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Prestorage silos: How many and what size?
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by P.K. Bhardwaj, Senior Vice-President & Operations Head, National Collateral Management Services Limited, India re-storage is a set of single or multiple silos which are located in-between grain receiving pits and cleaning section of a grain storage facility. Pre-storage silos bring efficiency to the storage system and make the operation trouble free. However, I have seen many people who get totally confused while deciding on Pre-storage silos. Maximum people get confused concerning the quantity of Pre-storage silos and the capacity of Pre-storage silos.
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Since there is not much literature readily available concerning Pre-storage silos, I thought to write this article to make decision making quick and easy.
Why do you need pre-storage silos?
First and foremost, pre-storage silos are required to create a buffer in-between the receiving pit and cleaning section. This buffer ensures that the conveying system, as well as the cleaning section, can receive continuous and uniform feed. Conveyors, elevators, cleaners and rotary sieves etc perform at their highest efficiency when the feed is continuous and