The development history of pneumatic conveying
After gaining inspiration from the natural phenomenon of wind blowing stones and dust, as well as the common sucking phenomenon in daily life, people envisioned using airflow to transport materials in pipelines. Based on this idea, as early as 1810, Medhurst in England proposed a plan to use pipelines for pneumatic transportation of mail. Therefore, pneumatic conveying technology began with the cylindrical conveying of finished items. Decades later, pneumatic conveying began to be used for unloading bulk materials such as grains, cotton, and sand, and the first floating
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