Most industrial mixers move material around. A high shear mixer does something different: it applies enough localised force to physically break structures apart....
Belt conveyors fail at high temperature in a specific and predictable order. The belt stretches first, so tracking goes and take-up runs out of travel....
Flow control is one of those phrases that means two entirely different engineering problems depending on what is moving through the pipe. In a liquid or gas line, a flow...
The flat belt conveyor is the baseline against which every other conveying method is judged. It is the simplest configuration, the cheapest to build, the easiest to clean...
Fat arrives at most food plants as a solid block and has to leave the first process stage as a clean, uniform liquid at a controlled temperature. That sounds like
Spice grinding looks like a size reduction problem and is actually a heat problem. What a customer pays for in ground spice is aroma and colour, and both live in
A belt conveyor is the most familiar machine in any processing plant and the one most often specified carelessly. It looks like a solved problem: a loop of belt, two
Most conveyor problems in a processing plant are not conveyor problems. They are elevation problems. Product has to move from floor level into a hopper, a weigher...
CIP systems are usually specified by tank capacity, which is roughly like specifying a car by fuel tank size. It tells you something, but not the thing that determines whether....
Clean-in-Place is usually described in terms of hardware: tanks, pumps, spray balls, a control panel. But the equipment does not clean anything. The process does,...
A wind turbine blade can be 100 metres long and weigh 30 tonnes, and every newton of force it generates has to travel through a circular flange roughly three metres
A catalytic converter is mostly empty space. The part that does the work is a honeycomb block with thousands of parallel channels running through it, and the chemistry happens in
