Portanova Customer value is always Buhler’s top priority Portanova Customer value and features Investment promising success Low operating and maintenance costs The Buhler Portanova is a pneumatic ship unloader designed for efcient unloading of grain and oilseeds. The unloading throughputs vary from 250 to 345 metric tons per hour (t/h) on the basis of grain, depending on the specic ship size. The Portanova is distinguished by its high degree of mobility and availability as well as by its outstanding costto-benet ratio. Efcient • Possibility of lowering the boom to the ground for easy maintenance of the conveying pipes • Vertically and horizontally telescopic conveying pipes of stainless steel • Filter with Top-Removal System: fast detection of damaged bags, easy replacement of lter bags • Direct drive of the rotary blower reduces energy consumption • Stairs leading up to the machine room, walk-on boom • Erection rail for fast and easy maintenance of the split special airlock Boom lowered for maintenance. Reliable Wide variety of applications The Portanova offers operators a wide variety of possible applications as an autonomous traveling or stationary ship unloader with its own energy supply as well as electrical power supply. The material unloaded is transferred to xed conveying systems or directly into rail or road vehicles. Easy operation Portanova 2500/60T in Saudi Arabia. Low maintenance High availability and reliability • Rotary blower with almost constant volumetric ow rate and conveying air velocity ensures uniform material throughput • Double-jacket suction nozzle, vertically movable and with adjustable air slots, allows high throughputs with various materials • Programmable logic control system with visualization of operating and fault messages Rotary piston blower with diesel engine. Low wear • Conveying pipes with thick walls and pipe elbows with basalt lining • Filter inlet without pipe elbow, with impact pot in the bottom lter section • Split special airlock with enclosed rotor and wear plates Buhler – your partner As a global technology group active in the eld of grain handling – supplying everything from individual machines to turnkey grain handling systems – Buhler is always available to its customers: • as an advisor before investment decisions, • as a manufacturer of components at its own production sites, • as an experienced installation and start-up team, • and as a trainer of customers’ personnel. High mobility • Can travel on rails or on rubber tires • Travels easily and quickly around obstacles thanks to selectable steering program Split special airlock. A reliable, global customer service ensures dependable operation and high availability of the systems supplied. Telescopic pipe winch with adjustable suction nozzle for material intake. Cover: Portanova 2500/30T in Greece. Steerable rubber-tired traveling gear. Portanova 2500/60T in Oman. 2 3 4 5

High mobility and operating reliability Technical data 'Basis: Grain with bulk density 0.75 t/m3 The powerful presence of Buhler in all major global economic regions is supported by an efficient Dependable and fast unloading of grain ship unloader • For over 90 years now, Buhler has been a leading supplier of pneumatic conveying systems for handling bulk materials. • With Its Portanova, Buhler has completed Its series of pneumatic ship unloaders. This means that a line of ship unloaders Is now available designed to cover the and to serve ship sizes up to or stationary ship unloader pow- ered...