Silo Technology

Another area where Kemex technology is leading, is the large capacity silos for storage and mixing bulk materials. Kemex has specialized in industries that require the higher capacities, around 10,000 tonnes of free flowing bulk.

Silos can be used to store a single product, to mix multiple products, or multiple cameras to store various products. Kemex has developed various designs for silo systems and domes that carry more than half a century incorporating innovative technologies tested in many facilities.

Inside the storage silos using an inverted cone with various designs, such as an expansion chamber with a single discharge point or a central cone with multiple discharge points into a collecting hopper.

Maximising emptying with lower energy consumption is the purpose of KEMEX design, for it in the inverted cone system reduces the surface to liquefy and silos with flat bottom or hopper, fluidization is performed in silo sections.

The equipment of the silos are performed in concrete or steel silos with diameters of up to 14 meters and heights of over 30 meters.

Another area where Kemex technology is state-of-the-art is the large capacity silos for bulk solid storage and mixing. Kemex has specialized in industries that require the highest capacities, some 10,000 tons for free-flowing bulk solids.

Silos can be used to store a single product, to mix multiple products, or may have multiple chambers for storing various products. Kemex has developed various designs for dome and silo systems are backed by more than a half-century of incorporating innovative technologies put to the test in multiple installations.
We have our own equipment for fluidizing and removing silos.
We design systems for the homogenization of silos using compressed air.

Inside the storage silos, an inverted cone with various designs – such as an expansion chamber with a single discharge point or a central cone with multiple discharge points into a collecting tank – is used.
The ultimate goal of KEMEX’s design is to maximize emptying using the lowest possible energy consumption. To do this, the surface to be fluidized is reduced in the inverted cone system; in silos with a flat bottom or a hopper, fluidization is done section by section.
In concrete or steel silos with diameters of up to 14 meters and heights of over 30 meters, KEMEX provides the equipment for the silos.
The silo extraction process is usually done by fluidizing the hopper or silo bottom using units for aerating the product, allowing the product to be extracted using gravity. Installations with vibrating bottoms using vibration are also designed.
We continuously dose the extraction using an auger screw.

KEMEX equips the silos with its own equipment, based on the product and the process:

• Lump breaker
• Aeration unit.
• Flow control gate
• Sector gate
• Slide gate
• Clam gate
• Air distribution valve
• Pressurization/depressurization safety valve