Hoppers and chutes are used for feeding bulk materials to other equipment, mainly belt conveyors. The main function of hoppers is to store the materials next to equipment for feeding.
Chutes are usually only used to guide and feed materials to the next equipment and not for storage, although in practice, they should be able to store some volume of materials in case of emergency, for instance, if a piece of equipment upstream of the system malfunctions or surges.
They usually feed materials with constant discharge. Stoppage of material, such as arching or ratholing does occur sometimes.
Post time: Apr-09-2024