Ethanol
Bulk Material Flow from Bins, Hoppers, Railcars, and Storage Vessels
REGAIN FLOW QUICKLY

Why Choose Pneumat?

Grain by-products (DDG) can often be a problem: It’s hard to store and move and tends to lock in place. So when bulk flow in Ethanol processing plants is disrupted from blockage, Pneumat products and/or TeamPneumat can take care of the periodic clearing and cleaning of high volume storage.

Traditional methods, such as vibrators and sledgehammers, are slow and dangerous, using too many personnel. But Pneumat can take care of these blockages in hours, not days, with just one operator safely away from the bin using joysticks to remotely control the cleaning.

Using a BinWhip, BinDrill and/or Cardox, Pneumat can knock down problems before they build into huge expensive ones, while keeping your processes online and your employees safe and more productive instead of beating on clogged bins. The BinWhip and BinDrill units are also designed to be modular so you can easily move them from bin to bin whether your clog is corn, screenings and/or dried distillers’ grain.

Pneumat’s hydraulic powered BinWhip and BinDrill are designed to fit grain bins of any shape or size. Hydraulic power is efficient and controllable; so more power goes into cleaning instead of spinning in mid-air or blowing dust around like air-powered machines. Because they are both reversible machines, they’ll crawl into all corners just by changing the direction of rotation, and you can also bring the drill up with ease. The BinWhip’s full hitting power and torque are available at all speeds, so speed is not needed to develop power. This means you can operate our machine at lower speeds with much greater control without losing power, simply because it beats on the product, not the air.

The Cardox tube is used from the outside of your equipment or storage vessel. Workers do not have to enter the clogged area, exposing them to contaminated air or loosened materials.

Stop Railcars from being sent back because of stuck DDG’s.

Problem: Dried Distillers Grain (DDG) is stuck in a railcar. DDG is usually bought, put in the railcars hot and wet and then travel thousands miles vibrating and compacting the entire journey. Then arrived to the mill with the DDG hard and non-flowing.

Pneumat Solution: The RailWhip/RailDrill Railcar Cleanout System drastically reduces unloading times and employee exposure to dangerous unloading activities. And lifting point brackets allow for easy movement from hopper to hopper.

If the railcar is bridged over, start by using the RailDrill and create a flow channel. Then use the RailWhip to cleanout the DDG, or just the RailWhip can be used on other railcars that already have a flow channel.

We design, build and use these machines. Through use in a variety of different environments and product clogs, we are constantly improving the effectiveness, efficiency and ease of use that keeps Pneumat the leader in bin cleanout technology.

We have the tools, the experience and the skills to handle any type of bulk flow problem that might arise in an ethanol facility. Bottom line: we’ve either seen or we will figure it out.

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