International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Belt conveyors play a significant role in the transport of bulk materials due to a number of advantages such as: high capacity, economy, safety and reliability. The belt conveyor for bulk materials was observed in this paper. In order to drive the belt conveyor, the power of the driving electric motor must overcome all the resistances that occur during the transport of materials. The paper presents one of the possible approaches to the method of calculation and selection of belt conveyor parameters. The conveyor travel path was adopted, all resistances to the motion of the belt and materials were defined and the calculation of the total resistance to motion on characteristic transport sections was performed. The influence of conveyor loading and discharge devices, drive mechanism, way of moving the belt over the rollers were taken into account. The general calculation algorithm is presented and a graphical representation of the con veyor assemblies is given for the defined transport route.

At the present time, mines, power plants, ports are more complicated and more functional compared to the past therefore raw material processing, production, and amount of transportation material have increased. In this paper it is calculated with using necessary equations with standard charts that a stone cargo construction with 500 t/h in the line which is formed by two conveyors with 500 m straight and 100 m which has 30o slope.

For handling of partial or continuous goods, belt conveyors are very efficient way. Belt conveyors are used in mining, iron and steel plants, thermal power plants, ore, coal, limestone, sinter transmission, automotive and the other sectors. There are several factors that have to be taken into consideration when a belt conveyor being designed. That means belt conveyor design process requires repetitive strength calculations. But analytical calculations are not capable of determine to entire stresses which occured at whole body. During the design process, time can be saved with the assistance of Finite Element Method. In this study; as a result, it has been seen that, F.E.M is the most practical method which can be utilized during belt conveyor design process.