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The three preceding chapters have been concerned primarily with pneumatic conveying by pipeline, and consideration will now be given to a variation on this technique in which the particulate bulk solid is made to flow along a channel inclined at a shallow angle. Pneumatic conveying has several advantages over other methods of transporting bulk solids, but it suffers from two drawbacks. Firstly, the power consumption is quite high; and secondly, especially when conveying in dilute phase, the solids velocity is relatively high and may cause problems as a result of particle degradation and erosive wear of the pipeline and system components. Both of these difficulties may be minimized by conveying in dense phase, that is, with a higher ratio of solids to air, so that the quantity of air used is smaller and the conveying velocity is lower.
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Woodcock, C.R., Mason, J.S. (1987). Air-assisted gravity conveying. In: Bulk Solids Handling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2635-6_15
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