregation: Why You Can’t Mix Materials in a Silo
From time to time, we meet clients who attempt to store mixed materials in a silo. Either the material is premixed or the client fills the silo with separate materials and assumes the materials will mix as they descend through the system. What they discover, however, is that the materials, whether they be wood chips or grains, do not remain uniformly mixed. The reason why this occurs has to do ...
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Cheap Machines can cost thousands in downtime
When purchasing equipment, do you factor in the cost of downtime the equipment will create when it stops working? Of course you don’t. You’re buying new equipment so that you don’t have to deal with downtime. But if the equipment is poorly designed and shoddily constructed, you’re going to experience downtime despite the fact that it’s new. New doesn’t have ...
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Long-Span Chain Conveyors
Some operations personnel are uneasy about long-spanned chain conveyors. Given their experience with most chain conveyors, their hesitation is understandable. But long spans aren’t a problem for our SMART Conveyors. We build long conveyors all the time-some well over 100′. The ability to build long conveyors means that we can reduce the number of conveyors needed for a given ...
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Cost to Operate Inclined Chain Conveyors
Incline conveyors cost more to operate than horizontal conveyors, right? After all, they need more power, and they incur a lot of downtime when a chain breaks. Plus, the extra supports they require increases the cost of installation significantly. Actually, no. It’s not intuitive to many people, but the opposite is true - for our SMART Conveyors, at least. For one, incline conveyors ...
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