Bulk Handling Global
Bulk solids and powder flow properties testing, silo and hopper design, discharge and conveyor technology
www.bulksolidsflow.com/
Solutions for storage and flow of solids . . . . It's all about flow
Screw conveyor speed calculation
(For horizontal conveyors)
Inputs
Select a product
Adipic Acid
Alfalfa Meal
Alfalfa Pellets
Alfalfa
Almonds Broken
Almonds Whole Shelled
Alum Fine
Alum Lumpy
Alumina
Alumina Fines
Alumina Sized Or Briquette
Aluminate Gel (Aluminate Hydroxide)
Aluminium Chips Dry
Aluminium Chips Oily
Aluminium Hydrate
Aluminium Ore (Bauxite) Dry, Ground
Aluminium Ore (Bauxite) Crushed <75
Aluminium Oxide
Aluminium Silicate
Aluminium Sulphate
Ammonium Chloride Crystalline
Ammonium Nitrate
Ammonium Sulphate
Arsenate Of Lead (Lead Arsenate)
Arsenic Oxide
Arsenic Pulverised
Ashes Coal Dry <15
Ashes Coal Dry <75
Ashes Coal Wet <15
Ashes Coal Wet <75
Asphalt Crushed <15
Bagasse
Bakelite Fine
Baking Powder
Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate)
Barite (Barium Sulphate) 15<75
Barite Powder
Barium Carbonate
Bark, Wood, Refuse
Barley Fine Ground
Barley Malted
Barley Meal
Barley Whole
Basalt
Bauxite Dry Ground
Bauxite Crushed <75
Beans Castor Meal
Beans Castor Whole Shelled
Beans Navy Dry
Beans Navy Steeped
Bentonite Crude
Bentonite -100 Mesh
Bone Ash (Tricalcium Phosphate)
Bonemeal
Bones Ground
Borate Of Lime
Borax Fine
Borax Screening <15
Borax 40<50
Borax 50<75
Boric Acid Fine
Boron
Bran
Braunite (Manganese Oxide)
Bread Crumbs
Brewers Grain Spent Dry
Brewers Grain Spent Wet
Bronze Chips
Calcine Flour
Calcium Carbide
Calcium Carbonate (Limestone) Agricultural
Calcium Carbonate (Limestone) Crushed
Calcium Carbonate (Limestone) Dust
Calcium Fluoride (Fluorspar) Fine
Calcium Fluoride (Fluorspar) Lumpy
Calcium Hydrate (Hydrated Lime)
Calcium Hydroxide (Hydrated Lime)
Calcium Lactate
Calcium Oxide (Lime Unslaked)
Calcium Phosphate
Calcium Sulphate (Gypsum) Calcined
Calcium Sulphate (Gypsum) Powdered
Calcium Sulphate (Gypsum) Raw <25
Caustic Soda
Caustic Soda Flakes
Cement Clinker
Cement Mortar
Cement Portland
Cement Aerated Portland
Chalk Crushed
Chalk Pulverized
Charcoal Ground
Charcoal Lumps
Charcoal Cake Pressed
Cinders Blast Furnace
Cinders Coal
Clay Ceramic Dry Fines
Clay Calcined
Clay Brick Dry Fines
Clay Dry Lumpy
Clinker Cement (Cement Clinker)
Coal Anthracite (River & Culm)
Coal Anthracite Sized <15
Coal Bituminous Mined
Coal Bituminous Mined Sized
Coal Bituminous Mined Slack
Coal Lignite
Cocoa Beans
Cocoa Nibs
Cocoa Powdered
Cocoanut Shredded
Coffee Chaff
Coffee Bean Green
Coffee Ground Dry
Coffee Ground Wet
Coffee Roasted Bean
Coffee Soluble
Coke Breeze
Coke Loose
Coke Petrol Calcined
Compost
Concrete Pre-Mix Dry
Copper Ore
Copper Ore Crushed
Copper Sulphate (Bluestone)
Copperas (Ferrous Sulphate)
Copra Cake Ground
Copra Cake Lumpy
Copra Lumpy
Copra Meal
Corn Cracked
Corn Cobs Ground
Corn Grits
Cottonseed Cake Crushed
Cottonseed Cake Lumpy
Cottonseed Dry Delinted
Cottonseed Dry Undelinted
Cottonseed Flakes
Cottonseed Hulls
Cottonseed Meal Expeller
Cottonseed Meal Extracted
Cottonseed Meats Dry
Cottonseed Meats Rolled
Cracklings Crushed
Cryolite Dust
Cryolite Lumpy
Cullet Fine
Cullet Lump
Diatomaceous Earth
Dicalcium Phosphate
Disodium Phosphate
Distillers Grain Spent Dry
Distillers Grain Spent Wet
Dolomite Crushed
Dolomite Lumpy
Earth Loam Dry Loose
Ebonite Crushed
Egg Powder
Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulphate)
Feldspar Ground
Feldspar Lumps
Feldspar Powder
Feldspar Screenings
Ferrous Sulphide <100Mesh
Ferrous Sulphate
Fish Meal
Flaxseed
Flaxseed Cake (Linseed Cake)
Flaxseed Meal (Linseed Meal)
Flour Wheat
Flue Dust Basic Oxygen Furnace
Flue Dust Blast Furnace
Flue Dust Boiler H. Dry
Fluorspar Fine (Calcium Fluoride)
Fluorspar Lumps
Fly ash
Fullers Earth Dry Raw
Fullers Earth Oily Spent
Fullers Earth Calcined
Gelatine Granulated
Glass Batch
Glue Ground
Glue Pearl
Glue Veg Powdered
Gluten Meal
Granite Fine
Grape Pomace
Graphite Flake
Graphite Flour
Graphite Ore
Gypsum Calcined
Gypsum Calcined Powdered
Gypsum Raw <25
Hominy Dry
Hops Spent Dry
Hops Spent Wet
Ice Crushed
Ice Flaked
Ice Cubes
Ice Shell
Ilmenite Ore
Iron Ore Concentrate
Iron Oxide Pigment
Iron Oxide Millscale
Kafir (Corn)
Kaolin Clay
Kaolin Clay Tale
Lactose
Lead Arsenate
Lead Carbonate
Lead Ore <5
Lead Ore <15
Lead Oxide (Red Lead) <100 Mesh
Lead Oxide (Red Lead) <200 Mesh
Lead Sulphide <100 Mesh
Lignite (Coal Lignite)
Limanite Ore Brown
Lime Ground Unslaked
Lime Hydrated
Lime Hydrated Pulverized
Lime Pebble
Limestone Agricultural
Limestone Crushed
Limestone Dust
Malt Dry Ground
Malt Dry Whole
Malt Meal
Malt Sprouts
Magnesium Chloride (Magnesite)
Manganese Dioxide*
Manganese Ore
Manganese Oxide
Manganese Sulphate
Marble Crushed
Meat Ground
Mica Flakes
Mica Ground
Mica Pulverized
Milk Dried Flake
Milk Malted
Milk Powdered
Milk Sugar
Milk Whole Powdered
Milo Ground
Milo Maize (Kafir)
Molybdenite Powder
Monosodium Phosphate
Niacin (Nicotinic Acid)
Oat Hulls
Oats
Oats Crimped
Oats Crushed
Oats Flour
Oats Rolled
Orange Peel Dry
Oxalic Acid Crystals (Ethane Diacid Crystals)
Oyster Shells Ground
Oyster Shells Whole
Paper Pulp (<=4% Solids)
Paper Pulp (6%-15% Solids)
Paraffin Cake <15
Peanuts Clean In Shell
Peanut Meal
Peanuts Raw Uncleaned Unshelled
Peanuts Shelled
Perlite Expanded
Phosphate Acid Fertilizer
Phosphate Rock Broken
Phosphate Rock Pulverized
Phosphate Sand
Plaster Of Paris (Gypsum)
Polyvinyl Chloride Powder
Polyvinyl Chloride Pellets
Polyethylene Resin Pellets
Potash (Muriate) Dry
Potash (Muriate) Mine Run
Potassium Carbonate
Potassium Chloride Pellets
Potassium Nitrate <15
Potassium Nitrate <5
Potassium Sulphate
Potato Flour
Pumice <5
Pyrite Pellets
Quartz <100 Mesh
Quartz <15
Rice Bran
Rice Grits
Rice Paddy
Rice Polished
Rice Hulled
Rice Hulls
Rice Rough
Rubber Reclaimed Ground
Rubber Pelletised
Rye
Rye Bran
Rye Feed
Rye Meal
Rye Middlings
Rye Shorts
Safflower Cake
Safflower Meal
Safflower Seed
Salt Cake Dry Coarse
Salt Cake Dry Pulverized
Salicylic Acid
Salt Dry Coarse
Salt Dry Fine
Sand Dry Bank Damp
Sand Dry Bank (Dry)
Sand Dry Silica
Sand Foundry (Shake Out)
Sand Silica (Resin Coated)
Sand Zircon (Resin Coated)
Sawdust Dry
Sea Coal
Sesame Seed
Shale Crushed
Silica Flour
Silica Gel 15<75
Slag Blastfurnace Crushed
Slag Furnace Granular Dry
Slate Crushed <15
Slate Ground <5
Sludge Sewage Dry Ground
Soap Beads Or Granules
Soap Chips
Soap Detergent
Soap Flakes
Soap Powder
Soapstone Talc Fine
Soda Ash Heavy
Soda Ash Light
Sodium Aluminate Ground
Sodium Aluminium Sulphate
Sodium Nitrate
Sodium Phosphate
Sodium Sulphite
Soybean Cake
Soybean Cracked
Soybean Flake Raw
Soybean Flour
Soybean Meal Cold
Soybean Meal Hot
Soybean Whole
Starch
Sugar Beet Pulp Dry
Sugar Beet Pulp Wet
Sugar Refined Granulated Dry
Sugar Refined Granulated Wet
Sugar Powdered
Sugar Raw
Sulphur Crushed <15
Sulphur Lumpy <75
Sulphur Powdered
Sunflower Seed
Talcum <15
Talcum Powder
Tanbark Ground*
Timothy Seed
Tricalcium Phosphate
Super Phosphate Triple
Trisodium Phosphate
Trisodium Phosphate Granular
Trisodium Phosphate Pulverised
Tung Nut Meats Crushed
Tung Nuts
Urea Prills Coated
Vermiculite Expanded
Vermiculite Ore
Vetch
Walnut Shells Crushed
Wheat
Wheat Cracked
Wheat Germ
White Lead Dry
Wood Chips Screened
Wood Flour
Wood Shavings
Zinc Concentrate Residue
Zinc Oxide Heavy
Zinc Oxide Light
Select product
Average particle size
Product flowability
Abrasiveness
Usual minimum bulk density
kg/m
3
Usual maximum bulk density
kg/m
3
Suggested conveyor fill level
% of spiral volume
Required Tonnage Rate (TPH)
TPH
Spiral outside diameter (mm)
mm
Centertube diameter (mm)
mm
Spiral pitch (mm)
mm
Spiral thickness (mm)
mm
Note - Type in respective value inside of coloured cell, then click outside cell to enter.
Results
Volumetric capacity
m
3
/hr at minimum bulk density
m
3
/hr at maximum bulk density
Spiral speed
rpm to suit minimum bulk density
Spiral peripheral speed
m/s