Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting Geometry
Starting from the general principles of material cutting, with applicability to coal and overburden excavation using bucket wheel excavators (BWEs), this paper proposes another method for calculating the drive power of the bucket wheel excavator by computer modeling. This approach required two steps...
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| author | Ildiko Brînaș Andrei Andraș Sorin Mihai Radu Florin Dumitru Popescu Iosif Andraș Bogdan Ioan Marc Alexandru Robert Cioclu |
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| description | Starting from the general principles of material cutting, with applicability to coal and overburden excavation using bucket wheel excavators (BWEs), this paper proposes another method for calculating the drive power of the bucket wheel excavator by computer modeling. This approach required two steps. In the first step, the volume of the excavated material for one slewing movement of the boom and for a particular excavation geometry was determined, and the slewing time in the open pit coal mine was measured. In the second one, the values of the specific energy (SE) consumption for cutting were determined by laboratory tests on samples of material taken from the open pit mine. The proposed method allows for the estimation of the load of the bucket wheel drive motor by taking into account only the specific energy necessary for the cutting of the material, the excavated volume during one slewing, and the time required to excavate this volume, and not the wear coefficients of the teeth or bucket edge. This method is important for establishing the correlation between the height of the excavated slice and the slewing speed of the boom in order to optimize the drive power of the bucket wheel and thus improve energy efficiency, increase the performance of excavators, and reduce operating costs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-987843d959f147adbf0121f11ad012d62023-11-22T02:03:48ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732021-06-011413389210.3390/en14133892Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting GeometryIldiko Brînaș0Andrei Andraș1Sorin Mihai Radu2Florin Dumitru Popescu3Iosif Andraș4Bogdan Ioan Marc5Alexandru Robert Cioclu6Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering, University of Petroșani, 332006 Petrosani, RomaniaDepartment of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering, University of Petroșani, 332006 Petrosani, RomaniaDepartment of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering, University of Petroșani, 332006 Petrosani, RomaniaDepartment of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering, University of Petroșani, 332006 Petrosani, RomaniaDepartment of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering, University of Petroșani, 332006 Petrosani, RomaniaDepartment of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering, University of Petroșani, 332006 Petrosani, RomaniaDepartment of Mechanical, Industrial and Transport Engineering, University of Petroșani, 332006 Petrosani, RomaniaStarting from the general principles of material cutting, with applicability to coal and overburden excavation using bucket wheel excavators (BWEs), this paper proposes another method for calculating the drive power of the bucket wheel excavator by computer modeling. This approach required two steps. In the first step, the volume of the excavated material for one slewing movement of the boom and for a particular excavation geometry was determined, and the slewing time in the open pit coal mine was measured. In the second one, the values of the specific energy (SE) consumption for cutting were determined by laboratory tests on samples of material taken from the open pit mine. The proposed method allows for the estimation of the load of the bucket wheel drive motor by taking into account only the specific energy necessary for the cutting of the material, the excavated volume during one slewing, and the time required to excavate this volume, and not the wear coefficients of the teeth or bucket edge. This method is important for establishing the correlation between the height of the excavated slice and the slewing speed of the boom in order to optimize the drive power of the bucket wheel and thus improve energy efficiency, increase the performance of excavators, and reduce operating costs.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/13/3892bucket wheel excavatordrive powermechanical rock cuttingspecific energylinear cutting machine |
| spellingShingle | Ildiko Brînaș Andrei Andraș Sorin Mihai Radu Florin Dumitru Popescu Iosif Andraș Bogdan Ioan Marc Alexandru Robert Cioclu Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting Geometry Energies bucket wheel excavator drive power mechanical rock cutting specific energy linear cutting machine |
| title | Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting Geometry |
| title_full | Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting Geometry |
| title_fullStr | Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting Geometry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting Geometry |
| title_short | Determination of the Bucket Wheel Drive Power by Computer Modeling Based on Specific Energy Consumption and Cutting Geometry |
| title_sort | determination of the bucket wheel drive power by computer modeling based on specific energy consumption and cutting geometry |
| topic | bucket wheel excavator drive power mechanical rock cutting specific energy linear cutting machine |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/13/3892 |
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