Powder and Bulk Engineering Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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Powder and Bulk Engineering is the only monthly technical publication edited exclusively for readers in the North American powder and bulk solids market.

 
This Month's Focus: Pneumatic Conveying
Pneumatic Points to Ponder: More ways to reduce power usage to improve conveying efficiency
In this column, we'll continue our discussion from the November 2009 column on ways to reduce your pneumatic conveying system's power cost. This time, we'll look at how the system's feeding device, conveying line configuration, and air-material separation equipment affect the system's horsepower requirements. Information is provided on how to select, design, or operate this equipment to reduce your conveying system's power usage where possible.
A quick look at pneumatic conveying system basics (Free)
This article provides some basic information about pneumatic conveying system types, operation, and applications.
How to protect fragile materials during pneumatic conveying (Free)
This article provides practical advice for preventing damage to your fragile material during pneumatic conveying. Information concentrates on preventing material degradation by controlling conveying velocity and properly designing the conveying line and material receiver.
Suppliers' Tips: What are some rules of thumb for selecting bends for my pneumatic conveying line? (Free)

 
General Features
Flexible connector fittings provide the Rx for dust maladies
A medical technology company installs dust-tight connector sleeves at material transfer points to improve a screening operation.
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