Belt Conveyor Technology

Modernisation of Belt Conveyor Systems

12/15/2011 | Author / Editor: Aaron Gibbs / Marcel Dröttboom

Modernization of conveyor systems helps ensure that a plant is running to optimum capacities with as little impact to the environment as possible. (Picture: Asgco)
Modernization of conveyor systems helps ensure that a plant is running to optimum capacities with as little impact to the environment as possible. (Picture: Asgco)

Modernization of conveyor systems in today's coal mines and coal-fired power plants helps ensure that the mine or plant is running to their optimum capacities, maximizing the tonnes per hour and producing the highest quality product with as little impact to the environment as possible.

Modernization of conveyor systems in today's coal mines and coal-fired power plants should be an essential goal for the management, employees and share holders of the company. It helps ensure that the mine or plant is running to their optimum capacities, maximizing the tonnes per hour and producing the highest quality product with as little impact to the environment as possible.

Power plants being built today emit more than 90 per cent less pollutants (SO 2 , NO x , particulates, mercury) than the plants they replaced from the 1970's, according the National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Asset optimisation/modernisation has never been more critical in the everyday activities we do at home and at work. Coal is abundant, clean and the most efficient energy source available. Conveyors are the lifeline to any coal-fired power plant’s productivity. No coal = No low cost, clean, abundant, affordable energy. Proper consistent training and periodic inspections of the conveying systems with reliable turn-key installations substantially increases the system’s availability.

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Fig. 1: Properties of different types of coal. (Picture: PRB Coal Users' Group) Fig. 2: Central Appalachian and Powder River Basin Coal Prices. (Picture: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) Fig. 3: The old chute would build up and plug with coal fines that stuck together when they were in wet coal or freezing conditions. (Picture: Asgco)

On-going maintenance is essential to ensuring an incident and injury free workplace while maintaining a productive reliable workforce. All of which are essential to any material handling system and the employees who maintain and are responsible for them.

Properties of Coal

"Coal is the most affordable source of power fuel per million Btu, historically averaging less than one-quarter the price of petroleum and natural gas," according the National Mining Association.

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