Feed Distributor Chute for Mineral Sizer

Sam,

If 45% of your chute is responsible for 100% of tooth wear, then the problem should be obvious.

You have 55% more capacity than you are using, and your transport system is not level.

Hire a consultant.

Some sort of wedge- or trapezoid-shaped diverter plate might be possible to even out the flow of material into your sizer. Without pictures or the like, it is hard to be more specific.

Coal handling facilities I saw in the past had similar challenges for the first stage where the trucks dumped their loads.

From memory (I was only 13 or 14 at the time) it seemed that they installed a "safety grate" with around 500mm square opening. When a load was dumped onto the grate it took a few seconds to move through to the lower stages, reducing the impact and velocity of the pieces and also allowing some spreading across the grid.

Trucks could dump quickly and get away, but he material was processed and gone before the next truck arrived.

This grid was probably made of 25mm thick plate and was maybe 300mm deep with some "I" beams as cross support. Dump loads were in the order of 50T in those days.