Solid Sense Articles.
A series of concise, guideline articles on varied solids handling topics
- Increasing the rate of discharge from hoppers
- Selecting the optimum hopper shape of bulk storage hopper
- It’s important to know the language.
- Dealing with damp bulk materials, filter cake and centrifuged products
- A new approach to feeder load
- Recommended Steps for Reliable Pneumatic Conveying
- Recommended practice for hopper discharge screws.
- Probe deeply what is to be handled.
- Handling fine powders.
- The importance of feeder extraction patterns on flow regimes
- The value of good hopper interfacing design.
- Batch or continuous mixing?
- Quick Guide to the Selection of Flow Regime for a Bulk Storage Hopper
- Avoiding common caking problems
- The Evolution of Powder Technology
- Ten Key steps for Characterising Bulk Materials
- Belt Feeder optimisation
- Evaluation of Options to Change the Flow Profile in Silos
- Chute Transfer
- Top 10 Tips on dealing with Segregation
- Powder Testing for Flow
- Regimes of flow in storage hoppers
- Guidelines to Prevent Particle Jamming or Structural Blockages
- Reason for hopper outlets to be larger than the critical span
- Prospects for Mass Flow
- Hopper Design Chart
- Bulk Density control
- Ten Golden Rules for Solids Handling Projects
- Silo Quaking
- The Screw Commandments
- For the un-enlightened Purchaser of Solids Handling plant
- The Use of Inserts in Hoppers
BMHB Publications relating to Solids Handling.
‘Glossary of Terms in Powder and Bulk Technology’ – by Lyn Bates
Price £25.00 plus P & P
‘User Guide to Particle Attrition in Mechanical Handling Equipment’
Price £20.00 plus P & P.
‘User Guide to Segregation’ (IBSN 0 94 6637 11 3) – by Lyn Bates
Price £30.00 plus P & P
‘Guide to the Control of Dusty Materials in Large Scale Installations’
Price £35.00 plus £5.00 P & P
‘Guide to the Selection and Use of Intermediate Bulk Containers’ – by Tom Taylor
Price £20.00 plus P & P
‘Guide to the Design, Selection and Application of Screw Feeders’ – by Lyn Bates
Price £50.00 plus P & P (ISBN 1 86058 285 0)
‘Guide to the selection of valves for solids handling’ – by Tom Taylor
Price £30.00 plus P & P
‘Guide to the Handling of Dusty Materials in Large Scale Handling Operations’ – by T.Taylo
Price £30.00 plus P & P
‘The Global Status of Bulk Materials Handling’ – by Lyn Bates
Price £20.00 plus P & P
‘Code of Practice for the Purchase and Operations of Fabric Filters for Durst Control’ – by Dr. R.W.K.Allen
Price £25.00 plus P & P
Out of print publications – available as photocopies.
‘Powder Testing Guide – Methods of measuring the physical properties’ – by L. Svarovsky
Price £25.00 plus P & P
‘Vibration Guidelines – The effect of Vibration on Bulk Materials and Plant ’ – by W.E.Hepworth
Price £5.00 plus P & P
‘Bulk Solids – Physical Properties Test Guide’– by H.N.Wilkingson
Price £20.00 plus P & P
‘Guidelines for Specifying Weighfeeder Systems’.
Price £25.00 plus P & P
BMHB Publications relating to Solids Handling.
‘Powder Testing Guide’ – by L.Savaroski
Method of measuring the physical properties of bulk powders
(ISBN 1 85166 137 9)
Published by Elsevier Applied Science Publishers
Crown House, Linton Road, Barking, Essex. EG11 8JU
‘Economic Guide to the Design of Circular Metal Silos’ – by Michael J. Rotter
(ISBN 0 419 23460 8)
Published by SPON Press
11 Fetter Lane, London
‘Process Vessels subject to Explosion Risk’ – Ed by S. Pilkington
(ISBN 0 85295 428 X)
Published by I.Chem.E
Davis Building, 165 -189 Railway Terrace, Rugby,
Warwickshire. CV21 3HQ
‘Silos – Draft Design Code’ Author Dr F.F.H. Valantine
Joint Publications British Standards Institute
by BSI and BMHB
389 Chiswick High Road London W4 4AL
About BMHB
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Solids Handling
Serious commissioning and operating problems are found to arise much more frequently in plants that handle solids that in those that handle liquids and gasses. Read More
Technology
Hopper design was virtually a black art until the 1960’s, when Andrew Jenike published Bull 123 of the University of Utah experimental station. Read More
Publications
This page contains links to some of our most popular guidance publications we have produced. Please feel free to order our test and design guides and share them with your colleagues. Read More
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