Doppelmayr/Garaventa Annual Brochure 2017

RPC Tüfentobel Extension Phase 3.1
Entsorgung St. Gallen
St. Gallen | Switzerland
Mass flow 500 t/h
Conveying length 1,168 m
Vertical rise 45 m
Belt speed 1.6 m/s
Motor rating 112 kW
Since 2005, a RopeCon ® system has been in use at the Tüfentobel
waste tip to transport inert materials along an extensive stretch of valley
that will subsequently be filled in and relandscaped. The conveyor
belt is being successively extended so that it discharges the waste exactly
where it is intended to go on the pile. Since the system first went
into service, the discharge point has been relocated several times in
order to minimize the distances covered by arriving garbage trucks
as well as by the bulldozers used to distribute the waste material. In
March 2016, a second RopeCon ® was incorporated directly within the
rope span. Material transfer takes place at a height of roughly 20 m.
The new RopeCon ® installation can be operated in both directions. As
this second system uses the existing track ropes, it does not require
its own support structure.