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PORTS: Continuous barge unloading

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elgian-based Vigan Engineering designs and manufactures port equipment for dry bulk handling and is widely recognized throughout the world as an expert in pneumatic bulk handling technology. With their numerous advantages compared to grabs or other mechanical devices, pneumatic barge unloaders have a wellestablished reputation among large-size agribulk businesses all around the world. Continuous barge pneumatic unloaders have particularly proven their suitability for discharging products such as all types of cereals and oilseeds, raw materials for animal feeding, as well as many other free-flowing products like fertilizers, soda ash, aluminium oxide (alumina) or emerging new commodities such as wood pellets.

system and floodlight for the illumination of the barge hold. The vertical and horizontal telescopic pipes are controlled by remote control boxes (push button and radio types) and Vigan provided a special cutting nozzle, enabling the suction of less free-flowing material such as soybean meal.

Efficiency: fast and perfect hold cleaning

When unloading barges and other vessels, speed is a major challenge. Its also crucial for hold cleaning. Mechanical grabs, for instance, offer a high unloading rate at the beginning of operations. However, the final cleaning of the hold at the end of the process requires considerable attention from the crane operator and the auxiliary workforce in the barge hold, in order to co-ordinate tasks to achieve maximum efficiency. With mechanical grabs, the remaining layers of product in the bottom and along the barge hold borders need to be gathered around the target area. This is usually quite time-consuming (a real nightmare for the manager in charge of productivity targets) and also rather dangerous for the workers. On the other hand, pneumatic unloaders behave like vacuum cleaners, efficiently sucking the product particles down to the hold bottom. Thanks to the telescopic characteristics of the pipes and the rotating capability of the boom supporting the conveying line, the suction nozzle is also able to reach the hidden corners of the hold. Most recent attempts with other mechanical continuous unloading systems have failed, or have performed poorly when attempting to provide an efficient final cleaning of the barge hold. A single worker can manage the whole barge unloading process, including when

behaving as the driver of the auxiliary skid steer equipment and for final brushing of the products around the suction nozzle. For barges, it is quite common to achieve an average efficiency rate of up to 80 percent with a Vigan pneumatic unloader in comparison to only 6065 percent with conventional grabs.

Environmentally friendly
In terms of environmental friendliness, the Provimi unloaders green paint is just the beginning. The machinery room is noise-insulated with a turbo blower group and high-performance silencers. Negative pressure is maintained around the suction nozzle, whose filtering system ensures less than 10 g of dust escapes per cubic metre. The lack of a grab crane means that the boom can move at relatively slow speeds, reducing any disturbance to nearby wild animals. Finally, the use of pneumatic equipment eliminates the risk of spillage from potential contaminants like nitrates.

Provimi Dresses in Green

In May 2013, Vigan installed a pneumatic barge unloader at Provimi (part of the Cargill Group) in Kaiseraugst, Switzerland. The machine was painted in green to blend in with the forest landscape, and the unloader was mounted on a floating bridge to avoid damaging the environment. With an unloading capacity of 300 t/h (metric tonnes per hour), the pneumatic unloader is equipped with a four-stage turbo blower directly driven by a main electrical motor of 250 kW and controlled by frequency inverter (this speed variator enables a flexible unloading capacity from 150 t/h to 300 t/h and optimizes power consumption at all times). The machines central tower includes a high-pressure jet-pulse type filter (filtering area of 112m2) on a slewing pedestal mounted on the stationary gantry. The 15 metre long rotating boom is completely hot-dip galvanized, with a lighting
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Low power consumption

Most recent technological developments such as the installation of frequency inverters, direct drive of the turbo blowers, optimized design of the suction nozzle, and the general philosophy of pneumatic conveying systems enable low power consumption. For barge unloading, power consumption is around 0.60.7 kWh/t.

Advantages of barge unloaders

Efficient barge unloading is indeed a challenge, but it is a must in most modern industries. Further to these advantages, pneumatic continuous unloaders allow easy, low-cost maintenance and have an almost nonexistent accident risk.
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