The Importance of Nonlinear Strain Considerations

Conveyor Belt Indentation Loss

Energy loss due to rolling resistance of rubber conveyor belts is a major factor in conveyor design. The indentation loss factor can vary considerably with the strain amplitude impressed upon the belt backing.
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Plant Engineering for large Polymer Compounding Facilities

Polymer Logistics

Building a large scale polymer compounding facility requires the know-how of compounding, the solids handling technologies, the logistics, the control system design capabilities and the civil construction.
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Dust Explosion Prevention and Protection in Food and Pharmaceutical Industries

Fire & Explosion Protection

In the food and pharmaceutical Industries many materials represent an extreme hazard to personnel and plant in the event of a combustible dust explosion. Design decisions taken early in a project allow to optimize protection.
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Dry Fog Dust Suppression

Dust Control

There are a number of systems used for dust suppression. These various suppression technologies call for adding different volumes of moisture to the material.
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Fluidization in Pneumatic Conveying and Cooling of Fly Ash

Pneumatic Conveying

Due to its properties fly ash is a difficult to handle material. However systems have been designed utilizing the fluidizing property of fly ash with great success.
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Measures to reduce Erosion in Pneumatic Conveying Pipelines

Pneumatic Conveying

Based on experimental tests, this white paper presents basic recommendations for carrying out operational and constructive actions to reduce erosion.
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Optimisation of Dust Suppression using Water and Additives

Dust Control

To comply with the newest governmental regulations, PT Kaltim Prima Coal has set up and optimised a new dust control and management system for their coal preparation operations in Indonesia.
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DEM Simulations of Unloading Methods

Railcar Unloading

The calculation of goods-flow in a simulation environment can be conducted with the help of the Discreet Elements Method (DEM). This Whitepaper develops a standardized mathematical model.
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Pipe Conveyor Development, Benchmark and Future Trend

Pipe Conveyor Technology

Pipe conveyors are a proven solution for flexible routing and environment protection, but there are factors that have to be considered when designing an efficient and reliable belt conveyor system.
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Predicting & Preventing Wear in Pneumatic Conveying Systems

Pneumatic Conveying

With the latest technology for characterising the erosiveness of a conveyed material, it is possible to choose a wear protection solution for a pneumatic conveying system that will give cost-effective protection.
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Selecting In-Plant Bulk Handling Systems and Equipment

In-Plant Bulk Handling

The selection of a suitable handling system for handling their materials can become a major management exercise. Flow, storage and handling properties, amongst many others, need to be considered.
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Analysis of Flow in inclined Pipes and Transfer Chutes

Particulate Flow Analysis

In material transfer systems, traditional steady state analysis provide some insight. For fast flowing transfer points, dynamic flow conditions dominate and additional modeling techniques are required.
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Energy efficient Deep Grove Ball Bearings for Efficiency

Bearings Selection

A new type of low-friction deep groove ball bearings combines an optimized internal geometry, low friction grease, and a new polymer cage for increased energy efficiency and service life.
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Lignite and Coal Handling Systems

System Design

Although the characteristics of lignite and coal appear to be almost same, some differences do exist, which have an affect on the design of bulk materials handling systems for both materials.
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Digging and Dewatering of Sediments

Dredging

An overview of current technologies to excavate sediments out of rivers together with detailed description of different methods for dewatering of sediments for further transport.
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Effect of Moisture Content on Segregation of Coal Blends

Coal Segregation

Exhaustion of locally sources has led to coals being sourced globally which new challenges in storage and handling for existing equipment to deliver a blended coal suitable for combustion.
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Cost Saving of Overland Conveyor Compared to Coal Trucking

Long Distance Transport

KPC plans to replace coal trucking at its West Melawan operation with overland conveying to reduce cost from fuel consumption, fuel price, and tyre supply.
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Overland Conveyor: Trough Belt versus Cable Belt

Belt Conveyor Selection

A comparison of trough belt versus cable belt with respect to the primary parameters of power, consumption, volumetric capacity and maintenance issues, particularly idler replacement.
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Site Fabrication Methods for Aluminium Silos

Silo Technology

Site fabrication of silos reduces transportation costs and transfer labor to the location of the new plant sites, frequently in developing countries or emerging markets with lower manhour cost.
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High-speed Wagon Loading Systems

Silo Technology

To meet the faster loading rates, industries are gearing up to install various types of high-speed wagon loading systems for bulk and bagged materials to evacuate their raw and finished products.
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Flow Regime Diagram for vertical Pneumatic Conveying Systems

Pneumatic Conveying

Although various diagrams exist to predict possible flow regimes under specific conditions, the effect of pipe diameter and solid concentration on transition velocities remain open issues.
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Minimum Boundaries for Dense-Phase Conveying of Powders

Pneumatic Conveying

For the reliable design of pneumatic conveying systems, an accurate estimation of the minimum transport boundary is of significant importance.
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Latest Developments in Pneumatic Conveying

Pneumatic Conveying

The whitepaper outlines research work being undertaken in the area of transient modelling of dense phase gassolid flow and the application of this work to bypass systems at the CBSPT, Australia.
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Mass Flow Measurement of Bulk Solids

Mass Flow Measurement

Utilising microwave and electromagnetic principles makes the measurement of mass flow in solids as easy as using a thermocouple to measure temperature or a magflow meter to measure liquid flow.
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Cost Savings using Modern Radar Technology

Level Measurement

The radar sensors deliver reliable information in the most difficult applications and thus contribute to the economic production of bulk solids and the reduction of manufacturing costs.
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The Next Generation Low Loss Conveyor Belts

Belt Conveyor Technology

To achieve a further reduction of power consumption over current low loss conveyors, belt weight needs to be seriously decreased and properties of the rubber compound need to be changed drastically.
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Influence of Software on Calibration Parameters

DEM Simulation Software

To investigate the influence of DEM software on simulation results, two applications have been compared. Subtle differences in the contact model are responsible for large differences in results.
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Parameters affecting Power Consumption

Pneumatic Conveying of Fine Particles

Details of power consumption test results for pneumatic conveying of fly ash and alumina at different solids loading ratios for dense mode as well as dilute mode of flow.
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Methods for Design of Hoppers for Reliable Gravity Flow

Silos, Bins & Bunkers

A collection of lessons learned from many years of hopper and silo design projects, with a practical approach to selection of optimum flow pattern, measurements needed, and design models to be used.
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Digital Magnetic Imaging of Steel Cord Belts in Practice

Conveyor Belt Monitoring

The ability to perform continuous non-destructive monitoring of steel cord belts would be beneficial to belt transport systems.
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Characterisation of Extreme Shape Materials

Biomass & Waste Handling

Handling biomass and waste materials is difficult especially when they are in bulk form. Various techniques have been developed and adopted to characterise these materials to support equipment design.
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Treatment of Fire and Dust Explosions in ATEX

Dust Explosion Protection

The inadequate treatment of the differences between clouds of combustible dust and explosive gas clouds has resulted in deficiencies in two ATEX directives, which, therefore, need to be revised.
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Capabilities for Product Flow Rate, Materials and Systems

Pneumatic Conveying

Pneumatic conveying systems are particularly versatile. A very wide range of materials can be handled and they are totally enclosed by the system and pipeline.
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Using Dynamic, Shear and Bulk Property Measurements

Powder Characterisation

A comprehensive knowledge of the wide range of powder properties can help with the design and troubleshooting of particular processes by using specific examples.
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Distributed Drive Systems for long Conveyors

Belt Conveyor Technology

Proper distribution of the drive power along the conveyor can significantly reduce belt tensions and dramatically reduce not only the belt cost but also overall conveyor structural cost.
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Aramids for low Weight and low Rolling Resistance

Conveyor Belt Technology

Two aramid products can substantially reduce the energy needed to drive conveyor belts, one by reducing the weight of the belt and the other by reducing the hysteresis of the belt rubber.
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Positioning, Volumetric Measurement and Collision Avoidance

Advanced 2D Radar for Rough Environments

Two-dimensional radar scanners work under tough environmental conditions. In mining operations and ports this technology can provide a safer working environment and increasing the productivity.
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Types of Storage and their Evaluation

Coal Storage Systems

Various methods of storage are available, e.g. open storages, silos, etc. Evaluation of different types of storages from above considerations are required before adopting a suitable type.
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Belt Protection System Retrofit for a long Belt Conveyor

Conveyor Belt Protection

hen foreign material caused a long rip in one of their belts, PT Kaltim Prima coal successfully improved their belt protection system with updating existing and adding new protection systems.
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Presses with optimized Heating and Pressure Characteristics

Conveyor Belt Splicing

Splicing is one of the most important factors of conveyor installation and maintenance. Innovative concepts for splice vulcanization presses can help to optimize the splice processing time.
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Simulation of Conveyor Belt Indentation Rolling Resistance

Conveyor Belt Properties

Since the indentation rolling resistance can account for the major part of the total rolling resistance and thus, power consumption, it is important to calculate this resistance using a proper method.
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Form Force Behaviour of Pipe Conveyor Belts

Pipe Conveyor Technology

For a reliable operation of the belt of a pipe conveyor, the bending stiffness in transverse direction, depending on the belt construction, has a great importance.
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Pumps for the Transport of Slurry, Paste and Cake

Fly Ash and Tailings Handling

With modern pumps, material transport through a pipeline offers many advantages, as can be seen from the example of pumping fly ash together with bottom ash at the Kogan Creek Power Plant/Australia.
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Dry Bulk Terminal Characteristics

Ports & Terminals

An study on dry bulk terminal characteristics based on the analysis of 49 different terminals world wide, using various references, like annual reports, port authorities’ information and Google Earth.
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Learning the Lessons on Bulk Materials Properties

FlipView: Bulk Material Properties

Reg Freeman, CEO of Freeman Technology on the importance of knowing bulk material properties and the crucial route to successful handling and processing of bulk solids.
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SWR Engineering wins Award for Flow Measurement System

FlipView: Flow Measurement

Ryk Jansen, Managing Director of SWR Engineering Messtechnik, Australia, on company's award-winning SlideControl Flow Measurement System for air slides.
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New Hydro-Metallurgical Process for Mount Peak Project

FlipView TNG Ltd.

At the Mount Peake Vanadium-Titanium-Iron Project in the Northern Territory, Australia, TNG will use a new low-cost hydro-metallurgical processing technique to recover all three commodities.
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DEM-Analysis of the Impact of Intermediate Bearings

Inclined Screw Conveyors

Discrete Element Simulations can be used to analyse the influence of intermediate bearings on the conveying process, which is very hard to constitute analytically and experimentally.
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Investigation of Material Load Profiles on Conveyor Test Rig

Belt Conveyor Technology

An investigation of active an passive stress states induced in bulk solid materials due to traverse opening an closing of the conveyor belt with comparison of experimental results and DEM simulations.
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Prediction of Belt Deflection by Coupling of FEM and DEM

Belt Conveyor Technology

Development of a finite element simulation model for the deflection analysis of a belt conveyor using load data for the bulk material calculated by a coupled discrete element simulation.
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Comparing Predicted to Experimentally Obtained Results

Validity of Conveyor Belt Trajectories

Investigations into conveyor trajectories at varying belt speeds and using two granular free-flowing materials, using numerical methods and DEM simulations for prediction.
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Idler Spacing with regard to Bulk Material Flow Distribution

Belt Conveyor Carrying Idlers

Selection of optimum idler spacing with regard to the expected distribution of the bulk material flow lowers the rotational resistance of the idlers and, thus, reduced energy consumption.
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DEM Simulation Validation: Impact Plate Transfer Stations

Conveyor Transfer Stations

This paper presents a detailed analysis between classical continuum methods and DEM to predict the flow mechanisms associated with deformation of a material impacting a flat plate.
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Flow Properties of fine Powders at high Temperatures

Bulk Material Flow Properties

The paper presents the results of flow property measurements with a Schulze shear tester of an aeratable FCC powder and of a corundum powder carried out at temperature between ambient conditions and 500°C.
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Achieving Mass Flow in Silos with shallow converging Section

Material Flow in Silos

This paper presents a modification to the method of using inverted cones to achieve mass flow, which impoves the effectiveness of this approach when working with shorter silos or silos running at lower inventory levels.
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Sensing Electrostatic Behaviour of Pharmaceutical Particles

Particle Characterisation

Using the optimum method to characterise electrostatic behaviour helps to avoid unwanted phenomena as agglomeration, segregation, etc., to improve production processes and product properties.
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Cutting Simulation by Hybrid Granular and Multibody Dynamics

Particle System Simulation

Understanding the interactive phenomena between granular materials and cutting tools is very important for designing or evaluating cutting process.
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Simulation-based Dust Prediction for Transfer Chute Design

Transfer Chute Design

The design of a belt conveyor transfer chute influences dust generation to large degree. A proper transfer chute design reduces the emissions and supports the design of exhaustion plants.
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Energy Consumption of different Types of Ship Unloaders

Ship Unloader Energy Consumption

The energy consumption of bulk material ship unloaders has a great influence on the economic efficiency.
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A Review of Pneumatic Conveying Systems

Pneumatic Conveying

With a suitable choice and arrangement of equipment, with a pneumatic conveying system materials can be conveyed from a hopper or silo in one location to another location some distance away.
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Alternative Design of Multi-cell Silo Group for Coffee Beans

Storing Coffee Beans

Aiming at an economic and rational solution for storing coffee beans this paper presents an alternative design. An example is presented and the feasibility of the alternative design is discussed.
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Preventing coal dust generation

Emission Control

Dust generated from Coal preparation plant is one of operation aspect that need appropriate control. This paper shows how to prevent coal dust generation using water spray and chemical application.
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Silo Discharge of fine Powders by vibrating Hoppers, Part 1

Silo Discharge

Taking vibrating hoppers during silo discharge bridging can be avoided and the powder flows out with practically no dust emission.
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Silo Discharge of fine Powders by vibrating Hoppers, Part 2

Silo Discharge

The powder flow in a silo or bunker is frequently stopped by channelling, piping or bridging. But the flow can be promoted using an additional energy input by mechanical vibrations.
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A Model for the Prediction of Pressure Drop

Hydraulic Conveying Optimization

This paper describes a mechanistic model which can be used to predict the pumping requirements for the flow of solid-liquid mixtures in two dimensional rectangular ducts.
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Developments in Road and Rail Tanker Filling

Alternative Techniques for Tanker Filling

This paper examines standard tanker filling arrangements and discuss research currently underway to provide an alternative technique for improving the filling efficiency of wagon loading operations.
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Developments in Chute Design for High Capacity Conveying

High Capacity Conveying

To develop high capacity iron ore conveying engineers have to consider computer modeling of material flow, the effect of flexibility on the availability of associated equipment and much more.
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Economic and Operating Model for Fine-Tuning Port Costs

Optimizing Port Costs

The tool described in this whitepaper provides terminal manager with a systemic operating and financial overview of the entire iron ore logistics chain.
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Simulation and animation of belt conveyor transfers

Bulk-Solids Transfer With Belt Conveyors

The calculation of goods-flow in a simulation environment can be conducted with the help of the Discreet Elements Method (DEM). This Whitepaper develops a standardized mathematical model.
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Open minds think OpenPlant

Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems is setting the pace for integrated PDS data. Leveraging the benefits of ISO15926 standardisation and developing products for serving and modeling this information across the enterprise
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How to Optimze Processes with an Enterprise Control System

Enterprise Control System von Invensys

This webcast describes the operating mode and successful application of Enterprise Control Systems InFusion.
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Visualisation of Flow Structures

Conveying Pipelines

Pneumatic conveying is a process of transportation of powdered and granular materials through pipeline using high pressure gas
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Dust Explosions in Winter Month

Explosion Protection

In this webcast John Bresland gives as Chairman of Chemical Safety Board his safety message. Here he describes the danger of dust explosions especially in winter month.
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Dust Explosion and Fire at Imperial Sugar Company

Explosion Protection

This webcast shows investigation details about an explosion and fire at Imperial Sugar Company. The massive dust explosion has killed 14 and injured 36 people.
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Analysis of Bulk Solids Conveying Systems

Deployment of a Hybrid Simulation Method

The Witepaper describes simulation results which are verified both by using an existing laboratory conveyor belt system.
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A BBN Approach to Belt Conveyor System Monitoring

Belt Conveyor Monitoring

This paper presents a Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) approach to BCM to predict failures, discover component fault causes, evaluate the system reliability and decide on maintenance strategies.
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Start-up Calculation for Belt Conveyors with Fluid Couplings

Dynamic Start-up Calculations for Belt Conveyors

Correct selection of start-up device in belt conveyor’s drive constitutes an important stage of design process.
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Wireless Monitoring of Belt Conveyor Systems

Start-up Calculations for Belt Conveyors

Monitoring large belt conveyor systems is considerably labor intensive, and therefore expensive.
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Condition Monitoring as the Way of Gearbox Surveillance

Vibration and Noise Control

The paper will give a procedure of vibration signal analysis.
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Simulation Based Wear Prediction of Transfer Chutes

DEM simulation

This paper presents the basics of the wear prediction algorithms inside the DEM simulation as well as some basic information about the verification of the DEM results.
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Analysis of the Elastic Instability

Grain Dryer

This paper reports on an analysis of the performance and determination of the critical load required to reach elastic instability in continuous grain dryer modules.
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Optimal Residence Time Distributions

Gravity Mixer

The construction of mixing silos is based on data gained through experimentation or years of experience. This whitepaper shows the modeling with results and advanced mathematic investigations.
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The Usage of the Discrete Element Method for Research

Shaftless Screw Conveyors

The principle of screw conveyance has a special significance in bulk solids handling technology. This whitepaper gives answers, using the Discrete Element Method.
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DEM Simulation of the Bulk Solid Reaction

Vibratory Conveyors

The paper will describe the problem of the reactive effect, some calculation theory as well as the basics of a developed discrete element model.
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Investigation of Bulk Solid Stress States

Conveyor Belt Optimization

This paper presents an investigation of active and passive stress states induced in bulk solid materials due to the opening and closing of the conveyor belt.
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