Equipment Spotlight Spotlight on conveyors A roundup of conveyors and bulk handling equipment for the biomass industry Staff report tensioning area while providing smooth, non-binding tensioning. www.asgco.com INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING Surrey, B.C.-based Industrial Equipment Manufacturing Ltd. engineers and man-ufactures a diverse range of quality bulk materials handling equipment in numerous industries around the world including pulp and paper mills, saw-mills, mining facilities, ports and marine facilities, grain elevators and various bulk loading facilities. Conveyors are available in a number of different styles including belt conveyors, high-lift conveyors, chain conveyors, screw conveyors and under-ground conveyors. Features include: transfer towers, load chutes, discharge chutes with belt cleaners, platforms and walkways. For clients in forest and wood processing, IEM specializes in design-build solutions, manufacturing a range of quality, reliable products, including the IEM Debarker – an effective debarker and residual fibre recovery system. www.iem.ca FOX VENTURI EDUCTORS Using air at 3-12 psig, Venturi Eductors can convey alt fuel up to 300 feet and sor-bents and PAC up to 800 feet. Available in line sizes from two inches to 16 inches, and available with ceramic or tool-steel liners for handling highly abrasive mate-rials with high silica content. Fox can supply eductors with matching blowers, bends, valves, etc. www.foxvalve.com BIOMASS ENGINEERING & EQUIPMENT ASGCO Fox Venturi Eductors have been used to convey alternative fuels, ag-waste, pet coke, wood pellets, and shredded tires to cement kilns in Canada and globally since the 1980’s. Venturi eductors supply pneumatic conveying with no moving parts, with no shafts or seals to maintain, and with no fugitive dust – an alternative to rotary valves when handling biomass. The simple and highly effective Skalper belt cleaner removes carry-back from the conveyor system, which leads to many adverse complications and costly down-time for repairs and maintenance. The Skalper’s one-piece urethane blade main-tains precise contact with the belt at all times, effectively removing dust and res-idue before it can enter the return side of the system. This dramatically reduces maintenance labour costs and downtime. The unique self-adjusting E-Z Torque Tensioning System with its rubber cor-rugated dust covers and UHMW bush-ings ensure no build-up in the spring Biomass Engineering & Equipment designs and manufactures SMART Conveyors for wood processing industries. The twin chain design is totally enclosed and dust tight. SMART Conveyors are available in five sizes to accommodate a wide range of capacities. Key features include: space saving inclines up to 75 degrees; twin chains are totally supported in wear strips; one-half the power requirements of other systems; maintenance friendly design – change curve wear strips from outside the conveyor without breaking the chain; shaft-mounted inverter duty drives; mod-ular construction; claw paddle design limits stresses on the paddle system; min-imal support structure required due to robust design. www.BEandE.net S. HUOT S. Huot has built a global reputation for providing world-class engineering design, manufacturing and management of cus-tom-designed bulk material handling equip-ment. Its team of engineers is conscious of the raw material handling challenges of the forest industry operations. The goal: reduce acquisition and operational costs for your NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 24 Canadian BIOMASS
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