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News Release from: Mono Pumps | Subject: Muncher on food waste
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 April 2008
Muncher minimises food waste disposal
problems
Fast, efficient and consistent size reduction of food processing waste is fundamental when it comes to achieving cost-effective disposal, and to meet ever more stringent environmental regulations
The range of Munchers from Mono NOV has been specifically developed to provide effective grinding of many types of food processing waste, and models in the range are able to provide volume bulk reductions of up to 70% on solid food and organic waste By reducing waste to a consistently small particle size, the Mono Muncher can save on storage, landfill and transportation costs, and can also improve the efficiency of waste handling and biodigestion processes
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 13 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Mono Muncher is also ideal for macerating waste to aid methane production in biogas plants.
Models in the range will accept a very wide range of wet or dry waste in separate or mixed loadings, whether washed through with water or other liquids or fed dry by gravity.
Typical material macerated by Mono Munchers includes skin, bone, offal, meat scraps, hooves, fruit stones and skins, vegetable peelings and stems.
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A Muncher will also easily accept whole chickens and carcass joints with bones, fat and connective tissue, and difficult circular objects, such as coconuts or melons.
Even tin cans, wood and plastic containers can be reduced in size by a Mono Muncher before sending for disposal or recycling.
The 2 Sisters Food Group, one of the largest poultry processing companies in the UK, installed a Mono Series A Muncher at its plant in Scunthorpe.
The company installed the Mono Muncher in order to meet legislation from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which requires that poultry waste from its processes, such as offal and feathers, is reliably and consistently reduced to a particle size of no more than 4mm.
The Mono TR Muncher was installed in the food and vegetable waste processing plant, which was built by organic waste disposal company, Tanks and Vessels.
The raw material processed in the plant was ground down by the high performance Muncher to assist the digestion for the production of liquid soil conditioner, which can be used as a substitute to fertiliser.
The Mono Muncher provides a low speed, high torque grinder with twin shafts.
These shafts incorporate cutters, which contra-rotate at differential speeds and are driven by the integral Muncher gearbox.
The cutters efficiently shear any solids passing through the stacks into small particles, while the low cutter tip speeds help minimise noise and reduce wear on the cutters.
The particle size can be predetermined through the cutter spacing and configuration, and the Munchers can handle up to 10,000 kg/hr.
The Mono Muncher can be packaged with a Mono Widethroat pump to provide a highly efficient and integrated grinding and pumping combination for pastes and thick slurries.
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