Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips

What is Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips?

Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips is a vertical lifting device designed specifically for wood chip material transportation. It can efficiently transport wood chips in different forms, from 0.5mm fine wood powder to 30mm small wood chips, with a wide range of conveying capacity, from 5m³/h to 800m³/h, to meet the different needs of small processing workshops to large factories. The lifting height is flexible, usually 4-60 meters, and can reach 80 meters with special design. The hopper is professionally designed, and its shape and spacing are optimized for the characteristics of wood chips. It adopts a dense layout to reduce material residue and blockage, ensuring stable and efficient lifting of wood chips. It is widely used in wood processing industry, biomass pellet production line, furniture manufacturing, paper mills and other scenarios.

What is Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips?

Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips adopts anti-blocking design, with advantages such as low breakage rate and large-capacity transportation, as follows:

Professional anti-blocking design: Optimize the hopper spacing and discharge angle to avoid blockage in view of the easy arching characteristics of wood chips.

Low breakage rate: inflow feeding + induction discharge, wood chip integrity rate > 98%, reducing debris generation

Large-capacity transportation: intensive hopper layout, conveying capacity up to 800m³/h optional, to meet different scale needs

High adaptability: can convey various wood chip materials from fine wood powder (0.5mm) to small wood chips (30mm), with a lifting height of up to 80 meters.

What is the principle of Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips?

Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips realizes vertical conveying of wood chips through circular motion, and its working process includes four stages. In the feeding stage, according to the different fluidity of wood chips, "scooping" or "flowing" loading is adopted to make wood chips flow into the hopper evenly from the bottom feeding port; in the lifting stage, the motor drives the belt or chain and other traction mechanisms through the reducer to drive the hopper to rise vertically along the guide rail; when the hopper reaches the top and enters the unloading stage, the wood chips are thrown into the discharge port by centrifugal force or gravity, and the specially designed guide plate ensures complete unloading; in the final return stage, the empty hopper returns to the bottom along the other side, thus completing a complete working cycle.

Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips Parameters

Model	Conveying capacity (m/h)	Lifting height (m)	Motor power (kW)	Applicable wood chip type
TD160	5-20	≤40	1.5-3	Fine sawdust, wood powder
TD250	10-40	≤40	3-7.5	Ordinary sawdust
TD400	20-100	≤40	7.5-22	Mixed sawdust
TH200	15-35	≤50	3-11	Wood chips with impurities
TH315	30-60	≤50	11-22	Wood chips mixture
NE50	50	≤60	7.5-15	Large wood chips
NE100	100	≤60	15-30	High-yield production line

Note: The actual parameters need to be adjusted according to the characteristics of sawdust such as bulk density (usually 0.2-0.6t/m³) and moisture content (preferably <15%).

What are the applications of Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips?

Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips can lift various types of wood chips, including wood chips from log processing, flaky wood chips from board cutting, and granular wood chips after crushing. It is suitable for wood chip materials with low moisture content and good fluidity. It has a wide range of application scenarios. In the wood processing industry, it can be used to transport wood chips from the crusher to the storage bin or biomass fuel production equipment; in the furniture manufacturing workshop, it can centrally lift and transport the wood chips generated during the processing to the waste treatment system; in the field of biomass energy, it can lift wood chips from the stacking site to the biomass boiler or pellet forming machine to achieve vertical transportation of materials. It has the advantages of high transportation efficiency and small footprint, and can meet the continuous lifting needs of wood chips in different scenarios.

How to choose a Bucket Elevator for Wood Chips?

Choosing a suitable bucket elevator for wood chips requires considering factors such as wood chip characteristics, process requirements and application scenarios, as follows:

Wood chip characteristics: particle size distribution (fine powder uses tape type, large particles use chain type); moisture content (high moisture content requires special anti-sticking design), impurity content (wear-resistant chain type is selected when there are many impurities)

Process requirements: conveying capacity (select the corresponding model according to the hourly processing capacity, up to 800m³), lifting height (different models have different maximum heights, 3-80 meters are available), process connection (inlet and outlet position and form)

Environmental conditions: temperature (high temperature wood chips require heat-resistant design), explosion-proof requirements (wood chip dust environment requires explosion-proof configuration), space restrictions (small size model is selected for compact space)