RULMECA rollers for the China Resources Cement project

In July 2010 our Company Rulmeca Tianjin Co. Ltd completed the delivery of rollers for the second phase of the important project of China Resources Cement (Huarun Group) in Fengkai, China, one of the longest belt conveyors ever built in Asia. ­Rulmeca Tianjin received the order at the beginning of 2009 for more than 180 000 rollers for 2 belt conveyors lines of 40 km for transport of the limestone from the quarry to the cement plant in Fengkai/China. The 2 lines of parallel long-distance curve belt conveyors feed one of the biggest cement plants in the world with limestone at  30 000 t/d. ­Every line is composed of 3 curved overland conveyors (11, 12 and 17 km) powered by a total of 19 groups of 750 kW, with a belt speed of 5 m/s. The curved conveyors were designed to cross over 25 mountains and also roads and rivers. The Rulmeca rollers are from the PSV series, type PSV/1, 3, 4 – mainly with tube diameter of 159 mm (Fig.). The conveyor belt is designed for a belt speed of 5 m/s, a tension of 3150 N/mm, a belt width of 1400 mm with a thickness of 24 mm.

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