(b) Powered Roller Conveyor
Introduction: In a powered roller conveyor, also called Live Roller Conveyor, all or a few of the rollers are driven by one or multiple motors through associated transmission system.
The loads on the roller conveyor are moved by the frictional force caused between the loads and the driven rollers supporting the loads.
Powered roller conveyors are intensively used in heavy process plants like rolling mills to feed heavy and at times hot metal to or take delivery from the mill and to various other process equipment.
The roller conveyors can be reversing type to suit the process or may be Non-reversing type which transport materials within the shop.