Concern of the Customer:

• An average spillage of 900kg/day was observed at the loading station
• Deployment of manpower & excavator for cleaning and putting material back on the conveyor
• Adjustment of continuous rubber strip done twice a month
• Inability to adjust the continuous rubber sealing due to non-uniform wear resulted in lower life of the sealing system

Objective

• Reduce spillage at the loading station
• Minimize manpower deployment for maintenance.
• Provide a safe working environment
• Monthly accumulation of spillage reduced from 70 tons to 12.5 tons.
• Monthly engagement of manpower reduced from 17 man-days to 2.5 mandays.
• Premature monthly consumption of return idlers reduced from 5 to 2.
• Container demurrage drastically reduced.
• Customer made an annual profit 0.96 mn INR.

There were 2 loading stations 31 BC-01 (Other Make Continuous Double contact sealing) and 31 BC-02 (Tega Spill-EX Skirt Sealing). Both the loading stations were cleaned and made ready for trials of segmented skirt of Tega & continuous double-contact skirt sealing system of other.

Observation after 2 days of Installation:

No spillage was observed in BC-02 VS Spillage was observed at the foot of the conveyor structure in B2-01

Observation after 1 month of Installation:

Very negligible amount of spillage was observed in BC-02 VS Accumulation of spillage was observed beside the conveyor in BC-01