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Wijay: Durable Powder Conveying Production Solutions Ensuring Continuous Chemical Production

Modern chemical manufacturing demands reliable, efficient material handling systems that could maintain product integrity while maximizing operational safety. Industry discussions across specialized forums highlight the critical importance of selecting appropriate lubricant for pharmaceutical applications, implementing effective pneumatic conveying systems, optimizing powder handling processes, and ensuring compliant food additive transport. This comprehensive analysis examines best practices for continuous powder conveying in chemical production, drawing from established industry standards and practical implementation experiences.

Understanding Pneumatic Conveying Systems in Chemical Production

Pneumatic conveying represents the industry standard for long-distance transport of bulk powders, additives, and excipients from storage silos to reactors or mixing vessels. This technology offers minimal loss characteristics with costs lower than alternative systems, providing fully automated solutions with the highest level of containment. System selection depends on powder properties, required throughput, and degradation sensitivity.

Dense phase conveying typically suits fragile food additive materials and pharmaceutical excipients like lactose or magnesium stearate, requiring gentle, low-velocity transport to prevent product attrition and contamination. The enclosed nature of these systems creates dust-free environments essential for maintaining product quality and worker safety.

WIJAY's comprehensive pneumatic conveying solutions include negative pressure systems, dilute phase conveying, and dense phase systems with positive displacement blowers as air sources. The company's food-grade dense phase systems utilize rotary discharge valves for continuous feeding, suitable for long-distance, high-volume projects with complete system integration capabilities.

Optimizing Powder Handling for Contamination Prevention

Effective powder handling proves crucial for avoiding process interruptions, product losses, and batch-to-batch variations. In pharmaceutical and food additive manufacturing, cross-contamination remains unacceptable. Manual powder loading, while requiring no expensive equipment or complex controls, presents significant operational challenges that favor automated alternatives.

WIJAY's powder conveying systems enable simultaneous metering, batching, screening, mixing, and debris removal during material transport. The company's small-scale material metering systems successfully achieve automatic storage and precise metering of micro-powder materials, delivering them accurately to production line mixing equipment.

Small bag feeding stations handle powdered and granular materials for bagging and unloading operations, effectively preventing dust cross-contamination. These automated batching systems integrate with MES systems for recipe management, alarm display, production data traceability, and intelligent label printing capabilities.

Pharmaceutical Lubricant Applications in Material Handling

Lubricant for pharmaceutical applications, particularly magnesium stearate, serves as a critical excipient in tablet and capsule production. This fine white powder, composed of magnesium, stearic acid, and other fatty acids, functions primarily as a tablet and capsule production lubricant with hydrophobic properties that prevent ingredient adhesion during manufacturing.

Magnesium stearate's unique chemical structure enables effective lubrication, ensuring smooth, efficient processing of pharmaceutical ingredients in tablet, capsule, and other solid dosage form production. Its applications include:

• Lubrication function: Reducing friction between materials during tablet and capsule production for smoother, more efficient processing

• Flow improvement: Preventing powder caking and clumping while ensuring smooth flow through manufacturing equipment

• Consistency assurance: Helping achieve uniform tablet and capsule production by ensuring proper ingredient flow and uniform compression pressure

• Contamination prevention: Preventing ingredients from adhering to mechanical equipment, thereby helping prevent cross-contamination

The compound may be derived from animal sources (beef or pork fat), plant sources (hydrogenated cottonseed oil or palm oil), or synthetic materials. Synthetic magnesium stearate achieves the highest purity with minimal impurity potential, while animal-sourced variants may present higher contamination risks from heavy metals and other impurities.

Food Additive Handling: Precision and Compliance

Processing food additive materials in continuous chemical production requires strict compliance and process control. Incorrect systems could lead to cross-contamination, inaccurate dosing, and potential product recalls. Magnesium stearate serves as food additive E470b in the European Union and European Free Trade Association, functioning as an emulsifier and anti-caking agent in various food applications.

In food applications, magnesium stearate prevents foam formation, serving as a defoaming agent. It provides lubrication for pressed candy production as a release agent and functions as a bulking agent and anti-caking agent in dry foods. Common concentrations range from 0.25% to 5% for anti-caking applications.

WIJAY's fully enclosed pneumatic conveying systems prevent external contamination, ensuring hygienic transfer from bulk storage to production lines. For fragile food additive materials and pharmaceutical excipients, gentle, low-velocity dense phase conveying prevents product attrition and contamination.

The company's rotary valves in food industry applications control flour, sugar, salt, and other powder particle transport, typically utilizing food-grade stainless steel materials to ensure contamination-free material transport. Precise discharge functionality enables accurate food production ingredient metering, improving product quality while maintaining FDA/GMP compliance standards.

Equipment Lubrication Best Practices for Continuous Operations

All moving parts potentially contacting powder materials require NSF H1/FDA-approved lubricants to prevent product contamination, particularly crucial in food additive and pharmaceutical environments. WIJAY's equipment design emphasizes extended maintenance intervals with easily accessible lubrication points, recommending high-performance, chemically resistant lubricants capable of withstanding corrosive cleaning agents and process chemicals.

Advanced systems incorporate sensors for monitoring lubricant levels and alerting maintenance teams before failures occur, ensuring truly continuous operation. The company's rotary valves feature high-precision machining with blade-to-chamber clearances of 0.15 millimeters, optimized 12-blade design maintaining 3-4 blades in sealing position, efficient return air systems, optional blow-cleaning functionality, and precision metering rotors.

WIJAY System Integration and Reliability Solutions

WIJAY integrates powder handling, pneumatic conveying, and batching into unified automated systems, reducing manual contact points and error risks. The company's solutions serve new energy, chemical, rubber plastic, new materials, food, and pharmaceutical industries with modular systems scalable for production growth.

Established in 2012, WIJAY operates modern production facilities exceeding 20,000 square meters with a 2,000 square meter technical research center. The company holds 106 national patent technologies, providing customized solutions for over 1,000 enterprises across 100+ countries and regions.

WIJAY's systems ensure 100% system safety, 100% material safety, complete information recording, and 100% recipe confidentiality. Diverter valves feature low-resistance design reducing pressure loss by 20-30%, optimized diversion angles, ceramic/tungsten carbide coatings extending service life 3-5 times, dual-seal structures ensuring zero leakage, and maintenance-free modular designs.

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