Hello Turnyourbassdown,
we have belts with a 17 degree incline, running at 4.5 m/sec
beltwidth of 1800mm transporting coal, ironore and olivinesand. No problems with backflushing. We have no sideskirts.
Troughangle is 40 degree, idlerspacing 1000mm.
As mentioned before: keep the belt on the...