Rotary Conditioner

Rotary Conditioner
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Descripting Information • Rotary Conditioner
General description
This equipment was specially designed for fulfilling two different functions depending on the process that takes place. It could be a Rotary Conditioner, in
which case its function is the conditioning of oilseeds prior to the flaking process, or it could be a Rotary Dryer in which case its function is the drying and
heating of broken seeds before the pelleting process takes place.
It has a cylindrical body that on one end has a chamber (called steam chamber) where incoming saturated dry steam (with a maximum pressure of 10bar) is
distributed by 117 steel pipes that go across the whole equipment from end to end.
It must be erected in an incline way to ease, together with the rotation, the advance of the product to be conditioned to the exit that is located besides the
steam chamber.
The heating is indirectly produced through the previously mentioned pipes.
These pipes are broached on one side to the interior plate of the steam chamber and on the opposite side they go through the back plate of the equipment.
On this end, the pipes are sealed with lids welded on the inside. These lids have a threaded perforation in the center with a tube that purges incondensable
gases to a toroid collector.
Inside the tubes circulates dry saturated steam with a maximum pressure of 10bar. On the outside they are crossed by broken seed as a curtain. The steam
that condenses during the temperature exchange falls because of gravity trough the pipes to the steam chamber where is collected by three dippers and
extracted from the machine by a siphon system.
The equipment rotates about its axis operated by a pinion-ring gear system and supported by two sets of roller wheels with two metal band wheel con-
nected to the equipment’s body.
The product is introduced to the equipment trough a helicoidally conveyor and goes out trough windows cut in the casing near the steam chamber and then
oriented by a hopper.
This equipment is exteriorly insulated to avoid energy losses through thermal exchange with the environment.
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Main components
• Main body The equipment rotates thanks to the power given by the main drive (05).
The product exits trough windows cut in the casing near the steam chamber and
The main body consists of a cylindrical body (01) installed in inclined way. is oriented out by a hopper (06). The fumes exit through an extractor (07).
On one end it has a chamber, called steam chamber (02), where incoming The heating is indirectly produced trough the several pipes (08) mentioned
saturated dry steam is distributed by several pipes that go across the whole before.
equipment from end to end. These pipes are attached on one side to the interior plate of the steam chamber
On the other end there’s a feeding system (03) to ease the entering of the and on the opposite side they go through the back plate of the equipment.
seeds, in this side there’s also a piping system (04) that purges the steam that
does not condensate to a toroid collector.
The equipment is erected in an incline way to ease, together with the rota-
tion, the advance of the product to be conditioned (broken seeds).
Inside the tubes circulates dry saturated steam and on the outside they are
crossed by broken seed as a curtain
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• Main Drive
The equipment rotates about its axis operated by a pinion-ring (01) and The sprocket and the tread band count with a proper cover (05).
sprocket (02) system that is supported by two sets of roller wheels (03) with The power needed to make this system works is given by a motor (06)
two metal bands (04) connected to the equipment’s body.
• Feeding system
The product is introduced to the equipment trough a screw conveyor (01) driven by
a reducer (02).
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The butterfly valves (03) located in the chimney of the feeding system and in the
chimney of the fumes extractor are meant to regulate the humidity of the product.
• Steam system force through the pipes to the steam chamber. When the water comes out of the tubes
it falls and is picked up by a trowel (02). Then due to the rotation, when the trowel is
Through the superior inlet (01) of the rotary gasket enters the steam to be circulated on the top, the water trapped falls through the tubes (03) welded to it.
through the pipes that go across the equipment. Due to the difference of temperature Later the water falls through the tubes and is directed to a condensate collector pipe
between the steam in the pipes and the cold seeds outside, some of the steam is (04) that ends in a condensate deposit (05). From there the water is collected by a
condensed. siphon system (rotary gasket) to a deposit (cylinder of condensates).
The steam that condenses during the temperature exchange falls because of gravity
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• Draining pipes
The pipes that transport the dry saturated steam are sealed inside by weld-
ing them to circular metallic lids. These lids have threaded perforations from
where the steam that does not condensate is extracted.
The extraction is made by the connection of these threaded perforations and
a circular connector called toroid (01) by draining pipes (02) designed for
that purpose.
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Contact us
for more information
MAPCA S.A.
Av Fillippini 1343 · 2124 Villa Gobernador Gálvez · Argentina
Tel. +54 341 4921910 / 12 / 14
e-mail: [email protected]
www.allocco.com.ar
MAPCA S.A. reserves the right to introduce changes without any advertisement

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