Support Facilities

Aero-Instant maintains a large complement of support equipment, including but not limited to the following:

1. Storage and mixing tanks ranging in size from 25 gallons to 7500 gallons. Tanks include stainless steel vessels of 200 gallons, 1200 gallons, 1400 gallons and 7500 gallons. Rubber-lined tanks include two units of 3000 gallons and two units of 5000 gallons.
2. Mixing equipment: Over 20 mixing units, including Cowles dissolvers up to 40 HP are available.
3. Over 20 pumps are maintained in inventory, including Moyno pumps diaphragm pumps, peristaltic pumps, and centrifugal pumps.
4. Vibrating and rotating screens include 18" and 48" Sweco and two 8' rectangular screens.
5. Pulverizer, 150 HP Elliott Mill with air classifier
6. Hammer Mills - several
7. Calciner 316SS 18" x 15' - Indirect fired, rated to 1000°F
8. Calciner - Inconel 12" x 7' - Indirect fired, rated to 2000°F
9. Calciner - 18" - single hearth - indirect fired, rated to 2000°F
10. Muffle furnace 5" x 2' - Inconel rated to 2000°F
11. Filter press 20 plates x 20" x 20"
12. High shear mill (homogenizer) ( 50HP)
13. Decanter centrifuges (two) Sharples P-1000
14. Fine media mills - Hi Com; IMPEX; Union Process
15. Magnetic separator 2.5" - 9 Tesla
16. Magnetic separator - 30" - 2 Tesla - rated at 2TPH
17. Magnetic separators (three) - 5" - 2 Tesla - rated at 1TPD
18. Hydrothermal reactor rated for 200 psi/400°F
19. Pelletizers (two)
20. Warehouses - three 4000 ft warehouses available for storing feedstocks, reagents, and spray dried products
21. Cold Storage container
22. Bagging equipment

The above facilities are supplemented with a complete one ton per hour mineral processing plant.

Pilot plant facilities are in turn backed up by a laboratory that includes smaller versions of all the above equipment, as well as equipment for measuring wet particle size, pigment reflectance, and abrasion index.