Week 3 of the Credo Online Petfood School (OPS) commenced today. The programme is jointly organised by Progressus Agrischools and Perendale Publishers, and sponsored by Agentis Innovations, Tietjen, Andritz, Wenger, PLP Systems and International Milling Directory.
Giuseppe R Bigliani is the first speaker to address the audience in week 4 of The Online Petfood School discussing ‘Dosing, Batching and mixing’ covering many topics such as:
- Flow patterns
- Flow issues
- Consistency between handling & storage
- Requirements to dosing elements
- Pre & post-grinding
- Dosing systems
- Scale hoppers
- Mixability
- Rotor speed & power
- Mixing accuracy
- contamination
The second speaker of the session was Joe Kearns who gave a presentation on both ‘Extrusion: Knives and Dies’ and ‘Drying Standards’ where he covered the topics of:
- Die types
- Drilled dies/wear plates
- Insufficient die restrictions
- Excessive die restrictions
- Back pressure valve
- Knife blades
- Knife sharpening
- Extradite expansion
- Co-extrusion die
- Troubleshooting dryers
- Dryer beds
- Conveyor maintenance
- Heat source maintenance
- Common dryer problems
- Consisted & random under-drying
The final presentation of the day was given by Keith Erdley on ‘Drying and cooling of pet foods’ where he discussed many topics such as:
- Dryer design history
- Primary drying components
- Spreaders
- Conveyor beds
- Gas burners
- Steam coils
- Electric coils
- Modern airflow design
- Factors of control
- Temperature
- Bed depth
- Product cooling
- Types of coolers
The session finished with a Q&A with attendees invited to ask their questions to the speakers and moderators.
This session will be re-broadcasted this Friday 15 September for the U.S & Latin American audience. To register and watch it, click HERE.
Session 5 is scheduled for 21 September, at 14:00 Bangkok Time / 09:00 Central European Time, to access it and join, click HERE.
