Solids Conveying,
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Conveying of solids
We are focusing in solids conveying systems that are easy to clean and have low maintenance needs. We can supply you two different types of special conveyors, i.e. vibrating conveyors and aeromechanical conveyors. Each one has unique conveying properties; they both share convenience in operation and cleaning.
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Vibrating conveyors
Vibrating conveyors are used instead of conveying belts due to easy cleaning of the conveyor, the low maintenance needed and the accurate dosing of materials. Such vibrating equipment is used for conveying, inspection or dosing in a broad range of industry types. Our partner "AB Vibrator ApS" offers two uniquely new vibrator types, both based on the resonance principle and both offering a significant reduction of the operating costs.
Vibrating conveyor for powder, granulates and pellets
One of the new product types is the Vibrator Type ViFlex. In this vibration unit a standard motor is suspended and balanced in a guide system, meaning that the motor itself is left motionless, unaffected by the vibrations caused by the oscillating parts of the unit.
The advantages of the new vibrator are:
Powered by standard motors (low operating costs).
Extremely low constructional height (fits into existing production facilities).
Vibration neutral (reduced costs due to lower foundation requirements).
Low noise level.
Low power consumption (low operating costs).
Possible large amplitude (Offers the capability of transporting difficult products such as fresh meat and fish).
Variable capacity by use of a frequency converter (offers the capability of dosing products directly for weighing out, even where numerous start/stop cycles are required per minute).
Vibrating equipment for transport can replace conveying belts. The advantages of our special vibrating conveyors against conveying belts are:
Material is not lost.
At the end of the production, the conveyor is cleaned very easily.
High level of hygiene, and high product safety: all parts in contact with the product are made from stainless steel.
Vibrating conveyor TR for transporting almost everything
Aeromechanical conveyor
Floveyor: Inventors of the Aero Mechanical Conveyor
The FLOVEYOR was invented in 1960 as an economical way to move peanuts. It is now used world-wide to move most kinds of powders and granules - from cocoa beans to tea leaves. It is used in major industries, such as bottling, chemical, food processing and pharmaceutical, to move millions of tonnes of product per year.
The FLOVEYOR is inexpensive to operate, has a long life, uses a simple but unique principle and there is very little degradation of the product it moves.
What The Floveyor does?
The FLOVEYOR moves powders and granules by injecting them into a tube where there's a moving airstream. The material is fluidised and it is moved efficiently.
Why to choose Floveyor?
The advantages of the Floveyor are:
You can combine standard modules to build complex, integrated units.
There is quick recovery of capital cost.
It can handle fragile materials without degradation.
It has low power requirement.
It works at any angle.
Needs low maintenance and has long life.
It has small footprint.
It is simple to clean.
It creates no dust.
aeromechanical conveyor - Floveyor
How Floveyor works?
The Floveyor is a Tubular Conveyor in which all the moving elements operate within the material being conveyed. The essential moving elements are a rope assembly, which consists of a steel wire rope on which plastic discs are fixed at equal intervals and two terminal sprockets of a specially developed shape.
The rope assembly travels at high speed compared with chain or bucket type machines. The discs are a loose fit inside the tubes and housings and due to their speed of travel, they displace both air and material. This action tends to fluidise materials which generally are not considered to possess fluid properties. The conveyed materials are suspended between the travelling discs by the pressure cells created within the tube. Due to this method the FLOVEYOR is capable of high output exceeding other handling systems of comparable size, weight and/or price. In addition, the material being handled experiences minimal degradation.
If the FLOVEYOR is run empty, air trapped between the discs. When material is introduced into the feed end of the FLOVEYOR, air is displaced equal in volume to that of the material introduced, this air filters its way slowly and inconspicuously up through the material lying in the hopper. At the top of the FLOVEYOR, material thrown out of the discharge appears to leave the machine within the top section of the vertical discharge opening. Air is drawn into the machine in the lower portion of this opening to fill the space previously filled with material. Thus there is a gentle movement of air inwards from the top of the FLOVEYOR down the return tube and out through the hopper.
With a pneumatic conveyor it is essential to have some form of air separator to separate material from air (cyclone). In the FLOVEYOR on the other hand, the discharge point can be connected through an enclosed system to the container being filled.
The speed of the FLOVEYOR rope assembly is about one quarter of the air speed in pneumatic systems but it is faster than the speed of most mechanical handling equipment. Consequently the FLOVEYOR is capable of high outputs (taking into consideration its size) without experiencing the difficulties of having to separate air from material as with a fan.
Should you have a task for conveying of solids please do not hesitate to ask us.
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