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News Release from: Nerak Wiese | Subject: United Sugar in SAR
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 January 2007
Sugar conveyor redesign reduces
degradation
United Sugar Company of Saudi Arabia took Nerak advice over rerouting a sugar conveyor, reducing power and space requirements and providing a gentle transfer plus a dynamic weighing system
- and that's the Weigh to go United Sugar Company of Saudi Arabia had a need to transfer both vertically and horizontally two types of sugar from a screening process along one conveyor route where it was to be weighed and then split into the respective holding silos This had to be achieved with the minimum of product degradation over a total distance of some 150mtrs
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 28 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The original conveyor route was designed to hug the building line with a total of 8 transfer points and 7 drives.
As product degradation was one of the key considerations along with power consumption and space, USC decided to request the assistance of a company who specialised in bucket conveyors and who had all of the right attributes pertaining to technical and best practices when dealing with sugar.
Nerak was appointed, having the right qualities and with the capability to provide their unique rubber block belt drive system, which provides gentle and silent operation.
Nerak quickly identified a new route which required only 3 transfer points and 2 drives.
This new route was agreed as the best solution, as it took into account not only the number of transfer points and the gentle transfer - preventing product degradation along with reduced power requirements; but it also allowed for the inclusion of a dynamic weighing system built into one of the bucket elevators.
This eliminated the need for a separate weighing system either before or after the bucket conveyor route.
The dynamic weighing systems used are flexible and user friendly, providing batch weighing, dosing, sub and on-going totals as standard: plus it is easily configured to meet unique customer requirements.
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