Customer Description

Total Energies Bitumen Deutschland GmbH presents in Brunsbüttel from Crude oil, which comes directly from Germany’s only offshore production platformrm (Mittelplate/Wadden Sea) arrives via pipeline, mWith about 130 employees, it produces up to 400,000 metric tons of bitumen annually.

Thanks to the special manufacturing process and the addition of high-quality materials is produced the factory produces bitumen products, which are used primarily in road construction, building construction, civil engineering, and industrial applications.

Project Description

As part of the renovation, ar A new operations building was added to the production facility for the storage of aggregates and the controlled Supply the Production facility via a bridge-like connection erected. The items delivered on pallets Polymerblocks are brought into the warehouse by forklift and stored there.

An employee enters the hall from time to time and stands, following a recipe, places a few pallets on the conveyor system. These are then manually depalletized using vacuum lifters, and the blocks will be transferred to the feed conveyor. The delivered Conveyor system weighs the polymerblocks and transported these by means of high-performance recirculating platform vertical conveyor to a mezzanine level and from there across a bridge in the upper floor the adjacentn Buildingss.

The transport route serves as a storage medium. The blocks are tracked, counted and according to the recipe the, upstream of the production process, Mill supplied until the desired Surchargehas been reached.

Technical Details

• Ergonomic handling device consisting of a swivel crane column and a vacuum tube lifter
• Feeder conveyor with discharge hopper and size detection
• Digital Continuous-Flow Belt Scale with Virtual Product Assignment
• Platform recirculating conveyor with a transport capacity of up to 600 blocks per hour at a lift height of 6 meters
• Two plate belt conveyors for separation and cross-transfer
• Electromechanical pusher as a corner transfer device
• Plate conveyors as a synchronous batch storage section
• Rubber-lined plate conveyor as an inclined conveyor
• Safety system consisting of a fence system combined with sheet metal enclosures to prevent contact and emergency stop pull cords along the conveyor line.
• Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 Controller
• Siemens Simatic KTP 700 touch panel with plant visualization in the control cabinet
• Remote access via an IP-VPN router