Pelletizing Technical Articles
Manufacturing and Machinery
Manufacturing and Machinery
Article published the March 19, 2020:
The production of pelleted feed is a complex and expensive activity. Optimising the manufacturing process is therefore important to maintain production profitability, making it necessary to collect all releva...
Article published the November 26, 2019:
Comparison of industrial lines with a pilot line
This article is a follow-up to a previous paper which described the pelleting process used in animal feed plants and, more specifically, the heating phenomeno...
Article published the November 25, 2019:
Fundamentals on feed mash conditioning and its impacts on component modification and bio-actives recovery
The feed industry has the responsibility to develop and produce feeds for livestock and aquaculture s...
Article published the August 9, 2019:
Today’s livestock are fed complete or complementary feed given mainly in the form of pellets. This form gives better animal performance (average daily gain and feed conversion ratio) than feed in the fo...
Article published the July 23, 2019:
1. Introduction
Sorghum has been described as an enigmatic grain for chicken meat production because sorghum-based broiler diets have been associated with sub-optimal performance of chickens under Australian c...
Article published the November 6, 2018:
Introduction
The efficient use of feed is extremely important in broiler production. Investigations have to be continued to decrease cost of broiler production and improve broiler performance. Pellet feed has ...
Article published the June 7, 2018:
1. Introduction
In January 2014, the European Union presented some climate and energy targets to achieve in 2030 [1], which imply more contribution of renewable energies to the energy mix, although with a post...
Article published the March 22, 2018:
Pellet Quality
For purposes of this paper, pellet quality will be equated to the ability of pellets to withstand repeated handling without excessive breakage or fines generation. There are many factors that af...
Article published the March 22, 2018:
Particle Size
Optimum particle size for best pelleting results has been a matter of controversy for almost as long as feeds have been pelleted. Young (1960) found no significant differences in pellet durabilit...
Article published the March 13, 2018:
Introduction
The global aquaculture production of food fish has increased tremendously over the last decade, reaching 62.7 million metric tonnes in 2011 or about 40.1% of world total fish production [1]. Asian...