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Efficient Silo Refurbishment: Sustainable Operation of a Multi-chamber System enabled for another 20 Years

Fast, safe, cost-effective, sustainable - REMAPUR-75 proves to be the superior solution for the refurbishment of a mixing silo at RUF Baustoffe. Thanks to the sprayable wear protection, the experts from REMA TIP TOP overhaul the worn multi-chamber silo system in just three and a half weeks for a con…read more

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Conveyor Transfer Point Upgrade controls Dust at Brazil Port

One of Brazil’s busiest ports is successfully managing dust emissions from its grain terminal conveyor system with an innovative transfer chute design. To prevent impacting the local community and adjacent docks with dust from loading and unloading agricultural commodities, the conveyors at the T-…read more

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Smart Elbow® Deflection Elbow Installation Brought in $30,000 Under Projected Budget

At Miller Brewing Company's Fort Worth, TX, facility, staff engineer Roy Marin was faced with an interesting problem two years ago — a problem that was solved by using the patented HammerTek Smart Elbow® deflection elbow. The Smart Elbow flow device provides change of direction in pneumatic and s…read more

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Pneumatic Deflection Elbows cut Wear, Dust, Offload Time for Bulk Project Contractor

Robert Ober & Associates is a specialty design/build firm that serves an international client base for bulk material handling projects that range from USD25,000 retrofit contracts to USD25 million turnkey plant projects. The company began specifying Smart Elbow® deflection elbows from HammerTek…read more

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Safe Confined Space Entry for Chutes, Silos and Hoppers

An estimated 7% of the U.S. fatalities recorded by MSHA between 1995 and 2011 occurred in a confined space. To reduce that number, conveyor operators are wise to understand exactly how a confined space is defined, and to consider what they can do to prevent serious injuries.read more

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Conveyor Belt Generates Power for Air Cannons to control Build-Up

The Ash Grove Cement plant in Louisville, Nebraska produces approximately 1.1 million tons per year. In order to maintain production levels, efficient material movement via conveyor is critical. The issue is especially acute when running wet raw material at the quarry. Over time, operations personne…read more

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3D Level Sensors can solve the toughest Food Storage Challenges

For almost a decade, 3DLevelScanners have been providing highly accurate level and volume measurement in challenging materials contained in bins, tanks, and silos. Measuring and mapping the material surface, these sensor sends pulses in a 70° beam angle, taking multiple level measurements and accou…read more

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Martin Engineering: Cement Plant overcomes remote Conveyor Issues with unique Power Generation Technology

An innovative cement manufacturer in the Midwestern U.S. has implemented a unique power solution developed by Martin Engineering at a remote conveyor location that lacked convenient electrical access. The patent-pending design uses the kinetic energy of the moving belt to generate enough electricity…read more

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Martin Engineering: Tata Plant Expansion includes Training Facility with life-size Conveyor Models

Martin Engineering has helped one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world to train new staff on conveyor operations and safety at one of the company’s newest facilities. After expanding the existing plant, Tata Steel Ltd. constructed a dedicated training facility and invited Martin Enginee…read more

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SWR engineering: Moisture Measurement in Wood Pellet Production to ensure Material Quality

A manufacturer of wood pellets processes raw materials such as planing chips or wood chips (wood waste) to produce wood pellets. To ensure optimal adjustment of the drying process, the company uses SWR engineering's M-Sens 2 moisture sensor. The moisture is measured while the material is transporte…read more

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Precision in seven layers Worldwide, up to 2.5 billion cups of coffee are drunk every day. Much of this is prepared from coffee powder capsule portions in coffee machines. Due to the necessary oxygen barrier to prevent ageing of the coffee due to oxidation, these capsule portions consist of either a…read more

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Violent Failure: Hidden Causes for Destruction of a Grain Silo

The sudden destruction of a silo at a grain depot in South Africa posed a number of questions. In-depth examination of the silo remains and detailed analysis showed that the silo failure was not caused by structural weakness, but by a ‘hidden’ dust explosion. read more

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Solution to the Problem of Cleaning Out of Silo Floors

The author describes the problems associated with the unloading of silos, in particular those for grain storage. The "Matscrew' Silo Unloader is described and significant cost savings are claimed over other unloading methods. read more

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The Use of Measured Flow Properties for Dimensioning the Outlet of a Mammoth Silo for Coal Storage

This article describes a procedure for predicting the outlet size of a large flat-bottomed coal silo to ensure reliable flow. The design is based on the flow properties measured on relevant samples of the bulk solid and a mixture of existing silo theories and common sense. Due to the special feature…read more

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Bulk Grain Silo Developments in Southern Africa

The history of the development of the large diameter freestanding bin silo in South Africa is given explaining the advantages and highlighting some of the problems encountered, the solution of which resulted in the type of grain silo which is now being constructed throughout Southern Africa Failures…read more

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A Review of Hopper Discharge Aids

If a hopper is performing unsatisfactorily it is not uncommon for engineers to look to a proprietary discharge aid to help solve their problems. However, without any previous experience to fall back on he is faced with the problem of which device, from the wide range of proprietary aids currently av…read more

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Evolution of Bulk Solids Technology Since 1974

Cooperation of process engineers concerned with flow of bulk solids in bins, and civil engineers designing bins in terms of mechanical strength has improved but is not yet optimal. Angles of wall friction determined by shear testers can be used for process technological design of hoppers as well as …read more

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The Development of Industrial Silos Throughout the World During the Last 100 Years

It was exactly 100 years ago, in 1881, that Baker started to investigate the lateral pressures exerted by a solid. Nevertheless it is said that the initial steps towards the automation of flour mills were taken with the construction in 1780 of the first bucket elevator. read more

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Design and Construction of Alberta Wheat Pool's Annex No. 4

V.B. Cook Co. Limited is proud to have participated in a project that they believe to be a trend setter in modern, safe and efficient grain storage facilities. On January 22, 1979 the Honourable Otto Lang, Minister of Transport, pushed the control switch to begin grain flowing from Alberta Wheat Poo…read more

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Wall Pressure Feeder-Load Interactions in Mass Flow Hopper/Feeder Combinations - Part II

The interactive roles of mass flow bins and feeders are discussed. The effect of feeder speed, gate height, clearance between the hopper outlet and the feeder surface, method of filling, rate of filling an wall pressures own mass flow bins and feeder load and power requirements of the feeders are hi…read more

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Wall Pressure-Feeder Load Interactions in Mass Flow Hopper/Feeder Combinations - Part I

The interactive roles of mass flow bins and feeders are discussed. The effect of feeder speed, gate height clearance between the hopper outlet and the feeder surface, method of filling, rate of filling on wal pressures in mass flow bins and feeder load and power requirements of the feeders are highl…read more

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A Procedure for the Calculation of Surge Bin Sizes

A surge bin between two machines in series has the effect of increasing the total capacity of the system. In the present paper this effect is related to the machines' rates average production and interruption periods and internal availabilities. A procedure has been developed which calculates the to…read more

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Controlling Flow Patterns in Bins by Use of an Insert

A cone-in-cone bin insert, the BINSERT is presented as a means of controlling the flow pattern in existing bins and in new bin designs. The most significant applications can be seen in eliminating segregation problems and accomplishing in-bin blending. The advantages and possible future uses of this…read more

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Experimental Investigation of Some Important Soy Shreds Characteristics

The world-wide increase in the production and trade in bulk solids has led to the construction of increasingly large silos for the storage of an increasing number of bulk solids, of which the characteristics are sometimes not well known. Therefore, it is not surprising that some …read more

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The Hogan Vibratory Bin Discharger

The discharge of powders stored in bulk has always been a problem, and there are many devices schemes and designs to ensure that material once in a silo will flow out again. The subsequent control of that flowing material is considered a separate problem. This paper discusses the mechanical make-up …read more

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