Method for conveying plastics granulate by means of a conveyor installation , wherein the plastics granulate is dispatched into a conveying line at a dispatch location with pressurized carrier gas and is conveyed to a target location that in terms of conveyance is connected to the dispatch location , wherein the carrier gas and/or the plastics granulate is humidified by adding liquid by means of a humidification unit and/or wherein humid plastics granulate is added to the carrier gas, wherein - the carrier gas has a relative humidity of at least 60% and at most 200% at the end of the conveyor line , and wherein - the separation of the humid carrier gas from the plastics granulate is performed in a separation device , characterized in that - the separation of the humid carrier gas from the plastics granulate is carried out by means of a replacement gas, wherein the replacement gas in the separation device is guided so as to be substantially in a counter-flow in relation to the gravimetric flow of the plastics granulate, - the replacement gas is fed by means of an replacement gas unit (13; 40; 52) which is disposed on the separation device and/or on a receiving container , wherein the target location comprises the receiving container , and/or wherein the target location comprises at least one receiving container from which the replacement gas enters the separation device as displacement gas of the at least one closed receiving container and/or as displacement gas and/or as leaked air and/or as bearing rinsing from a rotary valve as the shut-off unit in the at least one receiving container , exhaust air, which at least in proportion comprises humid carrier air, is discharged to the environment and/or to an aspiration by means of an exhaust air line of the conveyor installation , which line is connected to the conveying installation at the target location . - the carrier gas has a relative humidity of at least 60% and at most 200% at the end of the conveyor line , and wherein - the separation of the humid carrier gas from the plastics granulate is performed in a separation device , - the separation of the humid carrier gas from the plastics granulate is carried out by means of a replacement gas, wherein the replacement gas in the separation device is guided so as to be substantially in a counter-flow in relation to the gravimetric flow of the plastics granulate, - the replacement gas is fed by means of an replacement gas unit (13; 40; 52) which is disposed on the separation device and/or on a receiving container , wherein the target location comprises the receiving container , and/or wherein the target location comprises at least one receiving container from which the replacement gas enters the separation device as displacement gas of the at least one closed receiving container and/or as displacement gas and/or as leaked air and/or as bearing rinsing from a rotary valve as the shut-off unit in the at least one receiving container , exhaust air, which at least in proportion comprises humid carrier air, is discharged to the environment and/or to an aspiration by means of an exhaust air line of the conveyor installation , which line is connected to the conveying installation at the target location . <EOS>