Conveying
Powder movers
When it comes to conveying your product making the right choice will save time and money. Flexicon’s sales manager Alan Walton gives an insight to the selection process
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rom cosmetic and food manufac- ture to preparation of animal feeds to sewage treatment often there will be a requirement for automatic transfer of powders, flakes and granular type materials from bulk store to downstream pro- cessing operations. Economies of scale obvi- ously play a key role in selecting the most appropriate bulk handling system – it is a matter of matching material flow char-
acteristics, process parameters such as flow rates and distances, source and destination, plant configuration and space limitations. Then factor in purchase, maintenance, labour and cleaning costs - the choice then becomes clearer. Favoured technologies such as flexible screw conveyors or pneumatic conveying systems have become the most popular choice. The fact is most bulk materials can
Bulk Bag Discharger connected to pneumatic system
be conveyed using any of several meth- ods. No one can say with certainty, for example, that positive pressure pneumatic conveying is always the better choice for conveying high-temperature materials. The final selection comes down to balancing the pros and cons of each type of system for the particular application, with all its variables. While the science of conveying has advanced significantly over the past two
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16 June 2012 Solids and Bulk Handling
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