Modeling of a single conveyor

• Simple discrete-event model:
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  • standard component in commercial simulation environments
• Transportation of dry bulk material:
  • incoming mass flow → line load 
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  • for constant v
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• Basic modeling approach (for constant v):
  • conveyor divided into compartments of equal length l_E = v ∆t
  • discrete entities E_i with mass m_i
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  • for simplicity: choose l_E = l/N
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  • alternatively: compartments of equal mass
    • more complex timing of events
    • hard to implement in some environments (e. g. Arena)