This is about as open ended as it gets.

Suppose you had your total length determined for you.

How much is troughed and how much is pipe? Different idler sets carry more or less rollers.

How long are the belts? Length increases the allowable pitch, or it should.

Etc, etc..

If you are not interested in iron ore, in Australia?, then go ahead and discount <1m steel chord belts. You'll be ignoring a few kilometres there.

"..turn over of conveyor rollers..." could have been taken at face value. If they turn over they are not due for replacement. I presume you are more interested in those that don't turn over.

Forget it: roller life is calculated to the n'th degree by lots of learned souls. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're not. You would need to know what rollers are on what conveyors and what the actual achieved life was or is. Everybody, designers, operators, suppliers and maintenance men will tell you a different story.

So, you are asking far beyond the capacity of this forum. Designers and maintenance engineers are busily going about their business with their own particular experiences of your situation. It is very hard to imagine them providing you with very private performance data. You might as well ask Her Majesty's Inspector of Taxes if he believes in the accuracy of his presented returns. ■

This is about as open ended as it gets.

Suppose you had your total length determined for you.

How much is troughed and how much is pipe? Different idler sets carry more or less rollers.

How long are the belts? Length increases the allowable pitch, or it should.

Etc, etc..

If you are not interested in iron ore, in Australia?, then go ahead and discount <1m steel chord belts. You'll be ignoring a few kilometres there.

"..turn over of conveyor rollers..." could have been taken at face value. If they turn over they are not due for replacement. I presume you are more interested in those that don't turn over.

Forget it: roller life is calculated to the n'th degree by lots of learned souls. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're not. You would need to know what rollers are on what conveyors and what the actual achieved life was or is. Everybody, designers, operators, suppliers and maintenance men will tell you a different story.

So, you are asking far beyond the capacity of this forum. Designers and maintenance engineers are busily going about their business with their own particular experiences of your situation. It is very hard to imagine them providing you with very private performance data. You might as well ask Her Majesty's Inspector of Taxes if he believes in the accuracy of his presented returns. ■

Dear Mr.Norris

I think shall be difficult to get a rogough figure,however, you can do like this.

1. How many industry plants are there, for example power plants, cement plants, and other small plants, then for each kind of plants, one plants may have different length of conveyors, then you may assume them average 2km one plant.

2. Then you can calculate from the mine to port, or other overland belt conveyors,(those projects mainly for big companies then you can get the list maybe from the main supplier/player to Australia)

Moreover, since we have also succesfully supplied belt conveyors over 600 tons to Australia following local requirements, and we are looking for partners for Austrilia market, we capbale of overland conveyor(installed over 100km above, one belt 10km max).pipe conveyors 40 installation, and also roller, pulley supply.

Pls do contat me if anyone interested.

Tks!

Yuanjun Dai 15010211297@139.com

Originally Posted by RyanN

Hi all,

I am interested in any data that you can provide (preferably with sources/references) which can paint a picture of the total accumulated length of belt conveyors in Australia, and secondly, if possible a global total too!

I read somewhere that there is a total of 52,000 km of conveyors in Australia, but have not been successful in locating this statement anywhere since.

I am chasing this data because I am trying to estimate the size of the bulk materials handling market.

If it helps, small conveyors of less than 1 meter in belt width can be excluded from the estimate.

Another reason for this information request is to also extrapolate the total conveyor length to try an determine the total amount of conveyor rollers that are in operation and therefore estimate the yearly turn-over of conveyor rollers on a national basis.

Thanks!

Added by Administrator as an example:

Overland belt conveyor in Australia

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