One of your many options would be to use our Bin Whip system.

Its similar to all the air powered whipping machines, but has the overall advantage of being powered by hydraulics .

Check out our site if you are interested

http://www.pneumat-europe.com/ ■

Wnat to save heaps of $$$ getting some contractor to fly in??

Get an air hose - heavy duty type...with joiners etc every so often eg 4 m or so. At these connections - fix into the joint a steel plate - square shape etc.

Do this every so often...get a snake with plates

Hang it down and give it some compressed air.

It should whip around and give your silo a clean.

Another method could be shot guns/explosives.

Need to be very careful with hoses in silos - if they break > can cuase ajmming issues down stream - as we found out with an expert silo cleaner who left site with his tail between his legs and us with a severe problem.

Cheers

James ■

@r.j.morrish

That is certainly a novel way to clean a silo, but if it works who am I to argue ;-)

Who was the silo cleaning "expert" who lost their hose? (just out of interest) ■

Depending on how big the silo is, you might consider a high pressure water lance.

Saw a small (14 ft dia x 30 ft high), ash silo cleaned out this way. Ash was hardened like concrete inside.(Years of buildup) Too hard to clean out with pick & shovel.

Was just as big a job to clean up the chunks & slurry on the ground after wards as it was to clean out the silo. ■

We had a guy clean our cement silo from buildups - his hose was stuck in the outlet - the result of this...cement coming out of the silo uncontrolled was worse than the build ups.

We have used explosives to clear a outlet blockage on clinker silos.

The hose methods has been used to clean PH tower vessels with success and should be no reaosn why no OK for clinker silos.

Any lateral thinking on the part of the owner before getting someone to fly in and a large crane to lift gear FIRST is worth it.

Cheers

James ■

Do not know if everyone will be keen on drilling holes at close centrees thru post tensioned concrete silos or steel silos

Cardox has it place. Need to think about access to the outside of the silo and also engress whilst firing the CO2 shot.

Cheers

James ■

Cardox is one of the tools we use to remove hang-ups/blockages, but as r.j.morrish states, not many people are willing to have holes cut into their silo just to remove their hung-up product.

Unless we could actually see the problem silo, we couldn't really advise on which is the best method to remove the hang-up.

http://www.pneumat-europe.com/ ■

Are their any other suppliers of these CO2 clearing systems, in addition to Cardox? ■

Happybetty,

you will be even merrier when you find out that hangups in silos can be obviated by a vibrating floor, which allows automatic reclaim and clean-up of flat bottom silos. Please take a look at silexport.com

JC Poncet ■

The safe, remote and effective way to clean silos is to use the Gyro Whip, then to install the appropriate model of Acoustic Cleaner to prevent material build up on side walls (rat holing) and bridging.

For Gyro Whip silo cleaning follow the link -

http://www.primasonics.com/silocleaning.htm

For information on Acoustic Cleaners for silos and hoppers, please follow the link -

http://www.primasonics.com/acousticcleanersrange.htm

Donald F Cameron

Primasonics International Limited ■

check www.spekschoorbv.nl when youre having silo problems.

regards ■

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I read your application with interest and I also noted that our company PRIMASONICS INTERNATIONAL were mentioned by another. For Safe, Effective and Remote Silo Cleaning we offer for sale the Prima Whip (in a variety of models, depending on silo dimensions). Have a look at this specific link

href="http://www.primasonics.com/primawhip.htm#remote" target="blank">http://www.primasonics.com/primawhip.htm#remote)

The Prima Whip is constructed from non-sparking metal and used compressed air to drive two counter rotating motors to which are attached short lengths of brass chain. The Prima Whip can easilly be operated by one operator from the top of the silo plus the fact that during this cleaning operation the silo can still safely discharge material.

We can send you a DVD and reference list plus a quotation, should you be interested. I also attach our Prima Whip brochure and will be pleased to answer any questions you might have.

Safe Cleaning!

Kind regards

Donald

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To eliminate future build up - so silo cleaning is not needed again- and no need to create any holes in the vessel wall, you can consider using pneumatic vibrators.

VERY large models for large silos are available.

They are mounted on the outside of the wall via welding and the vibration energy transfers into the material.

Vibrators will:

Develop required energy to create flow

Reduce sliding wall friction

Reduce material strength and cohesiveness

Minimize over-compaction of material

Not effect hopper structure when installed and run properly

It works just like the Newton's Cradle simulates below:

The ball on the right being the vibrator/piston, the 3 balls in the middle are the bin wall, and the ball on the left is the material.

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you can clean it with by acoustic cleaning method.

workers go inside is truely dangerous.

there are many companies who can do the job by sonic horn. here are two of them.

sonic wave generated by the horn could cause acoustic fatigue, the clinker would fall. ■

Originally Posted by mall

hi

what is the best method to clean the clinker silo espcially to remove/break the harden clinker?

normally what we did before was enter the silo and clean harden clinker inside but very risky? ...so not so many people willing to do it........

need your suggestion/input

tq

2007

the questions is still alive

but you may ask my friend Bertil Lindell to minimize the risk for opertor and improve time, costs, safety

Simple like that; see the picture

and

see a video

my contact data

dak

T +1858 5644045

M +54911 53252311

E bulk.good.solutions@gmail.com ■