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 »

 

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 »

 

John D. Payne Borregaard Ligno Tech UK Introduction The benefits of producing good quality... More »

 

Development Of Pellet Quality... More »

 

Maximizing Pellet Quality/Production Rate The addition of binders can help solve pellet quality problems or simply lift your pellet quality to a higher plane. Lignin technology has... More »

 

Doug Reuscher Roskamp Champion USA In the feed manufacturing industry, particle size reduction (grinding)... More »