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FloorVent - Underfloor Grain Cooling System
FloorVent grainstore underfloor ventilation is a cost-saving grain cooling system for new floors, new stores, hopper bottomed bins and silos. It combines the benefits of Pile-Dry Grain Pedestals and Fans with the need to make store handling and filling easier.
FloorVent suits deep grain stores where logistics and safety considerations make moving fans between Pedestals difficult.
FloorVent Pedestals are used in the same way as Pile-Dry Pedestals and Pile-Dry Fans with the same spacing and method of use as the P3 Pedestal and F3 fan.
- Economic – low installation cost per ton and more energy-efficient localised cooling, compared to traditional under-floor systems
- Simple – FloorVent underfloor ventilation units comprise a perforated Pedestal tube with a conical cap to deflect grain during filling. The tube connects to an under-floor duct via a base plate in a recess in the concrete floor. When the store is empty, a man-hole cover placed over the recess leaves the floor totally multi-purpose.
- Versatile – suited to very deep grain in stores, bins and silos where logistics and safety considerations make moving fans between Pedestals difficult. They can be fitted into new floors during construction or retro-fitted to existing floors or hopper-bottom bins and silos.
FloorVent underfloor grain cooling units comprise a 12” diameter perforated steel Pedestal tube with a conical cap fitted into one end. The cap serves to deflect grain that is poured onto the unit, sometimes from very high conveyor systems.
The tube is fitted to an underfloor duct via a steel base plate connector that fits into a man-hole recess in the concrete floor.
When not in use, the tube and connector plate are removed and a man-hole cover is used to cover the hole and leave the floor totally multi-purpose.
Less chance that the FloorVent underfloor ventilation ducts will move during filling. When pushing up or levelling the grain, there is no tube protruding from the grain that could be damaged.
Pile-Dry Fans suck heat from the grain and vent it directly outside the building, avoiding the need for building extraction fans – although fresh air intake using our fixed StoreVent louvres is still advisable.
Installing a FloorVent Underfloor Ventilation System
- Easier and cheaper than traditional underfloor cooling systems
- Uses standard building materials, greatly reducing installation cost and time
- No reinforced concrete channels or ventilation strips in the floor
- Just a simple trench with solid, smooth-walled drainage pipe, back-filled
- Concrete floor is laid and skimmed quickly and easily