INDUSTRIAL SILO CLEANING
The industries have been the vehicle that drove the world to modernization. The industrialization has led this world to some new horizons of opportunities and equality. An industry is an assembly of various parts that keep an organization moving smoothly.
Silos are the structures that are supposed to store the material in bulk. The materials like grain, coal, woodchips, cement, food products, and sawdust etc. have been stored in these structures. The various types of silos used are tower silos, low oxygen tower silos, bunker silos, bag silos, cement storage silos, fabric silos, etc.
The storage silos are one of the most essential features of an industry as the production demands a clean and safe place to get the manufactured goods and other necessary material stored in.
WHY A SILO NEEDS CLEANING
An industrial silo is supposed to keep various materials that are dropped through its top and removed from its footing. In this process, quite a good deal of unnecessary material is left inside as it does not find its way to the outlet point. This is the point where a silo demands cleaning.
The clogging of this unwanted material can cause many problems as the clogging of this left-behind material can be problematic in many ways. So Industrial silo cleaning is compulsory because of following reasons:
- Remove the accumulation of old remains inside a silo that decreases the volume of the product released inside a silo.
- In the silos that keep food products, the cleaning stops the fungal bacterial and insect growth.
- Sometimes the leakage points appear inside silos that are not visible due to the clogging. The cleaning of a silo makes them detectable for repair.
- The accumulation of a product inside impedes the proper flow of the product to the bottom. The cleaning can ensure proper flow.
A clean silo thus ensures the maximum storage capacity, slowing down the process of wear and tear, minimizing downtime, and reducing the risk of contamination so we ensure all these features by ensuring a clean silo.
HOW TO CLEAN A SILO
The cleaning of an interior of a silo is a difficult and quite a dangerous task as the structure of a silo can be up to 200 feet tall and 90 feet in diameter. This cleaning poses a dangerous situation in actual sense when a man gets into this structure for inspections, repairs, or cleaning.
The slip of feet, the sharp fluctuation in oxygen levels and entrapment are the risks related to silo cleaning.
The most common way to Industrial silo cleaning is:
- Manual Cleaning: In this process, a worker has been lowered inside to clean a silo. It is simple but dangerous as well as there are many risks included in manual cleaning.
- Air blasters: In this method a de-clogging device containing a pressure vessel for storing air and a triggering mechanism is used together such that the air is released at high speed to be used to prevent caking in silos.
- Acoustic cleaners: This method makes use of cleaning apparatus which is built on silo top. This device emits sound waves that shake the grains or storage particles to loose and thus reduces the effort for manual cleaning.
- Pressure washing: A hose is used to pressure wash the silo interior with water. But after this process the entire silo is dried thoroughly otherwise moisture may grow and can give room for microbe’s growth which can decay the stored material. Thus, this is done only when no other option is left.
- Dry Ice blasting: It makes use of dry Ice blasts to clean silo surfaces. This is efficient method and eliminates the growth of molds and decontaminates the silo surfaces.
The choice of the method depends on the silo structure, and availability of resources and personnel’s.
The Robotic Cleaning Services promises a cleaning of the silo to the highest level of your satisfaction as our cleaning service can clear blockages to maximize flow and efficiency, ensuring a compliant and safe environment for the storage in the bulk of various products.
The service has been done by our team that consists of highly trained technicians with all the required pieces of equipment. The experience and technical dexterity of our workers are the basis of our credibility in this field.