"Reviewed and approved by the AIChE Education Services Committee 2005"

You can expect to:

• Cover a wide range of equipment types and the solutions to problems commonly associated with each of them.
• Gain a better understanding of common problems which occur during pneumatic conveying.
• Understand pneumatic conveying principles of operation allowing you to evaluate your in-plant systems and determine effectiveness.
• Be able to troubleshoot the source of conveying problems and apply various solution methods to improve efficiency.
• Know how to choose a conveying system layout based upon proper principles of operation.
• Understand how to choose system components

Course content:

• Overview – advantages and limitations of pneumatic conveying; applications in various industries (case histories)
• Fundamentals – low pressure compressible gas flow; defining characteristics of a conveying system; state diagrams (pressure vs. velocity); modes of conveying (suspension vs. non-suspension); minimum conveying velocity
• System layout and selection – pressure, vacuum, combination, closed loop; blow tanks; dense phase conveying
• System components – gas movers, solids feeders, pipe bends, filters/disengagers
• Operating considerations – particle attrition, streamers, snake skins, angel hair, erosive wear
• Design example – designing a dilute phase pneumatic conveying system

Who should attend:

Design, project, and research engineers, as well as plant operation personnel who are responsible for solving and preventing flow problems or purchasing solids handling equipment, will benefit from the valuable information provided in these courses.