Pneumatic Conveying

Why Pneumatic Conveying Testing?

Pneumatic conveying is the process of transporting bulk materials in a gas stream (typically air or nitrogen) through a pipeline. Though this conveyor has several benefits over using screw and belt conveyors, a pneumatic conveying system can experience:

• Throughput limitations: system cannot meet required solids handling capacity
• Buildup or plugging:
• Particle attrition:
• Pipeline wear:

• Conveying characteristics & minimum conveying velocity: material conveyed over full range of line conditions (from to a )
• Particle attrition (friability) or degradation: material conveyed over range of gas velocities to compare particle damage to pre-conveyed condition

• review of pneumatic conveying apparatus and test procedure
• graphical and tabular presentation of the results
• qualitative observations of test phenomena such as buildup, surging, and wear
• video of conveying behavior observed through transparent sections in line
• test conclusions and recommendations