Animal Feed Industry

The animal and pet feed industry is a large user of both liquid and solids measuring devices and is a great application for the M-Series range of flow meter products and accessories. The portion of this industry where M-Series meters can be applied is on the liquids and these include, tallow, molasses, and other additives.

Tallow is the rendering of the waste from slaughtered animals and includes offal, fats, and bone. The product comes in several grades and each grade represents the ground size of the bone content. The viscosity is somewhere between 20 and 100cps. The product can be extremely abrasive and therefore selection of meter material is very critical. The best solution that we have found is for an M-Series Meter with stainless steel body and stainless steel rotors as using this material combination adds longevity to the meter and allows for easy maintenance.

Molasses is a bi-product from sugar cane, and comes in several forms, some including particulates. It is important to ensure that these are of a size that will pass through the meter. Generally the product is very thick and viscosity can range from 5,000 cps to 16,500,000 cps. It is therefore important to ascertain the flow range and select an appropriate meter fitted with high viscosity rotors.

It is important to remember that as a general rule high viscosity liquids are pumped at very low flow rates. M-Series meters can accurately measure flows of high viscosity fluids at extremely low velocities. Accuracy of measurement is very important in this application as molasses content will effect consumption and therefore stock yields.

Many other additives including liquid vitamins and other conditioning and /or growth chemicals are added in very low volumes and at low flow rates. Accuracy of measurement is very important in this application as these additives affect the health of the animals and due to the fact that these are generally high value products. M-Series meters can accurately measure flows as low as 0.2 Gallons per Hour.

Meter Models

In order to properly select the meter size and materials, we recommend you use our online sizing and selection program. This is a step by step program that will allow you to specify your fluid, flow rate, operating conditions, and outputs and ensure you choose exactly the right meter for your specific flow conditions.

To start the program, Click Here or you can Contact Us and speak to one of our application Engineers.