Meanwhile, ABB—which claims to have invented and delivered the first gearless mill drive system in 1969—reported: • That it had, in early 2007, completed a $41-million order for installation and commissioning of four gearless ball mill drive …
Managing and monitoring gearless mill drives. Posted by Matrix on 15th December 2014. ABB has re-packaged its proven and tested service offering for gearless mill drives (GMD) remote diagnostic services with the launch of a newly created …
A gearless mill drive is a major investment for a plant and as the beating heart of the production process is essential. Thus, having knowledge of how to make most of your GMD is crucial. The following advanced digital service can enable …
Gearless mill drives are a well established solution for grinding applications in the minerals and mining industries. The paper describes the functionality and technical features of such drive ...
Ringmotor of the Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) System. CYCLOCONVERTER Principle The Cycloconverter is a frequency changer which converts a poly-phase voltage with the frequency f1 into a single or poly-phase voltage with a different, lower frequency f2. On Gearless Mill Drives (GMD), the operational output frequency varies from 0.3 Hz up to about 6 Hz.
GMD technology for Minera ndida. ABB gearless mill drive, installed 2002 at the Minera ndida in Chile. ABB announced that it will supply a new 15.7 MW gearless mill drive (GMD) system for a 26 ft ball mill, including transformers, ring motor …
The poles of the gearless or synchronous motor (also called wrap-around motor or ring motor) are directly installed on the pole flange of the mill shell, turning the mill body into the rotor. The stator is then wrapped around the mill. The gearless motor is fed by a cycloconverter which has a rated output frequency of around 5 Hz for the GMD drive.
Two 28 MW gearless mill drive systems (GMDS) are operating in the mine's 12-metre SAG mills and four 16.5 MW GMDS are employed in 26 ball mills along with associated control systems. "Gearless mill drives are the 'workhorses' for grinding …
ABB Gearless Mill Drive Users Meet in Peru. ABB reported that it held the most recent of its Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) User Meetings in Lima, Peru, during October 23–24. The conference, a cooperative event between ABB Switzerland and ABB Peru, was the fourth meeting of its type, following a global event held in Switzerland in 2007 and after ...
30 July, 2013. ABB is buying Alstom's ring motor business to enhance its gearless mill drive (GMD) activities. The business, based in Bilbao, Spain, has about 120 employees and achieved a turnover of €57m in 2012/13. It will become part of ABB's Process Automation division. The financial details of the deal have not been revealed.
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ABB announces that it has successfully completed the commissioning of a 13.4 MW gearless mill drive (GMD) system for the Hipogeno project. The GMD powers a 36' SAG (semiautogenous) mill at Carmen de Andacollo copper mine in central Chile. Carmen de Andacollo is an open-pit truck-and-shovel operation at an elevation of 1000 m. 90 % of the ...
A Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) is a major investment for a plant, and a host of processes are dependent on its reliable performance. This makes its potential downtime one of the biggest risks any mining company faces. It's also one that can be mitigated and controlled through data and insights.
Updates on geared vs gearless drive solutions for grinding mills. SME 2013 Abstract. The current paper looks at evaluating the merits of large geared mills versus gearless driven mills by evaluating the following factors: The capability of currently …
Gearless mill drives. Longer service intervals thanks to low-wear drive processes SIMINE Gearless mill drives' rpms can be tailored to your operations at any time, and are infinitely variable and uncomplicated. Whether manually or fully automatic – rpms can be adjusted to account for the proper-ties of the ore, resulting in significantly less
In the past the conventional method of driving large ball mills included some form of speed reducing gear between the higher speed driving motor and the lower speed ball mill. Process developments in the mining and cement industries have increasingly tended toward the use of ever larger ball mills for grinding their products. As the horsepower drive ratings required have increased to several ...
ABB's gearless mill drive offering is part of the innovative ABB Ability™ MineOptimize portfolio. MineOptimize is a framework that encompasses optimised solutions, …
A gearless drive for the drum of a cement mill or the like wherein the pole wheel, i.e. the rotor of a low-speed electric motor surrounds the drum and is connected to it by a circumferential array of uniformly spaced studs which project radially from the drum and are received in a similar array of uniformly spaced recesses located in the pole wheel structure.
Up to 300,000 tons of copper will be mined at Sentinel, one of FQM's flagship plants. For copper mines of this size, reliable, high efficiency mills are top priority. FQM has opted for Siemens Gearless Mill Drives to be used in the two SAG mills having a diameter of 40 feet and an output of 28 MW and the two ball mills with a diameter of 28 feet and an output of 22 MW. With these mill drive ...
Gearless mill drives (GMDs) are the grinding solution of choice in challenging environments. By eliminating bolt-on mechanical components such as ring-gears, pinions, couplings and gearboxes, GMDs offer ore producers unrivalled …
That is why the gearless drive of a grinding mill is one of the most crucial pieces of equipment in the concentrator and why it is subject to particularly high demands. Siemens has provided about 80 SIMINE Gearless mill drives to the mining industry …
DRA Global has installed over 120 mills, including a 23MW SAG Mill and an 18MW gearless drive mill, both world firsts. Specialist capabilities in the design of mines cater for a wide range of mining methods and commodities. Mining services extend from pit to port; from the inception of brownfields and greenfields projects to the end of the mine ...
The gearless mill drive business is an important market for ABB. GMD end users from 20 different mines or cement plants, coming from all five continents, as well as major mill suppliers, accepted ABB's invitation and came to Switzerland to share their knowledge, experiences, problems and ideas with representatives from ABB.
Gearless mill drive system (GMD) Go gearless to meet your business objetives by exceeding standard availability targets in your grinding operations. ABB's GMD is the most powerful mill drive system in the market to power semiautogenous (SAG), ball …
SIMINE Gearless Mill Drives – outstanding reliability at your hand The Gearless Concept The Gearless Drive avoids any contact between the rotating mill and the static parts of the motor. This enables a contin-uous workflow without maintenance on the gears or the pinions. What used to be downtime is now productive time.
ABB gearless mill drive systems feature numerous benefits when compared with conventional geared drive systems: superior reliability, increased process availability, extended life span and improved energy efficiency. ABB delivered the world s first gearless machine drive in 1969, which is still operating at the Ciment Lamberg-Lafarge cement ...
Gearless mill drive order. ABB has received an order for the first gearless mill drive (GMD) system ever to be installed in an Indian manufacturing plant. The order was placed at the end of October 2009, by the Indian cement manufacturer Lalitha Cement Ltd. (LCL), located in Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
That is why the gearless drive of a grinding mill is one of the most crucial pieces of equipment in the concentrator and why it is subject to particularly high demands. Siemens has provided about 80 SIMINE Gearless mill drives to the mining industry since 1980. In these thirty-plus years, SIMINE Gearless mill drives have accumulated a combined ...
GMD technology for Minera ndida. ABB gearless mill drive, installed 2002 at the Minera ndida in Chile. ABB announced that it will supply a new 15.7 MW gearless mill drive (GMD) system for a 26 ft ball mill, including transformers, ring motor …
Download scientific diagram | Gearless motor drive scheme. from publication: Technical Evaluation and Practical Experience of High-Power Grinding Mill Drives in Mining Applications | Grinding mill ...