PROCESS FOR PRODUCING GRANULES

THE PRESENT INVENTION RELATES TO A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF GRANULES FROM A LIQUID COMPOSITION WITH A DECREASED DUST PRODUCTION, SAID PROCESS COMPRISING THE STEPS OF: APPLYING THE LIQUID COMPOSITION ONTO SOLID PARTICLES THAT ARE KEPT IN A CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT BY A GAS STREAM IN A GRANULATION ZONE OF AN OBLONG GRANULATOR, THEREBY DEPOSITING AND SOLIDIFYING SAID LIQUID COMPOSITION AROUND SAID SOLID PARTICLES TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE PARTICLES AND THEREBY FORM GROWN SOLID PARTICLES; DISCHARGING A STREAM OF SAID GROWN SOLID PARTICLES FROM THE GRANULATION ZONE, DIVIDING, IN A SIZE-SORTING APPARATUS, SAID STREAM OF SAID GROWN SOLID PARTICLES INTO INDIVIDUAL STREAMS BASED ON THE SIZE OF SAID GROWN SOLID PARTICLES TO THEREBY PRODUCE STREAMS OF UNDERSIZED, OVERSIZED, AND DESIRED-SIZED GROWN SOLID PARTICLES; TRANSFERRING SAID STREAM OF SAID OVERSIZED GROWN SOLID PARTICLES TO A SIZE-REDUCING APPARATUS; CRUSHING SAID STREAM OF SAID OVERSIZED GROWN SOLID PARTICLES IN SAID SIZE-REDUCING APPARATUS, THEREBY REDUCING THE PARTICLE SIZE OF SAID OVERSIZED GROWN SOLID PARTICLES AND THEREBY PRODUCING A STREAM OF CRUSHED SOLID PARTICLES WHEREIN THAT SAID STREAM OF CRUSHED SOLID PARTICLES IS INTRODUCED IN THE GRANULATOR AT A PLACE BELOW THE PLACE WHERE THE GAS STREAM LEAVES THE GRANULATOR.