Schenck Process: Pneumatic conveying systems

Pneumatic and Vacuum Conveying expertise in the Food Industry

Schenck Process has extensive experience in the design of specialist pneumatic conveying systems using positive and negative air pressures for the food industry to transport a wide range of powders, granulates and extruded shapes.

Food quality systems range from simple, lean phase, product transfer applications to fully automatic factory wide multi-reception point installations for storage and distribution and for the mixing and dosing of ingredients.

For vacuum conveying systems Schenck Process have particular expertise in the design of products with quick release clamps, easy to clean and fully polished stainless steel components to ensure that the highest standards of hygiene are maintained. The Schenck Process vacuum systems include the standard modular products of Moduload and Modufeed which are tried and tested designs for conveying and feeding materials in lean phase mode.

The modular system offers flexibility not just in terms of the vacuum source, but in the material selection and filtration too. The vacuum system feature precipitous tanks as standard, which ensure smooth material withdrawal, without the need for additional withdrawal machines. The full bore discharge flap valves and butterfly discharge valves that enable refilling of loss-in-weight feeders are standard features too. Control and sequencing of the conveying system can be by either solid state microprocessor controller or a programmable logic controller.

Recent installations by Schenck Process include the conveying of granulated sugar, flour, green coffee beans, barley malt, popcorn, bulk ingredients and whole corns.  Utilising a mixture of lean phase positive pressure, lean phase vacuum (negative pressure) and dense phase systems, giving flow rates of up to 55kg/hr over distances of 100m.

Schenck Process's pneumatic conveying technologies provide to clients system solutions that have low energy consumption, lower operational costs, increased reliability and lower maintenance costs with increased productivity and reduced risk of material spillage.