July 24, 2012

KSE Process Technology develops bulk loading for internal transport

Press release

Feed manufacturing equipment company, KSE Process Technology has developed Bulk Batch Transport (BBT), a transport system for bulk loading, for transporting raw materials internally.

Typically, raw materials are transported internally with a chain conveyor or a screw. The BBT transports the raw materials in a bunker. Because the raw materials are directly loaded from bagging, big bags, or silos into the bunker, there is little or no contact between the BBT and the product which results in less damage to the product.

"The idea of a movable transport system arose from the experience we have in flexible weighing systems and from the increasingly stringent contamination requirements we know for the Premix Mineral industry. Besides the low cross-contamination was also flexibility a develop demand. The transport system needs to be used for different purposes like: weighing or not weighing, dosing with ALFRA slides or only register transported weight, filling silo's and hereby move the silo cover from multiple collection points to a mixer or from collection points to multiple destinations", said developer Joep Berkers.

"Another advantage of this movable transport system is the extensibility. By using the modular ALFRA dose&weigh software it's possible to configure the system for the above purposes or expand to multiple destinations", said Berkers.

The BBT is custom-made and the first BBTs are supplied worldwide, including Italy, Germany, Poland and Scandinavia.

KSE is a technology company with a wide range of machines, automation solutions and services for mainly the Premix Mineral, food and animal feed industry.