Basics of Conveyor Belt Design
This course covers the fundamental aspects of belt conveyor design . It can be tailored to requirements and to the site specific examples or materials.

·      Health and safety o Dust, health risks, generation and mitigation
o Fires and explosions, causes, and mitigation
o Guarding to standards and practical aspects on guarding and safety • Initial steps for conveyor design
o Understanding how conveyors function
• Defining the parameters required to design a conveyor: bulk material flow testing, layout, equipment component selection
• Belt conveyor components and selection, conveyor design calculation impact
o Conveyor design, maintenance and operation considerations
o Conveyor components and what to select and install for best results, selection impact on design calculation: belting, pulleys, idlers, motors and gearboxes, couplings, drives, brakes, cleaners and ploughs, holdbacks, magnets, weighers, samplers, trippers and take-ups etc.
o Lubrication
o Belt tracking causes and mitigations
o Instruments for conveyors
• Chutes and conveyor design calculation impact
o Chute design considerations
o Trajectories
o Types of chutes
o Wear liner methods and materials
• Chutes and accessories conveyor design calculation impacts
o Chutes and belt cleaners
o Chutes and tramp magnets
o Chutes and samplers, sampler types
o Chutes and skirts, skirt boxes
o Access to chutes for maintenance
o Chute modelling, DEM, other methods
• Conveyor calculation methods and review
o Detailed review of the design method for belt conveyors
 Standard and other methods
 Conveyor profiles
 Sources of input data
 Explanation of the impact of each input on the design
 Making the calculation result practical
 Future proofing the design
 A quick manual check method.
o Computer methods
 Benefits of computer belt conveyor design methods
 Risks with using computer belt conveyor design methods
o Risks with belt conveyor design methods
 Not checking the design
 Incorrect input data
 Procuring different components to those used
 Operational