Impact of powder flow analysis on production
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Have you ever experienced powder build-up in pipes or other areas of production?
Do you suffer with material caking or non-uniform flow?
The Mercury Scientific Revolution can help:
- Find out how your powders behave
- Offers you repeatable, reliable information
- Low Cost
- Easy to use
I was recently at a company that designs ways of moving bulk powders. The company had been asked to design a piping system to move a powder coating product from one end of the plant to the other. Originally the system was going to be predominantly made from Polyurethane tubing but this design proved problematic as they experienced lots of sample build-up in areas (especially beds/corners) and some blockages accruing.
With the Mercury Scientific Revolution Powder Flow Analyser, they were able to determine a number of factors to finalise the design and get the powder moving freely around the factory.
Using the Revolution instrument they were able to measure the static charge build-up and behaviour of the powders. This enabled them to determine the effect of adding other materials to the tubing design to see if they could reverse or reduce the electrical charge build-up generated by the powder moving through the Polyurethane tubes. By adding materials such as copper “sleeves” at certain points in the system they kept the powder moving freely and not prone to sticking to the walls and building up into a blockage as before.
The Revolution Powder Flow Analyser gives you a wealth of information on the general followability of powders and what energy is needed to move them as a bulk material either by air or screw designs.
If you need help looking at caking, followability, static build-up or behaviours under heat-stress give Meritics a call and we can arrange a demonstration on how we can help.
Meritics Ltd –
www.meritics.com – 01582 704807 –
info@meritics.com
