International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 11 | Nov -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 978 PIPE CONVEYOR Sumit Batwe 1 , Santosh Jaju 2 , Suryakant Vaidya 3 1 Student, 2 Assistant Professor, 3 Manager 1,2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1,2 GHRCE, Nagpur, India 3 MANIKGARH CEMENT,GADCHANDUR, CHANDRAPUR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: Pipe conveyors are becoming more popular in the bulk material handling sector. They are applied when the installation of a belt conveyor is required in difficult topographical conditions, rough weather conditions, and for the transportation of dusty, contaminated, and toxic materials. New innovations in the pipe conveyor and belt are advanced to elaborate the growth in its capacity, length and complexity of pipe conveyor . Enhanced belt construction can offer better stability during horizontal curves and resistance to twist. LRR pipe conveyors with arubber compound can significantly lower the power consumption and belt tension, producing capital and operation cost savings. Dynamic analysis systems , are used to analyse the conveyor’s starting and stopping behaviourwhich in further can improve the design and reliability of long pipe conveyor systems. For these three aspects, technical backgrounds and field installations as examples are discussed. Key Words: Pipe Conveyors, Three Point Testing, Six point Testing, Modelling, Dynamic Analysis, PROBLEM DISSCUSSED Manikgarh cement has 7.8 km line from the mines to the unloading station . For the Unit I there is ropeway bucket system with each capacity of 2 MT and the total no. of buckets are 300 having and total capacity of 600 TPH. Inspite of this it requires more maintaince cost and power, energy consumption and may cause accidents and failures due to misalignment of bucket.Similarly, a new system has been setup for unit II which comprises pipe conveyor which has a total capacity of 750 TPH and is more efficient as compared to ropeway system. INTRODUCTION Belt conveyors mainly for transporting materials, and are widely implemented in the mining, power generation, cement, ship port and industrial plants for several decades. The main benefit of belt conveyors compared to other material handling machines like trucks, trains and barges is the higher efficiency in the mechanical system, energy consumption and total cost over the long term, especially when conveyor system is design optimized . Trough belt conveyor is the ubiquitous type of belt conveyor. There are other belt conveys serving more specialized purposes, like pipe conveyors or tubular conveyors, high incline or high angle conveyors, wheel-on-rope type of conveyors like cable conveyors and Ropecon. Pipe conveyor was first installed in 1980s in Japan , the actual advantages of using pipe conveyor was its capabiitt to accomplish sharp curves and seal the transporting material. Rolling the belt into the pipe shape separates the material from the environment. It also minimizes the area and moment of inertia, which facilitates the bending of the pipe belt over horizontal and vertical curves. Over the last fifteen years, pipe conveyor saw not only increased number of installations and growth in the size and complexity of the system, but also better recognition by the general material handling sector as a feasible material handling system. India and China now represent the biggest market for pipe conveyors. In south east Asia , Australia and South America, a few major pipe conveyor installations are either operating, being erected or under planning. If these initial high profile systems get to be successful, it is reasonable to expect that more pipe conveyors will be planned and installed during the next decade in these areas. In further decades south east Asia, Australia and south America important new markets for pipe conveyors. Inspite its obvious benefits, pipe conveyors have additional costs and engineering problems compared to other conveyors. Total cost is generally double comparable to other conveyors due to increased number of idler rollers, bigger drive size, and higher belt cost. Similarly, for operating cost it is high due to increased power consumption. One of the main engineering and maintenance concerns is how to control the belt rotation, twist and collapse, especially when the conveyor routing has small radius curves. The manufacturing of long length and large ton capacity pipe conveyors requires specialized engineering that is not readymade available to the general professionals in the material handling sector.