Crusher feeding with AUMUND arched plate conveyors

?We helped the customer on both projects from the beginning, providing support with the layouts and choice of the appropriate conveyors,? according to AUMUND sales engineer Peter Heberle and AUMUND project engineer Guido Mirbach. In 2017, Budkrusz ordered a heavy-duty arched plate conveyor type BPB-SF for the project at Transkom, also for limestone but with a capacity of 750 tph. The following year, another heavy-duty AUMUND arched plate conveyor was supplied to Poland, to Zaklady Wapiennicze Lhoist for its Tarnow Opolski plant, with a conveying capacity of 1,000 tph of limestone.

The AUMUND arched plate conveyor is primarily used for sticky raw materials such as gypsum, anhydrite, clay and marl-clay mixtures. Its construction is of arched plates which overlap to create a rounded surface at the chain wheel in the discharge area. A cleaning scraper can be installed here in order to remove sticky material from the plates. A drive unit combined with a frequency converter allows the speed of the conveyor to be regulated, to achieve the conveying capacity at a defined velocity.

Heavy-duty arched plate conveyors of the type BPB-SF are primarily arranged under tipping stations, and convey uncrushed raw materials, such as limestone and natural gypsum with dimensions of up to 1,500 mm, to the crushing plant.

The thickness of the plates depends on the particle sizes of the material, the throughput and the dimensions of the hopper funnel. To accommodate these requirements, many plate thicknesses and widths of up to 3,000 mm are available. Accordingly, the track chains have breaking loads of up to 2 x 4,200 kN.

The BPB-SF design features heavy-duty, fixed, slide-bearing rollers, as used in crawler undercarriages, which are arranged underneath the track chains. In addition, AUMUND arched plate conveyors are supplied with a spillage conveyor to remove fines without the need for manual cleaning.