Depackaging machine for food waste
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With a high throughput our equipment is designed for professional food waste recycling. Here, our system achieves the highest degrees of purity.
Today, DRM is in continuous use in various food waste recycling plants: it unpacks and sorts the food waste and thus optimally prepares it for recycling in biogas plants.
Double rotor for best performance
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Our depackaging machine DRM works with the double rotor principle. Only this principle allows our depackaging equipment to achieve the high purity required for the processing of mixed organics like food waste. At the same time the DRM is characterized by high throughput and process reliability.
Advantages of the double rotor:
- The wide beaters of the first rotor open packages reliably and gently without crushing them too much.
- Due to the small distance between the beater and the screen, the biomass is pressed through the screen without adding much liquid.
- The second rotor takes over the material and repeats the process again.
- The pressed-out packaging material is very light and is ejected from the side of the depackaging machine by centrifugal force. Foreign matter that still contains too much organic material remains in the machine.
Low water and energy consumption of the depacker
The depackaging machine DRM separates food waste and packaging without adding water or liquid. Only in the case of very dry organic waste a minimal addition of liquid through integrated nozzles can improve the processing performance.
This is how our separation and depackaging systems achieve their high efficiency, and the low-resource separation saves twice:
- On the one hand, because hardly any water needs to be used for separation and thus the organic concentration of 20% is very high.
- On the other hand, a high organic concentration for biogas production means a lower investment in the fermenter, as it can be designed smaller.
- Further dewatering of the packaging can be carried out by our press screw. The recovered organic matter is also fed into the fermenter.
This is the only way to achieve a high economic efficiency with our separation and depackaging systems for organic and food waste.
If you would like to know more about the measurement of water consumption and the purity of our DRM, read our article from BioEnergy Insight 03/2023.
High machine availability of the depackaging machine
Thanks to its robust stainless steel construction, the DRM can withstand the most demanding separation tasks and has also proven itself in 24/7 multi-shift operation.
The built-in hydraulics of the depacker make it easy for operators of food recycling facilities to open the machine’s housing halves for maintenance or remove massive interfering materials quickly. Essential spare parts that only need to be replaced after a few years can be easily changed, so that a very long service life of the depackaging equipment is achieved.
System competence increases biomass yield and purity
The depackaging machine does not stand alone in the waste treatment process. Only with the optimal coordination of the individual process steps the highest performance, efficiency and purity in organic and food waste treatment are achieved. Here you see the depacker together with our screw press PRS for further dewatering of the packaging.
Technical Data
- Compact, symmetrical and partially bolted stainless steel construction for our depacker
- Use of wear-resistant cast materials for the highly stressed beaters
- Upper housing halves split, each opening independently hydraulically for easy maintenance
- Easy adjustment of particle size structure in organics by frequency controlled drive motors
and easily exchangeable screen segments - Depackaging chamber with individually replaceable impact bars and sieves
- Sieve perforation freely selectable between 8- 15 mm, depending on input material and required particle size
| DRM 800 | |
|---|---|
| Throughput capacity (t/h) | up to 25 t/h |
| Drive motor (kW) | 2 x 55 or 2 x 75 kW |
| Speed (rpm) | 1200-1500 |
| Impact area (m²) | 0,8 m² |
| Screen area (m²) | 1,3 m² |
| Dimensions and Weight | |
| Working width (mm) | 800 mm |
| Length x width x height (approx. mm) | 2570 x 2835 x 1930 mm |
| Weight (approx. kg) | 4500 kg |
| Hydraulic System | |
| Drive motor (approx. kW) | 0,95 kW |
| Oil filling quantity (l) | 7 l |
