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 Eng v 41 n 490 Dec 1964 p 518-19)


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    Title :

    Coal-handling plant at Dagenham


    Additional title:

    Colliery Guardian


    Published in:

    Colliery Guardian ; 209 , n 5406


    Publication date :

    1964


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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