Silo Discharger Valves

Discharger Valves

The Matcon Solids Discharge Valve is a key part of our core technology. It is used to discharge solids from storage bins or silos with capacities ranging from a few kilograms to thousands of tonnes. It may be manufactured in mild steel or stainless steel and can be applied in almost any industry.

For very large applications Matcon have developed the Tandem system which has a fixed upper cone, with a set annular gap, above the Matcon discharger valve. This upper cone absorbs the large headload of the product in storage. By intermittently vibrating this upper cone, material can be fed down to the discharger valve as needed.

The Matcon Discharger Valve provides three basic advantages to its thousands of users all around the world.

Discharger: - The powerful lifting and vibrating action of the cone valve easily overcomes bridging, ratholing and other flow problems. A major benefit of the cone valve is that it promotes 'mass-flow' thus eliminating segregation.

Valve: - Because it opens and closes vertically the cone valve can be shut off at any time to stop flow of product completely. This is difficult or impossible with other types of valves that cannot close effectively once flow has started. Once closed, the valve prevents all discharge of product. The valve closes under gravity and the weight of material overhead, thus is totally failsafe.

Feeder: - Because it can be controlled so easily, the Matcon Discharger Valve is frequently used to meter material from storage, perhaps at a controlled rate or to a level sensor or to a specified weight.

Silo/Hopper Discharger Valve And Metering Valves

Matcon supplies a wide range of sizes of Discharger Valves for silos and IBCs from 50kgs/110lbs to 10,000tonne capacity. The outlet diameter ranges from 200mm/8" upwards as required to suit the process.

• Complete Discharge of materials with "Mass Flow"
• Eliminate Bridging, Segregation, Flushing and Rat-Holes
• Control of flow
• Metering and Dosing
• Available in a range of sizes