ABSTRACT
A belt conveyor is a simple piece of equipment and the most common means of transportation of bulk materials and is capable of carrying a greater diversity of products at the rates of thousands of tons per hour in a continuous and uniform stream over long distances than any other kind of continuously operating mechanical conveyors. A rotating bucket wheel can also be equipped at the discharge end so that the belt conveyor discharges the material into the buckets of bucket wheel, and as it rotates, it will discharge or drop the material onto a stockpile. The same stacker with bucket wheel rotating in reverse direction reclaims the material from the stockpile and feeds it to the belt conveyor for transportation to another destination. A few sensors such as belt slip sensors, belt tracking sensors and plugged chute sensors are also installed to aid in obtaining better operating conditions.
