New Tricks For The Old Dogs - Power Engineering Article

The efficient handling of coal on belt conveyors is essential to coal-fired power plants. The conveying of coal is prone to problems including the escape of spillage and airborne dust. These are typical problems, common problems, problems of long-standing, problems that continue to make the handling of coal a dirty, inefficient, unpleasant, high maintenance, low reward job—a “dog” of a job.