BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV3I11104,
     title={Design of Pneumatic Conveying System},
     author={Anish Joseph, Akhil Raj P, Harinarayanan S and Tobin Thomas},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={3},
     number={11},
     pages={246--251},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV3I11104.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

Conveying of powder like substance in industries are used by conventional conveyors such as bucket elevators, screw conveyors. In case of volatile or expensive materials such as Titanium dioxide, which is used mainly in paint industries, usage of conventional conveyors is not economical. Titanium dioxide powder is used for the production of inks, plastics, textiles, ceramics etc. It is commonly produced by the chloride route process of Rutile grade pigment. Due to the fine powdering nature of the material this system has certain problems like frequent spillage and fine powder escaping. Though some amount of powder is regained with the help of filtrate recovery process, this process is time consuming and expensive. Thus this spillage and other associated troubles are found to be one of the serious problems faced by the industries. Here fully refined powder material is wasted whereby the industries suffer huge losses both directly and indirectly. Hence this study is to determine the reasons behind this problem and to suggest a suitable remedy. As a long term solution, replacement of the conventional conveying system with a Pneumatic conveying system was suggested.

Titanium dioxide powder, screw conveyers, bucket elevator, pneumatic conveying system