Minor Ingredient Handling & Dosing
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Technosilos minor ingredient handling and dosing weighs a recipe's minor and micro ingredients automatically, with recipe-driven precision. Each ingredient is fed from sacks or big bags into its own surge hopper, with discharge, metering and dosing units scaled to that raw material, and is dosed into a central weigh hopper before the batch is conveyed pneumatically to the mixer. Automated batching gives accurate, repeatable mixes with fast recipe change-overs and contamination- and dust-free dosing, and liquid ingredients can be dosed alongside through dedicated circuits.
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Minor ingredient dosing Accuracy up to 1 g; storage volumes up to 5,000 L Liquid dosing Viscosity up to 10,000 cps; accuracy up to 0.1 cm3; flow up to 10,000 L/hour Ingredient feed Surge hoppers loaded from sacks or big bags, each with its own discharge, metering and dosing units Weighing Metering screws with locking valves dosing into a central weigh hopper Transfer to the mixer Weighed batch conveyed pneumatically (by vacuum) Automation Recipe-based PLC control with integration of solid and liquid ingredients, weighing, conveying and production equipment -
- Minor and micro ingredients are automatically weighed and dosed according to stored recipes.
- Surge hoppers are fed from sacks or big bags, each with its own discharge, metering and dosing units scaled to the raw material.
- Vibration bins or mass-flow extractors ensure reliable transfer, even for small components that flow poorly.
- A metering screw with locking valve doses accurately into a central weigh hopper, from which the batch is conveyed pneumatically to the mixer.
- Weighing accuracy of up to 1 g keeps batch quality constant while reducing waste.
- Fast recipe change-overs and contamination- and dust-free dosing support flexible production schedules.
- Liquid ingredients can be transferred, temperature controlled and dosed through dedicated sanitizable circuits.
- Automatic batch reporting and tracking, with PLC and SCADA control, provides traceability.
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