1. The pneumatic conveying of spheres through straight pipes
- Author
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J A Hitchcock and Claerwen M. Jones
- Subjects
Acceleration ,Range (particle radiation) ,Materials science ,Section (archaeology) ,General Engineering ,SPHERES ,Mechanics ,Pressure gradient - Abstract
This paper reports a technique for the study of pneumatically-conveyed solids. Two equations have been established experimentally which give the pressure gradient and solid velocity along a pipe when non-adhesive spherical particles (up to 7 mm in diameter) are being conveyed with little or no acceleration by an airstream through the pipe. Straight, smooth and horizontal pipes (up to 7 cm in diameter) are considered. Included in the paper is a section examining the practical application of the equations, and a successful check of the equations is made with some values of the variables outside the range studied in the paper.
- Published
- 1958