Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to feeding livestock from bulk feed bunkers. A method, system, and feed handler for managing feed, a bulk feed bunker, and feeding livestock includes one or more bulk feed storage bunkers from which feeding operations originate, are adjusted to match an as-fed feed ration with a calculated feed ration, and data from the feed handling and management operations is used to increase accuracy of the overall operations and health of the livestock.
Abstract:
A mobile proppant delivery system may include a system for unloading proppant transport trailers, storing proppant in silos, and feeding proppant to frac operations. The system may include drive-over conveyors, swiveling distribution heads, internal silo bucket elevators, gravity feed, choke filling, and bases designed with internal conveying systems.
Abstract:
A system and methodology facilitates the handling of oilfield material. The oilfield material is stored in at least one silo which enables use of gravity to feed the oilfield material to a blender or other suitable equipment. Each modular silo is transportable and may be engaged with a support structure via a pivot connection. Once engaged, the silo is pivoted to a raised, upright position on the support structure. The oilfield material is then moved to an interior of the silo, and gravity may be used to feed the oilfield material to a blender or other equipment in a controlled manner.
Abstract:
Provided is a dynamic vibration attenuation system (10) for a granular material silo (8). The system (10) comprises a sensor arrangement (12), a processor (16), and a damping arrangement (24). The sensor arrangement (12) is configured for operatively sensing, over a period comprising a plurality of instances of time, a displacement of the silo (8), a weight of granular material in the silo (8), and a flow rate of granular material discharged from the silo (8). The processor (16) is arranged in signal communication with the sensor arrangement (12) and is configured to calculate, at each instance of time, a resultant dynamic force from the sensed displacement, weight and flow rate. System (10) further includes damping arrangement (24) which is operatively responsive to the processor (16) and is configured to dynamically dampen the resultant dynamic force in order to maintain vibration amplitudes in the silo structure (9) below a user-selectable threshold.
Abstract:
A material handling hopper includes an integrally formed handling body that defines an inlet, an outlet, and an axis. The handling body has a seamless sidewall extending between the inlet and the outlet. The sidewall is circular in cross section in a plane perpendicular to the axis. The sidewall is curvilinear and defines a first height between an axial location of a first inner diameter and an axial location of a second inner diameter.
Abstract:
A material storage unit including a bin having a bottom end, a top end, and a sidewall extending therebetween and defining an interior configured to hold particulates, where a portion of the sidewall defines an angular air flow vent having a top air inlet and a bottom air inlet. The material storage unit further includes a fill line inlet extending through one or both of the bottom end of the bin or the sidewall of the bin and in fluid communication with the interior, a venting outlet extending through one or both of the top end of the bin or the sidewall of the bin and in fluid communication with the interior, and a discharge outlet extending through the bottom end of the bin and in fluid communication with the interior.