Wear in Conveying Systems

The service life or availability of devices and systems used for the transport or handling of bulk materials is often determined by the wearWear in conveyor systems of the wall surfaces temporarily or permanently contacted by the solid material. However, this does not mean that the bulk material and solid properties alone dominate this process. The specific operating conditions, e.g., relative speed of bulk material/wall, contact pressure, or working temperature, as well as the wall geometry, the structure and properties of the wall material, and the intermediate space medium also influence the intensity of wear. For a wear analysisWear analysis, the sole evaluation of the bulk material is not sufficient; rather, an analysis of the entire wear system is required in each case [1, 2]. It applies: wear is not a material property but a system propertyWear=system property.