How Vacuum Conveying Works

With vacuum conveying, materials are drawn to the delivery point through a totally enclosed pipeline, in a clean, contained stream of air generated by a vacuum pump.

In vacuum conveying, no moving parts contact the materials, no dust escapes into the atmosphere and no contamination can enter the system.

For food and pharmaceutical applications, mirror polished stainless steel hoppers and receiving vessels meet the strictest hygiene standards and are easily disassembled for routine cleaning and product change.

The Advantages Of Vacuum Conveying

Efficiency
Safety
Hygiene
Cost effectiveness
Flexibility
Automation
Dust free operation
No contamination

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Special Pneumatic Conveying Projects

Unique problems are a welcome challenge to Premier Pneumatics; they often introduce us to a whole new area of business.

Whether replacing outdated technology or mechanizing manual operations, our resourceful designers will engineer a custom vacuum conveying solution.

Examples of Challenging Vacuum Conveying Projects

Fragile foodstuffs such as nuts and spaghetti shapes were being handled using cumbersome, difficult to clean bucket elevators... until we designed a gentle pneumatic conveying system that caused no product damage.

Hot melt adhesive pellets were always manually handled, exposing operators to fumes and splashes of hot molten glue... until we developed vacuum conveying equipment which ensures continuous direct transfer of the pellets to the point of use.

Safety and hygiene

Wherever hygiene, product integrity, dust control and operator safety are paramount, Premier Pneumatics can provide clean controlled vacuum conveying.

Batch and Continuous

Our vacuum conveying equipment delivers bulk materials in batches or as a continuous flow, lending itself to a wide range of applications:

transfer from bulk store to process
check screening of raw materials
mixer loading and unloading

Application Example:

Conveying through Conical Screen Mills
Conical Screen Mills (also referred to as Cone Mills) are gentle size reduction mills which are often used to precondition the material prior to its entry into a process, either by delumping or coarse size reduction.
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Products Premier Pneumatics P-Series Has Conveyed:

From our test data on more than 5000 products, here are just a few of the many products Premier Pneumatics can convey:

Vacuum Conveying of Pharmaceutical Products
FILLED CAPSULES
LAXATIVES
aspirin TABLETS
COLD AND FLU REMEDY
CITRIC ACID
BICARBONATE OF SODA
MILLED SUGAR
TABLET GRANULATE
MAGNESIUM
ENZYMES
SODIUM sulfate
CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS
PARACETAMOL
EFFERVESCENT POWDER

Vacuum Conveying of Food Products
ICING SUGAR
FLOUR
GRANULATED SUGAR
DEXTROSE
BREAD CRUMBS
COFFEE GRANULES
TEA
COCONUT
GRATED CHEESE
FULL CREAM MILK
PEANUTS
SALT
FROZEN VEGETABLES
CHOCOLATE COATED SWEETS
PUFFED RICE
BATTER MIXES
(and thousands more)

Vacuum Conveying of Chemical Products
stannous CHLORIDE
CHINA CLAY
TALCUM
AEROSIL (FUMED SILICA)
FULLERS EARTH
SODIUM sulfate
METAL POWDERS
GYPSUM
HYDRATED LIME
gelatin
DETERGENTS
SALT