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The preference of good-looking products on the fiercely competing market have had feed manufactures pay more attentions to the appearance quality of extruded feed pellets.
Muyang therefore... More »
To substantially improve extruder performance in aquafeed production, in recent years Muyang Group made research efforts in five aspects and gained some achievements : to increase energy... More »
Driven by the increasing consumption of fish meat due to world population boom and the limitation of wild catch, volume growth rate of global aquaculture has been sustained at about 8% over the... More »
At present, aquafeed extruder has won some popularity in aquafeed industry. Expanded aquafeed, as a high- quality feed species featuring high feed intake, high conversion efficiency and... More »
Screws and dies are critical parts of the extruder. The wear of screws and dies can significantly effects throughput and quality of extrusion products. For feed and food extrusion, the wear of... More »
In 2013 the global feed indsutry comprised of 28,200 feed mills, according to the latest data published by ALLTECH as part of their annual feed survey.
The world's total feed production... More »
In 2012 the global feed indsutry comprised of 26,240 feed mills, according to the latest data published by ALLTECH as part of their annual feed survey. The world's total feed production was estimated... More »
2013 ALLTECH Global Feed Summary: Global feed production statistics have traditionally been difficult to quantify because many countries lack national feed associations.
For this... More »
Keith C. Behnke
Kansas State University
Pelleting has been, and continues to be, a popular processing... More »
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... More »
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... More »
Doug Decksheimer
Comco Systems Inc.
Introduction And Background
In most cases, post-heat... More »
The Application
Dry Flow Measuring
Achieving the desired accuracy is greatly dependent upon the level of accuracy obtained from the
dry-flow measuring... More »
Quality Assurance & Automation
Quality control issues are of the utmost importance. The application must tie together into a robust
automated system. The control system must fit... More »