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Animal feed
Of or relating to the food products given to farmed animals.
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Pellet dies
Agriculture; Animal feed
The component of a pellet mill that contains small holes through which soft feed it forced producing cyclindrical feed pellets.
Pellet mill
Agriculture; Animal feed
Type of mill that creates cylindrical feed pellets from a mixture of feedstock ingredients. Achieved by forcing soft feed through holes in a metal die plate to form compacted pellets which are then ...
Pellet rolls
Agriculture; Animal feed
Single or double rolls (also known as pellet shells) mounted inside the die ring which turn and force feed into the die holes. Patterns/Configurations include: corrugated open end, corrugated closed ...
Pelleted
Agriculture; Animal feed
A ration that goes through the process to compact the ration into a pellet.
Pelleting compression ratio
Agriculture; Animal feed
The ratio between the effective pelleting length (the actual compression thickness) and the pellet hole diameter (D).
Plunger
Agriculture; Animal feed
A cylindrically shaped part which has only one diameter and is used to transmit thrust. A ram.
