India: Germany-based Qlar has opened a test centre for pneumatic conveying in Bangalore. It is the company’s first test centre in Asia. The 539m2 site is intended to analyse the conveying of a wide variety of materials, including cement and fly ash. It includes a 680m conveyor line to allow for the testing of dense-phase applications.
The company says that its customers will be able to have materials evaluated under real-world conditions at the test centre. After an initial laboratory characterisation, the materials are tested in full-scale conveying setups to assess their behaviour at different feed rates, pressures and venting conditions. Qlar will then determine process‑specific conveying parameters such as required conveying pressure, air demand, conveying velocity and achievable throughput ranges. These results will then be used to support companies in the design of their systems and provide a technical basis for project planning and evaluation.
‘With the new test centre, we are creating a service that provides our customers with early project security and transparency,’ says Rajesh Pathak, Managing Director of Qlar India. ‘In addition to the existing test centre for material grinding, the pneumatic conveying tests offer our customers in Asia a testing environment that is unique in this form and size.’