| Grain
Future proofing for years to come!
Revesby Estates is based near Boston, Lincolnshire. They have 1000 hectares of arable farming and produce 6000
tonnes of grain per annum, a mix of wheat, barley and oil seed rape.
n 1982 Revesby installed a
range of 30tph Law Denis
handling and drying
equipment, but over the years
Revesby have expanded their
arable farming acreage and as
a result the Law Denis equipment was no
longer able to keep up with the required
throughput capacity. Revesby Estates opted to
install both handling and drying equipment
from Perry of Oakley Ltd when it was time to
upgrade their equipment.
The new installation at Revesby Estates is an
intricate network of conveyors, elevators,
aspirator cleaners, cyclones, ducting and of
course a drier.
The handling equipment is from Perry of
Oakley Ltd.’s range of heavy duty handling
equipment which is capable of capacities from
80tph to 150tph and is built to a semi-industrial
specification, ideally suited to smaller grain
stores or larger farmers.
There are four 100tph belt & bucket
elevators, all fitted with ATEX approved
explosion relief and rotation sensors with under
speed monitoring.
There is one uprated and refurbished
existing intake and seven new chain & flight
conveyors, one of which is a flow and return
conveyor and five of them are curve
combination conveyors. All of the conveyors
are capable of achieving 100tph throughput
capacity.
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Perry of Oakley Ltd have also installed an
aspirator pre-cleaner, which is capable of
capacities up to 150tph and has been designed
to remove dust, chaff and light particles from
the grain before it is dried to improve product
quality.
The drier is a Perry M611 shutter discharge
drier, capable of throughput capacities of up to
49tph and has a holding capacity of 51 tonnes.
The drier has been fitted with Perry of Oakley
Ltds revolutionary CentriKleens, which reduce
the amount of dust & chaff dispensed from the
drier.
The whole system is controlled with the Perry
PLC plant control panel, a touch screen panel
that has been designed and programmed in
house. It can be connected to the internet,
which offers its users text and email alerts, and
an app that allows you to control it while on the
move.
Revesby have planned for the future with this
installation. They plan to expand their product
range to include beans and oats and the
flexibility of the Perry of Oakley Ltd equipment
allows them to further increase their capacities
at a later date if required and allows them to
become a semi-commercial operation by
offering contract drying and storage.
Revesby Estates said “We are really happy
with the new system, everything is running well
& we have future proofed for years to come!”
For more information please contact Perry of
Oakley Ltd on +44 (0)1404 890300
December 2016 | Farming Monthly | 17