Making Calcium Carbonate
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Calcium carbonate makes up almost one-twentieth of the earth’s crust. But the abundant mineral is found in many living things, including the human body. However, processing calcium carbonate extracts the multi-purpose material from inorganic sediments, namely limestone, chalk, and marble.
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Inline batch mixer for solids and liquids
Several issues often arise when your process requires batch-wise mixing of powder…
Agitator bead mill for flow chemistry
During the early stages of synthesis, generating only limited product quantities can p…
R&D shaker mixer for battery powders and chemicals
Material heterogeneity, agglomeration, and contamination are key parame…
Grinding and drying of CaCO3
Widely used in the construction industry as filling materials, calcium carbonate is usually made…
Flash drying grinder for powders
Drying and grinding can be an important feature when trying to process products such as raw …
Milling and drying machine for fine powders
When you need to produce ultra-fine powders, the milling and drying process emp…
Open mouth bag filling machine for powders
The packaging of powdery products such as flour can be challenging as it is cruc…
High volume particles separation sieve
For large scale production processes in the chemicals or food industries that require…
Semi-automatic stretch wrapping machine
At lower speeds, some level of automation is required to provide a cost-effective me…
Palletizing robot arm
For high speed palletizing, palletizing high payloads, or just where greater flexibility is required, in…
Traditional palletizer for bags
Packaging lines may require a single, flexible solution that can handle many different pallet…
Rotary bag packers for valve bags
Quick filling of bags while avoiding leakage out of the top of a bag can be challenging on…
Simple valve sack packer
Sometimes in the packing process, product leaks out of the top of a bag that has just been filled. A …
Big bag discharge system
Dust emissions, product loss and product contamination are the main risks when discharging products f…
Belt filter press
When a saturated slurry or sludge must be dehydrated in a continuous process municipal waste water treatment…
Horizontal chemical scraper centrifuge
For slurries difficult to discharge, a scraper can improve process reliability, effic…
Pre-crusher of plates
With a pre-crusher continuous flakes are made into pieces, before granulation.
Ultrafine pin mill
Particularly designed for humid, oily, and greasy products.
Single-wheel air classifier
For medium-sized fines yields in the mineral powder and filler industry.
Air classifier for minerals
Ideal for the ultrafine classification of soft to medium-hard materials, such as calcium carbonat…
Air flow classifier
Air-flow classifier (pneumatic product feed) for the fine classification of talc, calcium carbonate, bento…
High throughput air classifier for minerals
Standard classifier for high outputs in the fine to medium-fine separation rang…
Horizontal rotary ball mill drum
A horizontal rotary ball mill drum can be used for grinding of dry hard materials, such as h…
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Vertical agitated dry media mill
A vertical agitated media mill is used for grinding ultrafine particles, in an agitated (or …
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Contact usUse a rotary kiln calcium carbonate processing of limestone stock smaller than 40 millimeters
Limestone is subjected to high temperatures to strip carbon dioxide and produce calcium oxide. This calcination process is performed in a kiln, but the type of technology depends on the feed size of your raw material.
A shaft kiln typically handles limestone between 20 mm and 175 mm in size. Stones go through preheating, heating, and cooling as they travel down the shaft to discharge quicklime. A rotary kiln employs the same principle but is set at a horizontal position and tipped at an angle of around 4°. This structure accommodates finer stones in the 15 mm to 40 mm range.
Mix calcium slurry constantly to avoid crystallization of particles
Calcium oxide is hydrated to produce calcium hydroxide. Also known as slaked lime, this compound treats industrial wastewater and neutralizes gases.
Slaking temperature is critical to the structure of particles. If you heat the slurry to around the boiling point of water forms finer particles sizes with a smaller specific surface. But unless mixed well, the particles will crystallize and agglomerate in the slurry.
Precipitated calcium carbonate can achieve 99.9% purity
Precipitated calcium carbonate (PPC) is synthetically produced from the chemical reaction between carbon dioxide and “milk-of-lime” slurry. The material is a refined form of limestone using calcium carbonate processing techniques.
The white material serves as a filler in different applications such as paints, papers, and pharmaceutical products. The grain size can be controlled from submicron to more than 10 microns, and the purity can be increased to 99.9%.
Spongy form of calcium carbonate could open up new applications
Researchers stumbled upon a spongy form of calcium carbonate occurring naturally in mussels. Ground shells of the mollusc reacted to acetic acid to form a highly absorbent type of calcium carbonate.
The porous material can soak up contaminants like oils or dyes and is an object of interest for a range of biomedical applications.
