Colour Sorting on Cimbria Line
GAME have been working with Masstock Arable for over 5 years, carrying out a variety of projects at their plant at Bracebridge Heath. When GAME were approached to recommend a colour sorter for installation into their existing plant, GAME were more than happy to help.
After site visits and successful factory trials on barley, mustard and rapeseed, the Satake-ESM AlphaScan High Flow II colour sorter machine was chosen due to the relatively high throughput requirements of up to 25tph on some products with contamination up to 5%.
The machine is located on one of their two cleaning lines, between the fine cleaner and indented cylinders. Cleaned product is discharged from the existing Cimbria fine cleaner and into an existing B&B elevator. Previously it would then either continue into the Cimbria Heid indented cylinder bank or bypass these and go on to re-cleaned storage for treating and packing. With the installation of a new diverter valve and associated ductwork, the products can be sent to the new colour sorter buffer hopper. Here four of the units five feed chutes are used as primary chutes, with accepted product continuing on via a new B&B elevator into the existing process just before the existing cylinder bank which still allows the option to bypass if required.
The rejected product is transferred by means of a new twin leg B&B elevator to the fifth chute, where it is re-sorted separately to further concentrate the rejected material. The re-sort is sent back up into the main buffer hopper using the second leg of the twin leg B&B elevator, rejected product from the re-sort is then sent to the trash / screening collection system and on into the screenings bins. This creates a closed loop system for the primary rejected material achieving the highest concentration of rejected material.
Installation of the new colour sorter did raise one other issue and that was of the existing compressed air supply not having enough additional capacity to allow a guaranteed correct operation of the new equipment, GAME were more than happy to include the supply and installation of the additional equipment required to supply the compressed air as required.
The whole project was under GAME’s control and included all new transfer equipment, platform modifications, dust extraction, equipment access, all ductwork, supports and final commissioning. The electrical work carried out was managed by Masstock Arable directly.
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