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Pneumatic conveying

Chapter 14: INDEX
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This concise technical primer explains the principles, equipment, and practical applications of using moving air to transport solid materials. It surveys system types and components—air pumps, exhausters, filters, dischargers, pipelines, and nozzles—then examines design details, typical installations for grain and coal, and specialized conveyors including induction and steam-jet systems. Practical issues such as discharge of wet or sticky materials, dust separation, and portable or floating installations are addressed through experimental observations and illustrated examples. The book aims to guide engineers, works managers, and students in selecting and applying pneumatic conveying solutions across industrial contexts.

INDEX

  • Advantages of system, 5
  • Aerograph, 101
  • Air compressors, 67, 70, 71
  • —— filters, 10, 21-27
  • —— induction, 63
  • —— lift, advantages, 97
  • —— ——, air required, 97
  • —— —— “depression,” 96
  • —— —— pumping, 95-100
  • —— —— submergence, 96, 100
  • —— receivers, 69
  • —— reheating, 68, 69
  • —— velocity, 36
  • “Aquadag,” 20
  • Ash handling, 58, 74-77
  • Bag filters, 22-24
  • Bends and elbows, 34, 35, 67
  • Bibliography, 105
  • “Blowing” system, 4
  • Breaking of materials, 34, 35, 67
  • Buffer boxes, 78
  • Capacity of pipe lines, 36
  • Cement handling plants, 101
  • Cleaning with air blast, 94
  • Coal-handling plants, 54-58, 60, 61
  • Comparative costs, 53
  • Conveying above atmospheric pressure, 6
  • —— below atmospheric pressure, 6
  • —— above and below atmospheric pressure, 6, 64-66
  • Cyclone separators, 21
  • Design, factors influencing, 8
  • Despatch tubes, 80, 81
  • Dischargers design, 10, 28-32, 56, 57
  • —— difficulties, 9
  • —— valves, 28, 31, 32, 56, 58
  • Exhausters, 10, 14
  • Factors influencing design, 8
  • Flexibility, 5
  • Flexible suction pipes, 36
  • Floating plants, 3, 46, 51, 59-61
  • Flue cleaning, 59
  • Foot power pumps, 86
  • Fundamental principles, 3
  • Grain-handling, 45, 47
  • Heavy commercial systems, 7
  • High pressure systems, 6, 39
  • Historical, 1, 2
  • “Induction” system, 4, 6, 62-66
  • “Intermittent” tube system, 81, 83
  • Junctions in pipe lines, 33
  • King’s exhauster, 10-14
  • —— three-way valve, 37
  • “Kinking” to be avoided, 92
  • Large pipe systems, 7
  • Lime washing, 101
  • Low pressure systems, 6
  • Lubrication, 20
  • Materials, breaking of, 34, 35, 67
  • Mollers’ air filter, 24
  • Nash hydro-turbine, 18, 19
  • Nozzles (suction), 10, 40-43
  • Oil contamination, 11
  • Pipe lines, 10, 33, 36, 39
  • —— ——, capacity of, 36
  • Pneumatic tube carriers, 81, 82
  • —— ——, “continuous,” 81, 83
  • —— —— foot power, 86
  • —— ——, “intermittent,” 81, 83
  • —— ——, power required, 84, 85
  • —— —— pressure system, 81, 85
  • —— —— vacuum system, 84
  • Portable quay-side plant, 5
  • —— railway plant, 49-51
  • —— vacuum cleaners, 92
  • Power required, 44
  • Pressure systems, 4, 6
  • Pumping by compressed air, 94, 95
  • Quayside plants, 51
  • Reheating compressed air, 68, 69
  • Rotary blowers, 14, 15
  • Sand-blasting, 102
  • Stationary plants, vacuum, 92
  • Steam consumption, 72-74
  • —— jet conveyors, 72, 74, 76
  • —— jets, 77
  • —— jets, economy of, 72, 73
  • Sturtevant blowers, 16, 17
  • “Suction” nozzles, 10, 40-43
  • —— systems, 4-7
  • Systems, advantages of, 5
  • Telescopic pipes, 38
  • Turbo-blowers, 11
  • Vacuum cleaners, 89
  • —— ——, tests, 92
  • —— required, 3
  • Valves in pipe line, 37
  • Velocity of air in pipes, 36
  • Water pumping, 95-100
  • Waterside plants, 45, 47, 48, 59
  • Wear of pipes and bends, 34, 35
  • Wet air filters, 25-27


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