Low moisture feed block with cold flow resistance
AssigneeRidley Block Operations, Inc.
InventorsChunjiang FU, Dan Dhuyvetter
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Abstract
A method of forming a low moisture block with cold flow resistance proceeds by subjecting a feed mixture containing molasses-like liquids to mixing to form a homogenous mixture; dehydrating the molasses-like mixture to less than about 2.0% moisture using heating; adding to the dehydrated molasses-like liquid mixture one or more feed ingredients in dry ingredient form, comprising 10% to 50% by weight of the resulting mixture; and adding to the dehydrated molasses-like mixture a composition comprising CaO or reactive MgO or combinations thereof, with the composition comprising 0.1% to 10% by weight of the resulting mixture. The composition is mixed in to form a homogenous mixture.
Claims23
A method of forming a low moisture block with cold flow resistance comprising:
- subjecting a feed mixture containing molasses-like liquids to mixing to form a homogenous mixture;
- dehydrating the molasses-like mixture to less than about 2.0% moisture using heating;
- adding to the dehydrated molasses-like liquid mixture one or more feed ingredients in dry ingredient form, comprising 10% to 50% by weight of the resulting mixture;
- adding to the dehydrated molasses-like mixture a composition comprising at least one of CaO, reactive MgO, ZnO, MnO, FeO, CuO, CuO2 or combinations thereof, with the composition comprising 0.1% to 10% by weight of the resulting mixture;
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- mixing in the composition to form a homogenous mixture.
A low-moisture block with resistance to cold flow comprising:
- a molasses-like mixture dehydrated to less than 2% by weight water;
- dry feed ingredients, mixed with the dehydrated molasses-like mixture and comprising 10% to 50% by weight of the resulting mixture of dehydrated molasses-like mixture and dry ingredients;
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- a composition comprising at least one of CaO, reactive MgO, ZnO, MnO, FeO, CuO, CuO2 or combinations thereof, mixed with the dehydrated molasses-like mixture, wherein the composition comprises 0.1% to 10.0% by weight of the resulting mixture of molasses and dry ingredients.
A method of forming a low moisture block with cold flow resistance comprising:
- preparing a feed mixture containing molasses-like liquids;
- dehydrating the molasses-like mixture to less than about 2.0% moisture using heating;
- adding to the dehydrated molasses-like liquid mixture one or more feed ingredients in dry ingredient form, comprising 10% to 50% by weight of the resulting mixture;
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- adding to and mixing in the dehydrated molasses-like mixture a composition comprising CaO, reactive MgO or combinations thereof, with the composition comprising 0.1% to 10% by weight of the resulting mixture, to form a homogenous mixture.
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