Pneumatic Conveying Equipment and Systems
Conveying systems and solutions for the bulk material handling industries
Premier Pneumatics: Single Component to Complete Systems
Premier Pneumatics serves as the brand name for K-Tron's entire pneumatic conveying and component product line. The former K-Tron PCS and K-Tron Colormax product lines are now sold as part of the Premier Pneumatics brand. Whether your material handling application requires a single component or a complete system, Premier Pneumatics stands ready to be your single source for pneumatic conveying.
Premier Pneumatics Equipment Overview
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Pneumatic conveying equipment serving the following industries:
Pneumatic Conveying Systems:
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Bulk unloading and storage systems for railcar, trucks and bags
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Weighing and scaling systems (Vacuum and/or pressure)
Components: 
- Aerolocks and Accessories
- Valves
- Receivers
- Bin Vents
- Cyclones
- Blower Packages
- Tubing, Adapters, Misc.Tubing, Misc.
- Rail Car Load & Unload Components
- Flow Aids
- In Line Filters
- Butterfly Gates
- Storage Tanks
- Level Indicators
- Automated Control Systems
Sanitary Pneumatic Conveying
Premier offers high quality pneumatic conveying systems and equipment for the food, pharmaceutical, chemical and packaging industries.
- Dust free stainless or mild steel vacuum systems
- Dense phase vacuum systems for fragile and pre-mixed product
- Sophisticated controls
- Positive pressure lean phase systems
- Specialized powder handling for non free flowing products
- Turn key systems
- Abrasion resistant systems
- High accuracy multi material weighers
- 3A dairy models available
The former K-Tron PCS family of vacuum conveying equipment is now part of the Premier Pneumatics brand.
It is comprised of the following:
M-Series Equipment:
The M-Series offers filterless and filtered vacuum loaders and receivers for conveying freeflowing materials mainly in the plastics industries.
P-Series Equipment: The P-Series filtered receivers are specially designed for use with powders and friable materials in sanitary applications.
Auxiliary Equipment:
To complement the M and P-Series vacuum conveyors Premier PCS also offers a range of auxiliary equipment, such as controls, vacuum pumps, collection boxes, bag dump stations, valves, piping and much more.
For help choosing a M or P-Series vacuum conveyor to refill your feeder, see the Pneumatic Conveying Selection Guide (PDF file - requires registration).
Elements of a Vacuum Conveying System
From pick-up spike to piping to receivers and vacuum pumps, Premier offers a wide range of equipment for pneumatic conveying needs, whether for automated refill of feeding systems or as stand alone conveying applications. The following list describes the varied elements available from K-Tron for building a complete conveying system for loss-in-weight feeder refill (pictured in the diagram above).
Material Pick-up
From simple suction wands for free flowing materials to fully fluidized feed bins (1), silo pick-up pots (2) or bag dump stations (3) with prefeeders for powders, Premier offers a wide variety of equipment to ensure reliable material pick-up into the conveying air.
Conveying Line
Connecting one or multiple material pick up stations to a vacuum receiver. To ensure blockage-free conveying, diverter valves (4) and line clearance valves (5) are available in addition to the piping (6).
Vacuum Receivers
Various models of central (7) and self-contained receivers are available to separate the material from the conveying air stream, alternating between suction and discharge modes of operation.
Sequence & Vent Valves
Sequence & vent valves (8) allow the air stream to bypass and vent the vacuum receiver during the discharge cycle.
Pump Packages
Vacuum pump packages include the pump -- regenerative blower (9), sliding vane or rotary lobe blower(10) -- to produce the air stream as well a bypass valve (11) to allow the pump to run while no receiver is conveying and a secondary filter (12) to protect the vacuum pump from entrance of foreign bodies.
Controls
HCU/HSU control and operator interface are available to control a single central or self-contained unit. To control the sequence of a multi-component system PLC controls (13) are available which are programmed to suit the client’s process. Siemens, Mitsubishi and Allen Bradley PLC controls are available.