While Pneumatic Transport offers technologies for the complete range blending for the minerals, cement and petrochemical industries, this area addresses the two most commonly applied to minerals applications. They are the column blender and the Airmerge blender. Both offer efficient blending techniques with no moving parts in contact with the product. The most common applications are the homogenization of process variables homogenization of varying ingredients or formulations in process plants. Selection of which is best for your plant considers, capacity, blending efficiency and consistency, economics, operating cost and product handling requirements.

Column Blending Systems

• No moving parts
• Gravity discharge 60 degree cone design
• Simple operation
• Robust design
• Greater flexibility in particle size range
• Design for different batch sizes available
• A fully fluidized cone, and upper and lower air plenum and an open-ended central column allow air blending of the most difficult materials
• The fluidizing air enters the cone beneath the column conveying the product upward as the material from the annulus of the cone flows inward. This "Foundation Flow" give a radial circulation capable of blending ultra fine powders coarser sandy materials and particles with a wide particle size distribution

Applications

• Homogeneous trailer / railcar shipments
• Drive off unwanted moisture
• Provide uniform process characteristics
• Cool blended materials

Airmerge Blending Systems

• Blends dry, pulverized free-flowing materials
• Gentle blending action with diffused fluidizing air through porus membrane fabric for silos up to 100,000 cubic feet in volume
• Fluidized silo bottom is separated into quadrants that can be controlled with varying airflow intensities to achieve the blend required

Advantages

• 3 in 1: blender, storage, efficient discharge
• No moving parts, low maintenance
• No mechanical wearing parts, low noise
• Gentle blending action
• Storage and blending combined into one vessel
• Can be efficently used to overcome bridging or funnel flow when discharging silos
• Rapid and total discharge capability

In the laboratory and in the field, FLSmidth-Pneumatic Transport excels as a supplier of pneumatic ash conveying equipment and systems