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A High-Capacity Conveying & Elevating Transfer Reclaim System At The Port Of Tilbury Grain Terminal
(Extension of Silo 3 Contract)
Customer Overview
The Port of Tilbury London Ltd is based in the Southeast of England and located on the banks of the River Thames just down from the QE2 bridge. Within the Port is the UK’s largest import and export Grain Terminal which is reported to handle approximately 2 million tonnes of cereals, pulses & beans per annum. The facility was initially constructed in the 1960s and plays a significant role throughout the global market in ensuring the food chain is reliably supported & supplied with on time quality materials.
Project Overview
The dust explosion within the Grain Terminal’s Concrete Silo No 4 brought with it the added problem that even with the steel Silo No. 3 complex fully erected and operational, the actual means of feeding & reclaiming grains from the new storage would not be possible. To make matters worse the belt conveying gallery around the concrete silos which feeds the mills of ADM & Allied plus the adjacent large 16,000 tonne bulk store had also been badly damaged and would be demolished entirely once the explosion damaged facility was removed.
To remedy the situation T H WHITE Projects engineered a solution in conjunction with the client for a new conveying and elevating system which would link the Grain Terminal Centre House to the steel silos, mill feed gallery and bulk store. As Phase 2 of the overall project, the transfer reclaim system would be designed and installed in tandem with the Silo 3 Contract whilst also within a very tight footprint allowing the reconstruction of the concrete grain Silo No4 alongside.
- Excavations, demolition and temporary works
- UXO survey
- 6m deep elevator pit, plinths, bases
- Driven piling co-ordination
- Conveyor tunnel and overhead bridge
- Drainage, sumps, pumps and connections
- 3 x 500tph transfer chain conveyors
- 3 x 650tph reclaim chain conveyors
- 1 x 700tph belt and bucket elevator
- 45m high process and access steel tower
- Double deck gantries, trestles and transfer tower
- Tower to Silo 3 bridge gantry
- Explosion suppression protection
- Dust extraction, filter and ductwork
- Hazard and fire monitoring system
- Complete site wiring, containment, MCC’s c/w clad steel building
- Dedicated transfer reclaim transformer within fenced enclosure adjacent to switch room
- Fully automated software, control & integration with grain terminal
- MCC and associated system panels located within switch room
- Cable containment, site wiring and lighting
- System operational software commissioning
Bulk Storage Facility
Steel Silo 3 Complex
T H WHITE Projects Roles
Port of Tilbury London Limited
The Grain Terminal
Tilbury
Essex
RM18 7LR
SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES
This phase of the Port of Tilbury works delivered:
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