Bagasse Storage in Cylindrical Silos

The paper covers the principles and design aspects of cylindrical bins for the storage and reclaimation of bagasse. The system described (fig. 1) was originally designed and drawn up by the author in 1963 for the Mossman sugar mill. The design was not adopted, favour being given to the more conventional rectangular system with travelling suspended reclaimer. The first circular system, with a capacity of 800 tonnes, was constructed in 1970 to a general scheme proposed in conjunction with Kalamia mill at Ayr. In 1972 similar systems of 450 tonnes capacity at Haughton and 650 tonnes at Mulgrave were installed. The Kalamia system is described by Muir (1971). It is the intention in presenting this paper to invite discussion on the principles incorporated in the circular bin system and, hopefully, to improve any systems planned for the future.