Cargo handling facilities, Civil Engineering

Assignment Help:

Cargo Handling Facilities:

All water transport terminals require cargo handling facilities. Cranes of various sizes are used. In docks, traveling cranes are popular (Figure).

995_CARGO HANDLING FACILITIES.png

Figure: Dock Crane

For handling containers, large capacity cranes are used.

For dry bulk handling (like coal, iron ore, food grains, food grains fertilizers, etc.), conveyor belts or bucket conveyors are used.

Liquid bulk material (oil) is handled by using special pumps.

Related Discussions:- Cargo handling facilities

Transportation, investigation of strength properties of black cotton soil s...

investigation of strength properties of black cotton soil stabilised with fly ash and georeinforcement

Theory of structure, How to convert uniformly varying load to point load

How to convert uniformly varying load to point load

Draw the shape of the pressure line, Draw the shape of the Pressure line. ...

Draw the shape of the Pressure line. Solution The locations of resultant force at sections A-A, B-B and C-C have already been determined. Joining these locations, we can dr

#thow to design sanitary sewer, please give solved problems about sewer des...

please give solved problems about sewer design

Foundation recommendation, what are the necessary data required for foundat...

what are the necessary data required for foundation recommendation other than SPT value ? why can''t we go for SPT value alone?

Explain dielectric breakdown, Explain Dielectric breakdown Dielectric ...

Explain Dielectric breakdown Dielectric breakdown means failure or deterioration of the dielectric material because of various reasons.

Explain the createthread function used in the windows nt, Explain the Creat...

Explain the CreateThread Function used in the Windows NT CreateThread(security, size, MyThreadFunction, arg, flag,&tID ) The CreateThread function call is used to start an i

Settlement due to reduction in volume of soil, Q. Settlement due to Reducti...

Q. Settlement due to Reduction in Volume of Soil? The weight of the structure causes reduction in volume of soil due to expulsion of pore water from the voids. This reduces the

What are moment of inertia, The moment of inertia calculates the opposition...

The moment of inertia calculates the opposition any kind of body will have against a certain momentum (along that similar axis) trying to rotate that body.

Concrete structural members tensile stresses, Concrete structural members t...

Concrete structural members tensile stresses In concrete structural members tensile stresses act in a longitudinal direction. This is why, stretched tendons (hereafter, called

Write Your Message!

Name

Email id

Message

Verfication Code

User Account

All Pages