A planning engineer for a new alum plant must present some estimates to his company regarding the capacity of a silo designed to store bauxite ore until it is processed into alum. The ore resembles pink talcum powder and is poured from a conveyor at the top of the silo. The silo is a cylinder 100 ft high with a radius of 200 ft. The conveyor carries ore at a rate of 60,000 and the ore maintains a conical shape whose radius is 1.5 times its height. If, at a certain time t, the pile is 60 ft high, how long will it take for the pile to reach the top of the silo?
Solution
VerifiedIt is given that the ore is forming a conical shape, we know that the volume of a cone is given by
It is given that
Differentiate both sides with respect to time
The conveyor is bringing the ore at the rate of 60,000 fth, this is
Rewrite the equation in the differential form as shown below:
Integrate both sides
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