scope:

This standard gives guidance on writing the technical specification for the procurement of coal handling and bulk storage plant, associated with steam generating plant in the electrical power supply industry. This includes: - Wagon unloaders or wagon tipplers; - Barges or ship unloaders; - Coal stackers and coal reclaimers (bucket, wheels, scrapers) of the coal yard; - Hoppers; - Silos for coal mixing, buffer silos, bunkers (boiler house silos); - Transfer towers between belt conveyors; - Belt conveyors, bucket elevators; - Metal structures (towers, conveyor tunnels); - Screening machines, crushing machines; - Metal separators in coal (magnetic or non magnetic pieces); - Sampling devices, continuous weighers; - Trippers or shuttle belt conveyors filling up boiler house bunkers.