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By K-Tron Process Group
Bins may perform a simple function, but their design is crucial to keeping process material on the move.
Anyone who has had to resort to sledgehammer blows to persuade materials to flow from a bin knows of the complexities and difficulties of bin design. Before the physics of material storage and flow was even marginally understood, such a heavy-handed approach mainly served to characterize the frustration in solving the apparently simple problem of making material move from a container with a hole in the bottom. Simple problems don't always have simple solutions, though. Getting material to obey the law of gravity can be a perplexing case in point.
No less perplexing is the realization that virtually every variable in bin design holds potential veto power over the workability of the entire system. Not only does bin geometry play a determining role, but so do the varied physical properties of the material. The downstream device into which the material flows must be given its due consideration or problems may follow; even the elements of time and environment can spell disaster.
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