Lipid pelletization methods, apparatus and products

Solid lipid pellets containing 65% to 95%, or higher, lipid concentration suitable for use in or as animal food supplements and/or feed rations wherein: a mixture containing at least water and an edible algin-like coagulant is formed in a mixing chamber (11,12); a liquified lipid is added to form a...

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Hauptverfasser:	COX, JAMES P
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AGRICULTURE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY DAIRY PRODUCTS, e.g. MILK, BUTTER, CHEESE EDIBLE OILS OR FATS, e.g. MARGARINES, SHORTENINGS, COOKINGOILS FISHING FODDER FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J FORESTRY HUMAN NECESSITIES HUNTING MAKING THEREOF MILK OR CHEESE SUBSTITUTES NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES TRANSPORTING TRAPPING
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Zusammenfassung:	Solid lipid pellets containing 65% to 95%, or higher, lipid concentration suitable for use in or as animal food supplements and/or feed rations wherein: a mixture containing at least water and an edible algin-like coagulant is formed in a mixing chamber (11,12); a liquified lipid is added to form a gel-like algin/water/lipid emulsion; and, the emulsion is deposited in discrete quantities (30) into a metal ion bath (29) causing the emulsion to "set" in a lipid pellet integral and solid throughout its entire structure. The lipid pellets may be packaged for delivery to points of consumption and/or admixed with other feed materials to form nutritive animal feed rations. Small amounts of ammonia and/or bentonite may be added to the aqueous mixture to increase the lipid adsorptive capacity thereof. One exemplary system (10) includes: a predistributor chamber (18); distributor(s) (24,25); a positive displacement pump (22); a tank (28) containing a setting bath (29) and defining forming and firming chambers (31,32); a rotary perforate cylinder (36) having a helical flight (38) for removing firmed pellets (30); and, a setting bath recirculator (35). Modified distributors (40) include specially shaped blades (46,46') having pie-shaped blade segments (46a-46d, 46a'-46d') and complementally shaped intra-blade segment openings for forming pellets of uniform size and shape.