The selection of a suitable handling system for handling their materials can become a major management exercise. Flow, storage and handling properties, amongst many others, need to be considered.
Dry bulk materials play an important part in the manufacture of products for industry and for everyday use. Almost every product of industrial or domestic use passes through a powder phase in its manufacturing cycle which means that a large quantity of dry bulk materials is proposed, handled, stored and conveyed in industry on a daily basis. The variety of such bulk materials is extremely large and covers powders of sub-micron particle sizes to pellets of 3 – 6mm dia. The microscopic shape of the this range of bulk materials is also highly varied and ranges from amorphous to crystalline with many geometries in between.
Industrial use of these materials requires intelligent and knowledgeable application to enable efficient and reliable handling of these powders. Flow properties, storage and handling properties, electrostatic properties amongst many others to be considered lead to a bewildering choice in selecting the proper methods to manage these materials. For industries which use large quantities of powders as their raw materials, the selection and implementation of a suitable handling system for these powders becomes a major management exercise. Some of the objectives that would be looked at are low cost automation, efficiency of handling, reliability of equipment, installed and operating costs, clean operating environment, suitability to handle the required materials, and best available technology and equipment.
This white paper looks at the various choices available within general industry for selecting suitable equipments and systems to handle the kind of bulk materials specific to individual industrial segments.
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