Bucket Elevator
Clean, gentle vertical transfer of granular and powdered bulk solids, inside a fully sealed casing.
Gasketed trunking, continuous seal from boot to head
Controlled discharge trajectory, low fines generation
Capacities to 120 t/h, lifts to 40 m centre-to-centre
Açıklama
Introduction to our Bucket Elevators
A granulation line moves material vertically far more often than a layout drawing suggests: raw feed up to the dosing hoppers, granulator discharge to the dryer, cooler discharge to the screens, oversize back to the mill, and finished product to the packing bins. Every one of those lifts is an opportunity to generate fines, spill product onto the floor, or let humid air into a stream that has just been dried to specification.
Our bucket elevators are built around that reality. A fully enclosed casing, buckets matched to the abrasiveness and moisture of the product, and a drive sized for the starting torque of a loaded boot mean the lift becomes the least troublesome part of the circuit rather than the machine that dictates plant availability.
Ana Özellikler ve Faydalar:
Industrial Bucket Elevator Design For Clean, Gentle Vertical Transfer
- Dust-Tight, Weather-Sealed Casing: Trunking is fabricated from 3–5 mm carbon steel with bolted, gasketed joints and a continuous seal from boot to head. Fertilizer is hygroscopic, so keeping ambient humidity out of the casing matters as much as keeping dust in — sealed trunking protects the moisture content achieved in the dryer and keeps caking off the bucket lips. Galvanised or epoxy-coated finishes are specified against the chloride load of the formulation rather than applied as standard.
- Buckets and Belt Matched to the Product: Pressed steel, stainless or polyethylene buckets are selected by abrasiveness and moisture content, then bolted to a rubber belt with steel fasteners so a damaged bucket is a ten-minute change rather than a strand replacement. Centrifugal discharge suits free-flowing granules; continuous buckets are specified for fragile or fine material that must not be thrown.
- Gentle Handling, Low Fines Generation: Belt speed, head pulley diameter and discharge throat geometry are set together so product leaves the bucket on a controlled trajectory instead of striking the casing wall. Attrition in the elevator reports straight back as recycle load, so low-impact discharge protects the size distribution the granulator worked to achieve.
- Built for Loaded, Continuous Starts: The drive is sized for restart against a flooded boot, not merely for running load. A shaft-mounted geared motor with an anti-runback backstop prevents the loaded belt from reversing on power loss, and the boot carries a clean-out door and screw take-up so buried product can be cleared without dismantling the leg.
Geri Dönüşü Sağlayan Akıllı Tasarım Detayları
- Inspection Doors at Every Platform: Bolted, gasketed doors on both trunking runs at each floor level let the belt, buckets and splice be checked without scaffolding or a section strip-down.
- Alignment and Speed Monitoring Ready: Pre-installed mounts for underspeed, belt-misalignment and plugged-chute sensors tie the elevator into the plant PLC, so a slipping belt is caught long before it burns through the casing.
- Screw Take-Up Boot with Full-Width Clean-Out: Tension is adjusted from outside the casing, and a full-width clean-out door means a flooded boot is emptied in minutes at a grade change instead of an hour.
- Modular Trunking Sections: Standard-length trunking on a common bolt pattern sets lift height by adding sections, and a damaged run is replaced from stock rather than fabricated to order.
- Aspiration and Relief Provisions: Head and boot are supplied with ports for tie-in to the plant dust collection system, and with relief panel provisions where the dust classification of the product calls for them.
Specifications
Kapasite
Calculated according to the capacity of the plant
Lift height
Up to 40 m centre-to-centre
Traction element
Rubber belt with bolted buckets, or chain
Bucket material
Pressed steel, stainless or polyethylene
Belt speed
1.2 – 1.8 m/s
Continuous-duty industrial operation
24/7 operation
Why Choose Our Bucket Elevators?
An elevator is a cheap machine that can stop an entire plant, so we build it as process equipment rather than as a conveyor. Casing gauge, bucket material and coating are specified against the formulation and its chloride load instead of taken from a catalogue.
The drive is sized for a loaded restart rather than for running load alone, and the boot, head and inspection doors are laid out so routine checks happen while the line runs instead of forcing a shutdown.
Because we build the machines on either side of it, the elevator arrives matched to the granulation drum feeding it and the eğimli elek it discharges to, with the same one-year guarantee as the rest of the line.
Bizimle Çalışın
Ceylan Makine ve Proses manufactures machinery for large-scale fertilizer production, and we’ve been doing so for over 20 years. Having completed projects in Turkey and Europe, we’re continuing to expand our services internationally. You can trust that we are able to deliver individual pieces of machinery for fertilizer production as well as entire production systems for plants.
If you want high-quality bucket elevators with a 1-year guarantee on the machinery, as well as a guaranteed capacity/production tonnage, başlamak için bir form doldurun.
Sıkça Sorulan Sorular
What materials can the bucket elevator handle?
Granular and powdered fertilizers are the usual duty — NPK, urea-based blends, MAP and DAP — along with mineral fines and chemical powders. Bucket material, casing gauge and coating are selected against the abrasiveness, moisture and chloride content of the specific product rather than supplied to a single standard.
Belt or chain — which do you supply?
Belt elevators are the default for granular fertilizer: they run faster and quieter and generate fewer fines. Chain is specified where the material is hot, sharp or lumpy enough to damage a rubber belt, or where lift height and load make a positive-drive element the safer choice. We size both against the duty rather than defaulting to one.
How high can the elevator lift, and at what capacity?
Lift height and capacity are set by the plant layout and line throughput rather than by a fixed model range. Trunking is built from standard-length modular sections, so height is a matter of adding sections; capacity follows from bucket size, spacing and belt speed once the discharge arrangement is fixed.
How is the elevator maintained without stopping the plant?
Inspection doors on both trunking runs at each floor let the belt, buckets and splice be checked while the line runs. Bucket replacement is bolt-on, tension is adjusted from outside the casing at the screw take-up, and the boot clean-out door clears a flooded boot in minutes, so most routine work fits inside a planned stop instead of forcing one.
Does the elevator generate dust or lose product?
The casing is sealed and gasketed from boot to head, and head and boot carry aspiration ports that tie into the plant dust collection system, so carryover is drawn off rather than escaping into the building. Discharge geometry lifts product out of the bucket on a controlled trajectory, which keeps both spillage back into the boot and fines generation low.
What happens if the elevator is stopped under load?
An anti-runback backstop on the drive prevents the loaded belt from reversing when power is lost, and the drive is sized to restart against a flooded boot rather than only against running load. Where the material is prone to setting, the boot clean-out door lets the leg be emptied before restart instead of stalling the motor.