Cone Valve IBC

Solve the common problems of material segregation, bridging, rat-holing, blocking and others that occur in the traditional butterfly or other valves. Senieer Cone Valve IBC offers automatic, dust-free and enclosed filling and discharging of materials.

Introduction of Cone Valve IBC

Cone Valve IBC (the Intermediate bulk containers with cone valve) is a portable hopper that is used to transfer, store or mix multiple materials such as powder, granules, pellets or flakes. It is widely used in new energy lithium batteries, food, medicine and chemical industries. Senieer IBC system adopts unique cone valve technology to solve the commonly happened problems of traditional butterfly and star valves, such as the rat holing, material segregation, bridging, material residuals, blocking, etc. Cone Valve IBC includes or can be quipped with the following four parts: fixed station for cone valve, vibratory discharge cone valve,automated lid-lifting device, post bin blender.

The cone valve can be set to automatically vibrate to control the material flowing in the IBC hoppers. Cone Valve IBC can achieve the dust-free, hygienic, residual-free and efficient discharge of materials.

Different Types Of Cone Valve IBCs

According to the different classification standards, there are diverse Cone Valve IBCs. Classified according to the body materials used, Cone Valve IBC has the following types: the standard(stainless steel)Cone Valve IBC range(mainly for food and pharmaceutical fields), the polyethylene Cone Valve IBC range(for non-food application), the mild steel Cone Valve IBC range. Classified as per the capacity, there are 500L, 750L, 1250L, 1500L Cone Valve IBCs. Senieer also offers customization service. According to the requirements of clients, Senieer can design Cone Valve IBCs with specific material and capacity.

Find Cone Valve IBC According To Your Industry Or Process

Cone Valve IBC is widely used in many fields like pharmaceutical, food, medicine, chemical and new energy lithium batteries due to its automatic, efficient, dust-free, hygienic and safe feeding, blending, and discharging of materials. As a decoupled system, Senieer Cone Valve IBC can be used simultaneously between different production processes to increase the production efficiency and reduce downtime due to its portable properties. For example, one serves as a feeding container, the second one is used to blend materials, the third one is discharging materials while the fourth one is being cleaned for usage. This decoupled system enables you to produce products at any time without the downtime.

Cone Valve IBC system mainly include the following four parts: fixed station for cone valve, vibratory discharge cone valve,automated lid-lifting device, post bin blender. The fixed station for cone valve is used for material receiving station. Automated lid-lifting device is used for lid-lifting station, fully automation and no need for manual intervention. Discharging station, used for discharging materials, is used in conjunction with Senieer cone valve IBC, which has a function of vibratory discharging, the discharge volume can be controlled. Vibratory discharge cone valve, it is a conical structure with an automatic vibratory function.

Guidelines For Cone Valve IBC

As an industrial bulk container, Cone Valve IBC is mainly applied in the powder/bulk handling system, as a part of storage, transfer, blending and discharging production processes. Compared to traditional bulk bag, Senieer Cone Valve IBC overcomes many disadvantages which is usually unavoidable in the bulk bag system. By adopting specially developed cone valve technology, achieving fully automatic discharge of material, reducing manual interference and avoiding problems of bridging, blocking, and material segregation. According to the needs of clients, there are two modes of discharging: continuous and intermittent.

The system of Cone Valve IBC consists of the following parts:

fixed station for cone valve
Fixed Station For Cone Valve

Fixed Station For Cone Valve: 

  • Assist IBC in receiving materials.
  • Adjust the position of cone valve within the IBC, avoiding material leakage.
  • Monitor the weight of material filled in the IBCs.
  • Optional vibratory function, for compacting materials within the IBCs.
  • Used in combination with AGV, achieving factory automation.
  • Connect with DCS factory monitoring system.

Vibratory Cone Valve:

  • The vibratory discharge cone valve is fixed in the outlet of large IBC, for assistance of discharging material.
  • Cone valve can automatically vibrate, interfere with or promote the material flow.
    Vibratory Cone Valve
    Vibratory Cone Valve
  • Conical structure, leverage material to flow along the internal surface of valve under the gravitational effect.
  • Mode: continuous or intermittent discharging
  • Control Lifting and vibrating by compressing air, no use mechanical lifting device, reducing maintenance frequency and not contaminate materials.
  • Can control remotely.

Automated Lid-Lifting Device:

Automated Lid-Lifting Device
Automated Lid-Lifting Device
  • The automated lid-lifting device is installed at the top of fixed station for cone valve, used for automatically remove and replace sealing lid of IBC hoppers.
  • The removed sealing lid is stored inside the equipment, which can avoid the dust accumulation on the lid.
  • Blow-off function, blow off the surface of sealing lid that is stored inside the IBC hoppers for a long time.
  • When the inner and outer pipes move up and down, the lock cylinder is used to achieve relative stationary, ensuring that the material between the inner and outer pipes does not leak out.
  • The distance between the bottom of lid-lifting device and the hopper is about 30cm, which ensures the effective lifting of IBC hoppers.
  • Chain control with upstream and downstream equipment, achieving the fully automation of AGV conveying IBC hoppers.

Post Bin Blender

Post bin blender is used in conjunction with Senieer cone valve IBCs, to conduct enclosed and dust-free mixing of materials inside the IBC hopper by the way of three-dimensional rotation.

Post Bin Blender
Post Bin Blender
  • Post bin blender not directly contact with materials, so it’s zero contamination for the materials inside IBC hopper.
  • No need to clean the equipment.
  • Consistent and uniform mixing.
  • Variable frequency speed adjustment, flexible.
  • Be compatible with different volumes of portable IBC hoppers.
  • Be used in combination with Senieer fixed station and discharging station, achieving the parallel production processes, enhancing production efficiency.

Cone Valve IBCs

Used for the transportation and temporary storage of powder particles , achieving automatic docking and discharging, and no powder dust leakage.

Cone Valve IBCs
Cone Valve IBCs
  • Can be used as blending container.
  • Easy to clean manually or automatically.
  • Can be stacked two layers, reduce the storage space for the material hoppers.
  • Can be used in conjunction with forklifts and cranes for transportation, coordinate with chain conveyors or roller conveyors.
  • The capacity of IBC containers can be custom designed according to client’s requirements, ranging from 300L to 3000L.

Discharging Station

The discharging station in coordination with cone valve IBC to control the discharging of powders and granules within the IBC containers.

Discharging Station
Discharging Station
  • Monitor the materials inside the IBC containers.
  • Enclosed and dust-free discharging materials.
  • Inner vibratory function of IBC can enhance the discharging efficiency.
  • The outer frames can be equipped with pneumatic vibrator.
  • Easy to disassemble for cleaning, CIP or COP.
  • Compatible with different capacities of IBCs.
  • Optional items: carbon steel frames, weighing units.
processes of cone valve IBC and bulk bag
Processes of Cone Valve IBC and Bulk Bag

Compared to traditional bulk bag, the process of Cone Valve IBC has many improvements.

Items

Traditional bulk bag

Cone Valve IBC

Automation

Low

High

Manual requirement

Frequent

Fully automation

Consumables

Yes

No

Sealing property

Low

Strong

Cross-contamination

Yes

No

Height requirement

High

Low

Items

Bulk Bag

Cone Valve IBC

Structure and design

Filling materials by manual or mechanical; The spatial layout is rather cumbersome.

Cone valve technology; stainless steel IBCs, no dead angle and no residuals, fine polished. Inner structure optimization.

Operation and automation

Receiving and discharging by manual, easy powder dust leakage; low automation

Fully automatic control including automatic removing lids and discharging. Achieve Unmanned operation in coordination with AGV.

Material handling

Easily occurs problems of segregation, bridging, rat-holing, etc. Material residuals.

Cone valve technology avoids the occurrence of segregation, bridging, rat-holing and blocking.

Maintenance and costs

Need to maintain machine support frames and cranes regularly, high maintenance costs. Large occupation, enhances the construction and operation costs.

Convenient maintenance, no consumables and low energy consumption. Takes up less space, stackable of two layers, save the storage space.

Application areas

Suitable for situations where has low requirements for material handling, or small and medium scales of production for cost-sensitive.

Widely used in pharmaceutical, food, chemical and new energy lithium batteries industries, especially the areas where has high demands for the hygiene, uniformity and automation  of materials.

By Senieer one-stop solutions, we can reduce costs and enhance production efficiency for clients. First, it has the function of automatic, dust-free and enclosed filling and discharging materials. Can be used in combination with AGV.  Adopts single unpacking stations to serve multiple production lines, achieving automatic docking. No need to add lifting device and require manual work in each production line, achieving the Intelligentization, automation and unmanned operation of factories.

Second, the cone valve IBC process can avoid the destruction and damage of material particle diameters during the transportation process. Third, replacing the traditional bulk bag transportation or pneumatic conveying equipment, effectively reduces the manual intervene and material wasting. Fourth, reducing the energy consumption of factory to reduce the operational costs of factories.

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