Business Profile
- Mineral and mineral-organic fertilizers.
- Unit processes and operations with special emphasis on various granulation methods.
- Environmental protection in the fertilizer industry.
- Utilization of by-products and industrial waste from various industries (e.g., ash, digestate and municipal sludge) for fertilizer production.
- Design of granulation processes starting from laboratory tests, through selection of industrial apparatus and equipment, to participation in commissioning of new installations and process lines.
- Development of analyses and opinions and expert reports on fertilizer issues for the needs of government, local administration, courts and enterprises.
- Providing research services for the selection of granulation techniques for bulk materials.
- Producing batches of semi-technical granules.
- Specialized technical consulting for the fertilizer industry.
Apparatus
- Installation for testing the process of fertilizer granulation in a continuous system – capacity of 50-200 kg/h of product, consisting of the following nodes:
- Dosing and preparation system for raw materials and pulp.
- Granulation node: mixer granulation, disc and drum granulation.
- Drying and cooling node: drum and belt dryer.
- Granular classification and conditioning node (screens, sifters and surface treatment equipment).
- The system of cleaning and dust removal of air from individual nodes.
- Testing plant for the production of liquid clarified and slurry fertilizers, equipped with:
- Reactors for the preparation of process pulps, solutions and melts.
- Mixers, homogenizers, filter press: for obtaining stable and homogeneous products.
- Mills for grinding raw materials and controlling particle size in suspensions.
- ERWEKA’s set of laboratory equipment for testing and processing bulk materials:
- Mixers: cubic, hopper, planetary and zeta mixers.
- Disc granulator.
- Compactor.
- Thermal analysis kit for TG-DTA and TG-DSC methods:
- STA 449 F3 Jupiter analyzer coupled to Netzsch’s QMS 403C Aeolos mass spectrometer.
- Laboratory homogenization kit for obtaining micro- and nanoemulsions IKA magic LAB.
- Laboratory polarizing microscope with digital camera and OPTA-TECH software (image analysis and particle size measurement).
- Particle size analyzer using laser diffraction Mastersizer 3000 from Malvern.
- Mini-Midi Glatt fluidized bed granulator.
- Hornik’s CFA AA3 automatic flow fertilizer analyzer.
- Klimatest’s LU-113 temperature chamber and POL EKO-APARATURA’s KK FIT phytotron climate chamber.
- ERWEKA TAR (ZT 220) granular abrasion testing apparatus and ERWEKA TBH 225D hardness tester.
- KAMIKA’s AWK 3D particle shape and size analyzer.
- Retsch AS200 grain size analyzer.