Conveyor Dynamics, Inc. (CDI) serves the mining and minerals processing industries through advanced belt conveyor systems and ore comminution engineering.

CDI is surpassing 500 km of overland, high lift, downhill, and horizontally curved conveyors, where many are at the threshold of the science for: extreme capacity, speed, power, braking, belt strength, and lengths. We are at the forefront of rubber technologies that produce improved belt power and strength efficiencies, and belt life extension technology. We have developed the only modern commercial method to analyze power; strength and life based on fundamental physics and rubber viscoelastic technology.

Belt Conveyor Design

Feasibility & Concept: Terrain route 3-D modeling to optimize civil works and elevate steel support structures. Coordinate design concept such as horizontal curve routing of overlands, conveyor flight lengths >15 km versus risk of single and multiple flights, design limits and operating strategies.

Design & Review: Apply our experience on designing or review designs of others for extremes in length, power, strength, life and NPV optimization of APEX and OPEX.

• Audit
• Turnkey & Partner for Turnkey
• Client Representation with Vendors
• Commissioning & Site Training
• Specifications - all components, including drives and drive controls
• Field Forensics & Problem Solving
• Optimization Studies - Power, belt, flights, curves, idlers, life; civils
• Dynamic Analysis, Shock Wave Tuning & Control Function Simulation
• Horizontal Curve Engineering
• Multi-stage or Booster Drives
• Control System, including PLC & GUI (MMI)
• Instrumentation - design & specify
• Laboratory testing - rubber compounds - power, strength and life
• Hybrid Stringers - low mass/m; large idler pitch
• Hybrid Loading Stations (Impact Idler & Skirtboard)
• Chute Design - belt and chute liner life and ore flow improvements using DEM
• Belt Splice & Reinforcement Design - High strength steel cord with improved efficiency (FEA)
• High Tension Pulley Design & Refurbishing Methods (FEA)
• Belt Conveyor Design Software: BELTSTAT and BELTFLEX