- Title
- The rail conveyor - a new energy efficient conveying technology
- Creator
- Wheeler, Craig; Carr, Michael; Chen, Bin
- Relation
- International Materials Handling Conference (BELTCON'19). International Materials Handling Conference (BELTCON'19) (Pretoria, South Africa 2-3 August, 2017)
- Publisher
- International Materials Handling Conference (IMHC)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Current trends within the mining industry have called for much more efficient systems for the transportation of bulk materials. These systems are typically required to transport many millions of tonnes of bulk materials over many kilometres every year with the transportation method used being dependent on the terrain to be conveyed over, the required throughput of the bulk material and transportation distance. The demand for increased efficiency and throughput has entailed much research and has seen significant improvements over the past few decades. This paper describes a new conveying technology for the continuous transportation of bulk materials. The new technology, aptly named the Rail Conveyor, merges the benefits of both belt conveyor technology and railway to produce a continuous low rolling resistance bulk material transportation system. This step change technology provides a more energy efficient and cost effective method for transporting bulk commodities over long distances and has many advantages over conventional overland belt conveyors. Some of the advantages include; capital and operating cost savings, reduced energy consumption and the ability to transport over longer distances due to reduced cumulative belt tension within the system. This paper will discuss the working principle of the Rail Conveyor system, the development of the technology, laboratory and site testing, in addition to a cost comparison to conventional belt conveyors.
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1394644
- Identifier
- uon:33742
- Language
- eng
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