I had figured as much. The product conveyed is tobacco dust (not particularly abrasive). It is not atypical to convey this material at 6000-6500 FPM with no major issues but the systems I'm familiar with run intermittently. This application is a housekeeping vac system so even though the...
Dear all:
I am designing a new dilute phase vacuum pnuematic conveying system which will utilize some existing transport piping. One of the objectives for the new design is to improve the system capacity. I am, however, concerned about causing excessive wear in the existing piping system due...