FOOD WASTE DISPOSAL PROBLEMS MINIMIZED BY NOV MONOFLO®

By reducing waste to a consistent particle size as small as 3mm, the Monoflo Muncher can save on storage, landfill tax, and transportation costs, and can improve the efficiency of disposal and biodigestion processes. The Monoflo Muncher is also ideal for macerating waste for methane production in biogas plant.

Models in the range will accept a very wide range of wet or dry waste in separate or mixed formats, whether washed through with water or other liquids or fed dry by gravity.

Typical material macerated by Monoflo’s Munchers includes feathers, skin, bone, offal, meat scraps, hooves, fruit stones and skins, vegetable peelings and stems. A Muncher will also easily accept whole chickens and carcass joints with bones, fat and connective tissue, and difficult cylindrical objects, such as coconuts or melons. Even tin cans, wood and plastic containers can be reduced in size by a Monoflo Muncher before sending for recycling.

The 2 Sisters Food Group, one of the UK’s largest poultry processing companies, installed Monoflo’s Series 'A' Muncher in order to meet legislation from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.  This dictates that poultry waste from its processes, such as offal and feathers, is reliably and consistently reduced to a particle size of no more than 4mm.

Monoflo’s TR Muncher was installed in a food and vegetable waste processing plant to macerate raw material to create liquid soil conditioner, which can be used as a substitute to fertilizer.

Models in Monoflo’s Muncher range consist of a low speed, high torque grinder with twin shafts. They also carry cutter discs, which contra-rotate at differential speeds and are driven through a gear box by an electric motor. The cutters efficiently shear any solids passing through into small particles, while the low tip speeds help minimise noise and wear to the cutters. The particle size can be predetermined through the cutter spacing configuration, and the Munchers can handle up to 11 short tons/hr.

The Monoflo Muncher can be packaged with a Monoflo Widethroat pump to provide a highly efficient and integrated grinding and pumping combination for pastes and thick slurries.