Flow conditioner Bollegraaf Aerobooster

Product overview
Bollegraaf Aerobooster is designed to optimize optical sorter performances. With certain material streams, the capacity of the optical separator can be greatly increased. Material purity and recovery are also improved. In certain scenarios this can result in an increase in capacity of 20% and up to 10% for purity. Therefore, overall efficiency of the sorting line is considerably higher, requires less quality control and represents a production boost.

How it works
The Aerobooster system creates a laminar air displacement on top of the accelerator belt. The processed materials are accelerated to the belt speed by means of a laminar air flow, which ensures that the material is stabilized for optimum detection and sorting by the optical unit. The input material needs to be fed across the whole width of the accelerator belt. Standard conveyors can operate up to 4,6 m/s; when integrated in Opti-Sort the system can operate up to 6,5 m/s.

Benefits

• Increased capacity (typical increase up to 20% for certain material streams).
• Improved material purity and recovery (purity increase up to 10% reported in some scenarios).
• Higher overall sorting line efficiency and production boost.
• Less quality control required due to better optimisation of optical sorting.

Other Aerobooster advantages

• Increased sorting line efficiency — Allows to increase the line speed up to 4.6 m/sec on standard conveyors.
• Less quality control — Perfect optimization of the optical sorting.
• Modularity & integration in 1 go — If integrated in Bollegraaf Opti-Sort, speed can be brought up to 6,5 m/sec.

Installation & operation
The Aerobooster is easy to retrofit onto existing lines due to its compact design. Adjusting the air flow is quick and easy via a user-friendly interface.

Technical features / specifications

• Brand: Bollegraaf
• Model / product name: Bollegraaf Aerobooster
• Designed to optimize optical sorter performances, especially for lighter materials
• Capacity increase: up to approx. 20% (depending on material stream)
• Purity improvement: up to approx. 10% (depending on scenario)
• Creates laminar air displacement on top of accelerator belt
• Accelerates materials to belt speed for stabilized detection and sorting
• Requires input fed across full width of accelerator belt
• Standard conveyor belt speeds supported: up to 4.6 m/s
• Opti-Sort integration: speeds up to 6.5 m/s
• Compact design — suitable for retrofit
• User-friendly interface for quick airflow adjustments
• Benefits include improved material recovery, reduced quality control and production boost