Ignacio Arancibia

I have a few questions and concerns regarding the ESE preconditioner: Is the shaft solid, or does it have intermediate supports? Older models failed because the shaft would break or bend due to the lack of a support bushing in the middle. This was the case with equipment I supervised in Mexico and other countries... a few years ago. We also want to know if the shaft is tubular or solid. Are the bl ...

@Haneea Ahmad from our point of view the word uniformly was used as sinonimous of homogeneous, this, in my latin special interpretation.....i agree with the word homogeneous....

Density control depends on internal and external fat level; and of control the die value; your extruder should act as a forming extruder so all the product condition should be get in the conditioner; The SME and STE are other important variables to control; you should run your extruder at 180-200 rpm reducing the SME; extruder moisture is one of the main variable to control; and also you will need ...

Probably the mix in the conditioner is not complete the oíl distribution inside is not homogeneous and some % of particles appear as high density but when you take off water (density 1) those particles decrease density and get sinking check mixing inside condiciones

I consider it important to emphasize the auxiliary equipment necessary for process control to support the main equipment, and to maintain particle and final product specifications,I mean for example:1.- to intercalate a sifter to classify the outgoing particles after grinding before mixing and to detect if any sieve has been broken.2.- to intercalate magnets before milling and before the extruder. ...

Waste management is one of the most important topics to get a good performance in a petfood plant. By example how and what tod do with the moist wastes exitig after the extruder. May be mr Keith Erdley can give us a referenced paper where can see more about this topic.

Important discusion about the preconditioner design results in a very important conclusions for the operation. As preconditioner is an special " mixer" it will be important to know opinions on what is the most important in the design. Parameters like, level of operation, time of retention range, one or two axes, sens of rotation of two axes, how to inyect the water and the steam, position of beate ...

Thanks, professor Michael Joseph, for keeping us awake on the preconditioning and extrusion principles...Is a very good overview useful to teach to our operators and apprentices...

That is a good new....we have had very good experience with Buhler equipments, processing and engineering and we know its a company with a wide experiece in many processing in food and feed and other several manufacturing processing machines. I hope we could have from Buhler some notes or information of their development in single screw extruders for food processing.... Best regards to all Buhler ...