Pneumatic Conveying Solutions

FOOD

GRANULATED SUGAR SYSTEM

Because granulated sugar is moisture and heat sensitive, CAMCORP engineers incorporate a conditioning package to control humidity and heat in storage and the transfer system. A dehumidifier with the cooling system is utilized to successfully transfer the heat-sensitive sugar from the storage silo to the scale hoppers with no sugar build-up in the system.

The granulated sugar system incorporates either truck or railcar unloading to the storage silos and reclaims the sugar from the silos using conditioned air and transfer to each destination with purge back to an intermediate dust collector that re-feeds the sugar back into the transfer system.

FOOD INGREDIENT HANDLING SYSTEM

Multiple systems with dedicated food flavoring ingredients are vacuum transferred from process equipment to dedicated vacuum filter receivers. CAMCORP engineers worked with the customers’ suppliers to seamlessly incorporate the vacuum convey systems from mixing, extrusion, fluid bed drying, sifting, grinding, and packaging. In addition to the vacuum convey systems, CAMCORP provided plant wide dust collection systems to pull process air and dust to central baghouse filters.

FLOUR AND SUGAR BULK HANDLING SYSTEM

Dilute phase conveying systems utilizing positive displacement blowers and airlocks were engineered to convey flour and granulated sugar. Because granulated sugar is heat and moisture sensitive and flour is moisture sensitive, CAMCORP engineers incorporate a conditioning package to control humidity and heat in the pressure transfer systems. A dehumidifier with the cooling system is utilized to successfully transfer the heat-sensitive sugar from the storage silo to the scale hoppers with no sugar build-up in the system.

Both flour and sugar systems transfer by dilute phase systems and incorporate in-line sifting to deliver proper sized material free of foreign material prior to the scale product hoppers. A separate pipe with booster fan is used on the flour system to convey the conditioned air to the top of the silo and change out the air every 15-minutes to help remove the moisture and control the silo temperature.

PLASTICS

PLASTICS REGRIND TRANSFER SYSTEM

Flexible unloading stations are used to fill and transfer to any one of six filter receivers by a vacuum dilute pneumatic conveying system. Two sets of reclaim systems can feed from the vacuum filter receivers into either one of four silos or vacuumed into railcars or transferred to bulk bag load stations. CAMCORP engineers designed the system to minimize cross-contamination of the various ingredient colors.

REGRIND PLASTIC SYSTEM

This system is designed to accept regrind plastic and transfer from a fines/overs separator to destoner. A pressure pneumatic transfer system reclaims from the discharge of the destoner and then conveys to any one of six bulk storage silos. CAMCORP engineers incorporated two central dust collection systems to vent dust from the devices to one of the two dust collectors.

TRUCK AND RAILCAR UNLOADING SYSTEMS

High volume truck and railcar unloading systems are designed to provide complete flexibility vacuum pressure convey systems to unload hopper bottom trucks and railcars. Either PD trucks or railcars can unload simultaneously with the hopper bottom style trucks.

Plastic resin is transferred to multiple silos for storage and a pressure reclaim system transfers required resin from a silo and then to a cyclone that discharges into downstream processes.