Why don't you get Soda Ash in bulk tankers ? No need to have separate conveying system.

Convey directly from tanker into silo. Might need a land based blower /compressor if there

is no on-board blower.

Macwaber Desnoveyor now that is something from 80's.

Regards

Mantoo ■

33m vertical is achievable with lean phase system only problem is excessive

degradation of soda ash. If degradation is not an issue then it is ok. If not

then you will need to put your densoveyor in a pit with a little hopper which

can be fed from the container. You will still need the container tilting frame.

Regards ■

What is the crane capacity?

I can supply a tilting device. There is no need for a pit & the associated drainage to protect the hygroscopic product.

Bag-in-box product is usually carried in non-preferred 9m containers with a letterbox door adding to the complexity, specialisation & cost. Such tilting trailers have on board blowers.

Even if you need a bigger EOT my system will be economical.

Carting soda Ash by tubs (powder tankers) by road from Bulgaria is prohibitably expensive.

I was in charge of engineering soda ash imports from Utah, via Portland & Philippines, to the Eramet nickel facility on Halmahera, Indonesia. That was containerised: but no letterboxes on site. ■

Soda Ash can develop lumps during transit. Ours were 90mm at times. I would provide air bleed for fluidisation to get the stuff out of the liner in the first place. Then you will need an attritor upstream of any pneumatics.

Bulgaria is only 4 days away. Have you balanced the container logistics with the silo capacity to see if you could just leave it in boxes until needed? ■

Your present system was workable although there is a lack of information regarding how many containers can be emptied at once.

Bag in box operations typically take 2 hours considering set up, blowing & disconnecting.

One of your problems is the danger presented to, and by, forklift drivers. FIBC's stacked 2 high will have fallen against the container walls & also require an operative to climb, initially with a stepladder, and hold the loops of the top row open for fork entry & engagement. This procedure potentially violates safety no matter what & the stepladder height must be adjusted once the first 4 bags are out of the way: assuming the container is in the open air. Inside the container the darkness increases as more bags are removed. Vision is difficult & the loop lifter is always presented with heavy steel forks approaching the 2 loops he is holding against the container roof while he is standing on the lower bag next door. Whatever anybody can provide it is still a precarious operation. Of course you could use pallets & expect the problem to go away: except that you have to have a good Pallet Change Voucher (PCV) system in operation with the 280 pallets requiring storage. Most pallet collectors entertain about 520 pieces: less with a curtainsider. So unless you have an onward market the pallets will accumulate in your yard. As they do in most yards.

If the bag in box business has gone too far, I suspect, then you have to account for the cost of the liner. This is considerable & returning is rarely an option. The carrier stuffs it under the trailer hose box & either disposes of it of uses it as weather protection around his yard. At least pallet recycling can be regulated properly.

Your problem is simply that you are using 20' boxes instead of 40 footers. A 40' box will enable single layer loading. There will be very little difference in the tariff: the weight difference is negligible; 70% of the world container fleet is 40'. The operator can stand/kneel on the bag ahead of the forktruck & is therefore better isolated from fork impingement.

Basically, no pallets, liners or fancy stupid tipping 30' trailers ■