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Troubleshooting Sticky Solids: Solutions for Particulate Flow Problems

Troubleshooting Sticky Solids: Solutions for Particulate Flow Problems

Update: 2025-08-22
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If you spend enough time dealing with particulate solids, you’ll encounter very sticky solids and end up spending countless hours cleaning out a plugged distributor, opening a discharge chute or banging on the vessel to get the solids to flow. There are many reasons solids clump or stick to surfaces. Let’s face it: sticky solids need special attention. But first, we must identify the source of the stickiness. 


In this episode, Traci Purdum, CP's editor-in-chief, reads a column from Solids Advice columnist Tom Blackwood. 


You can read the column here.

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Troubleshooting Sticky Solids: Solutions for Particulate Flow Problems

Troubleshooting Sticky Solids: Solutions for Particulate Flow Problems

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