Bentonite processing production line

Parameters

  • Capacity: 1-30 T/H
  • Products: powder, granules, cat litter, etc
  • Cost: $10,000-$500,000

  • Equipment Material: Q235 carbon steel, etc.

  • Application: Bentonite waste disposal，Bentonite fertilizer making, cat litter granulation, etc

There are various bentonite processing plant setup solutions for your choice. Including designs for fertilizer production, cat litter manufacturing, simple bentonite rock disposal, etc to granules and powder products. They are ranging from 1 t/h to 30 t/h capacity, $10,000 to $500,000 cost. Welcome to YUSHUNXIN get your own bentonite processing plan and machines now!

What can bentonite used as?

Bentonite is a naturally occurring clay mineral with remarkable absorbent, swelling, and binding properties. So, you can process bentonite to produce fertilizer, cat litter and feed.

Using bentonite as cat litter

Using bentonite to make cat litter is an ideal choice because of its excellent performance in clumping ability and odor control. On the one hand, it can fully absorb the cat urine and water contained by manure. So, the cat excrement clean up become easier. On the other hand, bentonite has a certain degree of adsorption. Therefore, it is helpful for reducing the odor in the air and providing both pets and owners with a clean living environment. In this way, you can produce popular cat litter products and make more profits.

When you make organic or compound fertilizer granules, bentonite is commonly used as a binder and carrier. This material helps hold nutrients together, reducing dust and improving the strength and stability of the fertilizer pellets you prepare. Additionally, bentonite enhances the slow-release performance of granulated fertilizers by absorbing and gradually releasing moisture and nutrients. Therefore, you can enlarge the fertilizer business to the market where have need of improving the dry and arid soils.

In animal feed manufacturing, bentonite serves as a binder and toxin absorber. It helps form uniform feed pellets, reduces feed dust, and improves the durability. More importantly, mixing with bentonite to prepare animal feed granules can remove harmful toxins like mycotoxins from the digestive tract of livestock, supporting better animal health and productivity.

Bentonite as cat litter
easy clean & no order
Fertilizer Granulation
high stability & strength & slow-releas
Animal Feed Production
toxin absorber

What is the process of producing bentonite powder in bentonite processing plant?

When you want to process bentonite for feed and fertilizer making, it is advisable to turn it into fine powder. Then how to turn bentonite rocks into powder? Generally, it needs the following 5 steps:

Breaking bentonite rocks into small particles

Bentonite powder making is not accomplished overnight, especially when you use bentonite rocks as material. At that time, the first step is breaking bentonite ore into small particles, about 2 mm. Here, we recommend you choose jaw crusher. This machine is designed for grinding various ores and rocks. And it can shred rocks with a compressive strength of 147~245 MPa.

Drying bentonite material

Then, in order to make your final bentonite powder product more convenient to store, you need to dry material after crushing. And the best moisture content of dried bentonite material after drying is 6%-12%. Here, rotary drying machine is an ideal choice. It adopts hot air drying method, which can reduce the moisture content of bentonite materials quickly while preventing high temperature will break the origin structure.

Further crushing small bentonite particles into fine powder

For more convenient for use, after crushing bentonite into small particles, you need to further process it into finer powder. Here, it is advisable to use Raymond mill. This machine can turn 2 mm bentonite materials into 200 meshes of bentonite powder. This kind of small size bentonite is easily mixed with other materials and wields correspondent function.

Jaw crusher for bentonite ore breaking
Jaw crusher for bentonite ore breaking

Jaw crusher for bentonite ore breaking

Rotary dryer for bentonite processing plant
Rotary dryer for bentonite processing plant

Rotary dryer for bentonite processing plant

Raymond mill for bentonite fine powder manufacturing
Raymond mill for bentonite fine powder manufacturing

Raymond mill for bentonite fine powder manufacturing

Sieving bentonite powder

Next, in order to prepare quality bentonite powder, you need to sieve the crushed materials. Under the help of rotary screener machine, you can separate fine bentonite from large particle size powder and waste. In this way, the purity of bentonite powder will be higher and the quality will greatly improve.

Screen machine for powder sieving
Screen machine for powder sieving

Screen machine for powder sieving

Automatic packaging machine for commercial bentonite production
Automatic packaging machine for commercial bentonite production

Automatic packaging machine for commercial bentonite production

packaging

Finally, packaging finished bentonite powder into bags with a volume you need. We can offer various automatic packaging machines for your choice. Single bucket automatic bagging machine for small scale bentonite processing plant setup, double bucket packaging equipment for more effective bentonite powder making, etc.

Which machine is suitable for your bentonite granules processing plant?

Besides making bentonite powder, you also can choose to further process powder into granules. This process is based on the production of bentonite powder. After twice crushing with jaw grinder and Raymond mill, you may need the following machines to further process bentonite powder:

Bentonite granulator

Granulation machine is the key to turn bentonite powder into pellets. So it is important to buy a suitable granulator for your bentonite processing plant. In SX, we can provide you with disc granulator, rotary drum pelletizer and double roller extrusion granulator. If you want to produce rounded bentonite granules in a small scale, we recommend you purchase disc pelletizer. It can make 1-6 tons of 1-8 mm pellets per hour. However, for more economical small scale production, double roller granulation equipment is a better option for you. And when you plan to setup a large bentonite processing plant, rotary drum pelletizer is the best choice. Its largest output can reach 30 t/h.

Disc Fertilizer Granulator For Sale
Disc Fertilizer Granulator For Sale

Disc Fertilizer Granulator For Sale

Double roller granulator for sale
Double roller granulator for sale

Double roller granulator for sale

Rotary drum pelletizer for large scale bentonite pellets making
Rotary drum pelletizer for large scale bentonite pellets making

Rotary drum pelletizer for large scale bentonite pellets making

Dryer and cooler for bentonite granules manufacturing
Dryer and cooler for bentonite granules manufacturing

Dryer and cooler for bentonite granules manufacturing

Drying machine and cooling equipment

In order to make prepared bentonite granules easier to transport, store and use. You also need a drying machine to remove excessive moisture. Especially when you use disc granulation machine and drum pelletizer, which adopts wet granulation method. After drying, the moisture content of bentonite pellet is below 10% and the temperature is 30-40℃. Because of the high temperature, you cannot pack granules directly. At that time, cooling machine can help you cool it down in a short time.

How to make cat litter out of bentonite?

As mentioned above, bentonite is an ideal material for cat litter production. In fact, the process of cat litter is to turn bentonite granules. So the steps of cat litter making is

  • Using jaw crusher and Raymond machine to process aged bentonite into 200 mesh powder.

  • Dry bentonite raw materials to a moisture content of about 14% to 15% and crush them again.

  • Add high-quality sodium carbonate according to 2.5% of the bentonite dry base. Mix them evenly and age at room temperature above 15 degrees for 5-7 days.

  • Add bentonite powder to the granulator. Process it into bentonite particles with a uniform particle size of 0.8-3.8 mm. In this process, you need to add a an appropriate amount of potassium permanganate solution and water glass aqueous solution according to requirements.

  • Dry the cat litter particles so that the moisture content is between 6% and 8%. Then cool down cat litter for easier packaging and storage.

  • Sieve and pack the produced bentonite cat litter.

Where to buy quality bentonite making machine?

SX is the leading fertilizer equipment manufacturer in China. It has nearly 20 years of experience in the production of organic fertilizer and compound fertilizer equipment. So it can provide you with high quality equipment for your bentonite making plant at an economical price. In addition, we can offer you the best service. Including free project design, featured customization and considerate after-sales service.

SX Fertilizer equipment manufacturer
SX Fertilizer equipment manufacturer

SX Fertilizer equipment manufacturer

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