The site is a former Graincorp site located approximately 5km north of the village of Burrumbuttock, NSW. As well as providing additional storage, the addition of a 4,000 tonne storage silo had added the capacity to aerate and fumigate under gas sealed conditions - improving the quality of storage and the flexibility of the site.

The additional silo is a "Kotzur" GP 22-18 silo with a 250mm silo unload system and high flow aeration system. The silo is primarily for canola receival. The aeration system incorporates the newly released "Kotzur" louvred aeration flooring(story above) to provide maximum air flow in small seeds, with high pressure fans resulting in an air flow of approx. 1.7 litres/sec/tonne in canola.

For fumigation, the silo is sealed to the minimum five minute pressure half life standard. This allows for fumigation with phosphine and in future gives the option of controlled atmospheres (eg CO₂).

The silo is integrated with the existing road receival pit/elevator system by way of a belt conveyor collecting grain from the existing head house. The belt conveyor has been designed to allow for a future upgrade of the elevator to take capacity to 150 tonnes per hour.
 

The additional silo is a "Kotzur" GP 22-18 silo with a 250mm silo unload system and high flow aeration system. The silo is primarily for canola receival. The aeration system incorporates the newly released "Kotzur" louvred aeration flooring to provide maximum air flow in small seeds, with high pressure fans resulting in an air flow of approx. 1.7 litres/sec/tonne in canola.

For fumigation, the silo is sealed to the minimum five minute pressure half life standard. This allows for fumigation with phosphine and in future gives the option of controlled atmospheres (eg CO2).

To integrate the silo into the existing system, the silo was installed with an extended roof auger to allow filling from the existing radial auger system. The roof auger extension is supported by a tower which will can form part of the elevator tower for a second receival intake pit.

To streamline the grain intake, a drive over road hopper was installed to feed the radial auger system, removing the need to back trucks up to the auger intake. Despite lower crop yields, the site capacity of approx. 14,000 tonnes was fully utilised for the 2004 crop.

The project involved moving an existing 500T elevated silo to a new site, construction of two new GP 18-10 silos (1555T), installation of a road receival hopper, and radial filling auger system.

The silos are fully gas sealed for fumigation - an important consideration when storing triticale though the summer months. This allows grain to be stored insect free without applying contact pesticides to the grain - important to keep feed grain for the dairy industry contaminant free.

With a total of 3500 Tonnes of grain storage capacity, harvest can flow smoothly with grain being quickly transferred into storage at point of production.