Urea loading operation to use Cleveland system

Cleveland Cascades is supplying four identical systems to load urea into open truck vehicles in Nigeria. The systems are designed to load granular urea at up to 220 t/h.

Each one is based on Cleveland’s 650-sized system that includes cones manufactured from stainless steel to handle the corrosive nature of the material.

The chutes will each be 5.16m at full extension suspended from a fixed head chute via chains for the steel cone arrangement, while the retracted height is expected to be approximately 2.18m.

Steelwork will be painted to a marine specification for corrosion protection.

Skirt outlet

Each chute is fitted with a skirt outlet for dust suppression along with a suite of electrical components for safety and automation, including collision detection, load sensing, position and limit, as well as material detection, all of which are linked with the shiploader PLC.

Prior to this, Cleveland secured another soda ash bulk material handling project. The loading system will be installed on a rail-mounted ship loader situated in The Netherlands.

Measuring from the interface of the loading chute to the base of the skirted outlet, the system is capable of extending to 26m long. Using the head chute-mounted winch hoist system, it is possible to achieve a retracted operational length of 6m, this can be further reduced to 5.7m when the system is non-operational.