VDI 2694-2012 PDF

Scope: The present description deals with the storage of bulk materials in bins and silos. Refer to VDI 3972 for the storage of bulk materials in stock yards. This guideline is intended to allow potential users optimum planning by giving him an understanding of the problems inherent in the feeding and discharging of bins and silos and their extraction devices. Storage is applied for medium to large quantities of bulk material. It serves for storage between the point of production and the point of further processing to provide buffer storage between different production departments working at differing times or with different flow rates for homogenisation of mass flows as a transition from continuous conveyors to discontinuous conveying systems@ and vice versa and for processes such as mixing@ conditioning@ maturing@ drying@ and cleaning.

VDI 2694-2012 history

2012 VDI 2694-2012 Bunker und Silos - Beschickung@ Lagerung und Austrag von Schuettgut
1970 VDI 2694-1970 Hoppers and silos for the storage of bulk materials