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 alumina:
Alumina is produced in six major plants in three Australian States: Queensland, Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Collectively they have a production output of 8.1 Mtpy.Of the 8.1 Mtpy of alumina produced, 6.9 Mtpy is exported. The material is despatched to New Zealand, Japan, North America, and Europe in ships having capacities of 150,000 dwt. Bunbury, in the south west of Western Australia, currently has the largest alumina ship loader in the world. The unit has a capacity of 2,200 t/h being delivered over a 1,800 mm belt. Currently, ships to the port of Bunbury are limited to 60,000 D.W.T. Essentially the operation is dust free since the skill of the materials handling design engineer has been used to prevent dust pollution.
Production of alumina began at Gove in the early 1970s, at Gladstone in 1967, at Kwinana in 1963, and more recently at Pinjarra and Worsley in Western Australia. From modest beginnings Australia now rates as the world's major alumina producer.
Organisations in Australian Science at Work - Weipa Bauxite project, Qld
People in Bright Sparcs - Peacock, E. E.
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