| Title | 3 |
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| Copyright | 4 |
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| Contents | 5 |
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| Preface | 7 |
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| A: BELT CONVEYING | 9 |
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| A.1 Design Considerations to Reduce the Costs of Conveyor Systems | 11 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 11 |
| 2 BULK SOLID AND CONVEYOR BELT FLEXURE RESISTANCE | 11 |
| 3 ROTATING RESISTANCE OF IDLER ROLLS | 14 |
| 4 INDENTATION ROLLING RESISTANCE | 17 |
| 5 ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS | 19 |
| 6 CONCLUSION | 20 |
| 7 REFERENCES | 21 |
| A.2 Determination of Rolling Resistance of Belt Conveyors using Rubber Data: Fact or Fiction? | 23 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 23 |
| 2 RECENT SOUTH AFRICAN PROJECTS | 24 |
| 3 VISCOELASTICITY | 25 |
| 4 RHEOLOGICAL TESTING | 27 |
| 5 THE INDENTATION ROLLING RESISTANCE | 31 |
| 6 DISCUSSION | 34 |
| 7 CONCLUSIONS | 35 |
| 8 REFERENCES | 36 |
| A.3 Indentation Rolling Resistance of Steel Cord Conveyor Belts: A Pseudo 3D Viscoelastic Finite Element Analysis | 37 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 37 |
| 2 BACKGROUND | 37 |
| 3 FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS | 39 |
| 4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 41 |
| 5 CONCLUSIONS | 47 |
| 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 47 |
| 7 REFERENCES | 47 |
| A.4 The possibilities of decreasing the belt conveyors main drive power demand | 49 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 49 |
| 2 LONG-TERM “IN-SITU” TESTS OF THE SELECTED HIGH CAPACITY BELT CONVEYOR | 50 |
| 3 FINAL REMARKS | 52 |
| 4 REFERENCES | 52 |
| A.5 Theoretical and Experimental Noise Examinations on the RopeCon System | 55 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 55 |
| 2 SOUND MEASUREMENTS IN FLIRSCH | 58 |
| 3 DESIGN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ROPECON SYSTEM AND STANDARD BELT CONVEYORS | 58 |
| 4 NOISE EMISSION OF THE ROPECON SYSTEM IN REGARD TO STANDARD BELT CONVEYORS | 59 |
| A.6 Lay?out Considerations for Multiple Driven Belt Conveyor Systems | 61 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 61 |
| 2 DYNAMIC MODEL | 62 |
| 3 TEST CASES | 64 |
| 4 SIMULATION RESULTS | 65 |
| 5 CONCLUSION | 67 |
| 6 REFERENCES | 67 |
| B: PNEUMATIC CONVEYING | 69 |
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| B1: Profiling the Dilute Phase Flow Parameters of Large Throughput Coke Suction Cranes – A case study | 71 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 71 |
| 2 CURRENT CONVEYING SYSTEM | 73 |
| 3 PROPOSED NOZZLE AND INNER PIPE ANALYSIS | 76 |
| 4 NOMENCLATURE | 77 |
| 5 REFERENCES | 78 |
| B.2 Horizontal dense-phase pneumatic conveying of bulk solids | 79 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 79 |
| 2 MATERIAL AND METHOD | 79 |
| 3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 81 |
| 4 CONCLUSION | 84 |
| 5 NOMENCLATURE | 84 |
| 6 REFERENCES | 84 |
| B.3 Investigations on single slugs to explain high pressure loss by horizontal dense-phase pneumatic conveying | 87 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 87 |
| 2 TEST MATERIAL AND CONVEYING EQUIPMENT | 87 |
| 3 PRESSURE LOSS | 88 |
| 4 INVESTIGATIONS ON SINGLE SLUGS | 90 |
| 5 CONCLUSION | 96 |
| 6 NOMENCLATURE | 97 |
| 7 REFERENCES | 97 |
| B.4 On the Modelling of Pressure Drop for the Dense-Phase Pneumatic Conveying of Powders | 99 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 99 |
| 2 EXPERIMENTAL | 99 |
| 3 “STRAIGHT PIPE” PNEUMATIC CONVEYING CHARACTERISTICS | 101 |
| 4 MODELLING SOLIDS FRICTION FACTOR USING STRAIGHT PIPE DATA | 101 |
| 5 SCALE-UP EVALUATION OF MODELS DERIVED USING STRAIGHT PIPE DATA | 102 |
| 6 MODELLING SOLIDS FRICTION FACTOR BY “BACK CALCULATION” METHOD | 102 |
| 7 SCALE-UP EVALUATION OF MODELS DERIVED USING “BACK CALCULATION” METHOD | 103 |
| 8 CONCLUSION | 103 |
| 9 NOMENCLATURE | 111 |
| 10 REFERENCES | 111 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 112 |
| B.5 Pneumatic Conveying System Design - How good is Your Computer Aided Design Program | 113 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 113 |
| 2 CONVEYING MODE | 114 |
| 3 MATERIAL TYPE | 115 |
| 4 MATERIAL GRADE | 115 |
| 5 PIPELINE BEND GEOMETRY | 116 |
| 6 MATERIAL DEGRATION | 118 |
| 7 CONVEYING PIPELINE MATERIAL | 119 |
| 8 CONCLUSIONS | 120 |
| 9 REFERENCES | 120 |
| B.6 Power requirements for pneumatic conveying systems | 123 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 123 |
| 2 POWER PRODUCTION | 125 |
| 3 SPECIFIC ENERGY | 126 |
| 4 INFLUENCE OF PIPELINE BORE | 128 |
| 5 STEPPED BORE PIPELINES | 130 |
| 6 CONCLUSIONS | 131 |
| 7 REFERENCES | 131 |
| C: SILO AND DRY BULK TERMINAL TECHNOLOGY | 133 |
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| C.1 Experimental and design loads ofpressure of bulk materials against silo wall | 135 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 135 |
| 2 ACTING LOADS ON SILO | 135 |
| 3 MEASURING THE LOADS | 136 |
| 4 RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS | 137 |
| 5 CHARACTERISTIC AND DESIGN LOADS, COINCIDENCE OF LOADS | 137 |
| 6 DETERMINATION OF SAFETY FOR THE SILO STRUCTURE | 138 |
| 7 CONCLUSIONS | 138 |
| 8 REFERENCES | 140 |
| C.2 Cylindrical corrugated steel silos in Brazil: failure modes | 141 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 141 |
| 2 PROBLEMS WITH CYLINDRICAL METAL SILOS | 142 |
| 3 CONCLUSIONS | 146 |
| REFERENCES | 147 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 147 |
| C.3: Avoiding and Curing Hopper Problems | 149 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 149 |
| 2 ENABLING HOPPER FLOW | 149 |
| 3 HOPPER INSERTS | 150 |
| 4 GRAVITY FLOW | 150 |
| 5 HOPPER DESIGN ASPECTS | 154 |
| REFERENCES | 160 |
| C.4 Modern Coal Storage - A Safe and Efficient Storage Solution | 161 |
| 1 INTRODUCTION | 161 |
| 2 SILO OPERATION | 161 |
| 3 THE MAIN CRITERIA IN
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