A brief discussion on how to choose the right drum?

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Choosing the right drum not only helps you achieve better results and improve production efficiency, but it also saves you costs – after all, only what suits you best is the best. Bending stress of the belt as it wraps around the conveyor drum (1) in the pipeline drum system ； (2) The frequency of belt bending is related to the guiding method, the number of rollers it passes around, the transportation distance, and the speed ； (3) Maximum or average specific pressure between the conveyor belt and the drum surface ； (4) Belt allowable strength utilization rate, which is the percentage of the maximum tension on the conveyor belt to its allowable tension ； (5) Installation location and operating conditions of the roller conveyor ； (6) Drum rubber coating and deformation amount of the coating ； The principle behind determining the drum diameter is that when the tensile stress on the conveyor belt is high, the additional bending stress should be lower ； Conversely, when the tensile stress is low, a slightly higher bending stress is allowed, allowing for the use of a smaller drum diameter.