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Chapter 6

I Construction During The Settlement Years

II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material

III Structural Steel

IV Concrete Technology

V Housing

VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing

VII Ports And Harbours

VIII Roads

IX Heavy Foundations

X Bridges

XI Sewerage

XII Water Engineering

XIII Railways

XIV Major Buildings

XV Airports

XVI Thermal Power Stations

XVII Materials Handling
i For grain:
ii For salt:
iii For sugar
iv For iron ore
v For coal
vi For bauxite:
vii For alumina:
viii For cement:

XVIII Oil Industry

XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme

XX The Sydney Opera House

XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge

XXII Hamersley Iron

XXIII North West Shelf

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For salt:

Originally, salt was regarded as a vital foodstuff and preservative. In developed countries, and in some developing countries, it is now a feedstock for the chemical industries.

The principal Australian feedstock for the production of salt is seawater. In some locations, however, the starting point is a naturally available saline solution, eg.: at Lake Bumbunga, South Australia, and Bajool, Queensland. Regardless of the feedstock, the basic process is based on solar evaporation. The salt industry is undoubtedly the largest industrial user of solar energy.

The materials handling systems employed embody major pumping and pipeline techniques in order to get the brine into the harvest ponds and this is followed by major materials handling systems using heavy earth moving equipment, conveyor stackers, and reclaimers. Shipments of salt have been made through ports on the Western Australian west coast, namely: Port Hedland, Exmouth Gulf, and Esperance. Other port facilities handling the product have been the ports of Adelaide and Melbourne. Salt, as with other products, presents its own special materials handling problems, mainly in the form of corrosion.


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