silo in cement plant
- Raw material pretreatment
- Cooling and Intermediate Storage of Clinker
- Storage and Bulk Shipping
- Storage and Transportation of Mixing Materials
- Loading and Port Transfer
1. Raw material pretreatment
The first step in cement production is the pretreatment of raw materials. Materials such as limestone, clay, and iron powder require homogenization treatment to ensure the stability of the finished cement’s quality.
AGICO SOLUTION:
- Large capacity, high sealing performance to ensure no dust leakage during raw material storage.
- One-stop design, matching feeding system, reducing energy consumption by 15%.
AGICO SUPPLY:
- The silos are equipped with a material retrieval system and a quantitative conveying device to ensure continuous feeding.
- The silo body can be integrated with weighing, monitoring, and temperature and humidity detection modules to enhance homogenization accuracy and safety.
- The inner coating of the silo wall is anti-adhesive to reduce the rate of material adhesion.
2. Cooling and Intermediate Storage of Clinker
The temperature of clinker after calcination can reach over 800℃. After cooling, it needs to be quickly transferred and stored for grinding or loading and shipping.
AGICO SOLUTION:
- The inclined bottom structure design and high-temperature treatment process enable AGICO clinker silos to operate stably in high-temperature and high-load environments for a long time.
- Compared with traditional concrete clinker silos, the installation period is shortened by 40%.
AGICO SUPPLY:
- High-strength steel structure clinker silos are adopted, which are stable in structure and have strong heat resistance.
- Natural ventilation or forced cold air systems are set at the bottom to accelerate the cooling of clinker.
- The inclined bottom and gasification discharge device design effectively prevents clinker bridging or poor discharge.
- Equipped with dust removal systems and top safety valves, meeting European and American emission and safety standards.
3. Storage and Bulk Shipping
Finished cement after grinding needs to be stored in highly sealed silos, waiting for packaging, bulk shipping, or further blending.
AGICO SOLUTION:
- AGICO has the total package capability of a complete discharge system, loading system, and dust removal module.
- Help customers achieve “unmanned storage and environmentally friendly shipping”.
AGICO SUPPLY:
- The interior of the silo adopts a patented fluidized bed, gasification pipeline discharge system, automatically breaking the arch and ensuring stable discharge.
- It can be connected to an automatic bulk packaging line to achieve integrated automatic metering, packaging, and conveying.
- Equipped with intelligent material level monitoring, a loading queue system to improve logistics efficiency.
4. Storage and Transportation of Mixing Materials
Modern cement enterprises generally add blending materials such as fly ash and slag powder to adjust cement performance and reduce costs. These materials are prone to moisture absorption and caking, and are easy to fly, thus requiring higher standards for storage systems.
AGICO SOLUTION:
- AGICO’s powder silo system, combined with dust removal, pneumatic discharge, central control system.
- Can save 20% of labor and 10% of feeding deviation costs for cement plants.
AGICO SUPPLY:
- We provide specialized airtight powder silos, featuring low oxygen content and dry, sealed characteristics.
- A medium-pressure pneumatic conveying system and a top-mounted bag filter are configured to achieve enclosed loading and unloading as well as automatic metering and feeding.
- An automatic powder replenishment and monitoring system is available, supporting intelligent alarm and inventory management.
5. Loading and Port Transfer
Customers use the steel silos as transfer ports or logistics distribution bases to store various types of cement in a centralized manner, and transport them to the terminal market by bulk trucks or railway wagons.
AGICO SOLUTION:
- The integrated design of steel silos, conveying, and bulk loading enables a daily loading capacity of up to 5,000 tons.
- Help customers build a modern cement logistics platform.
AGICO SUPPLY:
- For ports or logistics bases, AGICO can construct a complete set of automated steel silo loading systems, including large cement steel silos, bucket elevators, gravity discharge hoppers, bulk packaging machines, and electronic metering systems.
- It can also integrate intelligent loading management modules such as IC card recognition, RFID dispatching, and remote collaboration.
AGICO service
AGICO offers customers a one-stop “turnkey project service”, from solution design to after-sales support, with no worries throughout the entire process.
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Why choose AGICO
- Over 20 years of experience in cement systems, familiar with powder characteristics and process logic.
- One-stop solution for steel silos, conveying, dust removal, packaging, and intelligent control.
- Supporting overseas installation, customized design, and OEM processing.
- Products are sold to over 60 countries, widely praised by customers in Europe, America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
- Fast delivery, localized service network, spare parts guarantee.
An optional full set of automation control system integration
Support multilingual customer docking (English/Russian/Spanish, etc.)
Free design drawings and selection suggestions
On-site or remote installation guidance services
AGICO steel silo project cases
20,000 ton clinker steel silo system for an Iranian cement plant
- Project content: 3 clinker silos with a diameter of 18 meters and a height of 28 meters, equipped with anti-caking fluidizing plates, bucket elevators, and pneumatic discharge devices.
- Customer say: “The silos from AGICO have excellent sealing performance, which has solved the problem of clinker moisture absorption and caking. The loading efficiency has increased by 30%, and the environmental protection inspection has been successfully passed.”
The finished cement silo group of the grinding station in Manila, Philippines
- Project content: 6 cement silos (each with a capacity of 2,500 tons), belt conveyor, bulk loading station, pulse dust removal system.
- Effect: Replacing the original bagged cement silos, it saves over $100,000 in packaging and labor costs annually, and doubles the overall automation operation efficiency.
