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.
