Color Dosing in Potash Granulation Plant

Potash fertilizers are expected to be red to help the user to make out these.

The dosing of color onto the product was not accurate enough which caused the product not to confirm with the spec, Different types of red showed up, customer unsatisfaction, over usage of expensive coloring material.

Following our work – with the customer:

  • The control of the dye improved and is done automatic in RATIO to the quantity of material (Potash) in processs, rather then manually as it used to be.
  • Control system was improved and was tuned to the proper range of action.
  • Inherent mechanical problems were identified and were addressed by maintenance.