Detroit® Planetary Grate Drive with Load Cell

With the Detroit® Planetary Grate Drive with Load Cell, Detroit Stoker Company draws on more than a century of experience serving the industrial power and steam generating industry. This drive has been designed to reduce, and in some cases, eliminate many of the traditional problems associated with stoker grate drive operation and maintenance.

Features and Benefits:

• Readily installed as a replacement for existing installations
• Direct replacement to existing Detroit Stoker Company hydraulic pressure switch arrangements
• Can be retrofitted to any traveling grate system
• Simple design - easy conversion and fewer parts to maintain
• Planetary gear box is directly coupled to drive shaft 
• Continuous monitoring provides useful operating data and grate internals protection
• Mechanical design eliminates external hydraulic pump sets 
• Planetary gear design operates at a much higher efficiency
• Variable speed according to load demand
• Capable of jogging forward and reverse to relieve jams caused by tramp material