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EQUIPMENTS
Equipments

Airchoc on
sand hopper,
to declogg the
material

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be equipped with the Airchoc side of the hopper. The target of
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declogging devices in order to the Airchoc installation was to
help material flow. Another unex- funnel the product down to the
pected location where Airchoc can discharge.
be used is the smoke treatment This same plant also has eight
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plant and smoke evacuation, these Airchoc on the different bends
plants where gas are treated can at furnace level, which shoot in
clog and an easy way to get rid the direction of the smoke fumes
of the soft build ups is to blow air flow to avoid obstructions.
on a regular bases. This regular
planned airblow removes the dust GIRONET ®
and avoid formation of harder Standard Industrie intervenes
buid-ups which could lead to total regularly in factories to clean
blockage. This is a smart soft easy silos and hoppers. In the case
and preventive solution against that the customer faces reduced
the worst scenario. In the furnace, collection capacity, the use of
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you will find them on the hopper, the pneumatic Gironet will help
feed chute and furnace archs. clean the silos and allow to recov-
An Italian glassmaking com- er the whole storage capacity.
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pany has four Airchoc placed The articulated arm of the
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on a sand hopper – batch house Gironet , which rotates at 360°,
or area of composition. eliminates rat holing problems,
The four AC51010SD, meeting stringent safety stand-
DN 100 50-litre devices were ards as it avoids having any Gironet inside silo
installed in the middle of each human presence inside silos.

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