Plant in London area has throughput of 70 tpd by means of six bagging points and two bulk outlets; railway cars without hopper bottoms are brought to circular rail track between 75 ft wide concentric annular heaps; crawler crane feeds coal into reclaiming hopper and screen assembly which travels through 360° on third rail inside railway track, so that hopper is always adjacent to crane; reclaiming hopper is coupled to central hopper by 160 ft long radial conveyor. (See also Colliery Guardian v 209 n 5406 Nov 27 1964 p 724)
Coal-handling plant at Dagenham
Colliery Eng
Colliery Engineering ; 41 , n 490
1964
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Coal-handling plant at Dagenham
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