Ricegrowers Whitton – New South Wales
Customer:
Ricegrowers Cooperative
Location:
Whitton, NSW
Product:
Rice Seed
Requirements of Ricegrowers
The Ricegrowers Co-operative need to store various types of rice seed for subsequent weighing and loading into trucks for distribution to the growers. The system had to be designed so that contamination between various grades was avoided. The system had to:
- prevent seeds mixing with no chute collection edges
- provide accurate batch weights within 0.5%
- give push button control on batch weights and settings linked back to the PLC for outloading conveyor.
Technical Information
- Conveyors: 6
- Belt Width: 500 mm
- Length: 29.5 m
- Inclination: Up to 16°
- Capacity: 100 tph
- Belt Speed: 2.3 m/s
- Drive Power: Up to 4.0 kW
- Fan Power: Up to 1.5 kW
- Product Density: 0.65 T/m³
Aerobelt Solution
Aerobelt Australia supplied a system comprising three conveyors to load 3 x 800 tonne silos and three outloading conveyors which had four Flowforce Impact weighers installed.
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