摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a silo configured to properly determine the occurrence of bridge or the like without being influenced by a storage condition of a stored object and to stably drop the stored object, and to provide a method for operating the silo.SOLUTION: A silo 10 includes: a storage tank 11; an outlet 14 that is formed at the bottom of the storage tank 11 and drops and discharges a stored object A naturally from the inside of the storage tank 11; and a scraping mechanism 15 that scrapes up the stored object A piled up at the bottom of the stored tank 11 in a direction of the outlet 14. The silo includes a control part 20 that drives the scraping mechanism 15 when the amount Qx of the stored object A naturally falling from the outlet 14 per unit time is a predetermined first threshold Th1 or less. |