Jan 09, 2019 Gearless Ball Mill Operation. The reliability of large diameter, high horsepower ball mill is paramount when large production and minimum downtime is required. The 17 ft. x 56 ft. double compartment ball mill at St. Lawrence Cement Company has the first gearless drive built in North America and has the world’s largest hydrodynamic bearings

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2 GEARLESS MILL DES The gearless mill drive eliminates ring-gear, pinion, gearbox, coupling, motor shaft and motor bearings, used within a conventional mill drive system. By mounting the rotor poles directly onto the mill, the mill itself becomes the rotor of the gearless motor. Building a track record

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Antamina Compania Minera Antamina S.A. Peru Project: One SAG Mill and 3 Ball Mill Drive Systems Capacity: SAG Mill 1000 t/h Ball Mills 1000 t/h Consultant: Bechtel, USA Mill Builder: FFE Minerals, USA Mill Size: SAG Mill 38 feet/11,58 m Ball Mills 24 feet/7,32 m Ore processed: Copper/Zinc Drive Rating: SAG Mill 20,1 MW, 9,23 rpm Ball Mills 11,2 MW, 11,38 rpm

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Oct 22, 2021 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

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Whether you’re talking about SAG or ball mill, space is a sensitive subject, especially in the concentrator. That’s why we always design our SIMINE MILL Gearless Drives to combine maximum performance with limited space requirements. Suitable foundation and adequate ground conditions Since our solutions have a low motor weight, this notice

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SIMINE Gearless mill drives – outstanding reliability for your mine The gearless concept The gearless drive avoids any contact between the rotating mill and the static parts of the motor. This allows for contin-uous workflow without maintenance on the gears

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Siemens, the company that introduced Gearless Mill Drives (GMD) to mining industry started up its first GMD on a ball mill in Norway in 1980. The mill and its drive system are still in service. Today, GMDs are mainly used for SAG mills between 36 and 40 feet (10.7 to 12.2 m) and ball

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The gearless drive and the CCV must be designed to resist the short-circuit current and the generated high torque. ... R. A. Errath, “15000-HP gearless ball mill drive in cement—Why not!” a normal shutdown of the drive or as a protection measure in IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 663–669, May/Jun. 1996. response to abnormal

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Gearless mill drives - Grinding (ABB in Mining) - ABB Group. ABB's Gearless mill drive system is the most powerful mill drive system in the market to power semiautogenous (SAG), ball

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Oct 29, 2019 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 operations which are at the heart of any mine

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