What are the advantages of continuous pneumatic conveying system compared with mechanical conveying system?


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Mar 15,2023

What are the advantages of continuous pneumatic conveying system compared with mechanical conveying system?

Mechanical conveying refers to the form of conveying materials by specific mechanical equipment. According to the structural type of mechanical equipment, mechanical conveying can be divided into circular conveying and trough conveying.

Circular conveying is a ring system composed of carrier mechanical parts, such as belts, chains, etc. When the material is transferred to the discharge end, the empty chain or belt will return to the feeding end for circular transportation. These return links not only consume additional power, but also occupy a relatively large space.

 


Pneumatic conveying

Trough conveying refers to that materials are put into the trough (or pipe) and move forward with the effect of throwing force by using the reciprocating vibration of the trough; Screw conveyor is a trough conveyor with fixed trough body. It uses the thrust of spiral auger blades to feed materials. The conveying distance is short and the conveying efficiency is not high.

Fluid transportation is to use the fluidity of air (or other gases) or water (or other liquids) in the pipeline to transport materials along the designated line. Its advantage is that the equipment is simple and covers a small area, the transmission direction is easy to be arranged at will, and the transmission distance is long. In view of the water consumption cost of water resources and the end drainage treatment and other problems, hydraulic transmission is difficult to properly deal with, so it suffers from certain limitations.

The basic theory and practice of pneumatic conveying technology have proved that it has a series of advantages: high production efficiency, simple equipment structure, convenient management, high degree of automation, labor saving, easy loading and unloading, beneficial to environmental protection, etc. Especially when it is used inside the workshop, it can combine the conveying process and process flow, and simplify the process flow and equipment. Therefore, the selection of pneumatic conveying can greatly improve labor productivity and improve efficiency.