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Bulk material handling

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Bulk material handling is an engineering field that is centered on the design of equipment used for the handling of dry materials such as ores, coal, cereals, wood chips, sand, gravel and stone in loose bulk form. [1]

25 relations: Bucket elevator, Bulk cargo, Bulk carrier, Caking, Cereal, Chute (gravity), Containerization, Conveyor belt, Engineering, Feedlot, Gantry crane, Loader (equipment), Moving floor, Ore, Pallet, Reclaimer, Rotary car dumper, Screw conveyor, Self-discharger, Shiploader, Silo, Smelting, Stacker, Stockpile, Waste.

Bucket elevator

A bucket elevator, also called a grain leg, is a mechanism for hauling flowable bulk materials (most often grain or fertilizer) vertically.

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Bulk cargo

Bulk cargo is commodity cargo that is transported unpackaged in large quantities.

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Bulk carrier

A bulk carrier, bulk freighter, or colloquially, bulker is a merchant ship specially designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, and cement in its cargo holds.

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Caking

Caking is a powder's tendency to form lumps or masses rather than flow smoothly.

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Cereal

A cereal is any edible components of the grain (botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis) of cultivated grass, composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.

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Chute (gravity)

A chute is a vertical or inclined plane, channel, or passage through which objects are moved by means of gravity.

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Containerization

Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers).

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Conveyor belt

A conveyor belt is the carrying medium of a belt conveyor system (often shortened to belt conveyor).

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Engineering

Engineering is the creative application of science, mathematical methods, and empirical evidence to the innovation, design, construction, operation and maintenance of structures, machines, materials, devices, systems, processes, and organizations.

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Feedlot

A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming for finishing livestock, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.

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Gantry crane

A gantry crane is a crane built atop a gantry, which is a structure used to straddle an object or workspace.

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Loader (equipment)

A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move aside or load materials such as asphalt, demolition debris, dirt, snow, feed, gravel, logs, raw minerals, recycled material, rock, sand, woodchips, etc.

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Moving floor

Moving floor is a hydraulically-driven moving-floor conveyance system for moving bulk material or palletized product, which can be used in a warehouse, loading dock or semi-trailer.

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Ore

An ore is an occurrence of rock or sediment that contains sufficient minerals with economically important elements, typically metals, that can be economically extracted from the deposit.

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Pallet

A pallet, sometimes inaccurately called a skid (a skid has no bottom deck boards), is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, front loader, work saver, or other jacking device, or a crane.

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Reclaimer

A reclaimer is a large machine used in bulk material handling applications.

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Rotary car dumper

A rotary car dumper or wagon tippler (UK) is a mechanism used for unloading certain railroad cars such as hopper cars, gondolas or lorries (tipplers, UK).

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Screw conveyor

A screw conveyor or auger conveyor is a mechanism that uses a rotating helical screw blade, called a "flighting", usually within a tube, to move liquid or granular materials.

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Self-discharger

A self-discharger (or self-unloader) is a ship that is able to discharge its cargo using its own gear.

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Shiploader

A shiploader is a large machine used for loading bulk solid materials like iron ore, coal, fertilizers, grains and/or material in bags into ships.

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Silo

A silo (from the Greek σιρός – siros, "pit for holding grain") is a structure for storing bulk materials.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat to ore in order to melt out a base metal.

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Stacker

A stacker is a large machine used in bulk material handling.

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Stockpile

A stockpile is a pile or storage location for bulk materials, forming part of the bulk material handling process.

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Waste

Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulk_material_handling

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