Pneumatic Conveying in the 21st Century
By James s. Mason
Pipeline
boosters were widely used in earlier pneumatic conveying
system designs as a means of fluidizing and accelerating
material velocity. This additional fluidization using
large volumes of air indiscriminately along the pipeline
is unnecessary in a correctly designed system in
which the batch volume is correctly sized with the
pipeline diameter.
In the case of incorrectly designed systems using large batch volumes and small pipelines, boosters have been used, but the effect is to lose control of the material velocity, causing:
- High pipewear
- Material degradation
- Very large air volumes
- Large hopper baghouses
and a generally inefficiently designed pneumatic conveying system.
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