MISL Energy

Applications by Industry

Abrasives: Pneumatic conveying: vacuum pick-up of sand for blasting.

Acetylene Plants: Pneumatic conveying of carbide lime; pumping acetylene gas from generators to chemical process or storage.

Aircraft: Instrument and ground control cooling; air leakage test supply for cabin coolers; carburetor testing; engine overhaul check; ground testing of pneumatic auxiliaries; air agitation of plating tanks, cleaning and pickling tanks; air leakage testing of fuselages; altitude chamber testing of instruments.

Aluminum: Pneumatic conveying of bauxite powder from barge to storage; separating aluminum and sand particles by flotation on air.

Aquariums: Aeration.

Asphalt Refining: Oxidation by aeration.

Auto Washing: Air blasting for drying.

Bags: Vacuum folding of paper bags; opening folded bags; vacuum pick-up of flaps on envelopes for filling; air supply for bulk material in bag filling.

Bakeries: Pneumatic conveying in plant and from trucks to storage bins.

Bearing Manufacture: Conveying steel chips; heat-treating furnaces.

Breweries: Conveying malt and grain; bottle and can drying; suction pick-up of bottles and can for packaging; pumping CO2 for carbonation; vacuum drying of grain.

Buildings, Inflatable: Inflating synthetic rubber buildings for warehouses, shelter, etc.

Candy: Pneumatic conveying of sugar, flour and other ingredients.

Carbon Dioxide: Pumping CO2 gas for making dry ice.

Carbon Black: Pneumatic conveying and bagging; combustion air.

Carpet Cleaning: Truck-mounted mobile carpet vacuum service.

Cement: Air supply to homogenize bulk cement going into storage bins; fluidizing cement for conveying in batch plant; conveying from truck to storage bins; air slide for bulk cement transport trucks, conveying ready-mixed concrete batch plant to trucks.

Clothing: Inflating fabric bag form for shirt pressing; vacuum drying.

Coal: Rock dusting in shafts, tunnel roofs and walls; air sampling; coal washing; tunnel ventilation; vacuum priming water pumps; dust collection from roof bolt drilling; vacuum drying of coal slurry; coke blowing on vacuum filters; vacuum filtration for refuse from coal washers.

Containers: Vacuum pick-up of bottles and cans.

Conveying: Pneumatic, vacuum, or combinations for materials such as: sands, feeds, cement, salts, coal, cereal, fly ash, gypsum, bauxite, flour, grains, sugar, starch, carbon black; transfer materials from railroad cars, trucks, ships to vats, hoppers and bins.

Creosoting Plants: Air evacuation in vacuum chambers.

Cups: Conveying products through tubes to packaging point.

Curtains, Air: Furnaces; heat-treating.

Cushions: Air cushions or glides by blowing air to facilitate easy movement of flat pieces.

Dairies: Pressurizing tanks or trucks; evaporation for drying milk; aeration of milk wastes; gentle aeration in bulk storage to prevent butter fat separation; vacuum for milking machines.

Distilleries: Liquor moving; pneumatic conveying of grains; emptying of aging barrels.

Drop Forging: Scales blowing from forges.

Dust Collection: Cleaning bag filters; bag filtration.

Engines: Air scavenging; supercharging; soil pasteurization.

Fish: Aeration of fish tanks, transport trucks, and ponds, prevention of ice formation on ponds; removal of eggs from fish; agitation of washing tanks.

Flour: Fluidizing for conveying.

Foods Processing: Freeze drying; evacuation of air from bottle or can filling machine; agitation; pneumatic conveying.

Gas Mixing: Proportioning gases in chemical processes.

Gas and Oil Fields: Field repressurization from exhaust gases for gas engines.

Glass: Pneumatic conveying; vacuum holding of sheet glass for transfer; evacuation of test chamber; vacuum filtration from grinding and cutting particles; air cooling sheets and molds; blowing water from glass sheets; cooling and tempering air for curved windshields leaving molds.

Grain: Pneumatic conveying; air-drying; air circulation; supplying air for fermentation.

Gypsum Board: Pneumatic conveying of bulk gypsum; vacuum for board machine; vacuum lifting of boards for transfer.

Hydrogen: Collection and movement of gas from electrolysis process.

Ice: Aeration of lakes and ponds for protection against freezing; agitation by bubbling water in marinas. dams, bridges, etc. where freeing may cause damage; aeration of harbors to keep open for navigation; aeration of freezing tanks in ice plants to draw off impurities and to provide clearer cakes of ice; conveying crushed ice into ice bunkers on boats, ships, trucks, and railroad cars.

Insulation: Blowing insulation into walls.

Iron Foundries: Combustion air; boosting distribution gas pressure; pneumatic conveying and collecting.

Iron One Processing: Vacuum filtering to dry iron ore for palletizing; cake blowing; combustion air for palletizing furnaces and for drying wet ore; pneumatic conveying; flotation air; cooling pellets; cooling bearings on palletizing furnaces.

Laundry: Shirt pressing machines; vacuum drying of clothing.

Lead: Combustion air for lead melting furnace.

Machinery Manufacturing: Vacuum for holding material in place for surface planning and grinding; vacuum on chucks for holding material in place; dust collection.

Neon Signs: Gas pressure boosting for torches and ribbon burners; combustion air for torches and ribbon burners.

Non-Ferrous Metals: Aeration of slurry.

Oil Refineries: Asphalt blowing; fly ash conveying; liquid transfer by air pressure; vacuum flashing; pneumatic conveying.

Ore Processing- Non-Ferrous: Copper converters; flotation for separating copper sulphides from waste; vacuum filtration; cake blowing; combustion air.

Packing Plants: Pneumatic conveying; agitation.

Paper Mills: Paper machine vacuum; head box pressurization; pneumatic conveying; waste treatment aeration; paper folding; vacuum pick-up of sheets; air glide or cushion for moving heavy loads on flat surfaces; vacuum cleaning/conditioning of felts; roll heading for wrapping; black liquor recovery.

Photo Processing: Holding photos for dyring; blowing water off wet film.

Plastics: Blowing granules into molding machine; inert gas conveying to prevent contamination of polyurethane; hopper drying of material going to machines; hopper filling; pnuematic conveying.

Plating: Agitation; moisture blowing and drying.

Poultry: Vacuum removal of entrails; agitating water in washing tanks; removal of egg from shells; pick-up of eggs for packing in cartons.

Pumps, Centrifugal: Vacuum priming to lift water into pump.

Printing: Paper folding machine; control air glide between rolls; collating; mat drying; vacuum pick-up of sheets.

Pulp Mills: Chip conveying; combustion air; convey cement slurry under sagging pavements, etc.

Septic Tanks: Vacuum cleanout of tanks; pressurizing truck tanks at disposal area.

Sewage: Aeration in activated sludge plants- industrial, municipals, commercial (hotels/motels/sub-divisions/ships, etc.);separation of grit from sewage; grit channel aeration (prevents settling of grit); pneumatic conveying; dewatering sludge on vacuum filters; recirculation of sludge gas; cake blowing; combustion air for incineration.

Steel Mills: Blast furnace air supply; combustion air for open hearth furnace; oxygen furnace; bessemer converter; cupola blowers; coke oven exhauster; fly ash collectors; vacuum filtration, agitation of ferrous sulphate.

Sugar: Pneumatic conveying; aeration of storage bins; vacuum filtration.

Textiles: Vacuum for drawing fluid through bolts of cloth; pneumatic conveying; drying yarn after dyeing.

Tube Systems: Pneumatic conveying

Water Treatment: Vapor compression; water distillation; aeration of streams; lime-neutralization aeration; air flocculation for water purification; saline water de-salnization; salt water de-salinization.