Pneumatic Flow Aid Systems

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Force Vector uses the Air-Slide to create an ongoing blockage prevention system. Eliminate your rat holes, arching and sticky buildup. See the Airslide in action!

The Air-Slide is an air injection system that combines the power of a blaster with a sophisticated feeding system to prevent the build up of caked-on material. The Air-Slide uses less air than air pads, blaster, lances or pneumatic vibrators.

The Air-slide uses a total approach system. The system consists of strategically located air-slides with integral dust-type solenoid valves, air receiver and electronic sequencer-timer. The system is programmed to the problem and flow requirements to pulse fire small amounts of high velocity air along the container wall. Up to an 8 foot diameter of material is dislodged. It can also be piped for installation inside containers and can operate in temperatures above 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Force Vector coordinates with Deca Vibrator to provide the other materials and means to keep your products flowing.

Why Air-slide works Powerful mini-pulses of air are directed between the material and the container wall to sweep and lift material off sloping surfaces. Loosened material falls toward the outlet, initiating downward flow of bin contents. Sequenced, timed firing of strategically placed Air-Slides maintains a positive and controlled outflow with a minimum expenditure of air. Unlike a conventional blaster, the Air-Slide system does not cause overflow of material into the discharge. Instead, because the system uses several strategically placed nozzles, material outflow can be controlled by sequentially firing the nozzles from lowest to highest. By firing from lowest to highest, the material is always flushed away from the discharge, first, initiating flow, before additional material is activated from above. Nozzles are sized based upon come or hopper size; Air-slide coverage is typically approximately 60% of the cone or hopper; less if only aeration is needed (i.e. flour, or readily fluidizable materials); sometimes more if product is very heave, wet, sticky, or with very poor flow characteristics. Click here to learn how Cardox really works

Benefits The average system uses less than 10 CFM of plant air. No damage, vibration, stress or wear to container walls. Easy installation. No need to empty bins or stop production. Air-slide eliminates labor-intensive, costly rodding, hammering or air lancing.

A Quality Product The Air-Slide lasts because it has only one moving part, the piston, which features a dust type nozzle that quickly recluses and reseals after firing. Fines and feedback material are locked out, eliminating clogging and jamming. For added strength and wear resistance, Deca Air-slide parts are machined from blocks of high grade steel. Quality control is strict to keep the Air-Slide operational for years without attention.

Where to Use it Any place granular or fine material builds up or bridges is the place for this system, in metal, concrete, wood, or fiberglass bins, hoppers, silos, chutes, batchers, conveyor transfer points, larry cars, screens, feeders, and centrifuges. Pipes, pneumatic convey lines, dust collectors, live bottoms, centrifuges.

Industries Mining, Plastics, Chemical, Construction, Pharmaceutical, Food, and Agriculture

Mined Materials Chemicals Foods Other Coal (coke, mine run silt, pulverized) Adipic Acid Animal Feeds Foundry Sand (Mold green, prepared no-bake) Aluminum Aluminum Chloride Brewers Grain Barite Ag Limestone Brine (dust) Cement Bentonite Boric Acid Chocolate Chalk Borax Calcine Coffee Cork Diatomaceous Earth Calcium Carbonate Feed Detergent Copper Herbicides Flour Fertilizer Gypsum Iron Oxide Meal Fly Ash Iron Ore Lead Chromate Peanuts Pharmaceuticals Limestone Lim Salt Plastics Lead Moly Disulfite Tankage Resin Lignite Polyacrilimide   Sludge Magnetite Sodium Sulfite     Phosphate Titanium Dioxide     Shale Zinc (Acetate, Chromate , Oxide)     Soda Ash     Taconite       Uranium