Bulk Solids, Mining, Aggregates & Material Processing worked example

Moisture Correction at 99% dryer or processing line uptime: a worked example

Push dryer or processing line uptime up to 99% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. a plant team is reviewing moisture correction for bulk solids, mining, aggregates, and material processing and needs a clear moisture correction for production, quality, capacity, maintenance, purchasing, or costing decisions

The inputs for this scenario

  • Dry-weight tonnage per drying or screening cycle: 18 tons / cycle (unchanged)
  • Available drying or correction cycles in the period: 240 cycles (unchanged)
  • Dryer or processing line uptime: 99 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 90)
  • First-pass moisture-spec yield: 96 % (unchanged)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Gross moisture correction = moisture correction output per cycle × available moisture correction cycles) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4,106 tons for moisture correction, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 4,320 tons for gross moisture correction.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 43.2 tons for moisture correction uptime loss.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 171 tons for moisture correction yield loss.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where dryer or processing line uptime sits at 90% and the headline result is 3,732 tons, this scenario comes in 10% above the baseline at 4,106 tons.
  • It computes net dry-corrected saleable tonnage by multiplying per-cycle output and available cycles by uptime and first-pass moisture-spec yield. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • Moisture Correction: 4,106 tons (headline result)
  • Gross moisture correction: 4,320 tons
  • Moisture Correction uptime loss: 43.2 tons
  • Moisture Correction yield loss: 171 tons

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Moisture Correction calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.