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22.10.2019  |  6196x
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Blazing the trail in reliability

BEUMER Group delivers belt apron conveyors for reliable transportation of cement clinker

From a kiln cooling system to silos: the safe and economical transportation of hot materials like clinker is crucial in cement plants. The material can have extremely high temperatures of 500 to 800 degrees Celsius. Reliable plant operation requires a robust conveying system. The Beumer group supports cement manufacturers with system solutions tailored for this industry, with apron conveyors for example. A special variant offered is the belt apron conveyor (GSZF): using a belt instead of a chain as the traction element allows higher speeds and a slimmer design while still delivering the same level of performance. The GSZF is therefore particularly suitable for modernisations, as can be seen with the Turkish cement manufacturer Göltas Cemento.

In the wake of a building boom in Turkey and the growing demand for cement, the cement manufacturer opted for modernising its kiln and increasing the performance. An increase from 250 to 400 tons per hour of the conveying technology capacity was required, for a chain apron conveyor that transports the clinker from the kiln cooling system to the silo. And for an economical production, Göltas Cemento has been increasingly opting for alternative fuels over the last several years, which meant that the content of fine particles also increased continuously. The existing conveyor already transported high quantities of material, and the process had become extremely dirty. Personnel was constantly needed to perform cleaning work.

"For a more powerful chain apron conveyor, we would have needed to take down the entire system including the building structures and the concrete tunnel," says André Tissen, sales manager for Customer Support at Beumer group, who was responsible for this project with his team. "This wasn't necessary when opting for the belt version. It reaches double the conveying speed, so that the Beumer group engineers could design the system for an increased capacity while keeping the same width. The conveyor bridge and the self-supporting steel structure, as well as the concrete foundations remained. Göltas Cement was able to considerably reduce costs, and put the system quickly into operation. "The silo is 50 metres high. In order to overcome an inclination of 40 degrees, we installed a steel box conveyor," explains the expert. It releases almost no material to the environment, despite the higher content in fine particles, creating a cleaner work environment.

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