The pneumatic ship unloader for cement by Van Aalst Bulk Handling performs 2 jobs at the same time; unloading of the ship and conveying of the unloaded cement to a silo or storage facility. These two systems are integrated together on 1 road-legal trailer, that can travel throughout Europe without the need for special permits (see technical characteristics below).
The design capacity of this road-mobile unloader is 225 ton per hour, with a conveying distance of 80 metres from ship unloader to storage silo, incl. various bends.
During the commissioning test at the customers site, the cement was successfully conveyed over a distance of 150 metres with a small number of wide-radius bends. Even with this remarkable performance, the combined cycle of unloading + conveying demands ‘just’ 450kW power from its compact diesel engine. Another big advantage of a pneumatic ship unloader is that it works with vacuum technology, which sucks away all the dust from the ships hold, together with the cement. With the help of a small front-end loader (type Bobcat) the manipulator arm of the road-mobile unit can reach and clean any corner of the hold of bulk carriers of 5.000dwt. Van Aalst Bulk Handling road-mobile ship unloader for cement, type VASS/5.000/225/D Dimensions of the unit (l x w x h): 13.000 x 2.500 x 4.000 mm, truck not included. Weight: 35.000 kg.
