Evolutionary belt conveyor design: optimizing costs

Title: Evolutionary belt conveyor design: optimizing costs
Creator: Wheeler, Craig Anthony
Relation: Bulk Material Handling by Conveyor Belt 7 p. 3-11
Relation: http://www.smenet.org/store/mining-books.cfm/Bulk-Material-Handling-by-Conveyor-Belt-7/260-4
Publisher: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2008
Description: This paper presents the initial findings of a research program to reduce the annual equivalent costs of belt conveying systems. The work utilizes models to predict the motion resistance of belt conveyors that take into consideration the influence of key conveyor variables, such as idler roll diameter, spacing, troughing configuration and belt width. Given a specified conveyor configuration, the capital and ongoing costs of the system can then be approximated based on the required belt, idler rolls, structure, drives, etc. The research provides a computational means to rapidly analyze a large number of potential conveyor configurations and to compare each on an annual equivalent cost basis.
Subject: conveyor belts; mine haulage; cost analysis
Identifier: uon:5885
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44796
Identifier: ISBN:9780873352604

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