The Inside Story

One of the drawbacks of transporting powders “in bulk” is the difficulty of getting them to flow from tanks at the discharge stage - unlike liquids, where all you need to do is pull the plug.

A key feature of the ISO-Veyor’s unique design is the use of compressed air to ‘fluidise’ the material which makes it behave like a liquid.

A typical ISO-Veyor journey begins at the rail siding of a steelworks. The ISO-Veyor is filled with Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBS) by gravity, taking less than 20 minutes to load 29 tonnes into a 20ft unit.
 
This occurs in the same way as standard powder rail cars with no need to modify existing equipment.

Once the ISO-Veyor has completed the rail leg of its journey it can be transferred by a reachstacker, SLT or crane, and loaded onto a commonly available skeletal truck.

The ISO-Veyor can be discharged either on the trailer or can be dropped off by the driver – resulting in better use of the driver’s time through the elimination of queues.

The ISO-Veyor will achieve a discharge rate of 1 tonne per minute, discharging a 20ft unit in less than 30 minutes, using 2 barg (30psi) of air with a volume of 650 kgm3, and leaving just 12kg of residue.

Standard STORZ (4”) hoses are used, and the system can discharge into silos up to 40ft high. 

The ISO-Veyor is built around the criteria of discharge performance and increased payload with an extremely low tare. It offers complete durability, as its few moving parts means maintenance costs are low.