*Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India
**Department of Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (earlier known as ISM), Dhanbad, 826004, India
Online published on 24 October, 2019.
The function of any industrial unit largely depends on its material handling system. The material handling system of the unit primarily deals with receipt of raw materials from the source, in-house handling for their proper use and processing required, if any, delivery of the products to the distributors and the end users and carrying out bye products and waste materials/affluents to ecologically safer destination. The coal based thermal power plants, which lead production of effectively usable form and efficiently transmissible nature of energy for catering to the need of an industrial unit, its development as well as meeting the domestic requirements; indispensably depend on rakes of coal received and their unloading. In this paper a model has been evolved to correlate different parameters of material handling system pertaining to the coal based thermal power plant of medium capacity (i.e. 1000 MW) by making use of response surface methodology to analyze the haphazardly distributed and random nature of data.
Period of detention, interarrival time, wagon rake, response surface method, coefficient of determination, F-test
