Milk Powder Vacuum Loader and Dosing System

Filquip with our partners has designed and supplied a new vacuum loader system with storage hopper and volumetric feeder system to transfer and dose milk powders in a dairy production plant.

The following Filquip equipment package was provided for this system:

  • FVC-5-NP Filquip Vacuum Loader unit (5.5kW, 65mm Suction Line Diameter).
  • 1.5m3 volume SS304 storage hopper with Vibration, Aeration and Load Cells Package.
  • WAM VLQ.0250.P3 SS304 Slide Gate Valve with CMG0250i Handwheel Actuation Kit.
  • WAM MBF042A SS304 Volumetric Dosing Microbatch Feeder with Outlet Pneumatic Closure Valve. Sized for dosing at a rate of 1.2 L/min.

Milk Powder Vacuum Conveyor

Milk Powder Vacuum Loader

Milk Powder Feeder

Vacuum Powder Transfer for Packing Line

Filquip has designed, supplied, installed and commissioned a new vacuum suction feeder system with buffer hopper to provide milk powders into a can filling machine.

The following Filquip equipment package was provided for this system:

  • SF4551: 51mm Venturi Suction Feeder and Suction Wand to provide vacuum wand conveying of up to 2m3/hr of milk powder up into the buffer hopper
  • 150L SS304 Receiver Hopper with VBS Aerators and OT8 Vibration Flow aids on the cone.
  • Hopperjet 24VDc Dust Collector / Vent with Automated Reverse Pulse filter cleaning
  • V2FS200.AI Pneumatically Actuated Butterfly Valve with 24VDC coil for controlling the flow of product from the buffer into the existing auger filling machine below.

  SF Suction Venturi Feeder