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Dry & Powder Chemical Dosing

Lime, powdered activated carbon, dry polymer, soda ash and ferric sulphate are often cheapest bought as powder — but a dry chemical is useless until it is metered accurately and made into a consistent solution or slurry. Dry dosing pairs a volumetric or gravimetric feeder with a make-up system, and lives or dies on dust control, anti-bridging design and reliable wetting.

A Dry Chemical Is Only as Good as Its Feeder

Powders bridge, rat-hole, absorb moisture and cake — so the feeder, not the chemistry, is usually what limits a dry dosing system. A volumetric feeder (screw or rotary valve) sets a fixed volume per revolution; a gravimetric loss-in-weight feeder weighs the actual mass discharged and corrects in real time for density variation, giving far tighter accuracy where dose precision matters. Downstream, the powder must be wetted into a stable solution or slurry — lime to milk-of-lime, dry polymer through a controlled wetting head, PAC into a slurry tank — before it ever reaches the process. We design the whole chain: storage, feeder, make-up, and the slurry/solution dosing pump.

Volumetric vs Gravimetric

FeederPrincipleAccuracyBest for
Screw (auger) volumetricFixed volume per rev±2–5%Steady-density powders, lower cost
Rotary valve volumetricPocketed rotor±2–5%Free-flowing powders, dust seal
Loss-in-weight gravimetricReal-time weigh & correct±0.5–1%Precision dosing, variable density
Belt gravimetricWeighed belt±1%High feed rates

Feed rates from 0.5 to 5,000 kg/h, sized to the reagent and duty.

Designing a Reliable Dry Dosing System

Dust Control

Sealed transfers, bin vent filters and enclosed wetting protect operators and stop caking from moisture pick-up.

Anti-Bridging

Bin activators, vibrators or live-bottom hoppers keep cohesive powders (lime, PAC) flowing to the feeder.

Controlled Wetting

Wetting heads and eductors disperse powder into water without fish-eyes or lumps — critical for dry polymer.

Ageing / Maturation

Polymer needs ageing time; lime needs slaking/mixing — make-up volume sized for residence.

Slurry Dosing Pump

Progressive-cavity or peristaltic pumps handle abrasive lime milk and conditioned slurries with low pulsation.

Bulk vs Bag

Silo with bulk delivery for high usage; bag tip stations with dust hoods for smaller plants.

Sludge polymer make-up · pH lime dosing · System sizing

Powders We Dose

Hydrated / Quick Lime

pH correction and metals precipitation as milk-of-lime.

Powdered Activated Carbon

Taste, odour and micropollutant adsorption as a slurry.

Dry Polymer

Flocculant for clarification and dewatering after make-up.

Soda Ash / Bicarb

Alkalinity and pH adjustment.

Ferric / Alum (dry)

Coagulant where dry purchase is economic.

Media & Adsorbents

Specialist powders for targeted removal.

Turn Powder Into a Precise, Reliable Dose

Tell us the reagent, the feed rate and the duty — we will design the feeder, make-up and slurry dosing to match, with dust and flow problems engineered out from the start.

Industries We Serve

Our expertise spans multiple industries with sector-specific water treatment solutions.

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