Pit & Quarry, August 2010
C O N V E Y I N G M A T E R I A L H A N D L I N G S P E C I A L S E C T I O N called for a new crushing plant Its original plant produced 450000 tons per year and was not capable of meeting the spec for flue gas desulfurization stone In its new set up the company used an existing jaw crusher as its primary but it replaced the other equipment including conveyors a scalping screen finishing screen and secondary crusher a used Cedarapids ElJay Rollercone 54 The material is processed through the crushing plant which makes the flue gas desulfurization product for the customer Flue gas desulfurization is a technology used to remove sulfur dioxide from the exhaust flue gases of fossil fuel power plants The product is sized on the loadout system at x 0 Wright said the biggest challenge is staying below the 25 percent maximum passing a 4 mesh spec without a wash plant Trains are loaded every two weeks CSX brings its trains empty to the terminal on a Saturday night and Carmeuse loads them on Sunday before they are shipped 200 miles to the power plant The system is very impressive Its a state of the art train loadout facility and its as nice as they come Wright said This type of system is more common in the coal industry he added so its rare to see so much stone loaded so quickly Reinvesting in our companies is one of the things we do a lot of Wright said We believe you have to make the place better to keep it running In addition to Donecker at Kemper and Rick Johnson at Kinsley Wright praised other members of the projects team They include Mike Kolvek at Kanawha Scales and Systems which supplied the loadout system Amtrac Railroad Contractors of Maryland and Pine Knoll Construction which installed about 10000 ft of new rail and Orbital Engineering which did the structural foundational and electrical engineering work www pitandquarry com August 2010 PIT QUARRY 23
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