CUSTOMIZED TRUCK UNLOADER DELIVERS DUST CONTROL WITH A DIFFERENCE A specially designed truck unloading solution, which not only ensures fast, efficient truck unloads, but also prioritizes environmental protection, has been installed at a US biomass plant TEXT
Alex Alderks and Christopher Duffy PHOTOS Bruks Siwertell
TECHNOLOGY IS OFTEN ABOUT GETTING THE RIGHT BALANCE ,
sometimes gains in one area of performance are traded against others to deliver a final product that is ideal for a task, but not always. An area that leaves little room to compromise is environmental protection. Increasingly strict regulations, enforcement by air quality agencies, and environmentally conscious operators
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are driving some of the biggest advances in controlling dust emissions in the processed wood industry. Bruks Siwertell has recently been asked to go one step further in dust control by a wood biomass plant. The US facility needed a solution to efficiently unload a variety of dry biomass material from bulk trucks while controlling dust emissions above and beyond standard levels.
“Over the years we have supplied various other equipment to the customer’s network of plants and mills,” notes Alex Alderks, Design Engineer for truck dumpers and stacker reclaimers, Bruks Siwertell. “These systems have served the company really well, which is why it approached us when it needed something out of the ordinary; a complete, innovative truck dump receiving system.”
