When it came to storing soybean meal, the owners of this grain and oilseed milling company in Peru turned to SCAFCO Grain Systems Company to help them overcome some specific challenges. The largest was pure geography: These bins had to be custom designed to withstand the seismic activity of a Zone 4 area that experiences regular earthquakes.
The finished system includes ten Model 1811SHBTZ4 hopper bottom bins, each capable of storing 322 cubic meters of soybean meal. In addition to mass flow and seismic activity, the design also allows for 84″ (2.14M) of clearance under the 45-degree cone bottom, which is more than twice the standard. Each bin measures 18′ (5.5M) in diameter by 60.8′ (18.5M) high.