Wood Pellet Terminal Improvements

PORT PANAMA CITY

Performed an overall system audit and then developed and oversaw the installation of wood pellet handling and dust control enhancements:

• Installed additional dust curtains and seals
• Corrected conveyor transfers with adjustable trajectory chutes and inlet belt loaders
• Modified transitional chutework
• Redesigned and replaced the High Angle Conveyor pocket belt
• Added a secondary, traveling, retractable loading spout for dust control while topping up warehouse stockpiles

Improvements successfully, significantly reduced spillage, pellet degradation and dust generation,improving the safety of the terminal while reducing housekeeping hours and costs. Most importantly, dust emissions were substantially lessoned without the need for expensive new mechanical dust collection systems.