240 tons an hour is on a belt 180 ft. long travelling at 150ft/min. how many lbs is on the belt?

Answer 1

# The distance travelled by a belt conveyor in a minute:

150 feet

# The time required to cover distance from head drum to tail drum,

180/150
=1.2 min.

#Capacity
=240tons/hour
=4 tons / min

# So, at the the rate of 4 tons / min, the load on the belt for 1.2 minutes,
=4*1.2
=4.8 tons

#Now,
How many lbs is on the belt:

4.8 metric ton = 10 582.188 584 874 lbs is on the belt.
[1 metric ton = 2 204.622 621 849 pound]

Answer 2

Then the length of time it takes for the belt to move material from one end to the other is

180ft/(150ft/min) = 1.2 minutes

60min/1.2 minutes = 50 = number of loads per hour. Then

240tons/50 = 4.8 tons on the belt at any given time

Answer 3

The key to this is to figure how many trips the conveyor must make to move the tonnage in 1 hour.

Compute how many feet the conveyor moves in 1 hour

150 ft/min x 60min/hr = 9000 ft/hr

divide by conveyor lenght to compute how many trips the conveyor makes

9000 ft/hr / 180 ft = 50 trips in one hour

you move 240 ton in one hour using 50 trips

240 / 50 = 4.8 ton per trip

the conveyor has at least 4.8 tons on it