Briquetting Grinding Sludge

Industry: Heavy Equipment
Application: Grinding
Material: Carbon Steel
Production: Briquetter

Situation
The customer produces 8 tons of grinding swarf per day. This swarf was targeted during a Zero Landfill initiative in 2007. We were asked to extract the liquid coolants from the swarf to reduce material going to landfill.

Solution
Briqueter with automatic loading hopper using an infeed screw conveyor.

Key Features
Briquetting grinding swarf is a difficult process. Our experience was essential when processing material at this rate.

Customer Benefits

• Removed 8T per day from their landfill deposits.
• Recovered coolant; changed from paying $150/T for landfill
  to receiving $100/T in scrap value by selling bricks

Outcome
Customer gained $2K/day on their scrap materials giving a payback period of six months on the investment.