Agricultural Equipment (Used) Newsgroup

Location: USA, POCATELLO ID

Camas Sv4-8F Specific Gravity Separator.
A new high throughput grain cleaning system based on a patented technology, Camas grain cleaning removes tiny foreign matter from grain faster and with greater sensitivity to small differences in grain kernel sizes and densities than conventional gravity table cleaners. The Camas cleaning system is based on Small Density Difference Sorting technology. The cleaner is able to sort, clean, and upgrade a variety of grains and oilseeds. The technology has been successfully applied for peanuts, cocoa beans, soybeans, rice, hazelnuts, maize, among others. Camas machines are exported to 14 countries. How does it work? Microjets of air are forced through the bed of a sloped chamber. When vibrated, the grain ''flows'' to the lower end of the sloped chamber. This leaves the lighter, less dense material floating at the top of the grain mass. At the end of the chamber, a valve separates the lighter particles consisting of diseased, damaged, or underdeveloped kernels and light foreign matter from the denser grain kernels. Lighter particles are removed from the grain. The heaviest, densest kernels are sent to the good product hopper. Intermediate particles are sent to the next chamber for further separation. Another chamber removes 95% to 98% of other heavier impurities. How does it perform? Camas International says the technology can separate particles with density differences as small as 2% — sensitive enough to remove most contaminated particles and foreign matter missed by conventional cleaning equipment. This allows highly efficient separation of the damaged kernels from the rest of the grain. Small Camas cleaners can process 30 tonnes per hour; large systems handle 90 tonnes per hour. Conventional gravity based systems can process an average of 10 tonnes per hour.