pneumatic conveyor Articles
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Conveyor Efficiency
When quoting our chain conveyors, we commonly must reassure customers that the horsepower requirements we calculate are really all that’s needed. Even then, we’ve had customers order our conveyors with oversized motors simply because they weren’t comfortable with a motor as small as our machine required. How efficient are our conveyors? They can run with 30 times less ...
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Chemical industries - Products that shine
Kiilto Oy (‘Shine’ in English) is an old and established chemical industry company south of Tampere, Finland. Kiilto was founded already in 1919 and has since then grown steadily to a middle-sized producer of glues and many other products for industrial and consumer applications. The total number of Kiilto products is close to a thousand. Kiilto also has expanded to foreign countries ...
By Kopar Oy
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Material flow monitoring of coal - Case Study
Client: Steel plant (China) Product: Coal dust Conveyed volumes: 10...15 kg/h Conveyor mechanism: Pneumatics Installation location: in pneumatic rising pipe According to the client, the FlowJam system offers the following advantages: Reliable yes/no notification Cost-effective solution Client benefits: Reliable monitoring of blast furnace lances Quality control in the ...
By ENVEA
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Material flow monitoring of abrasives - Case Study
Client: Surface treatment (Germany) Product: Abrasives / 0.5 - 4 kg/h Conveyor mechanism: pneumatically in hose line / pressure 3.5 bar Installation location: screwed in in 1 1/2 inch threaded connection via hose line Special feature: detection takes place through the tube Number of systems: 8 According to the client, the FlowJam system offers the following advantages: Continuous ...
By ENVEA
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Measuring the actual consumption of wheat- Case Study
Client: Food producer Product: Wheat Conveyed volumes: 5 t/h Conveyor mechanism: Rotary valve; Pneumatic conveying line Installation location: Pneumatic conveying line after rotary valve The SolidFlow 2.0 system offers the following advantages: Calculation of wheat requirements Daily consumption can be calculated in detail Non-intrusive installation ...
By ENVEA
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Material flow monitoring of combustible fuels - Case Study
Client: Steel manufacturer (Germany) Product: Derived fuels Conveyed volumes: no information Conveyor mechanism: Pneumatics Installation location: Pneumatic rising pipe with pressure adapter According to the client, the FlowJam system offers the following advantages: Simple and reliable Simple commissioning (even by customer) Quick detection of material standstill Client ...
By ENVEA
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CAV - Dosing, Conveying, Mixing - Avoidance of Explosions Using Nitrogen
Inertisation in Bulk Material Process Engineering With the Aid of Self-Generated Nitrogen Bulk material is used in many sectors of industry. The granular or powdery solids have the property of being easily pourable and are also used as precursors in the chemical, pharmaceutical and plastics industries. Bulk materials include granulates and pellets as well as powdery colour pigments and fillers. ...
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Cement flow rate after cyclone separator - Case Study
Client: Cement plant (France) Product: Cement Conveyed volumes: 5 á 15 t/h Conveyor mechanism: Pneumatic conveying system Installation location: Pneumatic conveying system after cyclone separator What measuring process was used previously: none According to the client, the SlideControl system offers the following advantages: Efficient volume monitoring Easy mounting on ...
By ENVEA
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Flow monitoring of cement in air slides - Case Study
Client: Cement plant (Germany) Product: Cement Conveyed volumes: 50 - 80 t/h Conveyor mechanism: Pneumatic conveying system Installation location: Air slide after storage silo What measuring process was used previously: none According to the client, the SlideControl system offers the following advantages: Efficient volume monitoring Easy mounting on the pneumatic conveying ...
By ENVEA
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Spending small to save big in a downturn
How strategic upgrades in bulk handling components can pay off in the short term "You can"t save your way to solvency" goes the business adage, but suggesting major capital improvements with long-term pay-out in tight economic times may send your co-workers running for cover. Prosperity can often be found between both extremes, where strategically placed equipment upgrades can instantly reduce ...
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Mason OH case study
Growing with the Flow Population increase forces Mason, Ohio, to examine biosolids handling process Located in southwest Ohio, between the cities of Cincinnati and Dayton, is the growing metropolis known as Mason. Founded in 1815, Mason has attracted large corporations such as Cintas and Procter & Gamble’s Health Care Research Center. Additionally, on the leisure side, it is home to ...
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Single-Shaft Plastic Shredder for Sale Philippines
The GSS-type industrial single-shaft shredder for sale in Philippines is designed for shredding material into fine output fraction, mostly in one step. The size of the output fraction depends on the mesh size of the screen under the shredder’s rotor. The material is shredded between rotor blades (using replaceable segment plates) and a combshaped stator blade. The shredder is fitted with a ...
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Art or Science?
The choice between dilute phase pneumatic conveying and flexible screw conveying is not always clear Everyone has rules of thumb when it comes to choosing a conveying system — rules based on bulk material characteristics, required flow rates and distances, source and destination, plant configuration, and other variables. But those with experience in all types of systems will tell you that ...
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Case study: Equipment refurbishment
Challenge A GK customer purchased a used VIBRA-MILL Sand reclaimer sight unseen from a closed foundry in the south and wanted to use it to break down sand for pneumatic conveying. The VIBRA-MILL, originally commissioned in 1975, was of unknown condition. Approach The customer returned the unit to have GK inspect the machine to determine if it was in operating condition. GK received the unit ...
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Abrasives case study - Stonhard
Elbow Cuts Maintenance Problem Stonhard Inc., processes and packages colored silica aggregate at its Ft. Wayne, IN facility. The material is part of a three-component mortar consisting of liquid epoxy resin and a liquid curing agent used for industrial and commercial flooring applications. Some 82,000 lb. of this aggregate is pneumatically conveyed from blending vessels to holding silos every ...
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BT-Wolfgang binder erected new glass powder plant for Geocell for the production of foam glass ballast in upper Austria
The planning, delivery and installation of the complete machine and electro engineering equipment for the glass powder plant from the company GEOCELL, one of the leading producers of foam glass ballast in Europe, was carried out by the company BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH from Gleisdorf, as general contractor. Initial situation: Before construction of the plant, the glass powder was purchased as raw ...
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Moving difficult-to-handle bulk materials with flexible screw conveyors
Flexible screw conveyor systems can be engineered to transport bulk materials that tend to pack, cake, smear, break apart or fluidize, and can prevent the separation of blended products. Flexible screw conveyors (Fig. 1) are suitable for most bulk materials, from sub-micron powders to large pellets, both free-flowing and non-free flowing. They are capable of conveying bulk materials at any angle ...
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Gericke plans further expansion outside Europe
In an exclusive interview Markus Gericke, CEO of Switzerland-based Gericke Holding, tells EuroBulkSystems managing editor Richard Miller about his company’s expansion plans in China as well as in the Americas. He also gives his own interpretation as to why the company continues to enjoy pre-eminence as a preferred supplier of advanced handling and processing equipment to ...
By Gericke AG
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Abrasives case study - Carbo Ceramics
It's been four years since Tom Sorensen has had to replace an elbow in his pneumatic conveying lines. But life wasn't always this easy for the maintenance manager at Carbo Ceramics' Eufaula, Ala. Facility. The company manufactures ceramic beads for use as proppants in oil and gas exploration and drilling. Global Giants such as Halliburton and Schlumberger pump the ceramic beads into well bores to ...
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Abrasives case study - Chromalloy
Chromalloy, Drilling Fluids Division, produces barite at its Houston, TX facility. Chromalloy was using standard elbows on its 4- and 5"-diameter pneumatic conveying lines, which carry barite from the grinding mill to the storage tanks where it is stored prior to loading into hopper cars and bulk trucks. Figure 1: A cross section of the new type of elbow in use at Chromalloy. Suspended material ...
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