The RailSpreader system includes a robust hydraulic power unit to drive its lift system and slinger disk. In an effort to make life easier at these facilities, a team of engineers and experts set out to develop a comprehensive solution to these problems.
While visiting many different types of bulk handling facilities to help install silo cleaning equipment or conduct industry-leading silo cleanout services, Pneumat Systems recognized a common set of challenges faced during the railcar loadout process. The RailSpreader fits neatly into Pneumat Systems’ suite of dry bulk commodity flow optimization systems. The system is controlled by an operator from a safe location and can also help remediate dust issues when linked with a dust collection system. It adapts to various loadout configurations, leveraging your existing chutes, conveyors, and drops without manual shoveling and re-topping of cars. Instead of falling directly into the center of the car and creating a cone, the RailSpreader’s rotating slinger disk flings the material outward, filling the railcar from the outside in.
Using the RailSpreader railcar loading system allows facilities to load more product into their railcars by reducing the voids that are created as a result of the loaded material’s angle of repose. By adding the RailSpreader system to their loadout process, facilities avoid the void and have saved millions of dollars in transportation costs as a result. Dry bulk shippers across agricultural, mining, and other industries have utilized the RailSpreader to safely load more dried distiller’s grains (DDGs), protein meals, salts, and other bulk commodities into their hopper cars while reducing transportation expenses, staffing costs, and risk exposure.
The RailSpreader is an innovative piece of railcar loading equipment designed by the bulk flow experts at Pneumat Systems.