Belt Conveyor Selection Pit Avoidance Guide

As an important conveyor in industrial production, belt conveyor can be said to exist as a “blood vessel”! But when elected the wrong type, may lead to efficiency plummet, maintenance costs soar. Today to help you pure and simple to avoid the mine! Reveal the 3 most easily ignored selection errors, to help you avoid the minefield, to avoid costly waste, not afraid of ineffective procurement!

Avoid pit 1: blind pursuit of low prices, ignoring the suitability of working conditions
For example: a building materials factory to save costs, the choice of light belt conveyor transportation of high-density ore, the results of frequent belt tearing, frame support part of the damage also exists to varying degrees. The loss of on-site downtime far exceeded the price difference of the equipment.
Solution: According to the material characteristics (particle size, humidity, corrosiveness) choose the belt material (such as heat-resistant rubber, steel wire rope core) black rubber conveyor belt, and accounting for the load strength, and then the frame structure design, choose a more suitable equipment type structure.
Avoid the pit 2: ignore the matching degree of the drive unit

Insufficient motor power leads to slippage, overload, or excess power resulting in waste of energy consumption.
An example: a power plant by replacing the variable frequency drive, energy consumption reduced by 30%, life expectancy extended by 1 year.
Solution: When calculating the required power, it is necessary to synthesize the conveying capacity, inclination angle and friction coefficient, and prioritize the selection of frequency conversion speed control click.
Avoid the pit 3: slight environmental protection and safety configurations
An example: chemical plant did not choose environmental protection closed device, resulting in serious dust problems at the scene, environmental requirements did not meet the standards, resulting in the inspection did not pass. Followed by the failure to choose the anti-static belt, resulting in a dust explosion.
Solution: conveying dust type or serious pollution of the type of material, preferred closed belt conveyor! Safety configurations such as anti-run-off switch, emergency pull rope and other configurations need to be perfect.
Belt conveyor selection is not only the test of the belt conveyor manufacturer’s technical problems, but also need to be combined with more actual field cases and design optimization, in order to truly achieve a balance of cost, efficiency to achieve, safe transport.