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Bulk material handling From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bulk Material Handling is an engineering field that is centred around the design of equipment (civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and control) used for the transportation of materials such as ores and cereals in loose bulk form. It can also relate to the handling of mixed wastes.
Bulk material handling systems are typically comprised of moveable items of machinery such as conveyors, stackers, reclaimers, shiploaders, unloaders and various shuttles, hoppers and diverters combined with storage facilities such as stockyards, storage silos or stockpiles.
The purpose of a bulk material handling facility is generally to transport material from one of several locations (i.e. a source) to an ultimate destination. Providing storage and inventory control and possibly material blending is usually part of a bulk material handling system.
Bulk material handling systems can be found on mine sites, ports (for loading or unloading of cereals, ores and minerals) and processing facilities (such as iron and steel, coal fired power stations refineries).
In ports handling large quantities of bulk materials continuous ship unloaders are replacing gantry cranes.
See also Bulk cargo Bulk liquids Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_material_handling
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Content derived from Wikipedia article on Bulk Cargo
Bulk cargo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bulk cargo is cargo that is unpacked (un-bundled or un-bound) and is of the same or a similar kind or nature (homogeneous). These cargos are usually dropped or poured, with a spout or shovel bucket, as a liquid or solid, into a bulk carrier's hold, railroad car, or truck/trailer/semi-trailer body. Bulk cargos are classified as liquid or dry.
The largest bulk carrier cargo ship in the world is the iron ore carrier Berge Stahl, weighing a massive 364,768 dead-weight-tons (metric).
The busiest bulk cargo port in the world is the New Orleans-area based Port of South Louisiana.
Railroads can ship any cargo.Dry bulk cargos: coal grain (wheat, maize, rice, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, soybeans, etc.) iron ore (ferrous & non-ferrous ores, ferroalloys, pig iron, scrap metal, etc.) wood chips cement chemicals (fertilizer, plastic granules & pellets, resin powder, synthetic fiber, etc.) dry edibles (for animals or humans: alfalfa pellets, citrus pellets, livestock feed, flour, peanuts, raw or refined sugar, seeds, starches, etc.) bulk mine (sand & gravel, copper, iron, (ores in pellet form) , salt, etc.)
Liquid bulk cargos: oil liquefied natural gas (LNG) gasoline chemicals liquid edibles (vegetable oil, cooking oil, fruit juices, etc.)
Large bulk sea-going companies: Aasen Shipping & Aasen Chartering (Norway) Homepage ALL-Transport A/S (Norway) Homepage American Steamship Company (United States) Canada Steamship Lines (Canada) Commercial Trading & Discount (Greece) Czech Ocean Shipping (Czech Republic) Daeyang Shipping (China - Greece - Japan) Fednav (Canada) Gearbulk (Norway - Japan) M/S Fjordbulk (Norway) NOL Services (Singapore) OAM Coal Trade and Bulk Shipping (Germany) Österströms Rederi AB (Sweden) SMC Marine Services (Singapore) Samsun Logix (South Korea) The Skaarup Group (United States) Homepage Zhejiang Ocean Shipping Company (China)
Large ports specializing in bulk cargo: Port of South Louisiana Port of Rotterdam
Only monthly magazine for the dry bulk industry Dry Cargo international
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Pictures of Material Handling Equipment
Conveyors & material handling equipment picture @ Kinatek A picture of material handling solutions on display @ Airport Technology web page A picture of a long conveyor from Mining Technology
Bulk liquids
Bulk liquids is a term associated with commercial transportation of liquids in large volumes, usually not including petroleum products. Vegetable oils and fish oils are common bulk liquids.
See also Bulk tank for milk Tanker disambiguation page
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Conveyor belt From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Point of contact between a power transmission belt and its pulley. A conveyor belt uses a wide belt and pulleys and is supported by rollers along its path. These conveyor structures contain belts for moving bulk sulfur from railcars to storage piles and from the piles to ships.A conveyor belt or belt conveyor consists of two pulleys, with a continuous loop of material that rotates about them. The pulleys are powered, moving the belt and the material on the belt forward. Conveyor belts are extensively used to transport industrial and agricultural materials, such as grain, coal, ores, etc. Material flowing over the belt may be weighed in transit using a beltweigher. Belts with regularly spaced partitions, known as elevator belts, are used for transporting loose materials up steep inclines. Conveyor belts are used in self-unloading bulk freighters and in live bottom trucks. This technology is also used in conveyor transport such as moving sidewalks or escalators, as well as on many manufacturing assembly lines. Stores often have conveyor belts at the check-out counter to move shopping items. Ski areas also use conveyor belts to transport skiers up the hill. A wide variety of conveying machines are available, different as regards principle of operation, means and direction of conveyance, including screw conveyors, the moving floor system, which uses reciprocating slats to move cargo, and roller conveyor system, which uses a series of powered rollers to convey boxes or pallets.
The longest conveyor belt in the world is in Western Sahara. It is 100 km long, from the phosphate mines of Bu Craa to the coast south of El-Aaiun. The longest single belt conveyor runs from Meghalaya in India to Sylhet in Bangladesh. It is 17 km long and conveys limestone and shale.
Conveyor mechanisms are used as components in automated distribution and warehousing. In combination with computer controlled pallet handling equipment this allows for more efficient retail, wholesale, and manufacturing distribution. It is considered a labor saving system that allows large volumes to move rapidly through a process, allowing companies to ship or receive higher volumes with smaller storage space and with less labor expense.
Contents [hide] 1 Flexible conveyor systems 2 History 3 See also 4 External links
Flexible conveyor systems The flexible conveyor is based on a conveyor beam in aluminium or stainless steel, with low friction slide rails guiding a plastic multi-flexing chain. Products to be conveyed travel directly on the conveyor, or on pallets/carriers.
History Primitive conveyor belts were used since 19th century. In 1901, Sandvik invented and start the production of the Steel Conveyor belts. In 1913, Henry Ford introduced Conveyor belt-based assembly-line in Ford Motor Company's factory production.
See also Thermohaline circulation Treadmill
External links Hewitt-Robins company History page (about the history of belt conveyor) Sandvik Materials Technology - History of the Steel conveyor belt (1901) Rubber & Plastics, Inc. - Conveyorbelt.com Belt Engineering & Reference Data Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt
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Stacker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.man-takraf.de/en/products_services/bulkmaterialshandling/stackers.htm A stacker is a machine used in bulk material handling applications. A stacker's function is to stack bulk material such as ores and cereals onto a stockpile. A reclaimer can be used to recover the material.
Stackers are nominally rated in tph (tonnes per hour) for capacity and normally travel on a rail between stockpiles in the stockyard. A stacker can usually move in at least two directions typically: horizontally along the rail and vertically by luffing its boom. Some stackers are able to rotate by slewing the boom.
Stackers are used to stack into different patterns, such as cone stacking and chevron stacking.
Stackers and Reclaimers were originally manually controlled manned machines with no remote control. Modern machines are typically semi-automatic or fully automated, with parameters remotely set.
The controlling system used is typically a PLC (programmable logic controller) with an HMI (human-machine interface) for display connected to a central control system.Cateogry:Mining equipment
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Content derived from Wikipedia article on Reclaimer
Reclaimer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A reclaimer is a large machine used in bulk material handling applications. A reclaimer's function is to recover bulk material such as ores and cereals from a stockpile. A stacker is used to stack the material.
Reclaimers are rated in tph (tonnes per hour) for capacity and normally travel on a rail between stockpiles in the stockyard. A bucket wheel reclaimer can typically move in three directions: horizontally along the rail; vertically by "luffing" its boom and rotationally by slewing its boom. Reclaimers are generally electrically powered by means of a trailing cable.
Stackers and Reclaimers were originally manually-controlled manned machines with no remote control. Modern machines are typically fully automated with their parameters (for stacking or reclaiming) remotely set. Some older reclaimers may still be manually controlled, as reclaiming is more difficult to automate than stacking because the automatic detection of pile edges is complicated by different environmental conditions and different bulk materials.
Bucket wheel reclaimers use "bucket wheels" for removing material from the pile they are reclaiming. Scraper reclaimers use a series of scrapers on a chain to reclaim the material.
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