Adey Steel Ltd have won, and already completed and delivered one of the two Sliding Frame Bunker orders received from one of the companies key customers.
The first Bunker has been manufactured and delivered successfully to a Biomass plant in Coventry with the second being sent to a plant in Swindon.
These components have a hydraulically actuated lid that opens to allow trucks to tip material into the sludge reception silo. A Sliding Frame positioned on the baseplate in the flat bottomed silo reciprocates across the floor promoting mass flow and discharging directly into a silo pump screw conveyor where it is pumped to the next process.
The frames are a substantial single unit with the weldments themselves weighing 17.5t and 20.3t alone along with 5t of ancillary steelwork to support each Bunker.
Within our scope of supply the client requested that we manufactured these units in one piece so hiring in specialist equipment to carry out the lifts was required. By providing the unit in one piece saved many man hours of additional installation and erection work on site.