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Conveying & Transport
Shiploading & Unloading
Offshore Transfer Terminals Boost Handling Efficiency and Cleanliness
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Flexibility in location and capacity is among the key benefits of self-unloading systems, which offer reliable, efficient and environment-friendly solutions to logistics problems in bulk shipping. |
Ship Unloading
Screw Conveyor vs. Bucket Elevators
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In many cases where vertical bulk material transport is necessary, screw conveyors can be a valuable alternative to the common bucket elevator. This article provides some information that can help to choose the most suitable concept. |
Storing
Stacking, Blending & Reclaiming
Stockyard Machines for Coal Handling
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A little unexpectedly, coal has become something like the fuel of the future. This can also be seen from the large number of projects for coal handling facilities world wide. Most of the times, stacking and reclaiming equipment forms a major, and often quite impressive part of these facilities. This article provides examples of such equipment for handling of coal from Sandvik Mining & Construction. |
Plant Automation
Always on Top- Cranes for Automatic 24-hour Operation in Refuse Incineration Plant
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The conversion of two refuse cranes into fully automatic systems marks the first 24/7 solution implemented by Demag Cranes & Components in Copenhagen, Denmark. The additional use of a scanner-guided height measurement system also achieved a significant increase in handling capacity. |
Processing
Stacking, Blending & Reclaiming
Paddle Feeder Discharge Arms - A Study on Performance Characteristics
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Rotary paddle/plough feeder performance and efficiency depends to a great extend on the shape of the plough. This paper provides calculations for the design of such feeders, illustrated by an example, to increase their capacity and lower the power consumption. |
Composite Powders
Aluminium Matrix Composites - Effects of Powder Compositing on SiC Distribution
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Aluminium matrix composites are materials with very promising characteristics. Various additive materials and the different ways to combine additives and base material were tested to improve the overall characteristics. |
Material Properties
Size Reduction
Ball-milling of Composite Powder - Cathode Production for Alkaline Batteries
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Improving the capacity and longevity of alkaline batteries is since long an aim of intensive research. An approach for the production of the Kathode is presented here. |
Silo Technology
Solving Outflow Concentration Problems Due to Cluster Segregation in Hoppers
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Interruption of hopper filling can cause clusters of different undesirable powder composition inside the hopper due to segregation. Mechanisms which lead to this cluster formation were cleared up and an insert will be presented by which clusters can be destroyed during the hopper outflow. This ensures improved product homogeneity. |
