New Bridges for a Brown Coal Bunker, Cologne, Germany

In the plant Ville Berrenrath Bunker Gotteshülfe about 30,000 tons of brown coal are transshipped in one day. The coal is transported on railway wagons directly from the open-cast to the bunker. Inside the hall the wagons stop at one of the 2 bridges running over the bunkers with a total length of 144 m. The wagons are opened so that the coal runs through the open-bridge deck in the bunker underneath the bridge. From there dredging machines put the coal on band-conveyors which carry the coal directly to its final destination. In this paper, the existing and new structures are briefly described.