Aeromechanical Conveyors
Conveying Material with Aeromechanical Conveyors
CMT Process Solutions offers Aeromechanical Conveyors for the efficient, economical, and reliable transfer of powders, granules, pellets, flakes, and other dry bulk solids. Designed for batch processing and continuous material handling applications, these enclosed conveying systems provide high throughput while maintaining product integrity, minimizing dust generation, and reducing operating costs.
Aeromechanical Conveyors utilize a continuous stainless-steel wire rope fitted with evenly spaced polymer discs that travel at high speed through a sealed conveying tube. The moving disc assembly generates an internal air stream that fluidizes the material and conveys it efficiently to the discharge point, where centrifugal force releases the product. Because the conveying air remains contained within the system, external dust collection requirements are significantly reduced compared to conventional pneumatic conveying systems.
The closely spaced discs create controlled conveying pockets that help prevent material segregation, making Aeromechanical Conveyors an excellent choice for blended products, fragile materials, and applications requiring consistent product quality. The gentle conveying action minimizes product degradation while maintaining blend integrity throughout the transfer process.
Key benefits include high conveying capacities with low power consumption, dust-tight operation, self-emptying performance for efficient batch changeovers, flexible installation in horizontal, vertical, or inclined configurations, and a compact footprint that simplifies plant integration. These systems are widely used in food, chemical, plastics, minerals, and industrial processing applications where cleanliness, efficiency, and product quality are critical.
CMT Process Solutions can evaluate your material characteristics, process requirements, and facility layout to determine the optimal Aeromechanical Conveyor solution for your application.
Features and Advantages
Principle of Operation
Our Aeroflow AeroMechanical conveyors are of a tubular design in which a continuous wire rope assembly with accurately spaced polyurethane discs move at high speed. At each end of the conveyor, the rope assembly runs around specially designed sprockets, one of which drives the rope assembly and the other tensions it. The drive assembly can be located at either the inlet or outlet of the conveyor depending on its length or to suit plant requirements.
- No dust collection system. Because no additional air is added to convey materials in an aero mechanical conveyor, there is no excess air at the outlet from which to filter entrained dust. Any entrained material that is not ejected at the outlet is simply carried round the enclosed system until it is.
- Low power consumption. The aero mechanical conveyor is one of the most efficient mechanical conveyors available and therefore keep power requirements and costs to a minimum.
- Total transfer. We would be deluding ourselves as well as our customers to claim total transfer. Of course, as in any other conveyor or vessel, fine powders will adhere to the walls of the conveying tubes to one degree or another BUT, for all intents and purposes, for everyday bulk solids and ingredients handling applications; what is feed into the conveyor at the inlet is discharged at the outlet. This makes the aero mechanical conveyor ideal for transferring pre-weighed batches of bulk and/or minor ingredients.
- Gentle conveying action. Materials are suspended in a cushion of air that lines the walls of the conveying tubes as it is displaced by the discs travelling at speed. This makes for a gentle conveying action that minimizes damage to fragile finished products as they are conveyed to packaging machines, for example.
Advantages of Aeromechanical Conveying
- Total containment.
- Proven design that allows top-of-the line efficiency.
- Has round the corner configurations.
- Dust free
- Convey material up to 120,000 kg/hr.
- Multi-outlet distribution.
- Operates at any angle.
- Easy to clean
- Dust-free Conveying
- No Dust Collection System
- Low Power Consumption
- Proven Design
- Operates at any angle from 0-90°
- Transfers Materials Vertically & Horizontally
- Total Transfer
- Gentle Conveying Action
- Multiple Inlets & Outlets
- Mobile
- Conveys Difficult Materials
- Maintains Mixtures
- High Throughput
- Totally Enclosed for Total Containment
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Videos
Bulk Bag Unloader - Vibratory Feeder - Aeromechanical Conveyor
Portable Bag Dump Station Feeding an Aeromechanical Conveyor