Pipe conveyor belts /Tubular conveyor belts represent an advanced technology that involves rolling standard flat belts into a cylindrical tube to enable fully enclosed material transport. Due to their exceptional environmental friendliness, safety, and adaptability to various spatial constraints, they have become a core solution for modern bulk material transportation. "Formability" and "fatigue life" are the key indicators used to assess their quality. Our company's successful participation in numerous major projects has demonstrated the reliability of our technology and helped our clients achieve significant increases in operational efficiency.
Key Application Features of Tubular Conveyor Belts
Compared to traditional conveyor belts, tubular conveyor belts offer the following key advantages:
Environmentally Friendly, Fully Enclosed Conveying
They eliminate material spillage and dust pollution along the route. In environmentally sensitive areas such as ports and docks, they also effectively prevent materials from contaminating water bodies.
High Adaptability, Overcoming Spatial Constraints
With excellent flexibility for turning, it can navigate tight bends with small radii, easily bypassing obstacles such as buildings and mountainous terrain. This significantly reduces the number of intermediate transfer points and conserves valuable land resources. It can also adapt to complex terrain with steep inclines and significant elevation differences, greatly expanding the design flexibility of conveying routes.
Safe and Efficient, Enhancing Operational Benefits
The fully enclosed tubular structure effectively prevents materials from getting wet in the rain or blown away by the wind during conveyance, ensuring material quality and transport efficiency. It also features bidirectional conveying capability, providing greater operational flexibility in specific route layouts. From an economic perspective, it effectively reduces unit transport costs compared to truck transportation.
Maximum recommended material loading ratio: 75%
Maximum recommended power utility: full load-less than 80% of rated power
Select carcass reinforcement according to conveying distance, take-up travel, belt tension rating
- Fabric pipe belt (short length, low belt tension rating)
- Steel cord pipe belt (long distance, high belt tension rating)
- Select covers according to material type, temperature, and energy saving requirement
- Ambient low wear, acid/alkali resistant, heat resistant, flame resistant, energy saving low rolling resistance
Main Applications
Pipe conveyor belts are widely used in various industries where environmental protection and conveying efficiency are of the utmost importance. The table below summarizes their main applications and typical materials:
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Application area |
Application Scenarios |
Materials Handled |
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Coal and Mining Industry |
Long-distance transportation within and outside mines (e.g., coal, copper, and iron mines) and between mines and processing plants |
Coal, ore, tailings |
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Power Generation Industry |
Fuel transportation for thermal power plants, particularly long-distance conveyance from docks or coal yards to boilers |
Pulverized coal, limestone |
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Cement and Building Materials Industry |
Material transportation connecting mines and cement plants across complex terrain |
Cement clinker, limestone, sand and gravel |
|
Steel and Metallurgy Industry |
Material supply from raw material yards to production lines within steel mills, as well as inter-plant logistics |
Coke, iron ore, limestone |
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Ports & Terminals |
Efficient, low-loss material transfer between ships and stockpiles or inland warehouses |
Coal, iron ore |
Successful Projects Reference
30-Kilometer Enclosed Conveyor Project in Shandong China
The project had to address complex operating conditions, including nearly 20 turns, a 30-meter elevation difference, and extreme temperature variations exceeding 60°C. By utilizing tear-resistant, flame-retardant steel-cord tubular conveyor belts, the project not only minimized dust pollution but also achieved a daily transport capacity of 43,000 tons - equivalent to replacing 1,300 heavy-duty trucks - significantly alleviating traffic pressure on local roads.
Coal Power Plant Project in India
Constructed in response to the Indian government's directive to reduce environmental pollution, this project replaced the previous truck-based transportation system. Spanning approximately 6.1 kilometers, it achieves dust-free, low-loss conveyance of nearly 6,000 tons of coal daily, establishing itself as a replicable model of eco-friendly transportation.
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