Bedeschi supplies new pipe conveyor to TGN Port

Empresa Constuctora Belfi S.A. chose Bedeschi S.p.a. for its new project in TGN Port (Terminal Graneles del Norte). TGN Port is located in Mejillones Bay at the heart of Chile’s mining region. It is strategically located, close to the biggest copper district in the world, which contains world-famous mineral deposits. The project includes the full automated handling equipment for receiving, storage container stacking, transport and shiploading of copper concentrate. Bedeschi will design and supply the following equipment: v three belt feeders designed to receive copper concentrate from rotating containers; v an underground conveyor of approximately 400m length in the storage yard; and v a pipe conveyor of approximately 950m to connect the storage yard overland conveyor with an 1,800tph (tonnes per hour) shiploader.

The pipe conveyor was chosen to guarantee the handling of copper concentrate from the storage to the ship without any dispersion of materials into the surrounding area, to avoid environmental pollution.

Besides avoiding spillage and dust emissions, the use of a pipe conveyor makes it possible to dispense with several transfer points between straight conveyors. This solution reduces the consumption of energy needed to handle the material, not to mention the energy used for the filters and other suppression systems to lower dust emissions.

Pipe conveyors, and several other solutions — such as the installation of belt conveyors and trippers in enclosed galleries, the use of gas cleaning and water spray for dust suppression, telescopic or spiral chutes, eco-hoppers, the use of different conveying systems — are some of the best technologies that Bedeschi’s R&D department is constantly improving to guarantee the safeguarding of the environment during bulk handling operations.

Replacement shiploader for Fertil Ruwais Terminal

Bedeschi has been contracted to supply a new shiploader to Fertil Ruwais Terminal. The machine will handle fertilizer and granulated urea, and will replace the existing model at the terminal.

The design capacity of the shiploader is 1,200 tonnes per hour, it will be delivered fully erected to site.

The machine will run on rails, with a towed tripper to divert the product from a wharf gallery conveyor onto a transfer belt, then to a loading boom belt. The tailor-made shiploader

Bedeschi shiploader will be luffing and slewing to in the design phase. facilitate all loading operations required. The target is to set up all the entire application and activities without interfering with operational activities at the terminal. Design, engineering and construction for this machine are based on Bedeschi’s knowhow, and are optimized and customized according to the client’s requirements. Specific design, character istics and performances are developed and integrated jointly with the client’s technical team.