Challenges with pneumatic conveying systems
Pneumatic conveying systems in plants are used to move a variety of bulk materials from fine powders to granular materials through a flow of gas. Bulk material is piped through multiple processes until it reaches the product loadout or bagging area.
Improperly designed pneumatic conveyors can lead to blockage, early wear of components, degradation of the quality of the material(s), dust emissions, low reliability of the system, or an inability to reach rated capacity.
All of these consequences directly impact your bottom line.
Operations that depend on pneumatic conveyors to transfer bulk materials face ever-increasing demands to reduce power consumption, improve system reliability, performance, productivity, and safety, often with shrinking maintenance budgets.
Unlike other conveyor types, pneumatic conveying systems are not governed by a single, unified set of industry-approved standards. As a result, engineers and operators lack consistent guidelines for optimizing material flow, which can make designing and troubleshooting systems difficult. Material properties of a product must be carefully considered as part of the design process as even small differences can drastically impact material flow and overall system productivity.
Your answer to designing, optimizing or troubleshooting
There is a solution. PneuCalc is a comprehensive, easy-to-use software specifically built to help engineers and operators design and optimize pneumatic conveying systems.
Whether you have a pressure or vacuum system, PneuCalc’s features and tools will help optimize your design. It displays dilute, dense, and mixed conveying modes, calculates material saltation velocity, automatically classifies materials using Geldart groupings, and provides a detailed pipe segment overview.
Drag-and-drop features, a dynamic visual interface, and a robust, time-saving material and gas properties database are all part of this advanced software that helps you achieve maximum results for your system.
PneuCalc ensures equipment is properly designed and optimized to fit your specific application. It allows you to evaluate how different feed points, changes in direction, vertical pipes, system airflow, and pipe geometry/diameter will affect the efficiency of conveying certain materials, thereby achieving maximum performance and productivity.
Our software also provides a workflow to make the process of determining the correct parameters for your system easier and more efficient. Throughout the process, red flag alerts highlight potential design issues, helping you quickly identify and address challenges.
PneuCalc helps you evaluate technical proposals from third-party suppliers and provides all the technical tools necessary to fine-tune a solution by having the best information available to guide the decision-making process.
Efficient and effective benefits
- Systems are designed using a clear workflow with technological guidance where design risks are clearly flagged.
- Can be used to design, optimize, or troubleshoot both vacuum and pressure systems.
- Calibrates calculations based on real-life application data for accurate results.
- Includes Geldart material group classification display and saltation velocity calculation tools.
- Clearly displays dilute, dense, and mixed flow modes at each point of the system, allowing users to clearly understand how the material behaves in the pneumatic conveying process.
- Cost-effective and backed by more than two decades of proven performance.
“I have used PneuCalc 7.0 to help verify, set up, and troubleshoot various pneumatic conveying systems. It was quick and easy giving the guidance needed for each project. This software will be another great tool for anyone that wants to understand the specifics of their pneumatic system airflow.”
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