As an engineer, overseeing project efficiency and longevity is crucial for ensuring screw conveyors are designed properly to avoid equipment delays schedules, spikes maintenance, and drives up costs. A poorly designed screw conveyor is not just a nuisance, it poses operational, safety, and budgetary risks. Let’s break down what to watch for and how teaming up with APEC transforms risk into engineered success.
Proper Screw Conveyor Design is Crucial
A screw conveyor uses a central shaft surrounded by screw flights. This mechanism is surrounded by an enclosure, which is open at either end to accept and dispense materials. The performance and smoothness of your project rely heavily on the design of the screw conveyor.
Potential Risks When Design Falls Short:
- Blockage or jamming
- Excessive wear
- Capacity too low or inefficient
- Instability or downtime
There are different parts of a screw conveyor that are important when designing it. These include pitch and screw type, incline angle, material traits and component specs. With all of these factors that drive efficiency, it is crucial that your team works with an experienced screw conveyor manufacturer like APEC to get the job done right.
APEC’s Tailored Solutions for Your Project
APEC gives you fully customized screw conveyor design options because we know not every project is a one size fits all solution.
- Material customization: With factors like abrasiveness, corrosivity, flowability, and inclination to select the right pitch, screw type (e.g., ribbon, sectional, shaftless), it’s important to consider with the type of material to use.
- Efficient incline engineering: By fine-tuning pitch, diameter, and housing, APEC makes sure that power consupmtion is minimized for optimal efficiency.
- Robust component selection: We help reduce downtime and maintenance by implementing heavy-duty flighting, hardened alloys or stainless steel.
- Safety & longevity built-in: With APEC, you know you will get a team of engineers who create a screw conveyor design that makes your operations run smoother and avoids delays.
Partner with APEC Who Gets Screw Conveyor Design Right
APEC has been a screw conveyor manufacturer for 30 plus years. Contact us today so we can create a screw conveyor design that is safe and efficient for your project needs.
