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Up to now we have what is called a “silo Textile (canvas)”
which is filled by blowing.
The silo itself acts as a filter,
ie the expelled air is filtered simply by passing through the canvas.
So the dust remaining in the silo goes into the boiler.
Until now we have had silos with a “diamond shaped tip”,
to assist feeding the pellets in the silo’s base into the boiler.
This allowed the complete emptying of the silo.
However we noticed that here is consequently a significant loss of volume.
For a silo of 2 by 2 meters we get a capacity of 3.6 Tons.
With this old type of silo, we need 2.5 by 2.5 meters on the ground to achieve a little over 5 tons of storage capacity.
The new concept is to recover the lost volume
because when converting from an oil-fired to a pellet-fired boiler,
we don’t necessarily have the space to store the pellets
and so we need to optimize the volume.
For this, we decided to make an “adaptable shaped silo”
which when full will reach to the ground as a truly cubic volume of pellets.
Then gradually, as the pellets are consumed by the boiler, over weeks and months
the weight of the remaining pellets reduces
and a system of springs raises the four corners
to return to a form of diamond,
thus still completely emptying the silo.
This allows with an equivalent height and floor space
to increase the storage volume by 30 to 40%.