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Dec 10, 2009
Dry bulk terminal expansion or redesign?
G. Lodewijks, Professor, D.L. Schott, Assistant Professor, & J.A. Ottjes, Associated Professor, Transport Engineering and Logistics, 3mE, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Due to the high demand for energy and mineral resources many dry bulk terminals around the world are expanding and seriously increasing their capacity. One approach to expansion can simply be copying the existing facilities until the required capacity is reached. In this way however the terminal does not only lose the opportunity to utilise the developments made over the last decades on terminal design, it will also end up with a costly operation. In addition it may not be able to reach the environmental restrictions imposed on terminal operations nearby environmentally sensitive areas.
This paper discusses a modern design approach of dry bulk terminals. It starts with the description of a typical dry bulk terminal. It further discusses the application of discrete event simulation as a tool to determine the best operational control of the terminal and the required number of equipment and their capacity related to the requested service level for the terminals customers. It finally points out other design aspects for terminal maintenance, dust and sound emission control methods.Introduction – a typical bulk terminal Dry bulk terminals are used worldwide as a buffer between either international or intercontinental transportation and inland or domestic transportation or the other way around. An example of a dry bulk terminal is shown in Figure 1. This Figure shows the iron ore exporting terminal of the port of Chennai (previously called Madras) in India. Figure 2 schematically shows the lay-out of that terminal. The port was first commissioned in 1977 [1]. The plant is capable of receiving, stockpiling, reclaiming, weighing, sampling and shiploading eight million of iron ore per annum. Bulk carriers of sizes 150,000 DWT can be loaded at a rate of 8,000 MTPH. The ore stockyard has a capacity of about 800,000 tonnes and can cater four different grades of iron ore. From PTI 44 page 87. Read the full article here. Similar articles
 
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