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Scraper-floor store for wood chips

Hydraulics forthe large volumes.

In a scraper-floor store, wedge-shaped scrapers on the floor of the store are driven back and forth by hydraulics. They push the wood chips to a cross screw, which receives the fuel and carries it on to the boiler.

How the scraper floor works
The scraper floor from above: wedge-shaped scrapers in rows and the cross screw at the short end

Volume, up to500m³

Drive
Hydraulics
Scrapers
Wedge-shaped
Discharge
Cross screw
Fuel
Wood chips

01The principle

Hydraulic scrapers,back and forth.

The scrapers move back and forth across the floor. The wood chips are pushed forward to the cross screw, which feeds them on to the boiler.

  1. 1The hydraulicsDrive the scrapers back and forth.
  2. 2The scrapersWedge-shaped. Push the wood chips forward to the cross screw.
  3. 3The cross screwReceives the fuel and carries it on to the boiler.
The scraper floor in CAD, seen from the front at an angle: the hydraulic cylinders at the end, the push bars with the wedge-shaped scrapers on the floor, and the wood chips over the far half of the floor, cut away lengthwise 123
The scraper floor under the chips · CAD, cut away

On the way to the boiler, the wood chips pass through a tight rotary valve, and the stoker screw feeds them into the burner. Larger chip sizes call for larger screws – industrial boilers have feed screws of up to 180 mm. The feed system from store to boiler

02The scraper floor

Wood chip storesfor large volumes.

Up to 500 m³ of wood chips in a single store. The store is built to suit your conditions and requirements – the site, the fuel and how you want to fill it. Besides PelleTech's solutions, we also manufacture a range of different stores in-house.

Wood chip fuel bunker on steel legs beside a red industrial building with a silo, at dusk
The scraper floor from the side in CAD: the steel frame on legs, the scraper floor and the cross screw at the end

03The volume

About a year's chipsfor a 250 kW boiler.

250kW500m³ of wood chips a year

The rule of thumb: wood chips in cubic metres per year come to roughly twice the boiler output in kilowatts, and up to three times with poorer chips. Actual consumption depends on the quality and moisture content of the fuel and on how the plant is used.

Calculate your store with the rule of thumb

04The boilers

Hydraulic scraperspush the fuel forward.

The scraper-floor store is one of the fuel store options for PelleTech's industrial boiler IDRO and the hot-air heater AERO – and for Multiauto.

In a heating plant, the wood chips can come from a spring agitator, a scraper-floor store or a container-exchange store, where the supplier swaps containers and an intermediate store keeps the feed going. View the heating plants

Not sure which boiler suits you? Choose a wood chip boiler by output

The brochure

All our fuel stores in one brochure.

PDF · 12 pages · 2.0 MB

Free heat-load calculation

Let's calculate your heating.

Tell us how much the store needs to hold and how you want to fill it, and we will calculate the scraper-floor store and the boiler – the heat-load calculation is free of charge.

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