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Sustainable Wear Protection from REMA TIP TOP ensures longer Service Life in Australian Gold Mine

The operator of a large gold mine in Australia was faced with replacing the previous linings in a cyclone and in the elbow pipe of a feed circuit due to surface wear. "With PERFORMANCEline products by REMA TIP TOP, the service life of the new linings was extended by up to 20 %, significantly increas…read more

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Research Paper

Pipe Conveyor Test Rigs: Design, Application and Test Results - Part C

This paper is a third part of a publication series devoted to an overview and design analysis of the existent pipe conveyor test rigs with respect to the obtained contact forces. The first two Parts A and B discuss static test rigs configuration, Part C is devoted to dynamic measurements. Particular…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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White Paper

Truck Scales: Exactly – Essential Checks for Truck Weighing Scales to Perform Flawlessly

Truck scales are the “heart” of many applications in the sand, gravel and aggregates industries - their metering results are used to estimate the producers revenues. To neither lose money nor best the client the scales need to be kept in optimum working conditions. read more

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White Paper

Explosion Control in Elevators – How to furnish a Bucket Elevator to reduce the Consequences of Explosions

Conveying systems for bulk solids are often at risk of explosions. as it is almost impossible to avoid this risk, there have to be technical installations which reduce the outcome of such an event. read more

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Research Paper

Application of FEM Analysis for Development of a Pipe Conveyor Test Stand

A test stand was designed to study the behaviour of the belt material and to determine the forces exerted at the idler housings of a pipe conveyor. To predict the forces working within the belt during the pipe-forming process and the reaction of the belt material a model was prepared using Finite El…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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Research Paper

Determination of the Bulk Flexure Resistance via coupled FEM-DEM Simulation

The bulk material on a belt conveyor deforms itself due to the run through idler stations. The deformation results in energy losses which are summarised in the bulk solid flexure resistance. The right understanding of the interaction between bulk material and idler stations is important for the pred…read more

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White Paper

Cost Reduction in Belt Conveying – Cost-efficient and Application-oriented Design of Steel Cord Conveyor Belts for the Mining Industry

Conveyor belts in the mining industry are facing ever higher demands as regards conveying capacity, conveyor length, service life and energy efficiency. In addition to designs acc. to various general standards manufacturers further develop their products for better economy. read more

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White Paper

Logistics in Mining and Minerals – Solutions for the Handling of Bulk Solids in the Supply Chain

Today raw material transport over great distances is a standard procedure in the minerals and metals industries. Especially under these circumstances, ingenious solutions for the handling of material during storage and transshipping can help save the pivotal dollar. read more

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Case Study

Clean and long-lasting Conveyors – Slider Cradles designed to reduce Conveyor Spillage and Belt Wear

Belt loading and material transfer point, resp., are prone to increased spillage and wear, due to the impact of the falling material and its settling. Newly developed slider cradles minimise these undesirable effects. 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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White Paper

Bag after Bag after Bag – Filling Technology for the Building Materials Industry

Cement, mortar or gypsum – these are products with widely differing properties which are all used in the building industry and often delivered in bags. A new bagging system for these materials offers reliable filling and easy handling. read more

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White Paper

From Garbage to Gold – Belt Scale Applications made easy even in demanding Environments

A heavy-duty, high accuracy, full-frame single idler belt scale, Siemens Milltronics MSI is used for process and load-out control, providing continuous in-line weighing on a variety of products in primary and secondary industries. read more

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Research Paper

Dynamic Damage of Rubber-Textile Belts in Pipe Conveyor Application

Rubber-textile conveyor belts and steel-cord conveyor belts are exposed to impacts of various negative factors occurring during the standard operation of belt conveyors, whereas these factors are causing gradual wear of the conveyor belts. The wear-out process of the conveyor belt is a limiting cond…read more

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White Paper

How to Convey Hot Stuff – Steel Apron Conveyor for Transport of hot Bulk Solid Materials

Steel apron conveyors are heavy duty conveyors especially for high temperature bulk materials. In the following some design specifications for a long lasting, failure free operation of such systems are presented by means of a newly developed system. read more

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Case Study

Down the Rathole – A Hopper Flow Solution for a Concrete Plant

A cement and concrete manufacturer faced a problem with their storage bins for the raw material, which accumulated in the hopper forming a rathole. To keep the whole of the material flowing they installed an aircannon system with some interesting specifications. read more

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Case Study

Valuables covered for Environmental Protection – Domes over the 7th Largest Copper and Moly Development

Keeping the environment safe from impacts of stored copper ores as well as minimising material losses due to deflation were the main reasons for building two storage domes at a newly developed copper and molybdenum mine in Northern Chile. 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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White Paper

Many sticky Returns – A Gold Mine seeks Solution to Carryback

It sometimes occurs that the conveying of bulk solid materials via belt conveyor poses a significant problem due to the conveyed material’s characteristics. The following article presents one such case, and the solutions found to solve the problem. 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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White Paper

Keep it straight! Belt Positioning Systems can avoid Wear and Material Loss

Depending on load distribution and running resistances, conveyor belts show a tendency to run off the straight line. This migration causes additional wear and may result in material losses. Please find hereafter examples, how to counter such behaviour. read more

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