CONVEYORS FOR HANDLING BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS IN-PLANT

About the Book

This book CONVEYORS FOR HANDLING BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS IN-PLANT provides an in-depth approach to the fundamentals for the design of conveyors used in agricultural processing industries. It is written for agricultural engineering graduates and undergraduates as well as others in tertiary institutions interested in material handling equipment design. It is an eminently useful book for practicing engineers, designers and research workers as well as technicians and technologists. The conveyors covered in the book include belt, bucket, chain, gravity roller, hydraulic and pneumatic, screw and shaking conveyors as well as fans and blowers. The book approached the design and selection of conveyors by calculating their throughput capacities, the forces acting on them and the power requirement of each conveyor, with the hope that whoever uses the book must have attained an appropriate level of Mathematics and Physics to come to terms with the many mathematical equations used in the book. The design approach took into consideration the properties of the materials to be conveyed as well as those of the conveyors to be selected and used as a rational basis for the design. The book classified conveyors, showed the various factors to be considered when selecting conveyors and gave the general theory of conveyors before going into the design properly. The maintenance procedures for the traction-type conveyors were given. At the end of each chapter, worked examples, review questions and sample problems were given to enable the reader come to grips with the subject matter.

About the Author

Sabbas Nwabueze Asoegwu, an Associate Professor of Agricultural Engineering at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Nigeria, hails from Utuh in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. He has his B. Sc. (Hons) (UNN); M. Sc. (Ife/OAU) and a Ph.D. (Akure). With about 10-years research experience from National Horticultural Research Institute, Ibadan and about 25-years teaching experience at FUTO, he has sole-authored two books: Agricultural Field Implements and Mechanization (1998) and Introduction to Engineering Mechanics (2004); co-authored the book: Introduction to Engineering Drawing (2001). He has published over sixty (60) articles in Books, Journals and peer-reviewed Proceedings (Local and International) and Technical Bulletins. Sabbas, Head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, FUTO (1994 – 2000; 2012 - Date) is a Chartered Engineer (COREN Registered), Fellows of the Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineers (FNIAE) and the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE) and members of the Horticultural Society of Nigeria (HORTSON), American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), International Soil Tillage Research Organization (ISTRO) and the Internet Society (ISOC). Sabbas has brought his wealth of experience in the teaching of the Principles of Agricultural Materials Handling and Design of Agricultural Materials Handling Equipment into the making of this book CONVEYORS FOR HANDLING BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS IN-PLANT. The book is a treatise on the subject matter.