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Forgot Password?TerraSource Global’s Jeffrey Rader® TubeFeeder was recently featured as a spotlight in Biomass Magazine. Learn more about how this unique system provides many advantages for biomass facilities.
Fuel preparation is vital for efficient combustion, which is a critical component to the overall profitability of biomass energy plants. Many factors, however, must be accounted for to ensure quality fuel preparation, such as controlling dust, removing foreign and oversized particles, and ensuring appropriate material storage and high-quality homogenization. TerraSource Global’s Jeffrey Rader® TubeFeeder system uses innovative technology to thoroughly and cost-effectively handle all of these challenges, making it an integral component for reclaiming biofuel from silos or storage piles at the most efficient biomass facilities.
TubeFeeders offer full homogenization at a uniform rate of fuel, while maintaining substantially lower power consumption compared to alternative solutions. Over 100 TubeFeeders are installed worldwide, primarily in pulp and paper and bioenergy operations. However, TubeFeeder technology is also a viable reclaiming option for several other applications beyond forest products, including coal, cement, pellets and many others. With the increasing demand for sustainable bioenergy, the TubeFeeders have gained a reputation for being the optimal solution for companies operating in this market.
A TubeFeeder is composed of an outside tube with uniform slots spread along the length of the machine, which is key to controlled combustion. Pile height is not an issue, as TubeFeeders are easily adaptable to desired height and silo volume. Conveying occurs by gravity flow through the slots, which helps diminish the required operational power by at least 70% compared to other, conventional systems. Each slot is furnished with an “activator.” The intelligent design employed in the tube and screw configuration constitutes a “closed forces system,” meaning no thrust forces into the structure are generated.
As the tube rotates, material is reclaimed into it. Material being conveyed inside the tube is protected from the static pressure exerted by the remaining material in the pile/silo. Tube rotation is controlled by variable frequency drive, and the typical span is 1-6 rpm, allowing for uniform material reclaiming and blending along its length. A screw auger operates inside the tube at a fixed rpm, conveying fuel to the outlet end. Capacity is proportional to the tube rotation speed, with a 15-100% repeatable rate within a selected capacity window. Tube rotation depends on travelling direction, thereby ensuring consistent operation regardless of travel direction. The whole unit traverses on rails across the base of square silos or in round silos on a swivel around the center.
Overall, biomass facilities can expect major performance and operational advantages by choosing the TubeFeeder as the critical component of their storage and reclaim solution:
Learn more about why the Jeffrey Rader® TubeFeeder is the most trusted and well-proven solution for biomass customers requiring efficient, long-life and trouble-free operation – www.terrasource.com.
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Jeffrey Rader Pneumatic Conveying Systems are the best solution for conveying bark, RDF, bagasse, wood chips, sawdust and other biomass materials. These systems provide better performance and lower costs than alternatives such as chain or belt conveyors.
Check out our new animation that shows a high-level overview of how our pneumatic conveying systems provide value to customers.
Contact us today to learn more about how our customers benefit from Jeffrey Rader Pneumatic Conveying Systems, as well as the support and expertise they gain by working with TerraSource Global.
TerraSource Global’s EMEA Sales Manager, Sinisa Jaksic, will be on hand at the European Biomass to Power Summit in Helsinki on November 6th and 7th to provide insights into the most innovative and cost-effective solutions to size, process and feed biomass and wood-based materials. If you are attending, we encourage you to make an appointment with Sinisa to discuss your specific application and process requirements and the challenges you’re facing in meeting the goals of your operation.
TerraSource’s Jeffrey Rader brand equipment is the top choice across the biomass industry for companies requiring custom solutions for sizing, storage, reclaim, screening, and pneumatics. Jeffrey Rader machines have earned the reputation as a leader in durability and reliability for both small and large operations, including for major players such as Louisiana Pacific, Georgia Pacific, International Paper, Domtar, WestRock, and many others.
Some of the best-known Jeffrey Rader equipment for biomass includes:
•Tubefeeders: These unique reclaimers offer a more energy and process efficient solution through reduced wear parts, high accuracy on low out-feed rates, uniform and adjustable reclaim rates, and true first-in, first-out flow conditions. This machine’s advanced material blending enhances fuel preparation.
•Chip-Sizers: Jeffrey Rader Chip-Sizers are the first true no-knife rechipper in the market, which means minimal fines, greater efficiencies and, perhaps most important, a safer operation.
•Pneumatic Conveying Systems: Innovative Jeffrey Rader pneumatic conveying systems enable you to move chips, bark, sawdust and RDF more efficiently to a boiler or material pile. A variety of custom configurations are available to ensure high-throughput and long wearlife, including performance components such as the highest rated Rotary Airlock Feeders, Cyclone feeders, and wear-resistant elbow joints and blowers.
•Wood/Bark Hogs: Our hogs come in a variety of sizes and are engineered to increase productivity and facilitate easier maintenance. Easy access vertical and horizontal models are available, each specifically designed for faster wear-part replacement, minimized downtime, and heavy-duty operation.
Jeffrey Rader machines are the industry-standard for biomass material handling and processing. Even if you aren’t planning to attend the European Biomass to Power Summit, reach out to our team at info@terrasource.com to begin discussing how TerraSource can offer your operation outstanding ROI with a long-standing brand you can trust.
Join TerraSource in recognizing Manufacturing Day on Oct 4! Our President, Laurie Phillips, kicks off our week-long video series in which we profile the importance of Manufacturing Excellence to our company and our customers.
This Manufacturing Excellence video with TerraSource VP of Supply Chain & Operations, Jeff Horvath, shows how we’re managing daily improvement to increase productivity at our production facility in Belleville, Illinois.
Listen to TerraSource’s Senior Director of Engineering & Innovation, Matt Richardson, discuss the different ways TerraSource promotes teamwork to ensure the manufacturing excellence that drives real customer value.
A key to TerraSource’s longstanding leadership position in the market is our hard-earned reputation for the highest quality, most durable equipment. Gain insights from our VP of Sales & Marketing, Bryan Bird, about the ways we are using manufacturing excellence to maintain the trust of our customers.
Happy Manufacturing Day! Check out our Engineering and Operations leaders’ excitement as they talk about how TerraSource ensures manufacturing excellence through innovation that grows from real investment in technology and our people.
TerraSource Global is proud of the hundreds of years of cumulative innovation, quality and reliability that we are able to offer customers around the world through our three legendary flagship equipment brands (Jeffrey Rader, Pennsylvania Crusher, and Gundlach Crushers). We were reminded of this enduring legacy in an email our team received in the Spring from Mrs. Christine Dale of England, who wrote to see if we could help her answer a decades-old family-history question involving a Pennsylvania Crusher machine. We were intrigued.
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Mrs. Dale had a beloved photo of her late father sitting in his study, behind him a copy of the front page of a January 1925 Pit & Quarry magazine. Front and center of this issue is a Pennsylvania Crusher machine that Mrs. Dale’s great-grandfather Albert Euphrates Snelling helped design nearly a century ago. Though Mrs. Dale never met her great-grandfather Albert, her father and grandmother proudly shared stories of his life. Reflecting on these memories, Dale sought to find more information about what had happened to the Pennsylvania Crusher Company and the machine featured with her great-grandfather, which ultimately led her to TerraSource Global’s inbox.
Albert Euphrates Snelling, born in 1876 on a Romanian ship on the Euphrates River, grew up in Constanta. Snelling, a clever and driven man, chose to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an engineer. This ultimately led him to a role at Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works in Kent, England, a company formerly associated with Pennsylvania Crusher Company.
Following a paper trail from the 1920s is not always the easiest of tasks. But, TerraSource’s Senior Director of Engineering Matt Richardson began digging through archives to find what he could about Snelling’s involvement with Pennsylvania Crusher. Through meticulous searches, he found that Pennsylvania Crusher would often license out technology and products to companies like Fraser and Chalmers, the company for whom Mr. Snelling worked, to collect royalties. In many cases, those companies would adapt the standard designs in order to better accommodate unique specific applications and markets. When relevant, Pennsylvania Crusher would often incorporate those designs and improvements into their future models. With this information in hand, Matt informed Mrs. Dale that it was very likely that Albert Euphrates Snelling was involved in taking a standard design and then modifying it for the UK and India mining operations, as indicated on the cover of Pit & Quarry photo.
Although we aren’t able to track down the precise machine associated with Mr. Snelling in the photo, Matt determined that the machine was likely a version of a Dixie Fix Cage Hammermill. These machines had a long lifecycle, used up through the 1980s to crush materials such as limestone and cement.
TerraSource’s technological capabilities have clearly advanced since Mr. Snelling’s designing days, but our company’s engineers still marvel at machines like the Dixie Fix Cage Hammermill that inspire our designs of the future. Looking closely at the magazine cover of the 1925 Pit & Quarry, you see words that continue to ring true for this TerraSource flagship brand even today:
“Unfailing steel construction”
“Automatic tramp iron separation”
“Lowest operation costs”
Mrs. Dale hopes that when she makes her next trip across the pond to the United States, she will be able to make a stop in Belleville, Illinois, to see our manufacturing facility firsthand and be immersed in an environment that was in part inspired by her great-grandfather.
Do you have a similar story? A machine that’s been in operation for over 20 years? We want to hear about it! Email us at info@terrasource.com or fill out this survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W6HNZ2X) to receive a TerraSource T-Shirt and enter our TerraSource’s Oldest Machine Challenge with a chance to do a catered lunch hosted by a TerraSource team member.
We can’t wait to share more stories about what has kept the brands of TerraSource Global top-of-mind for so many years.
TerraSource operations leaders highlight continuous improvement processes being implemented in our Belleville manufacturing facility that are improving our customer experience in terms of quality and lead times. Click the images below to watch each video of this series.
Relentless Commitment to Continuous Improvement
Hear from Jeff Horvath, VP Operations & Supply Chain about his mission to optimize customer value by driving continuous improvement throughout the entire value chain of TerraSource operations.
Using Customer Surveys to Improve Quality, Performance and Service
See how TerraSource uses feedback from Voice of Customer surveys to stay connected to our customers and ensure we are meeting their expectations for quality, performance and service.
Cutting Waste in the Manufacturing Process
“We’re getting better every day.” Watch Plant Manager, Mike West, explain how cutting waste and maintaining a spirit of continuous improvement is creating efficiencies, reducing costs, and improving lead times at TerraSource.
Every Team Member Contributes
25% improvement in operational efficiencies – “The data tells the story for us.” Listen to Vice President of Supply Chain and Operations, Jeff Horvath, discuss how TerraSource has eliminated waste to dramatically improve operational efficiencies and ensure consistent product quality.
Full Commitment to Quality
VP of Supply Chain and Operations Jeff Horvath highlights how TerraSource Global ensures defect-free products by integrating quality assurance throughout every step of the manufacturing process.
New Canadian Customer Visit Videos:
Operators in the harshest conditions choose TerraSource! This week, join our team up in the rugged oil sands region of northern Canada. Hear how we remain a key partner with companies who rely on our precision equipment, excellent service and engineering expertise to ensure our solutions adapt to customers’ evolving needs and material processing demands.
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Providing Personal Service
Ensuring Long-Term Value and Performance
Partnering for Solutions
New Premium Duralife® and Ultralloy® Video Series:
Minimize your down time and extend the usage life of your machines! TerraSource’s premium Duralife® and Ultralloy® OEM hammers use unique alloys and post-treatment processes to offer significantly better wear life than third-party offerings.
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Advantages of New Premium Hammers
Duralife® AP Hammers
TerraSource Premium Hammers Outperform
TerraSource OEM Parts Offer Real Advantages
Why Do Third Party Hammers Not Meet Customer Expectations
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TerraSource Global is excited to be featured in World Coal’s August issue.
In this feature, TerraSource Global discusses how a holistic evaluation of wear parts is key to optimizing crusher value.
To download, click here.
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TerraSource Global’s equipment, application expertise and outstanding service are at the core of our long-standing partnership with Intrepid Potash, helping them to be one of the most cost-effective producers in the market.
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For processing raw materials, see how a leading potash producer slashes costs, maximizes productivity, and gets faster ROI. Intrepid Potash and TerraSource Global, a strong partnership!
Quality, expertise, service, trust: How TerraSource builds enduring relationships with customers and ensures their long-term success. Watch to learn more! Intrepid Potash and TerraSource Global, a strong partnership.
Best practice case study: Learn how large mining operation relies on TerraSource to process high volumes of wet material, eliminate overs and ensure consistent product for end users. Increased profitability and productivity!