Bulk Materials Handling

This course covers the fundamental aspects of bulk materials handling. It can be tailored to requirements and to the site specific examples or materials.

• Health and safety
o Dust, health risks, generation and mitigation
o Fires and explosions, causes, and mitigation
o Guarding to standards and practical aspects on guarding and safety
• Basics of bulk material flow testing
o Why testing?
o Where to test?
o What to test for?
o How to use the results.
• Conveying
o Conveyor design, maintenance and operation considerations
o Types of conveyors and their use
o Conveyor components and what to select and install for best results: belting, pulleys, idlers, motors and gearboxes, couplings, drives, brakes, cleaners and ploughs, holdbacks, magnets, weighers, samplers, trippers and take-ups etc.
o Lubrication
o Belt tracking causes and mitigations
o Instruments for conveyors
• Stockpiling and bins
o Stockpile and bin design considerations
o Stockpile types and selection
o Stockpile stacking and reclaiming machines and methods
o Bin and silo configurations
o Material flow in silos and design methods
o Level measurement methods and instruments
• Chutes
o Chute design considerations
o Trajectories
o Types of chutes
o Wear liner methods and materials
• Chutes and ancillaries design impacts
o Chutes and belt cleaners
o Chutes and tramp magnets
o Chutes and samplers, sampler types
o Chutes and skirts, skirt boxes
o Access to chutes for maintenance
o Chute modelling, DEM, other methods
• Conveyor calculation methods
o Manual methods
o Computer methods
• Air transport
o Pneumatic conveying
o “Vacuum” conveying