Transfer Chute Design and Modelling

Get insight into the essential methodology for transfer chute design, analysis, and key considerations affecting performance

This free training course discuss how trajectories and flow paths influence material behavior within transfer chute geometries and arrangements.

Over three sessions, you will develop key skills to assess flow regimes of bulk solid materials handling and learn how to apply this knowledge to operational management, including:

Conveyor run-off (mis-tracking) and spillage
Dust emissions
Build-up and blockage
Chute and belt wear
Blending and homogeneity

Select fit-for-purpose transfer chute specifications for optimum flow, continuous operation, and integrated belt conveying system performance.

In this short training, transfer chute design and simulation are presented by relating material characteristics to physical flow properties. We’ll also cover their use in applying engineering mechanics (the continuum approach), and Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) simulations.

The sessions are supplemented with laboratory-scale validation and full-scale examples verified through field application. The course also presents a framework to balance stakeholder and project demands and how to anticipate and provide solutions to challenging problems.

Sessions:

Session 1 – Design Principles, Modelling and Practice

Session 2 – Calibration Methods

Session 3 – Dust, Wear and Attrition

Presented by:

Dr. Dusan Ilic

University of Newcastle, Australia

Dr. Dusan Ilic is a chartered engineer and researcher from the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources, University of Newcastle, Australia, with 15 years of engineering consultancy and R&D practice. He is highly experienced in applying engineering mechanics and Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) to troubleshoot, optimize, and design bulk solid materials handling systems. During his career, Dr Ilic has collaborated with more than 100 different industry, academia, and government partners in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas on more than 200 projects handling many different types of commodities.