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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