Sugar is a primary raw material which contributes many useful properties to food industry, nutraceutical industry and many other industries.
The prime reason for the use of sugar is its sweet taste, sugar has many other functions in food technology. The most important among these are that added sugar in foods acts as a sweetener, preservative, texture modifier, fermentation substrate, flavouring and colouring agent, bulking agent.
Sugars are an important ingredient in manufactured foods we find on our supermarket shelves. Sugars help many foods to be more delicious, improving their flavour and mouthfeel.
So, the sugar is crucial raw material in food and processing industry and always on high demand in several tonnes. To fulfil such high requirement Sugar Conveying System came into existence. Sugar particles are conveyed by
Dense phase pneumatic conveying →
It is a high pressure, low velocity system that moves fragile, abrasive or easily degradable dry material down the line gently and effectively. It pushes material in an enclosed pipe from single/multiple sources to single/multiple destination using a diverter valve.
Material conveyed by this method is loaded into a pressure vessel. When the vessel is full compressed air is metered into the vessel. The compressed air pushes the material from the pressure vessel into the conveying line and to the destination. Once the vessel is empty, the compressed air is turned off and the vessel is reloaded. The cycle continues until all the required material is transferred.
Dilute Phase / Lean Phase Pneumatic Conveying →
Lean/Dilute phase pneumatic conveying system is a low pressure, high velocity system that moves dry powdered or granular bulk materials through a pipeline. In dilute phase conveying particles are fully suspended in air and transported from one location to another. This system is ideal for conveying durable, non-abrasive material. With diverter valves, multiple destination delivery one after the other reception points can be arranged easily with positive pressure systems.
However, the use of Dense phase or Dilute Phase Pneumatic Conveying is solely dependent on factors like type of sugar, application and per hour capacity requirement.