Design Engineering with Screw Conveyors

Screw Conveyor is a mechanical equipment that is quite simple and economical in operation. Screw Conveyor serves to lift materials and bulk materials. For that, if you use this Screw Conveyor, you must first read and understand the manual. Because if you act as a perpetrator of machine operations. You need to apply the manual description of the screw conveyor. You can understand each component properly and correctly. So that in using it, you don't need to feel inferior. To produce the right performance, you must be able to apply to the appropriate job application.

In general, screw conveyors have several parts, one of which is screw. Screw then on a shaft located on the conveyor. The screw will work by rotating around the trough and drive unit. Materials and materials move along the trough shaft.

The trough on the screw conveyor is usually U-shaped. In the trough there is a cover plate that serves to load the conveyor. Disposal at the bottom of the skin whose contours are rough. This section serves as a place to load and discharge. Therefore this part is along the trough. There is more than one hopper as feed and also a discharge hopper.

Granular material is a material (a conglomeration of discrete solid, macroscopic particles characterized by a loss of energy whenever the particles interact) The material to be transported (usually coal & limestone) is loaded into a hopper (a large, inverted pyramidal or conical container used in industrial processes to hold particulate matter) at the lower end.

After that, the materials and materials used will be moved by transmitting the motion of the electric motor. However, the position of the electric motor must be at the end of the feeder. This is done along the trough similar to the shifting motion of a nut along a rotating screw when the nut is stationary.

For perfect results, you can follow a few steps to use the Screw Conveyor, namely:

• Study the current Design of Screw Conveyor.
• Take practical input from the industry.
• Literature survey.
• Screw Conveyor design using SOLIDWORKS.
  
  • Screw Conveyor Calculation on Design
    In this case it is the application of Screw Conveyor. This activity is quite important for a Contractor. So that the results can adjust in determining, selecting, strength and size of conveyor components.

Shaikh Saheb, et al. (2019). A Review on Design Analysis & Optimization of Screw Conveyor. International Journal of Advanced Engineering &Innovative Technology (IJAEIT);Pg.64: Vol. 1( 1)