Equipment Spotlight Canadian Biomass checks out the latest hammer mills for pelletizing operations. Staff report your pellet standards. The HM Series is a heavy-duty choice for grinding things like wood chips and shavings. They’re built with double-wall box construction filled with vibration-dampening material; dou-ble-pivot, full-access doors; replaceable AR235 abrasion-resistant wear liners; a patented regrind chamber; and a mechan-ical steel tube base to keep your entire operation running smoothly. www.cpm.net Hammer mills BRUNETTE The Brunette BioSizer is a rugged high-speed wastewood grinder specifically designed for production of a fine consis-tent product. The Brunette BioSizer is built to be low maintenance with a high inertia rotor with four rows of staggered hammers to provide maximum bites per revolution. This grinder allows for pro-cessing of oversized ‘bush-grind’ hog fuel, trim blocks, wood chips, all converted to a small consistent product size for the bio-mass industry. www.brunettemc.com including F1 and FTE Flextooth Crushers for larger products and Mini-Mill E, 30ABE, and 34ABE models for smaller products and sampling. “E” designations in each model signify the brand’s exclu-sive E-Z Access technology, which allows for safe, fast and easy access to hammers, rotors and liners. All models are equipped with heavy-duty rotors that can be set up with three, four or six rows of hammers. www.terrasource.com KAHL CPM CPM Biomass hammer mills are highly effi-cient machines, designed to meet the needs of almost any particle size-reduction task. They’re capable of fine-grinding friable and fibrous materials. Biomass hammer mills have standard and optional features for custom grinding and size-reduction solu-tions and total dependability, so you meet KAHL ’s pan grinder mill is designed for the crushing of wood chips, wood shavings, sawdust and other lumpy biomass. This grinding process is appropriate for wet raw material. The capacity ranges from a few hundred kilograms up to 40 t/h and more. Appropriate for G30 and G50 wood chips pre-grinding for trouble-free fine grinding in traditional hammer mills. Its features include silent operation; minimum energy consumption; low space requirement; without aspiration system, cyclone, filter and exhaust air plants; no ATEX problems; low energy consumption; and no noise protection measures. www.akahl.de/en JEFFREY RADER ANDRITZ TerraSource Global’s Jeffrey Rader brand offers a wide range of hammermills The Andritz series 6 hammer mill is engi-neered for maximum mettle. The series 6 features unlimited hammer and horse-power configurations and countless screen and hammer mill sizes, which deliver the perfect configuration for your needs. The key benefits are: high-volume inlet; heavy-duty rotor; rugged and durable bearings with temper ature sensors; easy access and maintenance; and NFPA compliance. Andritz’s reputation for quality, profession-alism and aftermarket support delivers confidence to you to meet your particle distribution requirements. www.andritz.com MARCH/APRIL 2017 22 Canadian BIOMASS
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