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Conveyor

Meaning in oil, gas & mining, with examples

/kənˈveɪər/nounCore term

In oil, gas & mining, conveyor means: A machine with a moving rubber belt on rollers that carries ore, coal or rock continuously from one place to another, for example from a crusher to a stockpile.

In Turkish: konveyör, bant konveyör, taşıyıcı bant

How it is used

Also called a conveyor belt or belt conveyor. Staff talk about belt speed, belt tracking, idlers (rollers), transfer points and spillage. Conveyors are a major cause of injuries, so guards, pull-wire emergency stops and lockout/tagout are essential.

Example sentences

  1. The overland conveyor carries 4,000 tonnes of ore an hour to the plant.

  2. Never clean up spillage under a running conveyor.

Common collocations

  • conveyor belt
  • belt conveyor
  • overland conveyor
  • conveyor guard
  • pull-wire
  • crusherA machine that breaks large rocks into smaller pieces. Crushing is the first step in ore processing, before grinding.
  • lockout/tagoutA safety procedure in which equipment is switched off, isolated from its energy sources and fitted with personal locks and warning tags so nobody can start it during maintenance.
  • longwall miningAn underground coal mining method in which a shearer cuts coal along a long face under moving hydraulic roof supports; behind the supports, the roof is allowed to collapse.
  • throughputThe amount of material that passes through a pipeline, plant or terminal in a given period, such as barrels per day or tonnes per hour.

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