Anyone know of an efficient way to screen wood pellets at rates up to 2400 MT/Hr? ■

To YVRPilot

We are located in Vancouver and have extensive experience handling and screening wood and biomass. We would be glad to assist you in your pellet handling project, which at 2400 Mt/h is a good size. Please contact me per the following:

G.F. Paul Janz, Wood Processing Specialist

Sandwell Engineering Inc.

885 Dunsmuir Street, Suite 600

Vancouver, BC V6C 1N5 Canada

tel604-684-9311

direct tel604-638-4628

fax 604-688-5913

emailpjanze@sandwell.com

webwww.sandwell.com ■

We're already in contact with you guys... ■

To YVRpilot,

Care to identify who at Sandwell you are working with? You can email me at pjanze@sandwell.com

Paul Janze ■

Dennis McJunkin. He's working on a project for our shiploader. ■

Gentlemen:

PJ Panze SANDWELL

TRIPLE S.......no name??? PM SENT

The purpose of this forum is to share information with all participants worldwide, so we can all learn from your expertise.

Sending anonymous user INFO AND PM sent helps no one at all in this forum with the same problem. The purpose is to share with all participants.

Using this forum as a strict SALES LEAD forum for your company's personal use is not the purpose either.

At no point did either of you guys answer his specific questions about the suitability of the McClanahan.

We appreciate your co-operation.

George Baker, Moderator ■

mdacus / George Baker,

I stand corrected.

Following are my comments regarding the Maclanahan screen.

I have not used a Maclanahan vibrating screen, however, I do not recommend utilizing a vibrating screen for wood pellets for the following reasons:

1) - A vibrating screen imparts vertical forces to the material being screened, lifting the material into the air. The material then falls back onto the screen. The fairly aggressive screening action can break up the pellets, which are quite fragile and create more fines, resulting in greater fibre loss.

2) - You shouldn't need high `g-forces' to screen wood pellets.

3) - To screen-out wood flour, you need a fairly fine screen; woven wire mesh would work, but I believe that punched-hole plates are better, even though they have a lower % open area.

4) - I believe a gyratory screen would be better suited to screening wood pellets as it is considerably more gentle. The pellets lie flat on and slide down the screen plate, rather than being knocked repeatedly into the air and randomly landing on the ends and corners of the pellets. Such gyratory screens are manufactured by BM&M, Acrowood, and West Salem Machinery.

Paul Janze

Sandwell Engineering Inc. ■