Bundaberg Sugar – Queensland
Customer:
Bundaberg Sugar
Location:
Bundaberg, Qld
Product:
Sugar Cane
Requirements of Bundaberg Sugar
undaberg Walker Engineering, on behalf of Bundaberg Sugar, approached Aerobelt Australia to design a new sugarcane receival system and provide a new sugarcane conveyor to feed the mill. Slat chain conveyors were being used, and they did not provide the flexibility required to handle the sugarcane and were very expensive to maintain. The new system had to:
- Accept sugarcane from both the existing rail system and by road, at the same time.
- Segregate the sugarcane from each farmer and provide adequate storage capacity for two full trucks into the system.
- Increase the tonnage capacity from 330 to 400 tph and have the ability to vary the tonnage rate into the mill.
Technical Information
- Conveyors: 3
- Belt Width: 1800/ 2400 mm
- Length: 83 m
- Inclination: To 16°
- Capacity: 400 tph
- Belt Speed: 0.15/ 1.6 m/s
- Drive Power: 30/ 45/ 22 kW
- Fan Power: 7.5 kW
- Product Density: 0.35 T/m³
Aerobelt Solution
Aerobelt designed a system using two 2.4m wide flat feeder conveyors and an 1800mm wide Aerobelt conveyor. All three conveyors incorporated variable speed controllers to vary the feed rate into the mill.
The road hopper and rail hoppers could accept and store the volume generated by either rail or road. This equated to two or more discharges from either method. The 1800mm Aerobelt feeding the mill could be fed by both delivery methods, but not at the same time. This prevented any mixing of sugarcane from different farmers.
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