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Bulk Material Conveying Systems

Ducon has been supplying the most advanced and custom engineered material handling and conveying systems for transporting: flyash, alumina, ores, coal etc. since the early 1950’s.

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Ducon is a leading provider of Bulk Material Handling Systems, custom engineered to efficiently move, transport, store, and process large quantities of dry bulk materials like powders, granules, and pellets, using various equipment like conveyors, silos, air slides, vibrators, pipe conveyors, elevators, and pneumatic systems. Ducon supplies complete systems for silo, hoppers, and rail road cars loading and unloading, stockpiling, stackers, feeders, and other related equipment and systems. Ducon has designed and installed over 5000 systems for handling and conveying various materials including fly ash, alumina, lime, limestone, coal, copper chips, iron ore and other materials to various customers around the world. Ducon name is synonymous with quality and the most reliable equipment in the industry since its inception in 1938.

Ducon has completed hundreds of turnkey projects with pneumatic, hydraulic and mechanical conveying systems for the world's chemical, steel, mining, fertilizer, food, power and coal industries. Ducon supplies a wide range of pneumatic conveying systems for dilute, dense, and semi-dense phase systems, capable of handling over 2000 ton/hr and conveying distances of upto 2 km distance. Ducon's equipment is designed for long operating life, high on-line availability, and ease of maintenance, ensuring reliable operation even in the most difficult industrial environments.

Ducon has proprietary designs for most of the key components used in the systems. Ducon can also design flat bottom silos and reverse cone silos discharge systems using fluidized air slides in controlled manner. Ducon provide turnkey project execution services for materials handling projects in power plants and ore mining applications.

Types of Systems

  • Truck and Railcar Unloading Systems
  • Complete Lean and Dense Phase Systems
  • Limestone and Fly Ash Reinjection Systems
  • Silo Loading and Unloading Systems
  • Bath Handling and Recycling
  • FGD Limestone Conveying Systems
  • Pipe Conveyors for Petcoke, Cement, Alumina, etc.
  • Gravity Flow Conveying
  • Alumina and Fly Ash Wagon Loading and Unloading
  • Turnkey Installations
Coal handling equipment example One of Ducon’s material conveying systems

Systems Components

  • Air Slides
  • Air Lifts
  • Rotary Air Locks
  • Pressure Conveyor Pumps
  • Double Dump Gates
  • Silo Extraction Cones
  • Bulk Loading Chutes
  • Two & Three Way Valves