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Mining Engineering · Q24

Introduction to Mining Engineering

Engineering and GATE · Mining Engineering · question 24

Q24

A bucket wheel excavator with 20 buckets of capacity 0.5 m3 each, rotates at 5 rev/min. The bucket fill factor is 80%. The excavator loads on to 1200 mm wide belt conveyor. The cross-section area (m2) of the material on the belt is 0.1B2, where B is the belt width in m. The minimum speed of the belt in m/s to avoid spillage of material is

A.
7.23
B.
5.79
C.
4.63
Answer
D.
3.7

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
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