Aerator Pads
Aerator Pads will help with uniform flow and discharge of dry bulk materials through aeration and hopper wall vibration. It prevents bridging, rat holing and compacting in storage silos, dust collectors, weigh bins and IBC's. Aeration pads are simple to use, low cost flow aids. Pads introduce low volume air into the powder through a non-clogging diffuser.
Principle of Operations
Aerator Pads operates by continuously introducing air into the body of the dry powder. When a powder is first conveyed into a storage vessel it is actually a highly aerated mixture of air and particulate. In this state the mixture flows quite readily. However, as the powder settles the solid particulate and air separate resulting in a decrease in volume and an increase in bulk density. In this deaerated state powders can behave more like a single large solid structure rather than a fluid-like mixture. By replacing the naturally lost air, the air to particulate mixture ratio is held thus maintaining the fluid like characteristic of the aerated powder.
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