Bulk Material Stockyard

A bulk material stockyard is a facility designed for receiving, storing, processing, and mixing materials. The two primary types of bulk material stockyards are strip stockyards and spherical (circular) stockyards. Sprint Drives offers comprehensive turnkey solutions for bulk material stockyards, encompassing design, civil engineering, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, and personalized training. If you have bulk materials to store or require further information about bulk material stockyards, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us for customized solutions tailored to your specific needs.

Strip Stockyard

Strip stockyards play a crucial role in material storage and distribution within various industries’ conveying systems, serving as both storage and homogenization facilities. These stockyards employ a grid structure and utilize stacker reclaimer machines to automate the stacking and reclaiming processes. Sprint Drives can meticulously select and design stacking and reclaiming methods tailored to project scale, client requirements, and site conditions.

Types: Closed or Open-Air

Equipment: Reticulated Shell, Bucket Wheel Stacker Reclaimer, Belt Conveyors, Rubber Dust Curtains Applications: Primarily used in ports, docks, mines, metallurgy, cement plants, coal storage yards, coking plants, steel plants, power plants, and other bulk material storage yards.

Features of Strip Stockyard

1. Less equipment investment, low energy consumption, low use cost and high production efficiency.

2. Reasonable structure and good equipment stability.

3. Good mixing effect and strong material adaptability.

4. Simple operation, safe and reliable, easy to realize mechanization and automation.

5. Easy to implement, low operation and maintenance costs.

Circular Stockyard

Circular stockyards feature a spherical grid structure at the top and a reinforced concrete retaining wall at the bottom. A central reclaimer is utilized for stacking and reclaiming operations. The diameter of a circular stockyard typically ranges from 60 to 120 meters. The cantilever stacker at the top of the central column can rotate and pitch 360 degrees around the column. Circular stockyards occupy a circular area, offering adaptability in various settings.

Types: Closed or Open-Air

Equipment: Circular concrete retaining wall, steel structure space grid dome, circular stacker and reclaimer, belt conveyor trestle for loading yards, and underground discharge belt conveyors.

Applications: Widely used in the storage and conveying systems of bulk materials in industries such as electric power, steel, coking, ports, mines, and grain

Features Of Circular Stockyard

1. Small footprint and high site utilization.

2. Advanced technology, safe and reliable operation.

3. Low investment cost, continuous and simultaneous stacking and reclaiming operations.

4. Strong resistance to bad weather and good landscape.

5. Outstanding environmental protection performance and low loss.

Closed Stockyards vs. Open-Air Stockyards

Open-air stockyards have been widely adopted in power plants, building materials, mining, ports, and metallurgy industries. In bulk material storage and processing, open-air stockyards offer advantages in terms of flexible process layout, mature process technology, reliable process equipment, and well-established civil engineering and supporting facilities. However, for bulk materials with specific requirements such as moisture resistance, rain resistance, wind resistance, cold resistance, and frost resistance, closed stockyards are a more suitable choice. Closed stockyards offer significant advantages over open-air stockyards in terms of energy efficiency, environmental protection, reduced consumption, and land conservation.