Those asking for assistance should have patience! ■

As a student you need to THINK about what you want to do and seek references applicable to your problem. So think about this -

You have found a formula in a publication

1) is the publication relevant to your application? The CEMA publication basically relates to TROUGHED belt conveyors. Is your belt conveyor troughed or flat?

2) is the formula relevant to your application? Look at example 1 on page 127, the conveyor length is 300 ft, and the capacity is 500 te/hr. Is this anywhere near the length and capacity of your conveyor?

As I read you application, your conveyor is very short and of low capacity so maybe the formula you have found is not actually relevant to your application.

It should, however, point you in the way of calculating YOUR power requirement but you need to work from first principles to establish a suitable method of power calculation NOT slavishly put numbers into a formula from a book.

Just go through the conveyor and note down all the elements that will absorb work as conveyor operates. Then derive calculation methods for them, finally adding them all together to get the answer.

But do not expect to be able to look up all the information you need. Some of it may need to be established experimentally so there will be another challenge for you to design a suitable experiment(s) to get the information you need.

As an engineering student this is part of your training and you will be a better engineer for it ■

Try again.

Me thinks the power will be much higher, even though I have no idea of the tonnage rate. Me thinks the material acceleration and skirt drag will dominate.

This will likely be many times the rolling losses over a set of idlers that have no shape. ■

You must also add pulley and scraper drag values. ■