(5) Selection of HOCON-Projects

  • Study: Strategic advice in the field of materials handling (assignment also in Austria)
  • Study: Handling of Chilean black lignite under special consideration of the influences during sea transportation
  • Feasibility study: Intermediate stockpiling of fly ash in old oil tanks (assignment also in Austria)
  • Project progress control: Examination of the opencast mining equipment of the lignite mine ELBISTAN/Turkey (assignment also in Turkey)
  • Study: Alternative mining equipment for use in exploitation of thin seams in opencast mines
  • Study: Spreaders for hard-rock opencast mines with proposals for the development of new equipment in this field
  • Documentation: Cutting-type exploitating methods for mining purposes
  • Expert opinion and proposal for improvements concerning the belt conveyor system of a quadrant-type shiploader in Scotland (assignment also in Scotland)
  • Advice in port re-handling (assignment also in Spain)
  • Advice for the equipment utilisation and operation in a clay open pit of a brick factory (assignment also in Switzerland)
  • Advice to main machine and plant manufacturers concerning their products and their personnel sector
  • Solving problems of a German mining consultant concerning design engineering in materials handling plants construction

Advisory assistance in project planning for manufacturers of plants, machine units and material handling systems:

  • Stacker-reclaimer system for coal stockyard in Hong Kong o
  • Slewable belt conveyor system with spreader for ash removal of a power station in Thailand
  • Outline, complete technical project design, pre-static and computation for a spreader with crawler-mounted tripper car for a lignite opencast mine in Thailand, including preparation of tender documents
  • Optimisation of the performance data for two belt conveyor systems for a lignite opencast mine in Thailand, including project outl ine of 4a 4x630 kW belt-drive station
  • Assistance for a Laprex-plant project in Egypt
  • Detailed project design for a complete coal stockyard of a power station project in India
  • Technical revision of a bridge-reclaimer for an ore stockyard in India
  • Assistance in projecting of a combined bucket-wheel stacker/reclaimer unit for Middle East
  • Assistance in projecting a bucket-wheel reclaimer for India
  • Project outline and preparation of tender documents for a combined bucket-wheel stacker/reclaimer unit for a project in the PR of China
  • Development and computation of a carrying-cell type reclaimer for a circular stockyard
  • System development and design for an intermediate conveyor (crawler- and rai1-mounted) as major element of an exploitation machine for opencast mines
  • Development and design of a crawler-mounted belt waggon with rail-mounted hopper car for a large limestone quarry in the USA
  • Development, design and technical calculation of a rail-mounted machine for the automated rehabilitation of railway tracks, including technical advice
  • Development and design of exploitation machines and screening equipment to be used in coal recovery from mine waste heaps in Belgium
  • Advisory assistance in materials handling for a large-scale project in Venezuela
  • Preparation of tender documents for a belt conveyor system in an alumina production facility of MARTINSWERK works in FRG
  • Development studies for a Stamping-Charging-Pushing Machine for a coking plant

Expert opinions for several Inferior Courts and Superior Courts in the FRG such as in Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Düren, Düsseldorf, Euskirchen, Jülich, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach-Rheydt, Waldbröl, etc.:

  • Expert opinions in technical matters
  • Reconstruction of accidents