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8. - 15. Oct. 2025

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Impact from dumping to hopper

Ajax Equipment: Go with the Flow with a Multi-screw Feeder

From fine cohesive powders to shredded wastes, bulk solids can exhibit varied and awkward flow behaviours which can make the material challenging to handle. Multi-screw feeders can help secure a reliable and effective feed of these demanding materials from hoppers, silos and bunkers through positive…read more

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Technical Article

Going up - Convey vertical – Overcoming Limits in Vertical Conveying

Besides the traditional shaft conveying systems like skips and hoisting cages are well developed and proven. Nevertheless, there is another possibility by using continuous systems, one of which is presented below. read more

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Technical Article

Extended Reach – Overland Pipe Conveyor with Low Rolling Resistance Belt

For long overland pipe conveyors the costs from increased power consumption are significant. This article describes a methodology that analyses the low rolling resistance pipe belts and introduces recent applications on overland pipe conveyors. read more

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Technical Article

Lining Materials for Bulk Solids Handling Equipment – Selection of Materials for the Iron & Steel Industry – An Integrated Approach

The handling, storage and transportation of raw materials and intermediate products in the preliminary stages of iron and steel production are a cumbersome task, due to their vast amount and abrasiveness. Liners may help to reduce these negative effects. read more

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Case Study

Improving Raw Material Storage Plant Performance – Highly cost-effective Process with Cranes Operating 24/7

To increase the performance of its Lixhe operation the Belgian cement manufacturer CBR, a subsidiary of the Heidelberg Cement Group, has automated its raw material storage by installing a warehouse management system together with a new 9-t process crane. read more

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White Paper

A Sound Solution – Eliminate Material Side Wall Build-up and Bridging

A typical problem met in silos or hoppers: The material won’t move and leave the silo. You’ll need a supporting technology. A simple, yet elegant method is the use of acoustic cleaners, which overcome the binding forces within the stored material through the energy of acoustic waves. read more

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Technical Article

Reducing Land Requirement for Coal-fired Power Stations – Installing Waggon Shifter plus Pusher Systems instead of Merry-go-Rounds

Indias enormous energy needs are mainly fulfilled through newly built coal fired power stations. Due to their number and size there are often competing interest with regard to the land they need. Utilising a different design for the coal supply lines can save valuable ground for other uses. read more

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Research Paper

Transfer Chutes: Predicting Dust Emissions by Multiphase CFD and Coupled DEM-CFD Simulations

Dust emission is one of the main problems in the operation of transfer chutes. The design of the transfer chute heavily influences any potential dust generation. Although this influence is well known, much more attention is given to active dust suppression via water spray systems, the exhaustion of …read more

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Case Study

World’s largest Wood Pellet Store – 100% Reclaim from the actually largest fully automated Wood Pellet Store

In the UK as well as in the rest of Europe biomass fuel is finding ever more attention. To enable the utilisation of such materials in power plants on a big scale they have to be supplied in consistent quality with regard to chemical and physical composition. This can be achieved by transforming the…read more

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Technical Article

The CEMA Horsepower Equation – Development of a new Conveyor Power Prediction Methodology

The 7th edition of Belt Conveyors for Bulk Materials (known as “The Belt Book”) includes a new conveyor power prediction methodology using “Large Sample Indentation Test” (LSIT) data. This paper provides background and insight into how LSIT data is used to design conveyors, and describes t…read more

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White Paper

Keep the Dust! Power Supplier’s Dust Management improves Safety, reduces Maintenance

Coal fired power plants always face the problem of dust. Not only on top of the stack, but also in the process of conveying the solid fuel to the boiler. With regard to conveyor belt transfer points, there is a practical solution available on the market. read more

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Technical Article

Residuals Removal at Maritza E 1 – Design, Installation and Commissioning of a Tube Belt Conveyor

With the reconstruction of the power station Maritza East 1, the residual materials disposal system has also been reorganized. This project was contracted to Takraf in 2006. The heart of the residual material transportation system is a 4.5 km tube conveyor that follows the course of an old railway l…read more

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Technical Article

Speeding up Wagon Unloading – C-Frame type Tandem Rotary Tippler and Transfer Platform for high capacity Wagon Unloading in India

Railway transport is one of the most important means of transport for huge amounts of dry bulk solids. Often, train unloading is a bottle neck of such systems. A solution to this problem is presented in the article below. read more

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Case Study

Pipe Conveyor for alternative Fuels – Operational Gains with minimal Disruption and without any Material Loss

At its cement plant in Bernburg Germany Schwenk Zement KG installed an elevated pipe conveyor system to transport alternative fuels to the feeding system of the main burner. A pipe conveyor was selected because of its high reliability and zero product loss. read more

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Case Study

East Asia’s largest Bucket Wheel Excavator – Success for Tenova Takraf’s BWE System at Zhahanaoer Mine in China

In Inner Mongolia the specialists from Leipzig-based open pit mining equipment supplier Takraf installed an excavator-conceyor-spreader system, that is aimed at improving China’s lignite mining capacity. read more

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Case Study

“Clean” Recycling – Concrete & Asphalt Recycler utilizes Atomized Dust Suppression

Reducing the need to landfill huge amounts of reusable debris from road repair includes the processing of these materials during which a greaat amount of dust is produced. A California company solved its dust problems with an special water mist generator. read more

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White Paper

Ensuring Access to the Coal – Hauling up the hours at Indonesian Mine

A coal mine in East Kalimantan (Indonesia) runs a fleet of eight Volvo excavators and 65 articulated haulers for the remove of overburden and some special tasks like fuel and water delivery. To keep this equipment productive, the Indonesian Volvo rep. has a special team onsite, which is supported by…read more

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Technical Article

Eyes on Air Cannon Nozzles – Maximizing Air Cannon Performance through Nozzle Research

Well known for some 40 years, air cannons are a decisive element for the handling of fine-grained and coarse bulk materials. Due to a further improved design process the nozzles can now easily be tailored to suit specific accumulation problems. read more

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Case Study

Dump the Ore! Fast Unloading of Iron Ore transported by Rail

Unit trains are in common use when it comes to in-land transport of bulk solids over great distances. To keep the pace of transport, fast unloading is of paramount interest. How to afford fast unloading is described hereafter. read more

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Case Study

Heavy Duty Conveyor Drives – Industrial Gear Units at “Linthal 2015” Hydroelectric Plant Construction

To stabilize the power grid, Swiss supplier Linth-Limmern AG extends its existing Limmern power plant by a pump storage system. Most of the necessary installation is situated underground, and during construction a huge amount of rock material had to be moved. Read here how that happened. read more

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Technical Article

Pipe Conveyors for Infrastructure Projects – Innovative Solution for Conveyor Systems

Ckit was approached by a customer to prepare a research paper on the advancements of conveyor design and manufacturing. This report focuses on the successes, shortfalls and solutions to pipe conveyor design, manufacturing and related. This article outlines the theory, design, operating and manufactu…read more

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Technical Article

Loading Coal efficiently – How to achieve higher Coal Production with existing Coal Evacuation Facility

The production and distribution of coal is of paramount importance for the development of India’s economy. The bottleneck in the supply chain is often found to be loading the coal onto trains at the mine. Following please find a proposal to improve this situation. read more

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Case Study

More Coal, less Problems – Wirtgen Surface Miner 2200 SM 3.8 for Chinese Coal Producer

For the further development of Chinese industry a constant and reliable supply with energy is of uttermost importance. Up to now, coal is the only energy resource availble within China in sufficient amount and therefore mostly and increasingly utilised. read more

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Technical Article

A Fundamental Approach to Belt Feeder Loads – How to assess loads on Feeders, (practically)

Numerous attempts have been made to describe the process of feeding but quite often they only cover certain products and hopper construction. Following you will find a more general approach to this field of problems. read more

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Case Study

Fuel for the Power Plant – 16 Coal Feeders with Arched Plate Conveyors

With the conversion of 16 arched plate conveyors, Aumund Fördertechnik contributed to the improvement of the operating procedures at the RWE power plant in Neurath, Germany. read more

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