Horse Feed Pellet Machine

After installing a new horse feed pellet machine, or replacing the die, the gap between the pressure roller and the die should be adjusted first. The value is generally between 0.3-0.5 mm.

If it is difficult to control, you can adjust the pressure roller until it can rotate freely on the mold. Do not adjust it too tightly, as this will aggravate the wear of the pressure roller and die, deformation and damage of related parts, and cause the machine temperature to rise excessively, thereby destroying the nutrients in the feed.

After adjusting the gap, you can do a test run for a few minutes, and then process some feeds with high grease content, such as cakes, meal, etc., so that the die holes are lubricated and polished to a certain extent, and then process general feeds, which can improve the production efficiency. grain yield and extend the life of the stamper.

Before pelleting, 3%-5% water or water vapor should be added to the powder to increase the temperature and humidity of the feed. This is beneficial to pelleting, improves productivity and reduces wear of the die.

If it is grass pellet type feed, the proportion of water added can be increased or decreased appropriately depending on the proportion of grass meal. Adding too much or too little water or steam will affect granulation. Too little granulation will be difficult, and too much will cause the granules to be too soft, hard to increase, and easy to stick to blocks, which will affect product quality and output.

The water adding time can be added when the feed is mixed, or it can be added through the conditioner during pelleting. Adding water during feed mixing often leads to unevenness, but adding water through the conditioner is more uniform, and the horse feed pellet machine operates smoothly and pellets smoothly.

Therefore, buying a horse feed pellets machine with a conditioner is the first choice. The pressed pellets should be spread out in time and air-dried in a cool place. They must not be exposed to sunlight to prevent the vitamins from being destroyed in large quantities and causing loss of feed nutrition.

In order to ensure the vitamin content in the horse feed pellets, some customers appropriately increase the addition ratio. This is also feasible, but it also increases the cost.（Find us on YouTube）

Iron parts or iron filings entering the machine will damage the machine parts and block the die holes. Feed particles entering the horse feed pellet maker machine will harm the animals. Therefore, iron removal is an indispensable part of the granulation process.

Generally, medium and large pellet machines have iron removal attachments. If not, you can evenly place a few magnets on the feeding port and regularly remove the iron filings on them, which can play a good preventive role.

In modern breeding enterprises, the feed used is almost all in the form of horse pellets, because pellet-shaped feed helps horses eat, digest and absorb, and at the same time, it can also minimize unnecessary waste, and pellet-shaped feed also easy to transport.

Therefore, in the process of raising horse, to ensure adequate feed, it is necessary to use horse feed pellet machine correctly and ensure its normal operation through scientific and reasonable maintenance work.

Routine maintenance procedures for horse feed pellet machine:

1. Strictly follow the lubrication regulations, add engine oil and grease at fixed times, at fixed points, in fixed quantities, and in certain varieties.
2. The minimum distance between the cutter and the ring die cannot be less than 3mm.
3. Before the shift, check whether the bolts, screws and scrapers in the granulation room are loose.
4. Check the die roller gap before starting the horse feed pellet machine and adjust it in time to ensure that the die roller gap is consistent.
5. Check the magnet before each shift and clean the magnet box at least twice per shift.
6. Keep the appearance of the equipment clean at all times, especially to prevent dust accumulation on the motor casing.
7. Eliminate running, popping, dripping and leaking at any time.
8. Check for oil leakage and replace the oil seal in time.
9. Check once every half month whether the travel switch operates reliably.
10. Check the wear of the connecting key between the ring die and the transmission wheel once every half month for timely replacement.
11. Check the tension and wear of the main drive belt once every half month. If you need to replace it, you must replace it entirely to ensure the uniformity of the force on the belt.

The pressure roller of the feed pellet mill, commonly known as the pressure roller shell, is a key working part of the pellet machine. Like the ring die, it is also one of the wearing parts. How long is the life of the horse feed pellet machine roller? What material is the horse feed pelleting machine pressure roller made of? Let’s explain it in detail below:

(1) What material is the pressure roller of the horse pellet making machine made of?

1. The materials of the horse pellet machine pressure roller are: 50# steel, 20CrMn (alloy steel), GCr15 (bearing steel), or customized according to customer requirements.
2. The pressure roller is mostly made of medium-carbon alloy structural steel. The surface and core structure are improved through carburizing heat treatment to improve surface hardness and wear resistance and increase the fatigue resistance of the steel.
3. However, after carburizing treatment, the surface of the parts has undergone great changes in terms of composition, structure and performance. Under the condition that the depth of the carburized layer is certain, different quenching and tempering temperatures obtain different hardnesses.
4. Different hardnesses have an impact on the properties of parts such as bending, fatigue properties and impact toughness, especially for medium carbon alloy steel after carburizing treatment. , the impact is greater. The higher the hardness, the lower the fatigue performance and impact toughness, and even fracture during heat treatment.
5. The RICHI pressure roller series uses high-quality 50% steel to ensure the hardness and wear resistance of the pellet machine pressure roller from the source. The exquisite high-temperature quenching process greatly extends the service life, which is twice that of ordinary pressure rollers on the market.

(2) Life of horse feed pellet machine rollers

• The pressure roller of the horse feed pellet machine is used to squeeze materials into the ring die. Since the pressure roller is subject to friction and extrusion force for a long time, the outer circumferential surface of the pressure roller is processed into a toothed shape, which not only enhances the wear resistance, but also makes it easy to Grab bulk materials. The working conditions of the pressure roller are worse than those of the ring die.
• In addition to the normal wear of the pressure roller by the raw materials, the hard particles such as silicates, SiO2 in the sand, and iron filings contained in the raw materials aggravate the wear of the pressure roller.
• Since the linear speeds of the pressure roller and the ring die are basically the same and the diameter of the pressure roller is only 0.4 times the inner diameter of the ring die, the wear rate of the pressure roller is 2.5 times higher than that of the ring die. For example, the theoretical design life of a certain pressure roller is 800 hours, but the actual use time does not exceed 600 hours.
• In some factories, due to improper use, the use time is less than 500 hours, and the failed rollers cannot be repaired due to serious surface wear. Excessive wear of the pressure roller not only reduces the molding rate of pellet fuel and increases production costs, but also directly affects productivity.

Therefore, how to effectively extend the service life of the horse feed pellet machine pressure roller has attracted much attention from the industry.

(3) The role of the roller shell of the horse feed pellet machine

The roller shell of the horse feed pellet machine has four main functions, namely cutting, kneading, inlaying and squeezing. There are three main types of commonly used tooth types, namely, through groove type, sealed groove type, and honeycomb type. There are also some uncommon ones, such as inclined groove type, herringbone groove type, honeycomb tooth groove compound type, arc tooth groove type, etc.

RICHI strictly follows customer drawings or samples to produce various types of pressure rollers with high hardness, long life and high output. They are suitable for the production of various raw material pellets, feed pellets, and bioenergy pellets. The products are exported to more than 100 countries at home and abroad. Quality, trustworthy, and more cost-effective.

RICHI has a strong sales and service team to provide global customers with localized pre-sales consulting, horse feed pelletizing solution design, horse feed pellet machine customization and other services.