Miller Magazine Issue: 131 November 2020

42 NEWS MILLER / November 2020 Silos Cordoba supplies steel structures for a feed mill in Venezuela The harmony between structural, conveying and grain storage systems is key for the proper func- tioning of one of the largest plants in Venezuela. The Agroebenezer Feed Plant, C.A. required silos, handling equipment and a series of structures. All those elements had to be designed to fit perfectly. The plant has a capacity of 50 tonnes per hour and includes a storage area for grains and flours and a processing area where the feed is produced. The corn storage area consists of six Silos mo- del 20.63/16 each, with a storage capacity of 6,779.50m 3 , which results in 5,084.63 metric tons of corn, so that the feed plant has a total storage capacity of 30,507.78 metric tons of corn. The flour storage area consists of two grain wa- rehouses, the first one for the storage of sub-pro- ducts, whose dimensions are 30 by 42 metres with a storage capacity of 4,100 metric tons of flours, such as meat flour, viscera meal, feathers flour, whe- at bran, rice flour, corn cake, sugarcane bagasse and stuffed grass. The second grain warehouse is used for the storage of soybean, with dimensions 40 by 72 metres and a capacity of 13,500 metric tonnes. The process area consists of a warehouse of di- mensions 40 by 102 metres with a building for pel- letizing equipment that houses all the structures that serve as support for machinery, whose dimensions are 24 metres long and 34.5 metres high. The warehouse for pelletizing equipment houses a support structure of 16 cells for dosing and we- ighing, each cell having a capacity of 43m 3 for a total of 515 metric tons, and a support structure for four silos used for the storage of minerals such as phosphate, calcium carbonate, biofos, among ot- hers. The silos have a unitary capacity to store 110 metric tons of minerals. There is a grinding-mixing structure for the addi- tion of flours and micros made by circular Silos and augers for a precise dosage. The process continues with two fully equipped pellet towers. The towers are constituted by a se- ries of slabs that support the equipment, with a he- ight of 13.95 metres including compensation cells for the main equipment (pelletizer). Finally, the feed mill also has a bagging and finis- hed product area that consists of eight high hopper silos, model 3.05/7 with a 60° cone and a capacity of 65m 3 each. The plant also has two hoppers ent- rances, one for flour reception and the other for grains reception. Finally, the plant has a comple- te conveying system consisting of belt conveyors, chain conveyors, belt conveyors with tripper, screw conveyors and bucket elevators. The feed mill is located in the Industrial Area of Chivacoa, Aveni- da Sorte, Bruzual municipality, Yaracuy, with a land area of 78,311 m 2 .