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Pneumatic Conveying Applications for Food and Food Ingredients Processing

K-Tron Premier systems provide 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.

Food industry pneumatic conveying system shoing major ingredient rail car unloading and bactching with minor ingredients

Material Handling Systems for Food Ingredients:
Flour, Wheat Gluten, Corn Flour, Semolina Flour and more

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: Pressure transfer - hard wheat flour and gluten	Scaling - Pressure Hard Wheat Flour 2,500 lbs / hr each profile 2 Sources 2 Destinations 100 ft H 60 ft V View full size drawing: Scaling system - hard wheat flour
Pressure Transfer Corn Flour 9,000 lbs/hr 1 Source 1-2 Destinations 36-110 ft H 36-51 ft V View full size drawing: Pressure transfer - corn flour	Scaling - Pressure Semolina Flour 7,200 lbs/hr 1 Source 1 Destination 80 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum sequencing - semolina flour
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
Vacuum transfer (System 3) Corn Flour 30,000 lbs / hr 3 Sources 1 Destination 210 ft H 30 ft V Pressure Transfer (System 3A) Corn Flour 30,000 lbs / hr 1 Source 2 Destinations 200 ft H 40 ft V View full size drawing: Continuous vacuum and pressure transfer - corn flour	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
Pressure Transfer Corn Flour 22,000 lbs / hr 5 Sources 2 Destinations 75 ft H 35 ft V View full size drawing: Continuous pressure conveying - corn flour	Scaling - Pressure Flour 9,000 lbs / hr 2 Sources 4 Destinations 200 ft H 30 ft V View full size drawing: Scaling system with continuous pressure conveying - flour
Scaling - Pressure Hard Wheat Flour 6,000 lbs / hr 1 Source 2 Destinations 150 ft H 35 ft V View full size drawing: Hard wheat flour scaling with pressure transfer	Vacuum Transfer Corn Flour 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

Scaling - Pressure Fine Sugar 17,000 lbs/hr 2 Sources 1 Destination 550 ft H 40 ft V View full size drawing: Scaling system - pressure - fine sugar	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
Vacuum Transfer Granulated Sugar 4,500 lbs / hr 1 Source 6 Destinations 150 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum transfer - granulated sugar	Closed-Loop Scaling System Granulated Sugar, Powdered Sugar & Dextrose 10,000 lbs/hr 3 Sources 2 Destinations 100 ft H 30 ft V View full size drawing: Closed-loop scaling system with airlock - granulated sugar, powdered sugar, dextrose
Pressure Transfer (System 3) Powdered Sugar 8,000 lbs / hr 1 Source 3 Destinations 200 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: Pressure transfer system - starch, powdered sugar

Material Handling Systems and Applications: Starch

Pressure Transfer
Powdered Starch
1,900 lbs / hr each profile
1 Source
6 Destinations
30 ft H
40 ft V

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Pressure transfer - powdered starch

Rail Unload
Starch
20,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
1 Destination
450 ft H
68 ft V

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Rail unload system - starch

Scaling - Pressure
Starch
5,000 lbs
1 Source
1 Destination
200 ft H
35 ft V

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Scaling system - pressure - starch

Pressure Transfer (System 1)
Starch
1,200 lbs / hr
1 Source
1 Destination
200 ft H
50 ft V

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Pressure transfer - starch and powdered sugar

Material Handling Systems and Applications: Salt

Vacuum Sequence - Scaling
Salt
2,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
2 Destinations
220 ft H
20 ft V

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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

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Pressure conveying system - salt

Vacuum Sequence
Salt
2,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
2 Destinations
180 ft H
20 ft V

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Material Handling Systems and Applications: Calcium Carbonate

Rail Unload
Calcium Carbonate
12,000 - 14,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
2 Destinations
150 ft H
30 ft V

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Rail unload - calcium carbonate

Material Handling Systems and Applications: Coffee

Vacuum Sequence
Ground Coffee
4,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
6 Destinations
20 ft H
20 ft V

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Vacuum sequencing system - ground coffee

Pressure Transfer and Vacuum Sequencing Systems
Whole and Ground Roasted Coffee Beans
Various lbs/ hr
Multiple Sources
Multiple Destinations
Various ft H
Various ft V

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Pressure and vacuum sequencing -
whole and ground roasted coffee beans

Vacuum Sequence
Ground Coffee
2,200 lbs / hr
6 Sources
6 Destinations
75 ft H
20 ft V
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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

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Vacuum sequencing - roasted peanuts

Vacuum Sequencing
Roasted Peanuts
13,500 lbs / hr
1 - 6 Sources
1 Destination
40 ft H
15 ft V

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Vacuum sequencing - roasted peanuts

Vacuum Sequencing
Whole Raw Peanuts
13,500 lbs / hr
1 Source
2 Destinations
25 ft H
25 ft V

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Vacuum sequencing - whole raw peanuts

Vacuum Sequencing
Peanut Pieces
7,500 lbs / hr
1 Source
2 Destinations
110 ft H
25 ft V

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Vacuum sequencing - peanut pieces

Material Handling Systems and Applications: Gravy Mix

Vacuum to Check Weigh Hopper
Gravy Mix, Sugar & Flour
9,400 lbs / hr
1 Source
2 Destinations
35 ft H
25 ft V

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Material Handling Systems and Applications:
Miscellaneous Ingredients

Vacuum Scaling Sodium Sulfate, Sodium Carbonate & Sodium Borate Decahydrate 12,000 lbs / hr 4 Sources 1 Destination 100 ft H 20 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum scaling - misc. food ingredients	Vacuum Sequencing Dextrose, Dried Milk Solids & Granulated Sugar 2,200 lbs / hr 1 Source 1 Destination 35 ft H 10 ft V View full size drawing Vacuum sequencing - dried milk solids, sugar
Vacuum In-Plant and Vacuum Sequencing Buttermilk, Bran, Salt and Others 3,000 - 4,400 lbs / hr Multiple Sources Multiple Destinations 100 - 170 ft H 25 - 30 ft V View full size drawing: In-plant vacuum and vacuum sequencing - buttermilk, bran, salt, misc. food ingredients	Vacuum Transfer Cocoa 2,500 lbs / hr 1 Source 1 Destination 35 ft H 15 ft V View full size drawing: Vacuum transfer - cocoa

Material Handling Systems and Applications: Pet Food Ingredients

Pressure Transfer
Meat Protein
12,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
1 Destination
30 ft H
40 ft V

Vacuum Transfer
Dried Yeast & Monosodium Phosphate
5,000 lbs / hr
2 Sources
1 Destination
30 ft H
10 ft V

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Pet food pressure and vacuum conveying

Material Handling Systems and Applications:
Mustard Seed, Pepper, Cereal, Popcorn

Vacuum / Pressure Transfer
Mustard Seed
Multiple Systems and Rates

Scaling - Pressure
Mustard Seed
8,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
1 Destination
197 ft H
20 ft V

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Vacuum and pressure transfer - mustard seed

Pressure Transfer
Whole Pepper
10,000 lbs / hr
Multiple Sources
Multiple Destinations
160 -0271 ft H
30 ft V

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Pressure transfer - whole pepper

Pressure Transfer
Milled Pepper
Multiple Systems and Multiple Rates

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Pressure transfer - milled pepper

Vacuum Transfer
Cereal
20,000 lbs / hr
4 Sources
1 Destination
140 ft H
10 ft V

Pressure Transfer
Cereal
20,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
1 of 2 Destinations
200 ft H
120 ft V

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Vacuum and pressure transfer - cereal

Vacuum Sequencing
Popcorn
3,600 - 4,800 lbs / hr
Multiple Sources
Multiple Destinations
200 + ft H
25 ft V

Pressure Transfer
Popcorn
45,000 lbs / hr
1 Source
2 Destinations
70 ft H
25 ft V

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Vacuum and pressure conveying - popcorn

View larger: See larger views of all the above food and pet food application drawings in this PDF (does not require registration).