FLUIDCON - A New Pneumatic Conveying System for Alumina

摘要

A description is given of a simple dense phase conveying system that combines the advantages of airslide conveying and pneumatic pipe transport. The characteristics of the FLUIDCON conveying system are an extremely low transport velocity and a low power requirement. The design of the conveying pipe, the layout of the system as well as the requirements to the bulk materials which are conveyable with FLUIDCON are discussed. The operating behaviour of FLUIDCON in the case of the transport of "sandy alumina" is represented with the aid of the results of extensive systematic measurements carried out in a test plant in the Claudius Peters Technologies research center and is applied to a real plant implementation. The results of this plant design show clearly the advantages of the new conveying process.