What is a powder?

powder is a mechanism of transport of material that is designed specifically for moving fine powdered materials within production, storage or shipping installations. Although powdered loads can be often-tranported by conventional belt conveyors, real estate, such as potential contamination of load or environment, dust formation, and the risk of explosions usually dictate that specialized conveyors are used for these materials. Some of the more common types of powder conveyor include pneumatic, aeromechanical and screw systems. Disk chain and bucket lift are also often used to move powder materials. Although most of these systems differ significantly from each other, they share some similarities such as sealed transport chambers and relatively low transport speeds. This is especially true for very FINE aggregates, food and hazardous materials. The load may be contaminated or cause the environmental contamination by leakage and dust formation from openThe powder load is always a problem. In fact, dust from apparently inert materials such as flour can pose serious risks to the health of respirations by operators and, under certain circumstances, could explode if it is unintentionally ignited. For these reasons, conventional belt conveyors are rarely used to transport fine powder materials, as there are specialized powder transport systems that reduce all risks associated with powder transport.

There are many types of powder conveyor on the market, all specially designed for safe and efficiency of the transport of fine materials. One of the most common of them is a screw conveyor. Based on the design of Archimedean Screw, these powder conveyors are ideal for transparents these materials through relatively short, direct routes, especially for steep gradients. Group powder is also one of the simpler and more reliable types thatIt consists of an element of a coarse screw that turns in a sealed cylinder. When the screw element rotates any material, including liquids placed in the tube, it moves forward to the discharge point in the progressing spaces between the fibers.

Another common type of powder conveyor is a pneumatic conveyor. The air is pumped from a sealed transport tube and creates a vacuum that draws any material located after its length. Aeromechanical conveyors work on a similar principle and consist of a series of discs strung along the cable and the discs move at high speed in a closed tube. When the discs move through the tube, they create air flow that transports the powder along the tube. Both types have relatively high transport rates.

Disco -chain powder conveyors reminiscent of the aeromechanical conveyor resemble a chain of discs on a centrally located chain in a sealed tube. Unlike aeromechanical conveyors, however, mechanically lift the material inThe spaces between the discs and transfer it along the tube to the discharge point. Another relatively common method of transporting the powder used to vertically lift fine material is the lift of the bucket. These systems have a series of closely distributed bucket containers on an endless, rotating vertical belt. When the belt rotates around the lower pulley, the buckets pass through the business business at the bottom of the system, fill them and transfer them to the top of the assembly, where they are discharged when the belt travels through the top pulley.