Illustrate and explain in detail any two (2) types of material handling equipment.

1. Storage and Handling Equipment

Storage equipment is limited to non-automated instances grouped together with

engineered systems. Storage equipment is used during "down periods" to store or

buffer items, or periods when they are not being transported. Such periods may refer to

temporary delays during long-term transport or long-term storage designed to allow

stock buildup. Some storage equipment refers to pallets, shelves or racks where items
may be stored in an ordered manner in order to wait for shipment or consumption.

Examples of storage and handling equipment:

 Racks, such as pallet racks, drive-through or drive-in racks, push-back

racks, and sliding racks, are a simple but essential storage tool, saving

floor space while keeping accessible their material.

  As their name suggests, the stacking frames are stackable like bricks.

They allow for the stacking of crushable product pallets, such as liquid

containers, to save space without damage.

 Shelves, drawers, and containers. Another simple storage process, the

shelves are less accessible than the racks. Used with bins and drawers,

they are more able to hold the materials and items stored and arranged

smaller and easier to handle. Types of shelving may include boltless,

cantilever, rotating, and tie-down.

 Mezzanines, a kind of indoor platform, help create more floor space for

offices or more storage in a warehouse or another storage building.

Typical styles include modular, movable, supported platform, supported

house, and stand-alone models.

 Work assist tooling allows for safe and efficient product handling across

numerous industries in applications requiring product movement,

increasing assembly and manufacturing operations efficiency.

2. Bulk Material Handling Equipment

Bulk material handling refers to goods being processed, transported, and managed in

loose bulk form. Such products, among others, may include fruit, oil, or minerals. Generally

speaking, these pieces of equipment treat products in a loose manner, such as conveyor

belts or elevators built to transport vast amounts of material, or in packed form, using
drums and trunks.

Examples of storage and handling equipment:

 Conveyors for various types of bulk material come in a broad range of styles as

described above.

 Stackers, normally automatic, pile bulk material onto stockpiles, traveling within

a yard between two points along rails.

  Reclaimers are the opposite of stackers, recycling goods from stockpiles, some

use bucket wheels to hold the material while others are scraper- or portal-style.

 Bucket elevators, also known as grain legs, are used to hold material vertically

by buckets connected to a revolving chain or belt.

 Grain elevators are tall buildings primarily designed for grain storage. They

include equipment for transporting the grain to the top of the elevator, where it

is sent out to be processed.

 Hoppers are funnel-shaped containers that make the poured or dumped

material from one container to another. Nevertheless, unlike a funnel, hoppers

will keep up material until it is needed, and then release it.

 Silos are typically large storage facilities for bulk materials, but they do not

usually contain equipment such as grain elevators that carry the material to the

top of the structure. Various varieties include silos tower, bunker, and bag.

Illustrate and explain any two (2) types of material separation processes

1. Chromatography

Chromatography is the separation of a mixture by moving it through a

solution or suspension, or as a vapor (as in gas chromatography) through a medium

where the components travel at different speeds. Thin-layer chromatography is a

special type of chromatography used to separate and identify mixtures, in particular

pigments, that are or can be colored.
2. Filtration

Chromatography is the separation of a mixture by moving it through a

solution or suspension, or as a vapor (as in gas chromatography) through a medium

where the components move at various velocities. Thin-layer chromatography is a

special type of chromatography used to isolate and distinguish mixtures that are or

may be colored, in particular pigments.