Open AccessDesign & Validation of Feeding Mechanism for Porous Raw Material: A Case Study in Chemical Processing Company
Author(s) -
S. P. Gurway,
Anurag Jain
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/988/1/012005
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , work (physics) , raw material , point (geometry) , scale (ratio) , production (economics) , computer science , engineering , manufacturing engineering , mechanical engineering , process engineering , mathematics , philosophy , chemistry , physics , geometry , organic chemistry , epistemology , quantum mechanics , economics , macroeconomics
With the growing revolution in technology, quality is always being considered a major point of concern and developing countries like India where number of small and medium enterprises are working contributing for major part of employment, these quality concern need to be focussed. The present work involves the case study which has been conducted in one of small scale industry dealing with chemical processing, in Nagpur. The objective is to find out the solution for one of the problem discussed by production manager of the company. The problem is related to feeding of raw material into the processing plant which have been done manually and cause of quality issue and serious work hazard. So we have suggested a design of setup of feeding mechanism for pouring the raw material. While designing, first the survey has been conducted where it was found that different types of hoppers are available in market based in different size and shape. The hopper which we supposed to design should fulfil the requirement of the manager and all the technicalities. In order to do so we have studies number of design parameter and formulate the design procedure for each and every aspect right from calculation of mass flow rate, hopper angle, exit rate, wall friction angle, design of bevel gear, different force acting on hopper surface. The design of the hopper and the complete setup for the pouring resin is carried out by considering only porous raw material. So, comprehensive approach for designing the hopper as a solution have been done and proposed to company. Similarly the design is being validated using ANSYS software package.