A brewer's spent grain (BSG) grinder includes a charging tank connected to a grinding unit, the charging tank being equipped with a device for BSG moistening, and the grinding unit having an outlet for discharging grinded BSG. The grinding unit includes a stator and a rotor located coaxially with a gap defined between their working surfaces. A device for mixing and moving a mixture into the gap is fixed on a central part of an upper side of the rotor. A device for discharging grinded BSG is located under the rotor. The rotor is configured to allow staged grinding of BSG to obtain coarser and finer fractions of BSG at upper and lower stages of the rotor respectively. An upper part of the rotor is equipped with blades located around a circumference of the rotor, an outer surface of each blade being part of the working surface of the rotor.

A system and method for flaking. The system includes a stationary roller, and moveable roller, and an adjustable fixator applying tension between the stationary and moveable rollers. The fixator includes a pressure transducer and a linear indicator. The transducer and indicator allow the fixator to read pressures and make fine adjustments to the fixator to obtain a desired gap between the two rollers.

A system and method for flaking. The system includes a stationary roller, and moveable roller, and an adjustable fixator applying tension between the stationary and moveable rollers. The fixator includes a pressure transducer and a linear indicator. The transducer and indicator allow the fixator to read pressures and make fine adjustments to the fixator to obtain a desired gap between the two rollers.

A brewer's spent grain (BSG) grinder includes a charging tank connected to a grinding unit, the charging tank being equipped with a device for BSG moistening, and the grinding unit having an outlet for discharging grinded BSG. The grinding unit includes a stator and a rotor located coaxially with a gap defined between their working surfaces. A device for mixing and moving a mixture into the gap is fixed on a central part of an upper side of the rotor. A device for discharging grinded BSG is located under the rotor. The rotor is configured to allow staged grinding of BSG to obtain coarser and finer fractions of BSG at upper and lower stages of the rotor respectively. An upper part of the rotor is equipped with blades located around a circumference of the rotor, an outer surface of each blade being part of the working surface of the rotor.

A brewer's spent grain (BSG) grinder includes a charging tank connected to a grinding unit, the charging tank being equipped with a device for BSG moistening, and the grinding unit having an outlet for discharging grinded BSG. The grinding unit includes a stator and a rotor located coaxially with a gap defined between their working surfaces. A device for mixing and moving a mixture into the gap is fixed on a central part of an upper side of the rotor. A device for discharging grinded BSG is located under the rotor. The rotor is configured to allow staged grinding of BSG to obtain coarser and finer fractions of BSG at upper and lower stages of the rotor respectively. An upper part of the rotor is equipped with blades located around a circumference of the rotor, an outer surface of each blade being part of the working surface of the rotor.

A system for grinding particles has an input and an output and a particle flow path between the input and the output for a particle flow. The system may include a milling apparatus configured to grind particles of the particle flow moving along the particle flow path to produce ground particles for the particle flow, and the milling apparatus being configured to reduce a size of the particles of the particle flow. The system may also include a sensor assembly configured to sense at least one characteristic of particles moving along the particle flow path, the sensor assembly utilizing near infrared (NIR) energy to sense the at least one characteristic of particles moving along the particle flow path.

An improved grinding mill that utilizes mill stones that minimizing the mechanical processes required to regulating the mill stones and allow an user to gain quick and easy access to the mill stones by removing a hopper. In addition, to provide a base frame for the mill that secures both mechanical and electrical parts including the mill housing to reduce manufacture and repair time.

An improved grinding mill that utilizes mill stones that minimizing the mechanical processes required to regulating the mill stones and allow an user to gain quick and easy access to the mill stones by removing a hopper. In addition, to provide a base frame for the mill that secures both mechanical and electrical parts including the mill housing to reduce manufacture and repair time.

The present disclosure relates to a rock processing apparatus (12) for crushing and/or sorting granular mineral material (M) according to size, comprising: a material feeding apparatus (22) including a material buffer (24), at least one working unit of: at least one crushing apparatus (14) and at least one screening apparatus (16, 18), at least one conveyor apparatus (26, 32) for conveying material between two apparatus components, at least one discharge conveyor apparatus (29, 42, 46) for conveying processed material onto a stockpile (30, 44, 48), a control unit (60), at least one stockpile sensor (96, 98) for detecting at least one state and/or a change over time of a size of the stockpile (30, 44, 48), the stockpile sensor (96, 98) being connected to the control unit (60), at least one output device (66) for outputting information, the output device (66) being connected to the control unit (60).

The control unit (60) is designed to ascertain, in an operation with a discontinuous reduction of the at least one stockpile (30, 44, 48), on the basis of the at least one detection signal, a piece of reduction time information about an execution time of a future reduction of the stockpile (30, 44, 48), wherein the output device (66) is designed to output the ascertained reduction time information.

The present disclosure relates to a rock processing apparatus (12) for crushing and/or sorting granular mineral material (M) according to size, comprising: a material feeding apparatus (22) including a material buffer (24), at least one working unit of: at least one crushing apparatus (14) and at least one screening apparatus (16, 18), at least one conveyor apparatus (26, 32) for conveying material between two apparatus components, at least one discharge conveyor apparatus (29, 42, 46) for conveying processed material onto a stockpile (30, 44, 48), a control unit (60), at least one stockpile sensor (96, 98) for detecting at least one state and/or a change over time of a size of the stockpile (30, 44, 48), the stockpile sensor (96, 98) being connected to the control unit (60), at least one output device (66) for outputting information, the output device (66) being connected to the control unit (60).

The control unit (60) is designed to ascertain, in an operation with a discontinuous reduction of the at least one stockpile (30, 44, 48), on the basis of the at least one detection signal, a piece of reduction time information about an execution time of a future reduction of the stockpile (30, 44, 48), wherein the output device (66) is designed to output the ascertained reduction time information.