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Computer simulation boosts automation in the stockyard

Abstract

Today's desktop computer and advanced software keep pace with handling equipment to reach new heights of sophistication with graphic simulation able to show precisely what is and could happen in the coal terminal's stockyard. The article describes an innovative coal terminal nearing completion on the Pacific coast at Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico, called the Petracalco terminal. Here coal is unloaded, stored and fed to the nearby power plant of Pdte Plutarco Elias Calles. The R & D department of the Italian company Techint, Italimpianti has developed MHATIS, a sophisticated software system for marine terminal management here, allowing analysis of performance with the use of graphical animation. Strategies can be tested before being put into practice and likely power station demand can be predicted. The design and operation of the MHATIS system is explained. Other integrated coal handling plants described in the article are that developed by the then PWH (renamed Krupp Foerdertechnik) of Germany for the Israel Electric Corporation and the installation by the same company of a further bucketwheel for a redesigned coal stockyard at the Port of Hamburg operated by Hansaport. 1 fig., 4 photos.
Publication Date:
Apr 01, 2001
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-01:046140; CLA-00:060611
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Coal Trans Magazine; Journal Volume: 16; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: PBD: Mar-Apr 2001
Subject:
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; AUTOMATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; COAL; TERMINAL FACILITIES; STOCKPILES; COMPUTER CODES; UNLOADING; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; M CODES; GLOBAL ASPECTS; MEXICO; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS
OSTI ID:
20159015
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 1472-197X; TRN: 000600611
Submitting Site:
CLA
Size:
page(s) 31-32,34-36
Announcement Date:
Jun 05, 2001

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abstractNote = {Today's desktop computer and advanced software keep pace with handling equipment to reach new heights of sophistication with graphic simulation able to show precisely what is and could happen in the coal terminal's stockyard. The article describes an innovative coal terminal nearing completion on the Pacific coast at Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico, called the Petracalco terminal. Here coal is unloaded, stored and fed to the nearby power plant of Pdte Plutarco Elias Calles. The R & D department of the Italian company Techint, Italimpianti has developed MHATIS, a sophisticated software system for marine terminal management here, allowing analysis of performance with the use of graphical animation. Strategies can be tested before being put into practice and likely power station demand can be predicted. The design and operation of the MHATIS system is explained. Other integrated coal handling plants described in the article are that developed by the then PWH (renamed Krupp Foerdertechnik) of Germany for the Israel Electric Corporation and the installation by the same company of a further bucketwheel for a redesigned coal stockyard at the Port of Hamburg operated by Hansaport. 1 fig., 4 photos.}
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