Methods employed in Hawaiian Islands, where sugar is transported by truck or rail car for loading into ships; at Hilo Storage Plant, facilities are four steel silos 80 ft in diam and 76 ft high each with capacity of 10,000 tons; Nawiliwili plant with capacity of 24,000 tons is of flat floor type; Crokett plant in California, which receives some 15% of Hawaiian production, utilizes nine steel silos of 90,000 ton capacity; conveyor belts handle sugar within plants.
Bulk handling of raw sugar
Dock Harbour Authority
Dock and Harbour Authority ; 34 , n 397 ; p 203-205
1953
3 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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