EDA Inc.
Engineering and Design Associates, Inc.
1033 Carter Street
Folsom California 95630 USA
(916) 941-5376 e-mail
1033 Carter Street
Folsom California 95630 USA
(916) 941-5376 e-mail
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EDA now manufactures a small, bench scale agglomerator for research, sample preparation, product and process viability and short production runs.
This is the EDA Benchtop O'Brien Agglomerator. Its footprint is about 2' x 2', and 30 inches tall.
The agglomerator drum is 12" diameter x 12" long.
This one has a single flat nozzle spray. Other sprays are possible; air atomization, fog nozzle and high viscosity systems.
The controls on the front of the upper column are emergency stop and the rotation speed controller.
The toggle switch on the side controls rotation direction.
This sells for $15,000 USD fob California. Delivery time 4 weeks.
This is a close up of the interior.
The flat spray nozzle and brass liquid fittings can be seen.
The spiral and bars are stainless steel.
These interior parts are engineered to allow direct scale up to a production unit.
This shows how one customer added dust collection to their Agglomerator.
The front opening can be reduced or sealed to make the agglomerator dust tight.
Side view of the same dust collector installation.
Below are some videos of the Benchtop Agglomerator. Once a video is started, it may take a few seconds to buffer. Patience.
This one is the empty agglomerator rotating at about half speed.
The spray system here is the fogger nozzle.
That's my arm.
Below is another video of the drum rotating.
The front bar is removed to show the interior bars and spiral
This next one is the start of a run using the fog sprayer.
This video shows 200 mesh bentonite and water spray.
Note how very fine, dusty, powders can be processed without major dusting.
This uses the flat sprayer.
This shows the agglomerator spraying water onto aluminia for sintering. Note that the very fine aluminia powder "rolls" in the drum as it is sprayed.
The sprayer here is the high viscosity system.
Jim Mahar
EDA Inc.
1033 Carter Street
Folsom CA 95630
USA
916-941-5376
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