Animal Feed Production Line

[Case 1] 10-12 t/h animal feed production line

• Project type: annual output of 50,000 tons of feed (45,000 t/a compound feed, 5,000 t/a extruded corn)
• Total land area: 3564m²
• Working system: There are 15 employees, annual production time is 300 days and 4800 hours.
• Annual water consumption: 6180m3/a, power: 500,000 kW·h/a, gas: 455,000 m³/a
• Consumption of main raw materials: 30,000 t/a of corn, 10,000 t/a of soybean meal, 5,000 t/a of corn germ meal, 5,000 t/a of DDJS, 500 t/a of calcium hydrogen phosphate, 100 m3/a of soybean oil, 5 t/a of methionine, Stone powder 200t/a, salt 10 t/a
• Main equipment: corn grinder, puffed corn grinder, full-price feed raw material grinder, full-price feed raw material grinder, animal feed pellet processing machine, baler, extruder, air compressor, small material mixer, mixer, sieve machines, palletizers, oil storage tanks, corn storage bins, forklifts, fans, natural gas steam boilers, soft water preparation systems, etc.

1. Feeding: Raw materials such as soybean meal, crushed corn, corn germ meal, and DDJS are fed through the feeding port
2. Crushing: The granular material in the crushing bin enters the pulverizer through the impeller feeder, and the crushed granular material is conveyed by the screw conveyor and lifted to the batching bin by the bucket elevator.
3. Ingredients and mixing: According to the scientific formula, the materials are accurately configured by the computer and weighed and then enter the mixer. After a reasonable and scientific mixing time, the computer controls the discharge and enters the granulation bin.
4. Pelleting: Before entering the feed pelletizer, it needs to be conditioned. The conditioned material should be fed with steam to directly contact and mix with the material and wet the material. After uniform conditioning, it will fall to the feed pelleting machine for granulation.
5. Cooling: The pellets are cooled and used wind cold.
6. Screening: The finished pellet feed is transported to the grading sieve through the elevator, and the grading sieve is a two-layer sieve.
7. Packaging: The finished product is transported to the finished product temporary storage warehouse, and then packed and measured and packaged.

[case 2] 60-65 t/h animal feed production line 

• Annual output: 300,000 tons of feed (130,000 tons/year of pig compound feed, 40,000 tons/year of chicken compound feed, 40,000 tons/year of duck compound feed, 70,000 tons/year of aquatic puffed fish compound feed, layer chicken compound feed Feed 20,000 tons/year)
• Energy consuption: Water consumption: 4320m³/a, Power consumption: 50,000 kW·h/a, Steam consumption: 4800t/a
• Work system: 80 people, working 300 days a year, 2 shifts per day, 8 hours per shift.
• Consumption of raw materials: 100,000 tons/year of corn, 80,000 tons/year of soybean meal, 10,000 tons/year of wheat hulls, 10,000 tons/year of secondary flour, 21,000 tons/year of rapeseed meal, 5,000 tons/year of flour, 45,000 tons/year of auxiliary materials, 30,000 tons/year of vegetable oil
• Main equipment: pulse dust collector, scraper conveyor, bucket elevator, cylinder silo, bulk material cylinder silo, screw conveyor, twin-shaft paddle mixer, superfine pulverizer, poultry livestock feed pellet mill, countercurrent type cooler, feed extruder, drying box, electronic packaging scale, palletizing robot.

• Raw material receiving and cleaning: Bulk raw materials enter the powder cleaning screen to remove large impurities, then remove iron impurities, and enter the batching bin.
• Crushing: The materials to be crushed (corn, soybean meal, rapeseed meal) are gradually crushed.
• Batching and mixing: The materials enter the mixing system after automatic batching.
• Granulation: After the mixture enters the feed granulator to mature and granulate.
• Packaging: The cooled granules enter the finished product warehouse, and are packed and put into storage by automatic measurement.
• Secondary crushing and secondary mixing: After the pellets are cooled, they are crumbled, measured according to the formula requirements, and then mixed.
• Expansion: The crushed and mixed powder is extruded by an extruder.
• Drying & spraying: The extruded feed is further dried in a feed drying machine. Grease spraying is carried out on the surface of the pelleted feed after puffing.
• Cooling & Packing: A counter-current cooler is used to make the product both cool and dry. The cooled granules are packed into the warehouse.

[case 3] 22-25 t/h animal feed production line

• Annual output: 180,000 tons (construct 3 production lines, including 2 high-grade livestock and poultry feed production lines, high-grade ruminant feed production line 1)
• Total area: 20003.43m²
• Annual water consumption: 17490 m³/a, power consumption: 5.4 million kw h
• Working system: 50 people, with 330 working days per year, three-shift system
• Raw materials: corn 75160t/a, flour 54t/a, soybean meal 63932t/a, cotton meal 7990t/a, rapeseed meal 2710t/a, secondary meal 18264t/a, fish meal 3560t/a, auxiliary raw materials (soybean meal, beer meal , meat and bone meal mixed oil, hydrogen powder, stone powder, etc.) 8740t/a.
• Main production equipment: micro pulverizer, high-pressure fan, self-cleaning bucket elevator, paddle high-efficiency mixer, SZLH series animal feed pelletizer, cooling fan, stainless steel cyclone dust collector, quantitative packaging scale, sewing bag conveyor, circular pulse dust collector, grease adding machine, grease scale, air compressor, air freeze dryer, etc.

1. Feeding port: The material is put into the feeding port, goes to the primary cleaning screen to screen out large and small sundries. The granular raw materials are screened and enter the crushing bin, and the powdery raw materials are screened and directly enter the batching bin group.
2. Crushing: After the granular material enters the crushing bin, it is controlled by the pneumatic gate and enters the impeller feeder to feed evenly into the crushing chamber.
3. Mixing of ingredients: After the raw materials reaching the specified fineness enter the batching bin with the set bin number through a special distributor, the personnel in the central control room input the formula data into the computer strictly according to the formula requirements, and realizes automatic batching.
4. Granulation and cooling: The material enters the silo to be granulated, and is granulated by two feed granulators with saturated steam to produce different types of feed. Different pellet feed respectively enter the counterflow cooler for cooling through the closed fan. The finished products after the granules are classified to meet the specified requirements enter the finished product warehouse.
5. Quantitative packaging: The whole pellet finished material is automatically measured and packaged by two electronic units, and then automatically sewedtransported to the finished product warehouse.

[case 4] 40-42 t/h animal feed production line

• Annual output: 200,000 tons (195,000 tons/year of granular material, 5,000 tons/year of powder material)
• Land area: The project covers an area of 53085m², with a total construction area of 48509.96m²
• Operating system: 50 employees, 300 days of work per year, 16 hours a day
• Main raw materials: corn, soybean meal, wheat, wheat bran, corn gluten powder, calcium hydrogen phosphate, stone powder, DDGS, imported steam fish meal, glutamic acid residue
• Main energy consumption: natural gas*1.152 million m³/a, electricity*500,000 Kwh/a, water*22636.3m³/a
• Main equipment: feeding hopper, fan, fan, buried scraper conveyor, bucket elevator, cylinder initial cleaning screen, screw conveyor, permanent magnet cylinder, pulse dust collector, pulverizer, double-shaft paddle mixer, Preservatives, animal feed pellet machines, coolers, cooling fans, rotary grading screens, finished product bins, packing scales, air compressors, air storage tanks, etc.

1. Raw material receiving and cleaning system: corn, soybean meal, wheat, wheat bran and other raw materials need to be dried and crushed, and the project adopts a set of feeding system for feeding. After being screened by the primary cleaner and magnetically separated by the permanent magnet cylinder, the pellets enter the bin to be crushed.
2. Crushing system: This process is mainly carried out for corn, soybean meal and other granular materials that need to be crushed.
3. Mixing system: According to the formula quantity and batching sequence set by the system, the raw materials are conveyed by the batching auger and enter the computer automatic batching scale for cumulative measurement. The small material is added, and the premixed material is put into the mixer.
4. Granulation system: The project products include powder and granular forms. The powdered product (raw feed) can be obtained after the ingredients are mixed, and the powdered product directly enters the finished product packaging system.
5. Finished product packaging system: The pellet finished product enters the grading screen, completes the three-stage sieving, and the qualified finished product enters the finished product warehouse for packing. The packaging adopts automatic quantitative and vacuum packaging.

[case 5] 55-60 t/h animal feed production line

• Annual output: 240,000 tons of feed) compound feed 9.6 t/a, concentrated feed 14.4 t/a)
• The total area is 23083m², and the construction area is 17160m².
• Working system: 30 project employees, 260 days of annual production, 8 hours a day.
• The total water consumption: 6238t/a, electricity consumption is 500,000 KW•h.
• Consumption of raw and auxiliary materials: 36,000 t/a of corn, 12,000 t/a of barley, 112,500 t/a of soybean meal, 19,300 t/a of DDGS, 19,200 t/a of puffed corn, 4,900 t/a of stone powder, bran 19,600 t/a of leather, 15,200 t/a of rice bran powder, 2,100 t/a of additives
• Main equipment: scraper conveyor, bucket elevator, rotary distributor, batching bin, pulverizer, double-shaft paddle mixer, granulator, crusher, plane rotary grading screen, finished product bin, quantitative packaging scale , batching scale hopper, microcomputer batching system, weighing liquid adding system, natural gas boiler, initial cleaning screen, cleaning screen, counter flow cooler, etc.

1. Material cleaning and crushing section: raw materials such as corn and barley need to be crushed, and other powders do not need to be crushed. The project adopts 2 sets of feeding systems to feed materials separately. Granular materials such as corn and barley are put into the feed inlet and are lifted by the bucket type fast elevator into the cylinder for primary cleaning and screening. After being screened through the high level difference, they directly enter the crushing bin for crushing. The powder that does not need to be crushed directly enters the batching bin through the powder feeding port.
2. Batching and mixing section: input various raw materials into the computer according to the formula, and the computer automatically weighs the ingredients according to the program. The prepared materials are automatically put into the mixer for mixing. The project products include concentrated feed and compound feed. The concentrated feed product is obtained after the ingredients are mixed, and the concentrated feed product is directly packaged into the finished product warehouse; the compound feed needs to be further processed through the pelleting process.
3. Granulation section: The project uses hot granulation to granulate, and the granulation process uses steam modulation. After the material is pressed, it is ventilated and cooled.
4. Classification and packaging section: the cooled compound feed is screened out by a sieving machine to obtain qualified products, and then packed into the finished product warehouse. The powder under the sieve enters the animal feed pellet machine again for granulation.

[case 6] 35-40 t/h animal feed production line

• Project area: 7163m², with a construction area of about 3458 m²
• Main raw material consumption: 106,016.77 tons of corn, 30,000 tons of soybean meal, 2,500 tons of wheat, 6,000 tons of corn protein meal, 3,000 tons of oil, 15,000 tons of wheat flour, 500 tons of sodium chloride, etc.
• Working system: 60 people are required to work, board and lodging in the factory, two shifts a day, 8 hours per shift, working hours 8:00~24:00, 300 days a year.
• Main equipment: silo, temperature and humidity measurement system, silo bottom fan, back-turning hydraulic flap, conveying scraper machine, bucket elevator, cylinder initial cleaning screen, grease storage tank, water drop mill, batching bin group, double-layer high-efficiency mixer, pellet machine for animal feed, cyclone Dust collector, vibrating grading screen, double scale hopper belt feeding packing scale, belt conveying sewing machine, finished product bulk warehouse, liquid adding system, gas storage tank, biomass boiler, etc.

1. Raw material receiving section: Corn, meal and other raw materials are manually fed into the cleaning grid, and the bucket elevator transports the material to the primary cleaning screen of the cylinder, and the large impurities in the material and the permanent magnet iron remover are screened out through the primary cleaning screen, and enter the silo for temporary storage.
2. Crushing section: The material entering the crushing chamber is evenly fed into the crushing machine through the stone removal impeller feeder.
3. Batching section: The materials entering the batching bin. After the batching is completed, the material is put into the mixer; the small material (core material) is batched manually or by a micro-batching device, and after batching, it is ordered to enter the mixer.
4. Granulation section: The material entering the conditioner after opening the feeding auger. The material is in the conditioner, and then enters the animal feed granulator for granulation after being fed with steam.
5. Cooling & packing section: The pellets enter the cooler after passing through the air locker, and are cooled by air cooling. The material cooled by the cooler needs to be granulated according to the pellet size requirements, and the granulated pellets with large pellet size are crumbled into small pellets, and then enter the sieve through the bucket elevator. The materials that meet the requirements after being screened by the rotary grading screen enter the bin to be packed and wait for packing.

[case 7] 25 t/h animal feed production line

• Annual output: 60,000 tons (40,000 tons of chicken feed, 20,000 tons of pig feed)
• Total construction area: 4300 m²
• Annual water consumption: 900t/a, power: 180,000 Kwh, gas: 150,000 Nm³
• Production shift system: The project labor quota is 30 people, the annual working days are 300 days, one shift system, and each shift works 8 hours.
• Main production equipment: high-efficiency mixer, pulverizer, bucket elevator, batching scale, feed pellet machine, dust collector, processing air volume 4500-6450m3/h, filter area 25m2, initial cleaning screen, natural gas boiler
• Auxiliary material consumption: corn 27000t/a, soybean meal 18000t/a, wheat 7200t/a, rapeseed meal 3000t/a, soybean oil 3000t/a, calcium hydrogen phosphate 1200t/a, liquid methionine 600t/a

This project is mainly engaged in the production of feed, and the production process mainly includes primary screening, crushing, batching, mixing, granulating, cooling, and finished products, etc., which are briefly described as follows:

1. Pre-cleaning and screening: The purchased raw materials are pre-cleaned and screened, if there are stones, mud and other sundries.
2. Crushing: Crushing is an operation that mechanically overcomes the cohesive force of solid materials and breaks them.
3. Batching: the process of measuring raw materials in a certain proportion. The batching and metering process is automatically controlled by the computer, and the crushed raw materials are distributed according to the ratio set by the system;
4. Mixing: The mixing process of this project is operated in a closed manner in the mixer;
5. Granulation: Granulation means using heat, moisture, and pressure to make powder into pellet feed of a certain shape and size. And the use cooler to blow air to cool;
6. Finished product: Put the finished product into the packaging bag and pack it into the warehouse.

[case 8] 30 t/h animal feed production line

• Site area: 3333m2
• Work system: 20 workers, 310 working days a year, one shift, 10 hours per shift.
• Consumption of main raw materials: corn 30000t/a, wheat 2000t/a, bran 1000t/a
• Water (ton/year): 3000, Electricity (kWh/year): 800,000, Steam (ton/year): 3000
• Main equipment: pulse dust collector, buried scraper conveyor, bucket elevator, cylinder initial cleaning screen, rotary distributor, permanent magnet cylinder, impeller feeder, superfine pulverizer, high-pressure fan, mixer, feed pellet mill, muffler, settling chamber, vibrating grading screen, electronic packing scale, belt conveyor sewing machine, dust removal fan, quantitative scale, etc.
• Storage and transportation system: The inventory of this project is kept for 40 days, and the total inventory of various raw materials is about 4,500 tons. The corn is stored in the steel silo, and the rest of the raw materials are stored in the raw material warehouse; the feed inventory is used for 2-3 days, stored in the finished product warehouse and the finished product warehouse. , the total amount is about 400 tons.

• Crushed into the warehouse: the corn, soybean meal, wheat, and bran are transported to the first floor of the production workshop through the buried scraper conveyor, and the impurity is removed through the cylinder initial cleaning, and then re-screened through the granular material hopper and fence, and finally the crushed granular material is put into the warehouse.
• Ingredients: The crushed corn, soybean meal, wheat and bran are mixed according to the ratio of 30:8:2:1 (corn: soybean meal: wheat: bran), and then pulverized again by the super micronizer.
• Mixing: The crushed materials are transported to the settling chamber on the 6th floor of the production workshop through the fighter elevator, and then transported to the RICHI rotary distributor to rotate and mix the materials in the settling chamber.
• Pelleting: transport the mixed pellets to the mixer on the 6th floor of the production workshop through the bucket elevator, put steam into the mixer, and start pelleting, and the pelleted broiler breeders are transported with pellet feed to the packaging line.

[case 9] 2-3 t/h pet animal feed production line

• Annual output: 20,000 tons
• Project nature: newly built
• Raw materials: 10,000 tons of corn, 4,000 tons of wheat flour, 2,000 tons of wheat bran, 2,000 tons of chicken powder, 2,000 tons of beef bone meal, 100 tons of chicken liver (for meat pulp production), 300 tons of chicken oil.
• Working system: The labor quota of this project is 30 people, two shifts are implemented, each shift works 12 hours, and the annual working time is 300 days.
• Production equipment: pet food extruder, feed crusher, drying box, oil mixing-mixing tank, mixing mixer, vibrating screen, etc.

1. First, the purchased raw materials such as corn, wheat secondary material, wheat bran, etc. are put into the mixer according to a certain proportion and stirred, and then enter the pulverizer for pulverization.
2. The pulverized material is added with water and enters the puffing process. The material is suddenly decompressed under the condition of heating and pressurization (using electricity), and the moisture in the material vaporizes and expands, resulting in many small holes and becoming brittle, forming an extruded feed.
3. After the material is extruded by a pet feed extruder, it is dried by an electric oven to remove most of the moisture in the material. After drying, the granules enter the cooler for cooling, and then enter the mixing tank to add chicken oil and meat slurry for stirring.
4. The oil-mixed material enters the cooler for cooling to normal temperature, stirs in the mixer to disperse the material, and then screens out the qualified product through a vibrating screen. Products are packaged and stored for sale (the conveying process is all pressure conveying).

[case 10] 8-10 t/h animal feed production line

• Annual production capacity: 20,000 tons (3,000 t/a concentrated pig feed production line, 17,000 t/a chicken concentrate supplementary feed)
• Project area: 3000 square meters
• Working system: The project has 14 employees. The project implements a one-shift system, each shift works 8 hours, and the annual working days are 300 days.
• Natural gas consumption: 1000m³, Power consumption: 500,000 kwh, Water consumption: 600t
• Concentrate feed (chicken) raw material consumption: corn 12000t/a, soybean meal 4100t/a, fine rice bran 500t, corn germ meal 2000t/a, rapeseed meal 1400t/a,
• Raw material consumption: soybean meal 2500t/a, fish meal 450t/a, feed additive 50t/a
• Production equipment: pulse dust collector, bucket elevator, granular coarse cleaning screen, permanent magnet cylinder, powder coarse cleaning screen, pulverizer, rotary distributor, screw feeder, twin-shaft paddle mixer, automatic sewing bag systems, refrigeration dryers, etc.

1. Crushing section: Raw materials that pass the inspection are fed according to the production plan, and then lifted into the crushing bin by the elevator, and crushed by a crushing machine with a diameter of 3 mm sieve. The project uses hammer pulverizer and vertical shaft type screenless micro pulverizer, both of which have the characteristics of good sealing, good stability and low noise.
2. Batching workshop: According to the formula, the various raw materials are input into the computer, and the computer automatically weighs the ingredients according to the program.
3. Mixing section: The prepared material is automatically put into the mixer and mixed for 180 seconds (twin-shaft paddle type high-efficiency mixer). The mixed feed is graded, measured, packaged and put into storage.