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University of Toledo Becomes a Powder
and Bulk Dot Com Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that the
University of Toledo has become a sponsor of Powder and Bulk Dot
Com.
The
Division of Continuing Education is an established provider of
training services for business, industry and the public sector.
Their curriculum consists of professional development programs
including: certificate and test preparation programs, management
development and leadership programs, professional and technical
programs, computer training courses, and high-profile speaker
seminars and teleconferences.
They are offering two courses focused
for the materials handling professional.
"Pneumatic Conveying"
and "Bin Flow for Bulk Solids" Seminars with
featured instructors: Mr. Paul Solt of Pneumatic Conveying
Consultants and Mr. Joseph Marinelli of Solids Handling
Technologies.
Fall Sessions
September 9-12, 2002 -- Hartford, CT
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February 24-27, 2003 -- Jacksonville, FL
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New British Standard for Belt
Conveyors Under Review
London, England -- The BSI has
decided to undertake the drafting of a new standard for troughed
belt conveyors which will effectively replace British Standards BS
2890 and BS 5934.
The scope of the new proposed
standard is:
This British Standard specifies
the mechanical design, dimensional requirements and methods for
calculating the operating power requirements for non-mobile troughed
belt conveyors incorporating carrying idlers. The standard also
specifies methods for calculating the forces exerted on the belt by
the idlers and other mechanical handling components.
This standard applies to conveyors
using rubber or plastic belting , with textile reinforcement
(complying with BS490-1), carrying loose bulk materials, having a
maximum speed of 5m/s.
This standard does not apply to
the following categories but can be used as a guidance document for
them:
underground mining conveyors
conveyors handling materials
that do not behave as bulk solids
conveyors fitted with steel
cord belting.
It is proposed that the new standard
will draw together the information previously contained within BS
2890 and BS 5934 with further information added with regard to basic
conveyor and component selection, grades of idlers, typical values
for basic calculation purposes and typical conveyor calculation
examples.
Comments Welcome
If you have any comments regarding
the existing contents of the above standards or views about the
inclusions within the proposed standard then please contact:
Mr. Ray Hodgkinson
E Mail: raymond@hodg38.worldonline.co.uk
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Top Picks at Amazon.com
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"...offers a review of
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plastics compounding and extrusion."
"...explores
the relevant physics of the powder systems including
characterization procedures and rheology, and contains an
extensive review of different methods that have been employed
to study the structure of mixtures."
Powder
Mixing
by Brian H. Kaye
Hardcover, October 1997
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Ask
Joe! Column
This Month's Ask Joe!
Article
High Temperature Pneumatic
Conveying
Guest article by Marco Flores and Paul Solt of Pneumatic Conveying
Consultants
You can read Marco's and Paul's article at: http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
We Need Your Guest Articles!
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials, have you solved a difficult materials problem? Share your knowledge with others and promote yourself
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Website
New Powder Methodology Information
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A detailed new methodology section on
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engineers and others involved in powder handling and processing.
It
provides information on practical aspects of determining powder flow
properties, complementing other sections of the site. These include
an extensive review of the nature of powders as well as examples of
measurement applications using the FT3 Powder Rheometer.
Since it's foundation in 1988,
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of automated testing systems used for the characterization of
various types of materials. Engineering design, programming and IT
skills were the keys to its success, now reinforced by application
and marketing strengths.
The focus of the business turned to
the testing of powders in 1996 when Freeman Technology completed a
feasibility study that led to new design concepts and the patenting
of an innovative displacement principle that became the basis of the
FT3 Powder Rheometer.
For more information contact:
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Works
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New Multi Circle Feeder System for
Large Silos
Japan - For large storage silo from 6
meters to 20 meters in diameter Yoshikawa Corporation offers Multi
Circle Feeder Systems.
Circle
Feeders are quite a different concept of feeding materials. The
principles of the Circle Feeder is a "faithfulness to the
nature and physics." Between 3 and 8 units of Circle
Feeders are combined depending on a diameter of a silo and a feed
rate required are installed at the bottom of the silo.
The Circle Feeders have been well
known not only for its ability of eliminating bridging and ratholing
also for controlling difficult-to-handle materials that are sticky,
light, heavy, wet, free-flowing, and bulky materials. Inside a silo
are specially designed cones , the angle of which are individually
determined according to physical tendencies of a material.
Yoshikawa Corporation for over half a
century has maintained a policy of manufacturing products useful to
society and has always focused its efforts in pursuit of this
ambitious goal. The business has changed with the times from the
original electric and plating work to manufacturing of conveyance
apparatus and labor rationalizing equipment, and then to the present
powder & bulk solids equipment manufacturing.
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Forum.
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This
week's homepage photo is of hot sponge iron discharge into the open
atmosphere. Fine product reacts with air and creates yellow flame.
Check out this months article "High Temperature Pneumatic
Conveying" for more details.
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process, packaging, conveying or handling "action shot" for our home
page. Send your photograph and description to: news@powderandbulk.com
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