Major Ingredient Handling & Dosing
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Technosilos major ingredient handling and dosing automates the handling of a bakery's bulk ingredients, from intake and storage to dosing at the mixer. A system can combine bulk intake from tankers, bags or big bags, outdoor and indoor silos or intermediate buffers, pneumatic conveying, macro dosing in batch or continuous operation and the blending of dry ingredients before production. Each solution is engineered around the bakery's recipes, ingredients, required capacity and factory layout, with PLC and SCADA control providing automated recipe management and ingredient traceability.
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Pneumatic conveying Vacuum, pressure and mixed configurations; distances from a few metres up to 100 m; transport rates up to 50,000 kg/hour Macro ingredient dosing Batch capacity up to 3,000 kg; accuracy up to 50 g Continuous dosing Flow rates from a few kg/hour up to 30,000 kg/hour Ploughshare blending Mixer sizes from 30 to 25,000 L; typical mixing times 1-4 minutes Ribbon blending Mixer sizes from 75 to 15,000 L; typical mixing times 5-15 minutes Automation Recipe-based PLC control with integration of solid and liquid ingredients, weighing, conveying and production equipment -
- Bulk ingredients can be received from tanker trucks, bags, big bags and other storage sources.
- Storage can combine outdoor bulk silos, indoor silos and intermediate buffers according to ingredient volume and consumption.
- Pneumatic conveying is available in vacuum, pressure and mixed configurations, including dense-phase options for long distances or fragile products.
- Macro ingredients are automatically weighed and dosed according to stored recipes, in batches of up to 3,000 kg.
- Inverter-controlled dosing screws run fast for throughput, then slow down to reach the target weight precisely in the weigh hopper.
- Continuous dosing is available where production needs a constant ingredient flow.
- Dry ingredients can be blended in ploughshare or ribbon mixers, and sieving, metal detection, dedusting and temperature control can be integrated into the circuit.
- PLC and SCADA automation can provide recipe control, batch consistency, lot tracking, traceability and real-time plant supervision.
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