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CUBETTE FORMING MACHINES
To expediently determine the viability of forming fuel cubettes from the
combustible residual fraction from the waste processing plant, a standard
stationary farm type crop waste cuber was modified and adapted for the
pilot operational trials. This type of extruder was equipped with 66
individually replaceable heat-treated, chrome-plated extruder dies. A
small live bottom surge bin was installed, arranged to feed the cuber
with conveyors to the bin and from the cuber to the transport container.
This low cost expeditious route was taken to keep the investment modest
until the principle was proven, and any problem areas uncovered and
resolved.
During the Phase Ia and Phase Ib portions of the Fort Wayne Program, still
further investigations will be made of other extruder systems so that the
most reliable, trouble-free units will be installed.
For the Fort Wayne Program outlined, we have included at this time the
installation of three cubers so that we can reliably supply the quantity
of cubettes for the evaluation program and still have the flexibility of
determining the actual production limits (and corresponding power and
maintenance requirements) of these machines.
Background And Feasibility Investigation
The principle of cubetting waste materials, which we have reintroduced with
our program in Fort Wayne, is a very old art. It has been used for many
years in compacting almost as many products as you can list. A report on
the technical feasibility of "briquetting" shredded beneficiated municipal
waste and its use as a fuel 'vas presented at the "March 1959" Annual Spring
Meeting of The Institute of Public Cleansing by F. L. Stirrup, Director of
Public Cleansing, Salford, England.
In the early sixties, the u.S. paper industry was very interested in a
machine being developed by Daffin Manufacturing Company for cubing scrap
corrugated board. The paper industry was searching for a method for
increasing the density of the scrap corrugated board and thereby decreasing
the handling and transportation costs.
Sufficient interest was generated by the paper industries' Boxboard Research
and Development Association in the Daffin development, which prompted them
to retain Kinsey and Company. to make a study of its potential. The conclusions
of the study were very favorable, and a joint project between the Association
and the manufacturer was undertaken at the General Paper Stock Company in
St. Louis, Missouri.
During this period, DAFFIN had changed its name to FARMHAND, Inc. At about
this time, trials were also being made at the JOHN DEERE plant in Ottumwa,
Iowa, but it was concluded that the FARMHAND machine was better suited for
the specified purpose. The results at St. Louis were very encouraging, but
CITY OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
Object Description
| Title | Beneficiated solid waste cubettes as salvage fuel for municipal steam-electric generation (variant ed.) |
| Alternative Title | C.A.F. (cubettes as fuel); Cubettes as fuel (variant ed.); Solid waste "cubettes as fuel" application for resource recovery system demonstration grant (variant ed.) |
| Creator | Fort Wayne (Ind.) |
| Topic | Public Utilities |
| Subject |
Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Indiana--Fort Wayne Refuse as fuel--Indiana--Fort Wayne Waste products as fuel--Indiana--Fort Wayne |
| Geographical Coverage | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Date of Original | July 15, 1972 |
| Time Period | 1900-1999 |
| Source | Print version: Fort Wayne (Ind.). Beneficiated solid waste cubettes as salvage fuel for municipal steam-electric generation: C.A.F., (cubettes as fuel). Variant ed. (Fort Wayne, Ind.: The City, 1972), 1 v. |
| Additional Availability | Print version might be available at IPFW Helmke Library. See online catalog. |
| Rights | Copyright Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2006- . All rights reserved. May not be reproduced without permission. For information regarding reproduction and use see: http://cdm16776.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about/collection/p16776coll1/ |
| Date Digitally Created | April 17 2012 |
| Digital Publisher | Walter E. Helmke Library, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne |
| Digitization Specifications | This pdf file was derived from black and white 400 dpi, 1-bit and grayscale 300 dpi, 8-bit uncompressed TIFF images that were scanned from the originals using a Fujitsu 5750C scanner with Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional scanning software. |
| Content Type | Text |
| Digital Format | text/pdf |
| Collection | Fort Wayne Area Government Information |
| Identifier | 30000126500002 |
| File Name | 30000126500002.pdf |
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| Title | Page 60 |
| Transcript | Page.;£ of 2 I 0f~ CUBETTE FORMING MACHINES To expediently determine the viability of forming fuel cubettes from the combustible residual fraction from the waste processing plant, a standard stationary farm type crop waste cuber was modified and adapted for the pilot operational trials. This type of extruder was equipped with 66 individually replaceable heat-treated, chrome-plated extruder dies. A small live bottom surge bin was installed, arranged to feed the cuber with conveyors to the bin and from the cuber to the transport container. This low cost expeditious route was taken to keep the investment modest until the principle was proven, and any problem areas uncovered and resolved. During the Phase Ia and Phase Ib portions of the Fort Wayne Program, still further investigations will be made of other extruder systems so that the most reliable, trouble-free units will be installed. For the Fort Wayne Program outlined, we have included at this time the installation of three cubers so that we can reliably supply the quantity of cubettes for the evaluation program and still have the flexibility of determining the actual production limits (and corresponding power and maintenance requirements) of these machines. Background And Feasibility Investigation The principle of cubetting waste materials, which we have reintroduced with our program in Fort Wayne, is a very old art. It has been used for many years in compacting almost as many products as you can list. A report on the technical feasibility of "briquetting" shredded beneficiated municipal waste and its use as a fuel 'vas presented at the "March 1959" Annual Spring Meeting of The Institute of Public Cleansing by F. L. Stirrup, Director of Public Cleansing, Salford, England. In the early sixties, the u.S. paper industry was very interested in a machine being developed by Daffin Manufacturing Company for cubing scrap corrugated board. The paper industry was searching for a method for increasing the density of the scrap corrugated board and thereby decreasing the handling and transportation costs. Sufficient interest was generated by the paper industries' Boxboard Research and Development Association in the Daffin development, which prompted them to retain Kinsey and Company. to make a study of its potential. The conclusions of the study were very favorable, and a joint project between the Association and the manufacturer was undertaken at the General Paper Stock Company in St. Louis, Missouri. During this period, DAFFIN had changed its name to FARMHAND, Inc. At about this time, trials were also being made at the JOHN DEERE plant in Ottumwa, Iowa, but it was concluded that the FARMHAND machine was better suited for the specified purpose. The results at St. Louis were very encouraging, but CITY OF FORT WAYNE, INDIANA |
