Bulk material handling is a field of engineering that revolves around the design of tools used for moving the materials like cereals and ores in bulk form. Handling of mixed wastes can also be related to it. Bulk material handling systems mainly consist of moving objects of machinery such as stackers, conveyor belts, reclaimers, unloaders, bucket elevators, shiploaders and various hoppers, diverters and shuttles along with various facilities for storage such as stockpiles or storage silos, stockyards.

The main aim of a bulk material handling system is usually to move material from a source which can be one of many locations to a final destination. Bulk material handling system also involves inventory control, providing storage and probably blending of material. We can find the bulk handling facilities on ports, mine sites for unloading or loading of ores, minerals and cereals and also processing facilities like steel and iron, coal fired power station refineries. On ports, gantry cranes are being replaced by continuous ship unloaders for handling huge quantities of bulk materials. Various categories of bulk material handling are:

• Bucket elevator
• Conveyor chain
• Conveyor belt
• Automatic box opening technology
• Overhead conveyors
• Stacker
• Screw conveyor
• Reach stacker
• Tubular gallery
• Tube chain conveyor.

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