Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies (BMH)

Pneumatic Conveying Equipment

 (a) AIR SUPPLY
  • Rotary screw compressors (up to 37800 litres per min of free air)
  • Refrigerated air dryers
 (b) FEEDERS
  •  Conventional rotary valves (100 kPag max, 6 to 22 litres per rev)
  • High-pressure rotary valve (350 kPag, 8 litres per rev, anti-chopping inlet for granules)
  • Several single or batch bottom-discharge blow tanks (425 to 1000 litres)
  • Tandem bottom-discharge blow tanks for continuous operation (1000 litres each)
  • Top-discharge blow tank (900 litres)
  • Mini-pot for low-solids throughput applications (10 litres, 0.5 to 5 t/h)
  • Single-slug blow tank (100 litres)
  • Screw-feeding injection vessel with variable speed drive (200 litres)
  • Subsonic/sonic/supersonic injectors and air pumps to suit 50 to 100 mm NB pipelines
 (c) PIPELINES
  • Mild steel: diameter = 27 to 155 mm ID, length = 10 to 1200 m
  • Stainless steel: diameter = 60 to 98 mm ID, length = 20 to 40 m
  • Aluminium: diameter = 55 or 98 mm ID, length = 20 m
  • Glass: diameter = 105 or 155 mm ID, length = 20 m

 

  (d) AIR-ASSISTED GRAVITY CONVEYORS

  •  125 mm wide x 110 mm high flow channel with segmented plenum chamber (6 m long)
  • Wide range of permeable membranes (depending on material properties and application)

 

 

Last reviewed: 22 October, 2007

Director

Associate Professor Peter Wypych

About Us

Engineering Manufacturing Research (EMR) is based on several key manufacturing research groups in; Welding and Joining of steel and light alloys; Automation and Robotics; and Bulk Materials Handling.These strategic areas are supported by a Power Quality and Reliability Centre and two Intelligent Mechatronics Groups. Extensive use is made of computer aided design, numerical modelling and computer simulation techniques, and this is supported by experimental work in several large laboratories equipped with substantial state-of-the-art equipment and systems at the forefront of International Industry’s ‘best practice’.