pelletization

7.2

The process of making small round pieces by pressing materials together

noun
/ˌpɛlɪtaɪˈzeɪʃən/

Specialized

: pelletización

Pelletization is a crucial step in the manufacturing process to ensure consistent quality of the final product.

Examples

After preprocessing, it is trucked to a plant in nearby Watertown for granulation, pelletization, and packaging into a variety of shapes and sizes of sacks and flexible tubes.

Academic text (1996)
In over half the states, more than 50 percent of the biosolids generated are beneficially used in some way (land application, composting, lime stabilization, or heat drying/pelletization).

Academic text (1998)
Only a few are giving much consideration to alternatives such as composting, pelletization, and dewatering.

Academic text (2000)
These technologies include composting, advanced alkaline stabilization, and thermal drying/pelletization, and produce materials that have greater potential to be used as marketable products than digested biosolids.

Academic text (1995)
The company focuses on pelletization to create uniform and easily transportable feed products.
Innovations in pelletization have improved the efficiency of material handling in various industries.

Synonyms

granulation

vspelletization

Specialized

1 7.8

Making a material into small grains

creates rounded compact pieces by compressing material

Surface Forms

pelletization singular

pelletizations plural

Morphology

pelletization = pelletize (transparent) = pellet + ize + ation

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ation' to 'pelletize', yielding 'the process of making pellets', which is directly predictable from the base verb.

Etymology

Pelletization comes from the word pellet (a 'small ball') plus the parts -ize ('to make') and -ation ('the process'). So, pelletization is literally the process of making or compressing materials into small, rounded pellets, like forming many little balls to make them easier to store and move.