The effect of rotational speed of the drum on physical propierties of granulated compost fertilizer
 
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University of Tehran
 
 
Publication date: 2013-06-01
 
 
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Amir Hossein Mirzabe   

Department of Agrotechnology, University of Tehran, College of Abouraihan, Tehran, Iran
 
 
Physicochem. Probl. Miner. Process. 2013;49(2):743-755
 
ABSTRACT
Granulation is one of the fundamental operations in particulate processing which has an ancient history and a widespread use. Compost fertilizer was granulated using drum granulation method under different level of drum rotational speed. Rotational speed of the drum (ω) ranged from 40 to 60 rev min–1 (40, 45, 50, 55 and 60 rev min–1). The effect of rotational speed of the drum (ω) on some physical properties of granulated compost fertilizer including: useful granules, granules size, fracture force, mass of the granules, bulk density, angle of friction and angle of repose are investigated in the present study.Results indicated that with the increasing drum rotational speedthe percentage of useful granules, fracture force, bulk density, angle of friction and angle of reposeincrease from 69.91% to 80.88%, 34.35 N to 35.23 N, 743.23 to 765.08 kg m–3, 26.50 to 28.01o and 10.83 to 12.88o, respectively. Also the average size of granules decreases from10.15 to 7.05 mm.
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