SOROS ASSOCIATES: Engineers & Contractors

Technical Innovations

Soros Associates has been responsible for many of the innovations and advances in the state-of-the-art of bulk port technology. These developments, in response to specific needs of our clients, resulted in capital cost savings and/or other economic and operating benefits.

The pictures on the left show an example of Soros' patented design for a dual linear loader at La Candelaria in Punta Padrones, Chile loading 1100 TPH copper concentrate into vessels of 10,000 to 35,000 DWT.

Highlighted in Bulk Solids Handling Volume 13, No.1, February 1993 in an article titled "Dual-Linear Loader - Cost Breakthrough in Shiploading," the machine utilizes a dual linear motion shiploader that provides economies of berth design and full length and reach shuttle movement of the loading boom on a constant span bridge.

Soros provided detail engineering, detailed design of shiploader, approach conveyor, civil and marine works for this project .

Innovations and advances include:

First quadrant shiploader
First open sea bulk loading berth
First U.S. coal port with ground storage
First high speed coal conveyor system in US (1,000 FPM)
Highest capacity bottom dump coal unloading (3,600 TPH)
First automatic clean-out system in a bulk port
World record effective coal shiploading (7,650 TPH)
Highest capacity ship unloading (20,000 TPH)
Slave stacking system (patented)
First unit train installation to unload one material and load another material at the same time
First 80 million ton per year bulk port
First bulk shiploading berth for 280,000 DWT ships
Highest capacity shiploading installation (20,000 TPH)
Moving rock-box for switching 20,000 TPH material flow
Highest capacity port stockpiling system (20,000 TPH)
First 10,000 TPH bucketwheel reclaimers for iron ore
First high speed coal conveyor system in the United Kingdom
First coal port with "in-motion" train unloading"
First coal shiploader without trimmer, for oceangoing ships
Computer simulation programs for port planning
Artificial island transshipment terminal
First linear loader (patented)
10,000 TPH belt weighing system with +/0.02% certifiable accuracy
First multiple oriented open sea bulk loading berth
First 3,000 TPH alumina loading berth
First dust-free alumina shiploader
First single rotary dumper with 6,000 TPH coal capacity
4,400 TPH truck unloading system for multiple products
First 7300 TPH bucketwheel reclaimer for coal
First dual-travelling shiploader system
First 8,000 TPH bauxite loading berth
First 8,800 TPH bucketwheel reclaimer for coal
Highest capacity "in-motion" coal receival system (6,600 TPH)
First 6,600 TPH coal feeder
First 10,000 TPH booster bin system
10,000 TPH linear loader for coal
16,000 TPH linear loader for iron ore
First Dual Linear Shiploader for all Bulk Materials (Patent Held)

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