DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF HYDRAULIC PALLET SYSTEM IN CHAIN CONVEYOR

Abstract

This paper describes the design and analysis of hydraulic pallet system in a chain conveyor used in automobile industries for loading and unloading of materials .The system, consisting of a hydraulic power pack, a chain conveyor, a pallet system is automatically controlled with the help of PLC. Our aim is to design a feasible and a cost effective mechanism to lift the given load using hydraulic actuation and listing merits of hydraulic actuations over pneumatic and servo actuation. The design module pallet along with mechanism used for balancing is design in CAD software CATIA and analyzed for variable loading in ANSYS .The design proposed is highly flexible with the manufactures requirement and its stability is analyzed under variable load. The result of the feasibility study showed a conspicuous shortening of working hours, and an alleviation of manual labor.