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Dense Phase, Low Pressure (DPLP) Powder Application: Reduced Consumption and High Performance with the New Transport System NEA 415 Carlo Perillo Verne Technology, Milan, Italy
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NEA 415 hardware for the DPLP powder transport management
for Venturi or other systems. In future,
Verne Technology (ref. Opening photo).
Verne Technology designed a touch
systems managed by one portable
It represents an evolution of the NEA 430
screen control unit that, together with the
touch screen device, operating in Wi-Fi
system, launched on the market last year
NEA 415 software specifically designed
mode and, therefore, requiring no
and already described on this magazine*.
for the coating industry’s needs, forms a
cables.
This innovative DPLP transport system
complete digital control system for the
integrates perfectly with the existing
management of the powder delivery
EA 415 is the new dense phase, low pressure (DPLP) powder transport system developed by
this will be evolved into customisable modules with up to 32 NEA 415
The evolution of NEA 415
plants and application devices in the
Initially, NEA 430 was designed to
industrial coating sector. It ensures optimal management of all powder treatment stages, from recovery to feeding. The main features of the NEA 415 system are as follows: - 4-stroke operating cycle; - transport up to 600 pulsations/min; - powder collection up to 3 m; - powder transport from 10 to 35 m; - constant adjustment of the powder transport capacity from 0 to 400 g/min;
meet the needs for DPLP powder transport in the chemical and
NEA 415 is the new dense phase, low pressure (DPLP) powder transport system developed by Verne Technology. It represents an evolution of the NEA 430 system, launched on the market last year.”
pharmaceutical sectors: based on a pneumatic-mechanical operating principle, it operates without electricity. Its development, however, enabled Verne Technology’s staff to apply it also to the surface treatment industry, thanks to its cyclone’s powder recovery, its dust collector filter’s emptying, and its
- constant adjustment of the powder
powder management unit’s feeding
transport pressure from 0 to 5 bar;
characteristics. The NEA 415 system
- constant regulation of the feeding flow;
and recovery process (Fig. 1). The
was designed based on the results of
- no additional auxiliary air in the feeding unit;
hardware can be supplied separately to
NEA 430: it is completely electronic
- integrated powder flow inversion system;
provide electrostatic application system
and able to ensure consistent feeding
- product change in less than 30 sec.
manufacturers and plant engineers with
thanks to its 4-stroke operation,
the possibility to install NEA 415 and
powder transport up to 600
manage it with an already existing PLC or
pulsations/min, and constant control
circuit board, integrated or modified in
of the powder collection/ transport
the rack control module, be they designed
processes.
* C. Perillo, “NEA 430: an innovative pneumatic system for the low pressure, high density precision feeding of powders”, ipcm® International Paint&Coating Magazine no. 45 (May-June 2017), pages 68-71.
Opening photo: The new generation powder transport pump NEA 415.
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