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Troubleshooting bulk materials handling challenges in process industries

Learn the principles of flow properties and air-particle interactions, and its application to the design of handling systems

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Problems with storing, handling, and transporting bulk materials are a common occurrence in process industries. The challenges include spillage, blockage, arching, ratholing, degradation, dusting, segregation, contamination and wear. It is vital that the flow properties of the bulk solids are understood so that storage and handling systems can be designed and operated to achieve maximum efficiency and reliability at minimal cost. 

Considerable advances continue to be made in the practice of reliable testing and application of the technologies associated with understanding materials behavior and influence on plant efficiency, throughput and service life.

What you will learn:

In this webinar, engineers from TUNRA Bulk Solids will present the principles of flow properties and air-particle interactions, including testing procedures, interpretation and application to the design of handling systems such as mass flow/funnel flow bins, discharge/feeding equipment and pneumatic conveying systems. 

Understanding these fundamentals and learning from common mistakes can help you overcome existing handling problems and design new systems with trouble-free plant operations for the process industries dealing with bulk materials.

Agenda:

  • Common material storage and handling issues
  • Introduction to modes of flow in bins/hoppers 
  • Flow property and air-particle behavior testing
  • Application of material properties on storage and handling systems
  • Pneumatic conveying dilute and dense phase systems 
  • Troubleshooting and case studies

 


Presented by:

Dr Jens Plinke

Consulting Engineer, TUNRA Bulk Solids

Dr Jens Plinke completed his engineering degree at the Leibniz University Hannover in Germany in 2014. During his studies he was hosted by TUNRA Bulk Solids for research projects on two occasions, gaining practical lab experience and an insight in a variety of materials handling issues. Jens completed his PhD at the University of Newcastle as part of the ARC Research Hub for Advanced Technologies for Australian Iron Ore in February 2019. His research is focused on solving industry related materials handling problems.


Dr Bin Chen

Engineering Manager, TUNRA Bulk Solids

Dr Bin Chen has over 10 years of research and consulting experience in the field of bulk solids handling, which has involved a combination of experimental measurement, theoretical modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulation. His activities have covered a broad area of bulk materials handling design and consultancy in areas including transfer chutes, silos/hoppers, feeders, train loadout systems, stackers and reclaimers, ship loading/unloading systems, and prediction of silo wall loads and quaking. The focus of his current consultancy and research is to develop techniques to guide the design of these systems and ultimately solve industrial problems. Before joining TUNRA Bulk Solids in 2008, he was employed as an engineer with Baosteel Group Corporation (Shanghai) for a period of two years. He has published 2 patents, 2 book chapters and over 40 research and technical papers.

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