Powder Feeder Weight
Floccin comes in both a granular and powder form. The powder Floccin tends to “bridge” which causes the powder to not freely flow. This inhibits the use of our commercial auger feeder without proper modifications. We are modifying our commercial feeder to handle the powder Floccin. The addition of an electric vibrator with a powder bridge breaker solved this problem. The vibrator and bridge breaker combination liquefies the powder and allows it to flow freely through tank outlet. Shown in the pic below is the bridge breaker that we are testing. That’s what we do engineer new ways to clean water.
Chad showing vibration adapter.
Vibration adapter inside tank
Here is a pic with the unit inside the feeder.
Commercial Auger Feeder
Commercial Auger Feeder with vibration adapter
We Installed the Vibration Adapter, filled the feeder with the powder floccin, and let it sit for 2 days. Now is the true test! after letting the unit sit all of the powder is compacted to the bottom of the tank.
We started the vibrating adapter and nothing happened….. I guess it is back to the drawing board. This is not the end we will succeed.
So after finding out this unit did not work, we decided to upgrade the vibratation unit. We tried a circuclar styal vibration unit it would give about 10 lbs of force. Our engineers found a pneumatic linear vibration unit. This unit would give 500 lbs of force! Thats a big upgrade! After bolting it on and giving it a little air, the feeder was jumping across the floor. we also found out that the frame was not sturdy enough to handle the weight plus the constant vibration. so we added some support rods to the feeder stand and it works perfect.
Commercial Feeder W/ Vibration Unit
