Cement silos are on-site storage containers used for the storage and distribution of various types of cement mixtures. This week, sereval sets of cement silos are delivered to our regular customer, a state own drilling company.
Cement silos information
according to users’ requirements, this batch of cement silos is made from Q345R, a special carbon steel depending on the type of cement product that is to be stored in the facility. The closure cap’s thickness is 10mm, the tube body’s thickness is 8mm, the cone’s thickness is 8mm. Rated working pressure is 43.5PSI, bulk cement supplying speed is 1.5t/min, the vent (pop off) pipe is equipped with a safety valve, and the opening pressure is set as 48PSI. All cement silos are equipped with maintenance platform between the legs, cement filling pipe, inner and outer manholes, safety guards, roof flanges for air filter and pressure safety valve, a roof gate for inner manhole and also a cone flange for butterfly valve.
Cement silos structure
A cement storage silo can be structured to hold no more than a few tons of dry cement product, or be designed to efficiently hold several hundred tons. Generally, larger silos are permanent structures that cannot be moved. These are likely to be found at concrete plants, where the finished product is stored until it is time for shipment. Many building sites that utilize concrete in the construction process opt for portable cement silos that can be moved around the site as the need arises.
What AIPU can supply?
In addition to our common designs, our company designs and manufactures also customized cement silos with special sizes of diameter and height. It is possible to produce cement silos up to 100 tonnes capacity as both welded and bolted. Cement silos whose capacity is more than 100 tonnes are manufactured as bolted type most of the time. To manufacture the silos as bolted brings advantage of space saving during transportation.
