As a professional and experienced manufacturer, Jiangteng provides Rotary Airlock Valves that offer stable, efficient, and trouble-free operation. Our equipment features exceptional wear resistance and a long service life; furthermore, it can be custom-tailored to meet the specific requirements of various industries and operating conditions. Designed for ease of maintenance, our solutions help you achieve significant cost savings.
The Rotary Airlock Valve is one of the key products designed and manufactured by Jiangteng. As a specialized factory, we produce equipment that serves as a critical safeguard for the stable operation of pneumatic conveying systems, ensuring the consistent and reliable transport of materials.
What Are the Advantages of Our Rotary Airlock Valves?
A reliable rotary valve is crucial for the continuous conveying and air-locking stages of powdery, granular, and other bulk materials. Our products are meticulously designed and manufactured to play a vital role in the overall efficiency and performance of the entire system.
1. Exceptional Durability
For abrasive materials (such as mineral powders or cement), we offer options such as hard-alloy coating on the valve's inner walls and wear-resistant hardfacing on the rotor. These features extend the equipment's service life several-fold, significantly reducing spare parts costs and losses associated with downtime.
2. Reliable Sealing
Jiangteng employs high-precision machining to ensure a rotor clearance of ≤0.25mm, coupled with the selection of premium sealing materials. This effectively isolates positive or negative pressure environments, preventing gas backflow and material leakage, thereby guaranteeing the stability and efficiency of the entire conveying system.
3. Tailored Customization
No two operating conditions are exactly alike. We offer comprehensive customization services—ranging from material selection (stainless steel, ceramics, etc.) and temperature resistance (up to 500°C) to specialized functions (anti-jamming, sanitary cleaning, explosion-proofing)—to perfectly match your specific material characteristics and process environment.
4. Energy Efficiency
Our optimized structural design ensures low vibration and minimal noise during operation. Compared to traditional valves, our rotary drive mechanism is more energy-efficient, helping you reduce long-term operating costs.
5. Simplified Maintenance
Featuring a flanged connection design, installation is quick and effortless. Key components are easily accessible for inspection and replacement, making routine maintenance simple and minimizing both maintenance workload and system downtime.
How Does a Rotary Airlock Valve Work?
A rotary valve operates by utilizing an internal rotor fitted with vanes that rotate at a constant speed to continuously and quantitatively convey material from an overhead hopper to a downstream pipeline or piece of equipment, while simultaneously maintaining airflow isolation. Its core mechanism involves the following steps:
1. Uniform Filling: Material enters through the inlet and falls into the rotating compartments formed by the vanes.
2. Sealed Conveyance: As the rotor turns, the material-filled compartments create a sealed space—thereby performing an "airlock" function—that prevents airflow from passing between the upstream and downstream sides.
3. Smooth Discharge: The material rotates to the outlet port, where it is steadily discharged, driven by either gravity or the airflow.
4. Your Benefit: By utilizing a variable frequency drive (VFD) to adjust the rotor speed, you can easily and linearly control the material feed rate, thereby meeting your precise process proportioning requirements.
What Practical Concerns of Yours Can We Address?
Your Concerns
Our Solutions and Advantages
Rapid equipment wear caused by abrasive materials, resulting in a short service life
We offer wear-resistant, reinforced options featuring carbide protection at critical points—making them particularly suitable for handling materials such as cement and mineral powders.
System air and powder leakage, compromising operational efficiency and cleanliness
Our high-precision sealing design ensures an extremely low leakage rate, maintaining stable system pressure while minimizing material waste and environmental contamination.
Challenging operating conditions (high temperatures, corrosive environments, material jamming)
We support extensive customization, offering optional features such as high-temperature seals (rated up to 500°C), corrosion-resistant materials (e.g., 316L stainless steel), and anti-jamming designs (including V-shaped inlets and chamfered blades).
Need to comply with food or pharmaceutical industry standards
We provide sanitary-grade (cleanable) products featuring internal wall polishing up to a #400 finish and a "dead-angle-free" design, facilitating complete cleaning and inspection.
Complex maintenance procedures and troublesome spare parts replacement
Our modular design ensures easy disassembly. We provide clear maintenance guidelines and utilize standardized spare parts to reduce the complexity and time required for maintenance.
Desire to implement automated, precision control
Equipped with a standard variable frequency drive (VFD) interface, our units can be easily integrated into your existing PLC system, enabling precise, automatic, and remote adjustment of material throughput.
Key Parameters
Rotary Valve
Unloading capacity
300kg/h-200m³/h
Caliber
100-1200mm (Round/Rquare opening customizable)
Motor power
0.75-11kw
Impeller speed
8-43r/min (Variable speed drive)
Material
Carbon steel/Cast iron/Cast steel/Stainless steel
Drive configuration
Direct-drive/Chain-drive
Number of blades
6-bay/8-bay/Multi-bay with airlock
Work pressure
≤5KPa(Customizable high-voltage type≤0.6Mpa)
High-temperature resistance range
Standard type
High-temperature resistant type
High-temperature customization type
≤120℃
≤300℃
≤650℃
YJDA TYPE
Model
A
B
C
E
F
M
H
h
φ
YJD02
240
200
150
650
420
122.5
225
12
9
YJD04
260
230
180
758
526
140
280
15
11
YJD06
300
250
200
778
536
150
300
15
11
YJD08
300
270
220
798
546
160
320
18
11
YJD10
320
290
240
880
628
170
340
18
13
YJD12
340
310
260
900
638
180
360
18
13
YJD14
360
330
280
920
648
190
380
20
17
YJD16
400
350
300
960
678
200
400
20
17
YJD18
400
370
320
980
688
220
440
22
17
YJD20
420
390
340
1000
698
230
450
22
17
YJD26
500
450
400
1150
740
260
520
24
17
YJD30
600
490
440
1190
755
280
600
24
17
Model
A
B
C
E
F
M
H
h
φ
300×450
440
395
300
1120
690
225
450
20
12-φ18
300×460
400
360
300
1090
680
230
460
20
12-φ18
300×500
400
360
300
1090
680
300
500
20
12-φ18
400×600
550
500
400
1300
960
300
600
20
12-φ18
400×600
530
480
400
1400
1000
300
600
25
12-φ18
500×680
630
585
500
1510
1100
340
680
25
12-φ18
YJDB TYPE
Model
φA
φB
φC
E
F
M
H
h
φ
YJD02
250
210
150
650
420
122.5
225
12
9
YJD04
280
240
180
758
526
140
280
15
11
YJD06
300
260
200
778
536
150
300
15
11
YJD08
320
280
220
798
546
160
320
18
11
YJD10
340
300
240
880
628
170
340
18
13
YJD12
360
320
260
900
638
180
360
18
13
YJD14
380
340
280
920
648
190
380
20
17
YJD16
400
360
300
960
678
200
400
20
17
YJD18
420
380
320
980
688
220
440
22
17
YJD20
440
400
340
1000
698
230
450
22
17
YJD26
500
460
400
1150
740
260
520
24
17
YJD30
600
500
440
1190
755
280
600
24
17
Model
A
B
C
E
F
M
H
h
φ
φ300×450
440
390
300
1120
690
225
450
20
12-φ22
φ350×500
490
445
350
1200
700
250
500
25
12-φ22
φ400×500
520
480
400
1200
700
250
500
25
12-φ22
φ500×680
630
580
500
1500
1100
340
680
25
12-φ22
Application Fields
Our rotary valves have been successfully deployed in the following sectors:
Chemicals/Plastics: Conveying PVC powder, resins, catalysts, and similar materials, ensuring a stable and consistent feed into reaction vessels.
Food/Pharmaceuticals: Conveying flour, granulated sugar, powdered milk, and pharmaceutical powders, while adhering to rigorous hygiene standards.
Building Materials/Metallurgy: Conveying cement, lime, pulverized coal, and mineral powders, demonstrating exceptional resistance to heavy-duty abrasion.
Environmental Protection/Energy: Utilized for dust collector ash discharge, lime powder transport for flue gas desulfurization, biomass pellet feeding, and similar applications.
Typical Application Scenarios: Feeding and discharging within pneumatic conveying systems; bottom discharge from storage hoppers/silos; ash removal from dust collector hoppers; and precision batch feeding for packaging machinery.
FAQ
Q: How should I choose the right model for my factory?
A: This primarily depends on four factors:
Material Characteristics: Density, moisture content, abrasiveness, and corrosiveness.
Operating Conditions: Temperature and pressure.
Functional Requirements: Simple conveying, precise metering, or frequent cleaning.
Installation Space.
Our engineers are available to provide you with free consultation on model selection.
Q: If the material is somewhat damp and prone to clumping, is there a risk of jamming?
A: For such materials, we recommend our anti-jamming design. This design features a unique V-shaped inlet and chamfered vanes, and is equipped with an air venting function; these features effectively prevent material bridging and blockages, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted operation.
Q: Is the maintenance of the Rotary Airlock Valve complicated?
A: Routine maintenance is very simple. It mainly involves periodically (we recommend every 3 to 6 months) checking the gearbox lubricant level, inspecting the seals for wear, and cleaning out any residual material that may have accumulated inside the valve. The equipment is designed to allow for quick opening to facilitate inspection and maintenance.
Q: Can this valve be used for bidirectional conveying?
A: Yes, it can. Our eccentric rotary valve design supports bidirectional sealing. During installation, you simply need to ensure that the motor's direction of rotation aligns with your desired material flow direction, thereby offering greater flexibility in your piping layout.
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