Pick up Suitable Silo

Pick up Suitable Silo

Machineryshops.com from Muyang offers a range of suitable silos for the storage of free-flowing materials (grain) and mealy components (bruised grain). Whether indoor or outdoor storage, whether with or without hopper substructure: storage technology from Muyang stands for safety and reliability.

Steel storage silo capacities are at least 3000t, and whether small or large, you get a robust and innovative product. Your requirements are of utmost priority. Individual planning leads to reliable solutions which finally mean your success.

Features of Thermal Insulation Silo

1. Thermal insulation
Grain temperature change gradient inside silos is lower than that outside, thus not likely to have condensation of moisture.

2. Safe grain storage
Storing in a low temperature, increases the grain storage stability, keeps the grain quality and prolongs the safe-storage period

3. Low fabrication cost
With installing an insulation layer (polyurethane froth, rubber sponge, glass fiber etc.) on the outer wall ,insulation silo can have a low fabrication cost compared to concrete silo.

Features of assembly type steel silo

1. Large capacity
One single-silo capacity is up to 18,000 tons with comprehensive configurations to meet customers’ different requirements.

2. High accuracy
Complete advanced processing equipment and technology are introduced from USA to effectively ensure working accuracy and reduce damage to galvanized layer.

3. Less residues
External installable stiffeners contribute to less grain residues on silo walls.

4. Detachable and movable
With standardized and modularized production, components and parts have a high standardization and good interchangeability, thus can be partially replaced or completely transferred.

Muyang Steel Silo---Supportive along the grain value chain

We offer products and complete solutions in the field of grain handling, cleaning, drying and storage for agribusiness section. There are now over 1000 Muyang steel silo projects standing around the world and making their efforts to the global food security, from grain collection points to grain elevators, from inland/water terminals to processing plants such as feed mills, rice mills, flour mills, breweries, oilseed processing factories, etc.

The key products and systems include:
1.Assembly type steel silos: 1~18,000 t/silo; Spiral steel silos,1-8,000 t/silo;
2.Material handling system: bucket elevators, conveyors, sweepers, spreaders, etc.;
3.Conditioning and drying systems: cleaners, dust collectors, dumping systems, dryers, fans, controls, etc.

Steel Silo Industry Success Stories

Muyang has over 40 years of experience and silo engineering expertise, specializing in material storage technology research and development, design, installation and services, and its products in the domestic occupies about nearly 40% for market share, is by far the most full-scale Asian service providers with most comprehensive single largest storage capacity.

Muyang silo introduces the latest technology and equipment in the world with many customers around the world of design and construction of more than 5,000 spiral steel silos, corrugated steel silo fabricated insulation warehouse project. Muyang spiral steel silo for the introduction of a full set of equipment and technology in Europe, to provide from 50 to 7000 tons of different specifications of the flat for the user, cone bottom, the flow of the material, the material porous materials, such as different forms of steel silos; bellows assembly type steel silo for the United States to introduce the latest manufacturing technology and equipment, with the most advanced computer system that provides users with 10 to 16,800 tons of different specifications of the flat, conical bottom, the flow of the material, the material porous materials, such as different forms of steel silos. Muyang provides customers include and upgrade from technology, civil engineering design, automation and control systems, transportation, cleaning, manufacturing magnetic separation, metering, drying, fumigation, refrigeration, ventilation, dust, temperature, humidity and other measuring equipment, installation, commissioning and training of personnel stop turnkey projects. Muyang fabricated steel silo, spiral steel silo, warehouse and other insulation products are widely used in food, oil, ports, corn deep processing, flour, brewing, chemical, feed, building materials and environmental protection industries in more than twenty provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and municipalities of more than 1,000 seats built warehousing projects , selling Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran , Thailand, India, Japan, the United States, Malaysia, the world's nearly 100 countries and regions, to promote Chinese steel silo industry to the world. Famous customers include Louis Dreyfus, grain storage, COFCO, grain and oil in the sea, 93 Oil Group, DBN Grou , Tangrenshen Group, Yanjing Beer, Snow Beer, Suntory, Tsingtao Beer, Yi Hai, Jiangsu Jianghai, Xiwang Group, chrysanthemum MSG, etc. ; overseas customers such as Taiwan Dacheng, Thailand Chia Tai Group, CJ and so on.

Muyang Attend 2013 International Silo Technology Exhibition

From June 25th 2013 to June 27th , 2013 China International silo technology and equipment exhibition was held in Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center by the China Association of Ports and Transport Branch, and Muyang was involved in this event.

During the exhibition, China Ports Association president visited the exhibition and Ding Keyi guided and cordial conversation with Mr. Sun Xuqing from Muyang Engineering Division, and he made fully affirmed on Muyang’s outstanding contribution.

Silo in the 1980s to enter China, the development in the country more than 100 years of history, the unprecedented rapid development. Currently, the Muyang grain silo business covers a number of areas, oil, ports, food, brewing, feed, building materials and so on. In a large silo works, Muyang has for many years become the frontrunner position in tons, with most of the five industries: "China port industry jiancang Up" "warehouse type Max has assembled position, screw positions, holding positions." "storage capacity specifications of the most comprehensive, from 50 tons to 16,500 tons, "" leading technology, using finite element analysis to ensure the most secure and reliable silo "," silo-type maximum, the strongest supporting steel structure design, "In addition, Muyang steel silo can be broken down with the feed system, silo feed anti-grading system, and with independent property rights clearance machine.

It is understood that Muyang has become the world's leading storage system solutions for service providers to have enough confidence.

The exhibition, portable storage elements Muyang Front Desk, 140 air transport conveyor, storage proportional model, corporate promotional video, warehousing engineering 3D animation, an appearance attracted many customers come to visit, advice and posed for pictures. Warehousing model on display examples of Egyptian project, the project stored material is corn, the total storage capacity reached 30000t. Process systems including feeding, conveying, cleaning, dusting, drying, storage, ventilation, temperature, level, steel systems, car payment systems, pour warehouse systems. According to this model, on-site customers can clearly understand the whole process materials warehouse.

In addition, Muyang is also a major highlight of transport exhibition on the development of the company sent 140 air conveyor, the device uses a first-class coating process, streamlined design, rugged, beautiful, and durable; low overall device throughput, energy , good sealing, easy green, maintenance, and configuration deviation, stop, speed, blockades and other security monitoring devices, the use of safer, this conveyor is widely used in food, ports, terminals, mining, coal, chemical, steel and other industries.

The three-day exhibition, Muyang showed its advanced equipment, as well as with Project staff attentive powerful persuasive explanations, showed their strength in the storage industry leader, attracting a large number of customer focus, has won industry competitors polite, and establish a Muyang our brand image, warehousing shepherd to the world, leading the development of the industry has taken a solid step forward.

Muyang Grain Storage System

Muyang offers products and complete solutions in the field of grain handling, cleaning, drying and storage for agribusiness section. There are now over 1000 Muyang storage silo projects standing around the world and making their efforts to the global food security, from grain collection points to grain elevators, from inland/water terminals to processing plants such as feed mills, rice mills, flour mills, breweries, oilseed processing factories, etc. The key products and systems include:

Assembly type steel silos, 1~18,000 t/silo;
Spiral steel silos, 1-8,000 t/silo;
Material handling system: bucket elevators, conveyors, sweepers, spreaders, etc.;

Conditioning and drying systems: cleaners, dust collectors, dumping systems, dryers, fans, controls, etc.

Muyang Steel Silo Engineering

Muyang is a nationally recognized leader in the design and construction of reinforced steel silos. Muyang prefabricated corrugated steel silo using a full U.S. latest manufacturing technology and equipment, equipped with the most advanced computer system that provides users with 10 to 16,800 tons of different models of flat, conical bottom, fluidizing material and porous material discharging, its unique in China.

The steel silo is for anchoring on a concrete foundation or steel structure with an extensive range of accessories. And one single-silo capacity is up to 18,000 tons with comprehensive configurations to meet customers' different requirements. We are able to examinate any bulk material in our laboratories and Technology Center with standardized range of accessories.

Optimum workmanship - no corners and edges on grain storage silo inside, high-quality surfaces, low-scratch method used for shaping and certified welding quality. We design our silos as per your individual requirements. It is suitable for bulk solid materials with good and poor flowability (plastic powders, recycled material, pellets, and flowable elastomers).

Muyang is the world's leading overall storage facilities and engineering solutions provider, in addition to providing storage silo, spiral silo and insulation silo, but also providing a comprehensive package of equipment and systems, including transportation equipment, drying equipment, as well as providing the overall design, construction , integration services.

How to Choose the Suitable Storage Silo for the Grain

Silos are commonly used to store bulk materials. Grain storage silo is used in agriculture to store grain or fermented feed commonly known as silage. Before investing in grain silo you may want to know more about them.

Why do we need grain silo?

It is very important to keep the grains market-ready for sale. The grains should be kept dry. Storage bin should facilitate easy handling of the grains. Steel silo is meant to store grains safely so that you get a good return for the money invested. There are simple bins with a single auger to dry the grains and large complicated ones that are equipped with sophisticated mechanisms to handle and dry the grains.

Before investing in silo you must be aware of the choices available to you.

How to select the best grain silo?

Getting grain silo is a matter of huge investment. You must make sure that the investment you make gives you good return. The storage silo you built must last long and provide all the benefits you have been looking for. When it comes to choosing the material for silo you have a lot of options.

Generally the grain silo is built from metals, cement and bricks. Storing grains in metal silo is very common. You will find silo made from galvanized metal and smooth metal. But these are susceptible to rust and may not be safe for your grains. You cannot increase the capacity also when you have the need.

Muyang Steel Silo

Muyang silo products could be sorted into two categories: Lipps Silo and Assembly Silo, of which we are extremely proud. We have already undertaken over 1000 storage projects around the world. In the steel silo market of China, both of those are ranked in the first place, as the reward of our ten years of hard work.

Our storage silo storage system has exported to more than 30 countries, such as: Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Phlippines, Japan, Korea, India, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kazakstan, Uzbekstan, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, South Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, Turkey, Russia, etc. Muyang silos can be applied in the grain processing, oil & fat processing, flour processing, brewing, chemical and feed processing industry and ports and so on.

Principle of Lipps Silo Fabrication:
1st step: Send a galvanized coil sheet with width of 495mm into a cold-roll-forming machine by a coil opening machine to form into a geometric shape needed;
2nd step: Bend it by a bending machine;
3rd step: Seam bended sheets, so as to form a 30-40 mm wide continuous spiral-shaped high joint around the outside of the silo, which will strengthen the silo structure.

Assembly silo is a kind of the most advanced grain storage silo in the world, widely used in European and American countries and has the highest market share worldwide. Thanks to the automatic molded fabrication system, silo component parts are manufactured without any man-made impact.

Silo bins are assembled and erected on site, featuring no damage to the galvanized surface of sheet steel. The side boards and stiffeners are connected by means of high-strength bolts, and all of the silo parts are dismountable. Volume capacity from 1 ton to 18000 tons based on the bulk density of 0.75 g/cm³ .

Explosion Resistant Silos

For storage of explosive solids, Muyang offers special steel silo with an explosion-resistant design. A distinction is made between silos that are pressure-tight (no deformation allowed) and pressure-shock-resistant (deformation allowed). The silos are designed for either the solid's maximum explosive pressure (up to 9 bar) or in case explosion pressure relief is used, for the reduced explosive pressure (generally 2 bar).

Muyang makes not only static calculations for pressure-shock-resistant storage silo, but also the calculations for the pressure relief surface. Its approved explosion flaps protect pressure-relieved silos. In the event of an explosion, the explosion flap will open and allow the silo to relief pressure. Unlike rupture disks, explosion flaps are self-closing and can be used again after an explosion. If needed, we equip explosion flaps with under pressure safety mechanisms and electric heating.

Muyang has decades of expertise in this field and guarantee its customers the highest quality and greatest safety.

Silo History

The design of silos for the storage of bulk granular materials and other bulk products has been the focus of research for more than 100 years with the early publications appearing in the literature spanning the period from the latter 1800's to the early 1900's.

While steel silo has been in existence for many centuries, the known published research into silo loads was performed over the period of some 30 years commencing in the early 1880's. A review of this early silo load research has been published by Roberts (1995, 1999). The most widely known work in the early period of storage silo research is that due to the German Engineer, H.A. Janssen (1895). This work is significant in that it recognized some fundamental aspects of internal and boundary friction which limit the magnitude of the loads on silo floors and walls.

Following the foundation work of Jenike, the study of bin wall loads gained new impetus (Jenike et al (1968-1973). With the flow modes clearly defined and the advantages of mass-flow being identified, the need for determining the wall loadings in mass-flow bins became a necessity.

Significant increases in wall loads may occur in grain storage silo due to increases in grain moisture content in combination with thermal expansion and contraction (Roberts (1998)). An example of such loadings has been identified as a contributing factor to the failure and collapse of the steel wheat storage silo in Australia.

Muyang Silo Design

The design of bins and silos to store bulk solids involves bulk material, geometric, and structural considerations.

Bulk material considerations are important because the frictional and cohesive properties of bulk solids vary from one solid to another, and these properties affect material behavior considerably. In addition, a given bulk solid's flow properties can vary dramatically with changes in numerous parameters, including particle size, moisture, temperature, and consolidating pressure. This variability of properties makes testing at actual conditions more important for proper bin and storage silo design than at first appear.

When considering the geometric design of a steel silo, potential problems include arching across an outlet, rat holing through the material, and the flow pattern during discharge. A bulk material's propensity to arch or rat hole is primarily related to its cohesiveness, while its flow pattern during discharge depends upon internal friction as well as the friction that develops between the material and the silo's hopper walls. The goal of geometric design is to maximize the useable capacity of a silo while minimizing its capital cost, overall height, etc.

Basic Information on Muyang Silo

Steel silos are ubiquitous in manufacturing plants wherever dry granulated or powdered materials need to be stored. These silos vary in size and are usually supported by a steel frame on a reinforced concrete foundation. The steel silo loaded at the top by pumping the materials in using air pressure or using a conveyor. The silos discharge the materials to a truck or a freight car through a hop-per at the bottom.

Silo materials do not act like a fluid; dry materials have frictional or cohesive resistance and tend to form domes or "bridges" with the walls of the silo that prevent it from flowing freely downward. The lateral pressures on the grain storage silo shell from the dry materials are of a different character than the lateral pressures on a retaining wall from soil at the back of the wall. The vertical pressures on the bottom of the silo from the dry material are affected by the bridging action. In order to discharge the hoppers at the bottom, a vibratory system, called a bridge breaker that temporarily destroys the frictional resistance or cohesive bonds is required.

Features of Muyang steel silo

Large Capacity
One single-silo capacity is up to 18,000 tons with comprehensive configurations to meet customers' different requirements.

High Accuracy
Complete advanced processing equipment and technology are introduced from USA to effectively ensure working accuracy and reduce damage to galvanized layer.

Less Residues
External installable stiffeners contribute to less grain residues on storage silo walls.

Detachable and movable
With standardized and modularized production, components and parts have a high standardization and good interchangeability, thus can be partially replaced or completely transferred.

Integrated Solutions and Turnkey Services

Muyang prefabricated corrugated steel silo using a full U.S. latest manufacturing technology and equipment, equipped with the most advanced computer system that provides users with 10 to 16,800 tons of different models of flat, conical bottom, fluidizing material and porous material discharging, its unique in China.



Muyang spiral steel silo use a full set of equipment and techniques from Europe, providing users with 50 to 7000 tons of different models of flat, conical bottom, fluidizing material and porous materials discharging, stable performance. Muyang is one of the few suppliers in the world providing a single silo capacity of more than 10,000 tons.

Muyang provides customers with turnkey projects ranging from technology process, civil engineering design, automation control systems to improved transportation, cleaning, magnetic separation, metering, drying, fumigation, refrigeration, ventilation, dust, temperature, humidity and other measuring equipment manufacturing, installation , commissioning and personnel training.

Single grain storage silo with capacity 10,000 tons (including the above) has been built hundreds, experienced. It takes the lead in the industry sales in consecutive years. Silos are widely used in food, oil, port, corn deep processing, flour, brewing, chemical, feed, building materials and environmental protection industry, well selling to nearly 100 countries and regions in the world like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Thailand, India, Japan, United States, Malaysia with more than 5,000 projects totally.

A Hanging Steel Silo

Steel silo is one of the main gram storage containers. Its disadvantages are: (1) steel strength used only about one third because of the buckling of it; (2) the pressure applied to the silo wall by the stored material will be doubled at time of unloading according to the silo code. So, more steel and fund are needed for construction.

The steel silo technology has been used for storing granular materials in China since the beginning of 80's, and it attracted many scholars to concentrate their attention in studying on this technology. It is well known that the steel silo belongs to thin-shell structure, and when the friction of the storage material to silo wall apexes axial compression, it is easy to buckle. The structure design of steel silo is controlled by buckling stead of by strength conditions and its buckling critical compressive stress is very smaller than its strength. On the other hand, axial tension is not to cause buckling, so that the structural design of storage silo is determined by its strength conditions instead of by its buckling conditions.

All types of steel silo used now can be styled the placing steel silo that is located at the supporting bed or the silo foundation. The function of the stored material makes it to be compressed in axial direction. The disadvantages of the placing steel silo are: (1) steel strength used only about one third because of the buckling of it; (2) the pressure applied to the silo wall by the storage material increases one times when unloading according to the silo code. With unloading of the storage material, the dynamic pressure on the silo wall exerted by the storage material changes very much which may result m the buckling of the steel silo. So, more steel and capitals are needed for construction to guarantee the safety of placing grain silo. In order to overcome the two disadvantages above mentioned of placing steel silo, the Hanging Steel Silo was designed.

Fireproof Design on Grain Silo

The area on bulk food warehouse shall not exceed the maximum allowable area of 12,000 square meters; the maximum allowable area for each firewall should not exceed 3,000 square meters.

Steel silo and squat silo can be arranged into groups, and total reserves of each group separately were ≤ 40000 ton, 40001-50000 t, 50001 -100,000 ton; while squat silo total reserves of each group were ≤ 50000 t, 50001-1500,000 tons.

Steel or semi-steel bulk food banks on each side of the firewall WAREHOUSE within 6 m of columns, beams, roof load-bearing structural components and building envelope fire protection measures should be taken to its fire resistance, and fire resistance should follow the "architectural design code for fire protection." 2.0.1 Requirement.

Storage silo, squat silo, underground corridor, transit warehouse, and working tower should be taken in accordance with the relevant specification explosion-proof measures.

When the total reserves on silos is more than 40,000 tons, its outdoor fire water should not be less than 45 liters / sec; when the volume of the warehouse is greater than 50,000 cubic meters, its outdoor fire water should not be less than 45 liters / sec. Squat silo’s underground corridor should set water spray system.

When the fire load of the power supply does not meet the two-level above requirements, you can be use the internal combustion engine driven fire pump.

Other fire structure of the grain silo should be designed in accordance with the architectural design of fire protection regulations.

Basic Information on Grain Silo

The bottom bears the whole grain silo, and the main structure of the silo forms to the square steel, and angle steel. Because of the large cabin, in order to transport easily, we divide the silo bottom into four sections and each angle iron and bolt are connected, which can be removed easily.

Good ventilation can not only reduce the moisture in the food, but also reduce the temperature, in order that the grains can reach industrial production indicators. Therefore, the ventilation design is a key matter. The grain silo we designed is good for natural ventilation, which has a round vents in the top storage silo, making air exchange.

The research has shown that in the low temperature, coming from summer to autumn, the silo should keep two or three ventilations, which can last many nights with four to ten hours every time. While, in winter, the silo’s temperature can keep the same, until to spring, the temperature can raise. The practice has indicated that using the best steel silo, the quality of the food still keep great as before.

The design requirements in different areas:
1. In the main ports, transportation hubs, major railway construction and other food distribution centers, in order to use higher levels of mechanization, we prefer to choose squat silo and steel silo, supplemented by large span warehouse.

2. The grain silo which should connect with the World Bank can be as a silo that is suitable for bulk grain storage.

3. The Northeast and North China may have more choices of steel silos, in order to accelerate the progress of construction. The main rice producing in the south should be mainly used warehouse or reinforced concrete squat silos.

4. Creating a new silo is mainly based on external conditions on whether it can allow bulk warehouse-type, while in the design, we should allow the implementation of "scattered" , and the expansion project should be chose based on the original position and layout.

Muyang Storage Engineering

Specialized in the research, design, building, and marketing of material storage & handling facilities, Muyang can provide both spiral tyle steel silo and assembly type corrugated silo.

Made by the technology introduced from Switzerland, Muyang spiral steel silo is available in a range of storing capacity from 50T to 7000T, with which diverse bottoms, flat or conic, and various discharging modes can be furnished.

The fabricating technology for assembly type corrugated steel silo comes from the USA. Various spiral steel silos with different bottoms and discharges are available with storing capacity from 10T to 16000T.

As a turkey project contractor, MSEC have successfully built more than 1000 grain silo facilities all over China in the industrial fields of grain, feed and edible oil processing, grain terminal as well as chemical, brewing, building material, environmental protection industries. In recent years, Muyang international steel silo market has been extended to Malaysia, Egypt, Japan, North Korea and Vietnam etc.

The work scope of MSEC includes the design of process flow and civil work, and the turkey project work from design, fabrication, erection up to commissioning for the systems of automatic control, conveying, cleaning, drying, fumigation, cooling and cold storage, ventilation, dust collection, temperature and moisture measurement. Personnel training is also available.

Tips To Arrange Silos

Silos should be built in the place where has convenient transportation, residential buildings and public buildings' dry district, with full possibilities of the water supply, drainage, heating, electricity and connected to other lines. To prevent steel corrosion, the silos should not be set to waterfront places. The design and construction of silo's wall strength should meet the requirements, and also make the silo wall be smooth, easily handling materials, meanwhile the layout should be reasonable in order to save floor space.

The bottom of the mechanized silo has installed unloader funnel, and upper gallery has set a loading's transport equipment. When Loading, unloading pit's Bulk material through ascension machines shipped the supremacy-pass gallery and to unloaded into horizontal leather belt transport planes, belt conveyor will bulk material unloaded into the grain silo. When unloading, bulk material through the discharge funnel unloaded onto the the next-pass gallery, by the horizontal belt conveyor shipped out. In addition, before the grains go into the silo, the grains also need to dry, weigh, turn over warehouse, disinfection and clean. So, the silo should be equipped with corresponding equipment and devices, so as to implement automation operation.

The planar shape of the silo has square, rectangular, polygonal, circular and so on. Round silo's wall force reasonably, so you should pay particular attention to the economic use of materials in the foundation investigation and foundation design. When the stores is single species or stocks is small, you should arrange with a separate warehouse. When the stores are of more varieties or large reserves, then you can arrange in groups.

The total length of the cylindrical silo generally is not more than 60 meters, the total length of the square group silos generally are not exceed 40 meters. We should take actions when silos length is too large or the force and the situation is more complex, such as expansion joints to eliminate concrete shrinkage stress and temperature stress impacts.