Bucket Elevator for Sugar

What is Bucket Elevator for Sugar?

Bucket Elevator for Sugar is a device specially used to transport sugar materials such as white sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar, and powdered sugar from low places to designated high places. It continuously digs, lifts and dumps materials through the hopper to realize the automatic transportation of sugar from low places to high places. The lifting height can reach 60 meters and the transportation volume can reach 400m³ per hour. It is widely used in sugar factories, food processing, candy production, pharmaceutical and other industries.

Sugar materials are easy to absorb moisture, agglomerate, and break. Ordinary conveying equipment is difficult to meet its requirements of hygiene, anti-sticking, and low breakage. Bucket Elevator for Sugar uses food-grade stainless steel and modified PP plastic hoppers, with sealed housing and low-friction chain drive to ensure that the powdered sugar is not polluted, agglomerated, moisture-absorbent, and low-fragmented during transportation.

What types of Bucket Elevator for Sugar are there?

According to the characteristics of different sugar materials, bucket elevators for sugar can be divided into three types: Z-type, C-type and inline type.

Z-type Bucket Elevator for Sugar: suitable for sites with limited space, realizing horizontal-vertical-horizontal transportation, often used for front-end feeding of packaging machines

C-type Bucket Elevator for Sugar: compact design, suitable for medium-height sugar powder lifting

Inline Bucket Elevator for Sugar: traditional vertical transportation, suitable for high-yield and high-height sugar transportation

What are the advantages of Bucket Elevator for Sugar?

Bucket Elevator for Sugar is the preferred equipment for sugar material transportation, with large output, low crushing rate, sealed and pollution-free.

Designed specifically for sugar transportation: Optimized design based on different sugar characteristics (fluidity, humidity, particle size), deep bucket (SH type) is used for white sugar lifting, medium-deep bucket (ZH type) is used for brown sugar and wet sugar, and special anti-stick coating treatment is used to reduce sugar powder residue.

Low crushing rate: shaftless chain transmission reduces friction, and low-speed operation (0.5-1.5m/s) reduces sugar particle breakage.

Large lifting height and conveying capacity: TH type has a maximum lifting height of 50m, and Z type is suitable for medium and short distance lifting of 2-20m, with a conveying capacity of up to 400m³/h, meeting different production needs.

Sealing performance: The fully enclosed structure prevents sugar powder from leaking out and keeps the workshop clean; special sealing strip design, dust leakage rate <0.1%, in line with food-grade hygiene standards.

What is the working principle of Bucket Elevator for Sugar?

When the Bucket Elevator for Sugar is working, sugar flows into the hopper from the feed port, and the hopper moves upward with the traction chain or belt. When the hopper reaches the top, it bypasses the top drive sprocket or roller, and under the action of gravity and centrifugal force, the sugar is discharged into the discharge port. During the entire conveying process, the hopper continuously scoops up sugar, lifts sugar and discharges it, thereby achieving continuous vertical lifting of sugar. The motor drives the transmission device to keep the traction chain or belt at a stable running speed, ensuring the efficiency and stability of sugar transportation.

Bucket Elevator for Sugar Technical Parameters

Parameters	TH type chain bucket type	Z type rotating bucket type	Food grade stainless steel type
Lifting height	10-60m	2-20m	5-30m
Conveying capacity	10-365m³/h	0.5-6m³/h	2-50m³/h
Hopper type	SH deep bucket/ZH medium deep bucket	PP plastic bucket	304 stainless steel bucket
Motor power	0.37-22kW	0.37-3kW	0.55-7.5kW
Applicable sugars	White sugar, brown sugar	Powdered sugar, rock sugar	Food grade powdered sugar

Recommended configuration for different sugars:

Sugar type	White sugar powder	Brown sugar granules	Sugar granules
Recommended model	TH-200-S	Z-150-H	C-100-G
Hopper type	SH type deep bucket	ZH type medium-deep bucket	ZH type medium-deep bucket
Material	304 stainless steel casing + PP hopper	304 stainless steel full machine	Carbon steel spraying + PP hopper
Typical parameters	Lifting height 20m, conveying capacity 120m³/h	Lifting height 15m, conveying capacity 80m³/h	Lifting height 10m, conveying capacity 50m³/h

What are the applications of Bucket Elevator for Sugar?

Bucket Elevator for Sugar has a wide range of applications in the transportation of white sugar-related materials, and can meet the refined transportation needs of different industries. In the sugar factory, it can vertically lift raw sugar, white sugar and other raw materials to the storage tank or packaging line, and realize the efficient vertical transfer of materials through the continuously running hopper, providing stable support for the subsequent processing and storage links; in the candy processing scene, for the transportation of raw materials such as chocolate candy and hard candy, the specially designed anti-sticking structure of the bucket elevator can avoid material adhesion and contamination, ensuring that the candy raw materials remain pure during the transportation process, which meets the hygiene requirements of food processing; in the field of food additives, for powdered sugar materials such as glucose and lactose, the bucket elevator adopts a closed conveying method, which can not only prevent dust from escaping, but also ensure the uniform transportation of powdered sugar, meeting the precise batching requirements of additive production; in the pharmaceutical industry, the bucket elevator used for the transportation of pharmaceutical syrup excipients adopts sanitary materials and designs, which strictly complies with the hygiene standards of pharmaceutical production while meeting the efficiency of lifting, and ensures the safety and cleanliness of the transportation process of pharmaceutical excipients. From sugar production to terminal product processing, bucket elevators provide reliable vertical conveying solutions for white sugar-related materials with diverse technical adaptability.

How to select Bucket Elevator for Sugar

When selecting Bucket Elevator for Sugar, it is necessary to clarify the physical properties of the sugar to be transported (particle size, humidity, fluidity, etc.), determine the process parameters (lifting height, conveying volume, working temperature, etc.), select the appropriate structure and drive mode, determine the material requirements and special functional requirements, etc.

Select according to the characteristics of sugar: for white sugar powder, choose a deep bucket (SH type), a higher lifting speed (1.2-1.5m/s), and a fully sealed design; for brown sugar granules, choose a medium-deep bucket (ZH type), a medium speed (0.8-1.2m/s), and a stainless steel material; for wet sugar/granules, choose a medium-deep bucket, a low speed (0.5-0.8m/s), and a cleaning system.

Select according to process requirements: Z/C type can be selected for lifting height <10 meters, and inline type is recommended for >10 meters; standard type is selected for conveying capacity <50m³/h, large quantities need to be customized, and food grade stainless steel + PP hopper is selected for hygiene requirements, and carbon steel can be selected for industrial grade.

Select according to production environment: stainless steel material is selected for humid environment, and anti-rust treatment is strengthened; explosion-proof motors and control systems are configured for explosion-proof areas; easy-to-clean design and no dead angle structure are selected for clean workshops.