Simplified method of feed pipe balancing at pneumatic reactor feed

When an industrial process/a reactor is to be pneumatically fed with a solid material via several, simultaneously supplied feed points, one of the requirements is uniform distribution of the solids mass flows. To enable a precise calculation of the individual flows and total flows, numerous parameters are required.

TEXT Prof. Dipl.-Ing Peter Hilgraf, Dipl.-Ing. Marieke Moka, Claudius Peters Projects GmbH, Buxtehude/Germany

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