Warehouse for dry bulk goods

The bulk goods warehouse, built in 1998, is 90 m long and 40 m wide.

Three dividing walls separate the warehouse space into four sections, enabling the simultaneous storage of various goods without the risk of blending goods. While the warehouse space reaches a height of 24 m on one longitudinal side, the height on the other longitudinal side is only 7 m. This unusual form results in a 28° slope of the roof, which matches the angle of repose of urea. At optimal utilisation, the warehouse space has a capacity of approx. 16,000 tons.

Goods are delivered with railway carriages or seagoing/inland navigation vessels; limited quantities can also be delivered by lorries. Irrespective of the delivery method, the goods arrive in the warehouse via closed conveyer belts. In the process, the goods are not ejected from the warehouse ceiling to the warehouse floor, as is usually the case. Instead, they are handled much more carefully with a Hagel innovation: Both the storage and removal of goods is completed using a specially developed dual-function scraper. In storage, the goods are transported along the coated scraper surface and “pushed” upward by the scraper blades. Due to the variable scraper position, the free fall of goods after ejection is limited to 0.50 m, thus minimising the formation of dust during storage. The scraper scrapes goods along the conveyer belt system during removal.

Goods are either removed to seagoing/inland navigation vessels with our bulk loader or removed to the street using the lorry loading station.

For ship loading, the weighing is carried out using a calibrated belt weigher (tolerance +/- 0.25%) and arrives on the ship via the telescopic tube of the loader. For storage and removal, the transloading capacity is as much 600 t/h (based on urea). Alternatively, the warehouse goods can be picked up by a lorry.