Pneumatic Conveying Applications for Food and Food Ingredients Processing
Coperion K-Tron provides pressure and vacuum pneumatic conveying to solve your material handling needs in the food and pet food industries. The following system drawings illustrate some of the custom solutions Premier can provide for transporting flour, salt, sugar, pepper, coffee, peanuts, cereal and many other bulk materials from railcar unloading to storage, feeding, batching or check weighing of major and minor ingredients.
Material Handling Systems for Food Ingredients:
Flour, Wheat Gluten, Corn Flour, Semolina Flour and more
Coperion K-Tron Premier offers material handling expertise in applying pneumatic conveying systems for food and pet food processes:
You can see larger views of all the following food and pet food application drawings in this PDF (does not require registration).
![]() Pressure Transfer (System 3) Hard Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten 5,000 lbs / hr 1 Source 3 Destinations 35 ft H 20 ft V Rail Load-Out (System 4) Hard Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten 10,000 lbs / hr each profile 3 Sources 3 Destinations 100 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: |
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![]() Vacuum Transfer Corn Flour 42,000 lbs / hr each profile 1 Source 1 Destination 380 ft H 48 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum transfer - corn flour |
![]() Dust Collection Corn Flour 28 lbs / cu. ft. 1 Source 1 Destination 84 ft H View full size drawing: Dust collection - corn flour |
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![]() Rail Unload (System 1) Hard Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten 10,000 lbs / hr each profile 1 Source 2 Destinations 50 ft H 80 ft V Pressure Transfer (System 2) Hard Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten 5,000 lbs / hr each profile 2 Sources 1 Destination 35 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: Rail unload and pressure transfer system - hard wheat flour and wheat gluten |
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Scaling - Pressure |
Scaling - Pressure |
Vacuum Transfer 53,000 lbs / hr 4 Sources 1 Destination 90 ft H 40 ft V View full size drawing: Continuous vacuum conveying - corn flour |
Material Handling Systems and Applications: Sugar
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![]() Pressure Transfer Granulated Sugar 7,500 lbs / hr Multiple Sources Multiple Destinations 15 - 150 ft H 20 - 45 ft V View full size drawing: Pressure transfer -granulated sugar |
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Material Handling Systems and Applications: Starch
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Pressure Transfer (System 1) |
Material Handling Systems and Applications: Salt
![]() Vacuum Sequence - Scaling Salt 2,000 lbs / hr 1 Source 2 Destinations 220 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum sequencing and scaling - salt |
![]() Pressure Transfer Salt 1,440 lbs / hr each destination 2 Source 7 Destinations 300 - 550 ft H 45 - 65 ft V View full size drawing: Pressure conveying system - salt |
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Material Handling Systems and Applications: Calcium Carbonate
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Material Handling Systems and Applications: Coffee
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![]() Ground Coffee 2,200 lbs / hr 6 Sources 6 Destinations 75 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum sequencing system - ground coffee |
Material Handling Systems and Applications: Peanuts
![]() Vacuum Sequencing Roasted Peanuts 13,500 lbs / hr 1 Source 1 Destination 25 ft H 25 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum sequencing - roasted peanuts |
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