Improved Method for the Calculation of the Air Film Thickness of an Air Cushion Belt Conveyor
Bo Song, Hongliang Chen, Long Sun, Kunpeng Xu, Xiaoyong Ren, Antonio Lamura · 2024
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Bo Song and co-authors improve, in a 2024 paper, the math for sizing the air cushion under a special conveyor belt. In these conveyors, goods ride on a thin film of air, and the film's thickness sets both the air power needed and the drag of the system. Getting the number right at the design stage saves energy and wear.
The team first derived a formula from a flow model for a belt fed by many rows of air holes. Checks against computer flow simulation and bench tests exposed a flaw: the formula assumed flow growth only at each hole's axis, which made the answers jump in steps. They revised the method on that evidence. Against experiments, the new formula's average error came to about fourteen percent, a usable figure for design work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bo Song, Hongliang Chen, Long Sun, Kunpeng Xu, Xiaoyong Ren, Antonio Lamura |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |