Flour Tanker Trailers Guide – How to Choose Specs/Capacity/Dimension

The vertical flour tanker trailer is a tanker that transports bulk flour materials as the medium. The tank body is a horizontal cylinder and several vertically inverted conical silos. The minimum angle between the conical silos and the horizontal plane is greater than the angle of repose of the flour material. The material flows to the discharge port by gravity, and the discharge method is pneumatic conveying.

Why do we need a flour transport trailer to transport flour?

Flour is a kind of powder milled from wheat, which is divided into special first-grade flour, special second-grade flour and ordinary flour according to the processing accuracy. Different grades of flour have different particle sizes and test weights. After research, some flour mills use horizontal flour tank semi-trailers to transport flour, and the residual amount of materials can generally reach 300-500kg. Due to the large area of the fluidized bed of the horizontal flour tank semi-trailer, it is inconvenient to clean the flour, and it is scattered in the flow. The flour between the air strips is difficult to clean. The residual powder stays in the tank for a long time and is easy to deteriorate, which is extremely harmful to food health, and the use of vertical flour tank semi-trailer can achieve zero residual powder.

Work

Bulk flour tanker is an important vehicle for flour mills to transport flour to flour processing enterprises, and an important carrier for the whole process of bulk flour transportation. The flour bulk transporter is mainly composed of the chassis and the upper part, which can be simply divided into five parts: the chassis system, the transmission system, the tank body, the pipeline system, and the accessories.

Working principle

The working principle is to use the power of the car to drive the air compressor (pump), and send the compressed air into the air chamber under the sealed tank through the pipeline, so that the powder particles on the fluidized bed of the air chamber are suspended in the fluid state when the pressure in the tank reaches the rated value. , Open the unloading valve, the fluidized material flows through the pipeline for transportation, which belongs to the fluidized unloading, the structure is simple, the tank body is sealed, and the flour can be well stored during the transportation process.

Characteristics of bulk shipping compared to bag shipping

Using bulk flour transportation technology, the flour is directly loaded into bulk trucks from the bulk flour warehouse of the flour mill and transported to users such as flour food factories, and the flour is transported from the truck to the user's flour receiving bulk warehouse through pneumatic conveying technology. It avoids spillage loss during packaging, handling and dumping. When the user uses flour in production, the flour is directly sent to the production workshop through pneumatic conveying technology.

Compared with bag transportation, bulk flour transportation omits the flour process in flour mills, the loading and unloading process in circulation, and the stacking and unloading process for users in food factories, which simplifies operations, reduces labor intensity, and saves a lot of labor.

What's more, bulk shipping of flour saves a lot of packaging material, avoiding the loss of flour when loading and unloading bags, and the manufacturing process of flour bags, from plastic pellets to ras, looms, coatings, and other woven bags in The process of causing a certain degree of pollution to the environment. The pollution problem of bagged flour in the circulation process is eliminated, and the bulk flour transporter has created huge economic benefits.

Precautions for Safe Use of Youcan Flour Tanker

1. When loading, be careful not to fill the flour tank, and leave some space to expand the flour particles.

2. When loading, avoid mixing the sundries into the tank to block the discharge pipe and affect the discharge speed and residual rate.

3. When unloading, if the air compressor has abnormal noise, depress the clutch pedal, turn off the engine, turn off the electromagnetic switch of the pumping unit, and work only after the fault is eliminated.

4. When unloading, pay special attention to the change of the pressure gauge, and the operator must not leave the site to avoid high pressure.

5. The tank should be kept dry every day to avoid powder agglomeration.

6. In car maintenance, parts should be prevented from falling, and knocking should be avoided to prevent parts from being damaged, deformed, bumped, scratched, etc., and parts must be cleaned during installation and maintenance;

7. When the air compressor is working, people should avoid standing on the side of the air compressor.

8. When accelerating, do not use too much force on the accelerator, and the force should be even.

9. Remember not to use external air source to exhaust.

10. When the compressor stops working

How much do Flour tank trailers cost?

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