Method used to assess the anticaking agents used to coat feed pellets

Summary

Coating feed pellets rich in sticky substances with anticaking agents during the manufacturing process helps to resolve problems with caking and flow. To assess the efficacy of these anticaking agents, TECALIMAN performed several flow tests and a crush-resistance test following a pellet caking simulation. The caking test already used by Tecaliman (Tecaliman 1984) required the manufacture of a pellet compression machine that simulates pellet storage in an industrial silo.