Hello All
I was recently asked in our plant to look into upgrading a motor that drives a conveyor belt. The current motor driving the belt is a 25 h.p. motor and is to small for the application because it keeps tripping out because of the load. (The belt is being used to load railcars from a cement silo) We must keep the same load (tons per hour) in order to meet time requirements, therefore we need a new motor that will be able to handle this load.
I was wondering what type of calculation I could do, or what method to use in determining what size motor would be suffiecient to handle this load on the belt. Someone had mentioned upgrading to a 40 h.p. motor, but I wanted to find a way to be sure that a particular h.p. will handle the load. It there a way I can convert the tons per hour across the belt to a torque or some other measurement and then size the motor based off of that?
(The motor is 480V at 29 FLA)
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thanks for the help!
Mull982
I was recently asked in our plant to look into upgrading a motor that drives a conveyor belt. The current motor driving the belt is a 25 h.p. motor and is to small for the application because it keeps tripping out because of the load. (The belt is being used to load railcars from a cement silo) We must keep the same load (tons per hour) in order to meet time requirements, therefore we need a new motor that will be able to handle this load.
I was wondering what type of calculation I could do, or what method to use in determining what size motor would be suffiecient to handle this load on the belt. Someone had mentioned upgrading to a 40 h.p. motor, but I wanted to find a way to be sure that a particular h.p. will handle the load. It there a way I can convert the tons per hour across the belt to a torque or some other measurement and then size the motor based off of that?
(The motor is 480V at 29 FLA)
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. Thanks for the help!
Mull982