What is a bucket wheel reclaimer?

Bucket wheel reclaimers are the ideal means of handling and moving large amounts of bulk materials in the shortest possible time. They are used worldwide in the handling of bulk materials such as coal, iron ore, petroleum coke, limestone, bauxite, lignite, phosphate, and other kinds of ore.

How much does a reclaimer weigh?

Each stacker weighs about 2000 tonnes with the reclaimer weighing in at around 3000 tonnes.

How many types of reclaimer are there?

There are many different types of stackers and reclaimers. Examples include bucket stackers, circular stackers, and longitudinal stackers; redial reclaimers, bridge reclaimers, and portal reclaimers; and combination or multi-purpose products.

What is the function of reclaimer?

A reclaimer is a large machine used in bulk material handling applications. A reclaimer’s function is to recover bulk material such as ores and cereals from a stockpile. A stacker is used to stack the material.

What’s the purpose of a bucket wheel Stacker?

Bucket wheel reclaimers are used to pick up material that has been positioned by a stacker for transport to a processing plant. Stacker/reclaimers, which combine tasks to reduce the number of required machines, also use bucket wheels to carry out their tasks.

How is material transferred in a bucket wheel?

In early cell-type bucket wheels, the material was transferred through a chute leading from each bucket, while newer cell-less and semi-cell designs use a stationary chute through which all of the buckets discharge.

What kind of machine is a bucket wheel excavator?

Note the 90-ton CAT front loader at lower left for size comparison. A bucket-wheel excavator (BWE) is a heavy equipment machine used in surface mining . The primary function of BWEs is to act as a continuous digging machine in large-scale open-pit mining operations, removing thousands of tons of overburden a day.