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300 metric tons per day oilseed preparation and conditioning line built in 1982 consisiting of:
- (1) 60 metric ton holding capacity bin (shift-bin), cylindrical
- (1) Remo Horizontal seed cleaner, equipped with two sieves, for fines and coarse particles.
- (2) Ferrell-Ross quad-roll cracking mills.
- (1) Soybean dehulling, hull cleaning and hull grinding line consisting of:
- (1) Remo Horizontal screener, to separate fines from cracked kernels.
- (1) Fan to pull air from screener.
- (1) Cyclone to separate hulls from air, equipped with rotary valve.
- (1) Gravity separator to recover kernels from hulls.
- (1) Fan to pull hulls from Gravity Separator.
- (1) Twin-cyclone to separate air from hulls, equipped with rotary valve.
(1) Hull grinding hammer mill.
- (1) Holding bin, to store and bag ground hulls.
- (1) Masiero 6-stack cooker, carbon steel, welded, both floor and wall-jacketed, (100-inch) 245 cm diam, capable of heating kernels to above 100°C before pressing.
- (1) DeSmet flaking roll. 40cm dia. x 100 cm long twin rolls. Manual adjustment.
- (1) French flaking roll. Manual adjustment. Twin rolls 40 cm diam by 115 cm long.
- Ancillary equipment for preparation and conditioning line, consisting of augers, elevators, structure, etc. Structure is very solid.
(1) Pressing and filtering line consisting of:
- (2) Masiero PE-200 pre-presses operating with a 150-HP motor each. 12” exit diameter shaft, with 4-13” barrel sections. Nominal capacity is 200 mt/day each press, measured maximum capacity 150 mt/day each @ 13% cake residual on soybeans.
- (1) oil filtering system consisting of:
- (1) bucket elevator to feed solids-laden oil into screen tank.
- (1) screen tank, 3m long. 1.1 m wide, 1.85 m high.
- (1) large Sperry 105 x 100 cm plate-and-frame filter, with 45 sets. Operated until 1987. Filter has capacity to clean oil from pressing in excess of 300 mt of seeds/day Canola or other high-oil seed.
- (1) back-up filter, plate and frame, 28 plates, 65x60 cm, vintage. Operated until 1987. Used during cleaning of large filter.
Ancillary equipment of pressing line, comprising, augers, elevators, pumps, pre-coat mixer-tanks, etc.
(1) DC (continuous dryer-cooler) for extracted meals and/or wet extruded pellets, CS construction, approx 100” diameter, two levels (drying and cooling), reducer gear and motor, radiator w/fan & 60 HP motor, two SS cyclones.
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