In vertical pneumatic conveying, the task of the design engineer Is, for a given rate of conveying a particular solid, to specify pipe size, air flow rate, pressure drop, and flow pattern In the riser. In this paper a quantitative procedure for tackling this design problem Is outlined. The procedure Is an updated version of an earlier procedure presented by Leung et al. (1971a) and is based on recent advances on prediction of flow regime and pressure drop in vertical pneumatic conveying.