scholarly journals Composite Shaftless Roller Design for Conveyor System

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Wheatley ◽  
Mohammad Zaeimi
Keyword(s):  
Weight Ratio ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Conveyor System ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Final Design ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Belt Conveyors ◽  
Standard Steel

Improving the performance of idlers is paramount to the performance of the conveyor system in various industries since belt conveyors can be many kilometers in length and consequently there are a huge number of rollers in use. The key intention of this work is the development of a light-weight composite idler roller. Critical design considerations are strength-to-weight ratio and performance. Most importantly, the design must reduce the weight of the roller as compared to standard steel rollers. The final design provides a significant reduction in weight of about 47 % over that of traditional steel rollers of a similar size.

scholarly journals Coal Flowability Control on Preventing Spillage on Conveyor Belt Through Modeling and Simulation for Improving its Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-145
Author(s):  
Sabri Bahrun ◽  
Mohd Shahrizan Yusoff ◽  
Mohamad Sazali Said ◽  
Azmi Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Bulk Material ◽  
Extraction Process ◽  
Conveyor Belt ◽  
Underground Mines ◽  
Mining Site ◽  
Dem Simulation ◽  
Conveyor System ◽  
Average Production ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Belt Conveyors

Belt conveyors are generally used in mining plant areas, both surface and underground mines. The belt conveyor is mainly applied to transport the extracted bulk material from the mining site to delivery. The effectiveness of the extraction process depends on the reliability and durability of the conveyor belt system. In addition, conveyor performance is very important specially to control material flowability to prevent spills or other operational disturbances to optimize production throughput. However, the transfer chute and settling zone can cause some problems during the transfer process, such as material spills. This problem can reduce the function and performance of the conveyor belt. This paper discusses a design model to reduce the problem of spillage in the settling zone. The model was developed by compiling the previous defecting data from the durability of the conveyor system, then analyzed using Discrete Element Method (DEM) software and compared with bulk characteristics. The initial performance of certain conveyors is only capable of serving with an average production of 76% of the designed capacity while energy is consumed at full load. By applying the DEM simulation result, the blade gate can reduce the peak angle break in the depositional zone before exiting. After the analysis is completed using DEM, the conveyor increases the average production to 95% of the designed capacity. In conclusion, controlling the maximum belt load without spillage will reduce interruption on conveyor belt operation and maintenance costs therefore increase plant reliability and availability.

HULLFORM & HYDRODYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS IN THE DESIGN OF THE UK FUTURE AIRCRAFT CARRIER (CVF)

2021 ◽  
Vol 159 (A4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M E Campbell-Roddis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Design ◽  
Aircraft Carrier ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Final Design ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Team Design ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Requirements Development ◽  
Design Proposal ◽  
Evaluation Work

An overview is provided of the manner in which hydrodynamic and hullform-related design considerations were addressed in the development of the BAE SYSTEMS team’s design proposal for the UK Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF). It also outlines how broader design considerations such as aviation, survivability and supportability requirements influenced these aspects of the design. A summary is also provided of some of the more detailed requirements development, option assessment and performance evaluation work that has been undertaken. The aircraft carrier designs discussed in this paper correspond to the BAE SYSTEMS team’s final design submission as it stood in January 2003, at the time it was discontinued by the UK Ministry of Defence, in favour of the rival Thales / BMT team design that has since been developed into the UK Royal Navy’s new ‘Queen Elizabeth’ class aircraft carrier. This final BAE SYSTEMS design submission consisted of two distinct design variants - one configured to operate a CTOL-based air group, the other configured to accommodate a STOVL air group. Both variants were based on a common ‘core’ ship design. The discussion presented in this paper is applicable to both variants.

Hullform & Hydrodynamic Considerations in the Design of the UK Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF)

2017 ◽  
Vol 159 (A4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M E Campbell-Roddis
Keyword(s):  
Systems Design ◽  
Aircraft Carrier ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Design Considerations ◽  
Final Design ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Team Design ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Requirements Development ◽  
Design Proposal

An overview is provided of the manner in which hydrodynamic and hullform-related design considerations were addressed in the development of the BAE SYSTEMS team’s design proposal for the UK Future Aircraft Carrier (CVF). It also outlines how broader design considerations such as aviation, survivability and supportability requirements influenced these aspects of the design. A summary is also provided of some of the more detailed requirements development, option assessment and performance evaluation work that has been undertaken. The aircraft carrier designs discussed in this paper correspond to the BAE SYSTEMS team’s final design submission as it stood in January 2003, at the time it was discontinued by the UK Ministry of Defence, in favour of the rival Thales / BMT team design that has since been developed into the UK Royal Navy’s new ‘Queen Elizabeth’ class aircraft carrier. This final BAE SYSTEMS design submission consisted of two distinct design variants - one configured to operate a CTOL-based air group, the other configured to accommodate a STOVL air group. Both variants were based on a common ‘core’ ship design. The discussion presented in this paper is applicable to both variants. This paper was originally written for presentation at the June 2003 Royal Institution of Naval Architects ‘Warships 2003 - Air Power at Sea’ Conference. However, it was withheld from publication at the request of the UK Ministry of Defence, due to sensitivity surrounding the UK Aircraft Carrier project at that time. Following re-appraisal in June 2016, the UK Ministry of Defence has now authorised publication of this paper in full. The paper is presented here in its original (2003) form, with Section 2 added to provide historical perspective (given the passage of time).

scholarly journals Design considerations and performance of MEMS acoustoelectric ultrasound detectors

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (9) ◽  
pp. 1906-1916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaohui Wang ◽  
Pier Ingram ◽  
Charles L. Greenlee ◽  
Ragnar Olafsson ◽  
Robert A. Norwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Considerations ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Final design and on-sky testing of the iLocater SX acquisition camera: broad-band single-mode fibre coupling

2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (2) ◽  
pp. 2250-2267
Author(s):  
J Crass ◽  
A Bechter ◽  
B Sands ◽  
D King ◽  
R Ketterer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Optics ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Broad Band ◽  
Single Mode ◽  
Injection System ◽  
Single Mode Fibre ◽  
Astronomical Instruments ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Camera Design ◽  
And Performance

ABSTRACT Enabling efficient injection of light into single-mode fibres (SMFs) is a key requirement in realizing diffraction-limited astronomical spectroscopy on ground-based telescopes. SMF-fed spectrographs, facilitated by the use of adaptive optics (AO), offer distinct advantages over comparable seeing-limited designs, including higher spectral resolution within a compact and stable instrument volume, and a telescope independent spectrograph design. iLocater is an extremely precise radial velocity (EPRV) spectrograph being built for the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). We have designed and built the front-end fibre injection system, or acquisition camera, for the SX (left) primary mirror of the LBT. The instrument was installed in 2019 and underwent on-sky commissioning and performance assessment. In this paper, we present the instrument requirements, acquisition camera design, as well as results from first-light measurements. Broad-band SMF coupling in excess of 35 per cent (absolute) in the near-infrared (0.97–1.31 ${\mu {\rm m}}$) was achieved across a range of target magnitudes, spectral types, and observing conditions. Successful demonstration of on-sky performance represents both a major milestone in the development of iLocater and in making efficient ground-based SMF-fed astronomical instruments a reality.

A Sensitivity-Based Approach to Improve Efficiency of Automotive Chassis Architecture

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Valgimigli ◽  
Enrico Bertocchi ◽  
Alberto Lazzarini ◽  
Luca D’agostino ◽  
Luca Splendi
Keyword(s):  
Weight Reduction ◽  
Material Properties ◽  
Weight Ratio ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Torsional Stiffness ◽  
Response Analysis ◽  
Frequency Response Analysis ◽  
Automotive Market ◽  
Strong Competition ◽  
And Performance

The strong competition of the automotive market brings the industries to look continuously for more challenging comfort and performance standards. These requirements often contrast with the need for weight reduction related to the restrictive emissions limits. In this scenario, the investments aimed at increasing the structure efficiency (stiffness-to-weight ratio) become fundamental. The objective of this work is to propose a methodology that allows to identify the most important chassis areas in terms of efficiency: the design and research efforts could then be focused on the real determinant parts. This is done through a sensitivity process that works on frame subsystems and then on each component, first varying the material properties and then the thickness (and so the mass). The designing loadcases considered are the torsional stiffness, bending stiffness, modal analysis and frequency response analysis. The results show which are the most important subsystems and components that affects the chassis efficiency and that will have to be re-designed in order to improve the current architecture.

Design on Plug Seedling Automatic Transplanter in Greenhouse

2011 ◽  
Vol 317-319 ◽  
pp. 586-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su Bo Tian ◽  
Li Chun Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Performance Tests ◽  
Lower Efficiency ◽  
Production Scale ◽  
Conveyor System ◽  
Flower Production ◽  
Plc Control ◽  
Urgent Task ◽  
Plug Seedling ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Production Automation

Transplanting of plug seedling is one of the most important operations during vegetable and flower production. Due to the higher labor intensity and lower efficiency for the operation, it is difficult to enlarge production scale for vegetables and flowers. Although transplanting of plug seedling is now common method, all operations are still manually conducted in China. To enlarge productivity for increasing food supply, it has become an urgent task to achieve automation of plug seedling transplanting for Chinese horticulture industry. This paper deals with the automatic transplanter for plug seedling, which is significant to promote development of production automation of seedling nursing and transplanting in China. Then, the simple, practical automatic transplanter for plug seedling, including manipulator, conveyor system for plug tray and flowerpots, overall structure and PLC control system was designed. Finally, Prototype was manufactured and performance tests were conducted. Results showed that the automatic transplanter had reliable transplanting performance.

A new matrix for toxic baits for control of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex octospinosus (Reich) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

1981 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Jutsum ◽  
J. M. Cherrett
Keyword(s):  
Slow Release ◽  
Weight Ratio ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Pest Species ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Acromyrmex Octospinosus ◽  
Aerial Application ◽  
Citrus Pulp ◽  
Leaf Cutting ◽  
Excellent Control

AbstractA new easily-produced cheap compound for use as a bait matrix is described. The light-weight matrix of polyurethane is prepared from dense precursors into which suitable attractants and toxicants can be incorporated for the pest species in question. It has a high bait effectiveness/weight ratio, and so is very suitable for aerial application as large economically viable payloads can be achieved. When tested both in the laboratory and in the field on a small scale against the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex octospinosus (Reich), the bait was highly acceptable to the ants. Some formulations, especially those coated with mirex gave excellent control of ants in the field in Trinidad, killing all occupants of nests within four days of baiting. The bait exhibited good weathering properties, was resistant to fungus attack, and allowed the slow release of pheromones. It was much cheaper than the citrus pulp baits normally used in Trinidad.

A Sub-Chain Ranking and Recommendation Mechanism for Facilitating Geospatial Web Service Composition

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZhangBing Zhou ◽  
Zehui Cheng ◽  
Ke Ning ◽  
Wenwen Li ◽  
Liang-Jie Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Specific Requirement ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Service Network ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Open Geospatial Consortium ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Research Challenge ◽  
Geospatial Web Service

With a huge volume of geospatial information being collected and a huge number of domain-specific functions being developed for processing these geospatial information, an increasing number of Open Geospatial Consortium Web services (OWSs) are built and being available on the Web for the accessibility and processing of these information. Given the specific requirement specified by a certain user, normally, a composition (or chain) of OWSs, rather than a single OWS, can fulfill this requirement. Consequently, retrieving and recommending sub-chains of possible service invocations is an important research challenge. Leveraging the semantic similarity between the name and text description of parameters, a degree that represents the invocation possibility between operations in OWSs is calculated. Thereafter, a service network model is constructed for capturing possible invocations between operations. Given a user's requirement which is represented in terms of a pair of initial and ending operations, possible sub-chains of operations are retrieved, ranked and recommended. Based on which the user can select the most appropriate sub-chain with respect to her specific requirement. The result of evaluation leveraging a real OWSs set indicates that our technique is applicable in real applications from both the functional and performance perspectives.

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