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CPI Product Review 2015 Special Advertising Section
Handle virtually any bulk solid material
Flexicon stand-alone equipment and automated plant-wide systems convey, discharge,
condition, fill, dump and weigh batch bulk materials dust-free
lexicon engineers and manufactures a broad range of equipment
that handles virtually any bulk material, from large pellets
to sub-micron powders, including free-flowing and non-free-flowing
products that pack, cake, plug, smear, fluidize, or separate.
Individual bulk handling equipment includes: flexible screw conF
veyors,
tubular cable conveyors, pneumatic conveying systems,
bulk bag dischargers, bulk bag conditioners, bulk bag fillers, bag
dump stations, drum/box/container dumpers, and weigh batching/
blending systems. Each of these product groups encompasses a
broad range of models that can be custom engineered for specialized
applications, and integrated with new or existing upstream and
downstream processes and storage vessels.
All equipment is available to food, dairy, pharmaceutical and industrial
standards.
For large-scale bulk handling projects, Flexicon's separate
Project Engineering Division provides dedicated Project Managers
and engineering teams on four continents to handle projects from
concept to completion. Working with each customer's preferred engineering
firm or directly with their in-house team, Flexicon adheres
strictly to the customer's unique standards, documentation requirements
and timelines through a single point of contact, eliminating
the risk of coordinating multiple suppliers.
Flexicon's worldwide testing facilities simulate full-size customer
equipment and systems, verify performance prior to fabrication,
demonstrate newly constructed equipment for visiting customers,
Pilot plant pump solutions
Valveless ceramic pumps from Fluid
Metering are accurate and durable
P
ilot plants generate vital information to
be used in the design of full-scale process
and production facilities. Not only do pilot
plants reduce the financial risk associated
with building larger facilities, but they also
test process feasibility and accommodate
process refinement.
Valveless, ceramic pumps from Fluid
Metering, Inc. have proven to be ideal for
pilot plant fluid control. The sapphire-hard internal
components of Fluid Metering pumps
eliminate accuracy drift typical of pumping
systems that rely on elastomers (flexible
tubing and diaphragms) to move fluid through the pump. Fluid
Metering pumps' unique valveless rotating and reciprocation piston
design also eliminates the need for check valves, which can clog,
leak or fail over time. The result is a valveless, ceramic metering
pump, which will maintain drift-free accuracy better than 1% for millions
of cycles.
In addition, pilot plant operations require the ability to easily
change process parameters including flowrate. Fluid Metering
pumps easily accommodate that requirement as flowrates can be
controlled either mechanically and/or electronically via standard industrial
control protocols. Fluid Metering pumps have been used in
pilot plant operations for over 55 years.
Flexicon offers stand-alone bulk handling equipment as well as
plant-wide systems integrated with new or existing processes
and study the performance of new designs.
In 2015 the company doubled the size of its manufacturing facility
and world headquarters in Bethlehem, PA, and also operates
manufacturing facilities in Kent, United Kingdom; QLD, Australia;
and Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
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Radar for measuring level
The new Centurion Guided Radar from Hawk
Measurement works with liquids and solids
H
awk Measurement Systems has added
the Centurion Guided Radar (CGR) to its
portfolio of level measurement equipment.
Based on time domain reflectometry (TDR),
the HAWK CGR has been developed to operate
in some of the most demanding environments.
The CGR has been designed to digitize a
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threshold that eliminates extraneous reflections and
noise, and allows the blanking area to be reduced
to 50 mm. HAWK is known for high-accuracy level
products in difficult applications using minimum
power. HAWK's CGR was designed for easy installation
and calibration, with an automatic setup
routine which can be performed in wet or dry environments.
The start-up menu is clear, with only a
few steps to follow.
The HAWK CGR is able to provide precise and continuous
measurement with extremely low-dielectric
(1.5) materials. Since radar pulses are directed via a
guide, factors like surface turbulence, foams, pressure,
dust, vacuum, vapors, temperature, dielectric constant,
and tank obstructions do not influence the measurement.
The CGR offers auto-calibration to any dielectric
constant ≥1.5, adjustable sensitivity and
simple setup.
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