Wear Behaviour of A Convex Pattern Surface for Bulk Handling Equipment

Bulk handling plays a significant role in a range of industries, such as the mining, agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical industry. For the mining industry, economic development results in an increasing demand of steel and consequently the raw materials used for steel production, such as cokes and iron ore. Dealing with bulk material leads...

Degradation of Biomass Pellets during Transport, Handling and Storage: An experimental and numerical study

Presently, biomass pellets play a significant role in energy transition scenarios worldwide. Due to the lack of local supplies, many countries import their pellets from countries with enormous resources. For instance, in Europe, a big share of pellets is imported from the USA, Canada, and Asian countries. Pellets are normally transferred in bulk...

Grabs and Cohesive Bulk Solids: Virtual prototyping using a validated co-simulation

Due to the high demand of iron ore products in the steel industry, they have the largest share in dry bulk trading per year, above coal and grains. Approximately 9000 Cape-size bulk carriers with capacities up to 400 000 tonnes (DWT) transport the annual demand of iron ore to destination ports. Grabs are employed extensively to unload iron ore...

Sustainability of Deep Sea Mining Transport Plans

Deep sea mining is an emerging activity which attracts significant attentions from different countries governments and international huge companies around the world. Although its research and development work has been done for roughly half century time, the industrial scale deep sea mining project still has not been implemented yet because of a...

Green Bulk Terminals: a Strategic Level Approach to Solid Biomass Terminal Design

This thesis deals with the design of solid biomass terminals from a strategic operational point of view. The design of terminals is here characterized as the total equipment selection, purchase, utilization and salvage within the terminal bounds.

A large-scale biomass bulk terminal

This research explores the possibility of a large-scale bulk terminal in West Europe dedicated to handle solid and liquid biomass materials. Various issues regarding the conceptual design of such a terminal have been investigated and demonstrated in this research: the potential biomass materials that will be the major international trade flows...