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Innovation News | Press | Siemens China

July 2013 In Peru, Siemens has commissioned the first gearless drive system for the long-distance transport of copper ore. The 3.8-megawatt drive is more reliable and efficient than the systems that are normally used to power conveyor belts, which combine motors and gearboxes.

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Gearless conveyor drives - Crushing and conveying | ABB

How digitalized gearless drive technology results in energy savings and improved performance. Downloads. GCDs: the power behind the world’s largest open-pit copper mine - Global Mining Review (English - pdf - Article)

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Gearless Drives for Ore Conveying and Grinding

2022-2-7 · Antapaccay is the first mine using gearless drives for ore conveying and grinding. Antapaccay is a brownfield expansion of the Tintaya copper mine. The deposit is scheduled to produce 160,000 tons of copper in concentrate

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Xstrata Invests in Gearless Conveyor Drives

2011-6-28 · The Antapaccay Gearless Drive During the autumn of 2010 Siemens and ThyssenKrupp secured a contract with Xstrata Copper to build a gearless conveyor drive for the company's new Antapaccay mine in Peru. It will operate

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Gearless Conveyor Drives- the power behind the world-s ...

Gearless conveyor drives (GCDs) are now the preferred solution in many mining projects, particularly those that require high drive power, helping to boost the efficiency of higher-capacity belt systems for greater ore throughput and reduced energy usage, equipment downtime and maintenance costs.

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The Case for Going Gearless | E & MJ

2020-4-8 · Gearless drive systems for conveyors or mills can simplify installation, increase machine efficiency and reduce maintenance costs, according to a company that’s been a pioneer in the technology. A Siemens gearless drive

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Siemens gearless drives for Quellaveco

2019-10-15 · Conveyors are an increasingly important gearless drive market. Powered by Siemens’ new gearless drive technology, thyssenkrupp’s high-capacity overland conveyor will access one of the world’s largest copper

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Gearless Mill Drives - ABB

2021-2-17 · Ore processed: Copper/Zinc Drive Rating: SAG Mill 20,1 MW, 9,23 rpm Ball Mills 11,2 MW, 11,38 rpm Award of Contract: March 1999 Start of Operation: June 2001 ABB’s scope of supply: Four complete Gearless Mill Drive Systems including: Wrap-around Motors Cycloconverters & Excitations Transformers, E-House Containers incl.: Cycloconverters, MCC ...

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ABB to Supply Gearless Conveyor Drive System for World’s ...

2013-4-4 · ABB to Supply Gearless Conveyor Drive System for World’s Largest Underground Copper Mine in Chile. 4 April 2013. Share Article Make an Enquiry ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order to provide the electrical equipment, including its new gearless conveyor drives, for Codelco’s largest operation in Chile ...

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Gearless mill drives - ABB

2021-2-16 · 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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Gearless Drives for Ore Conveying and Grinding - Cmms ...

2022-2-7 · Antapaccay is the first mine using gearless drives for ore conveying and grinding. Antapaccay is a brownfield expansion of the Tintaya copper mine. The deposit is scheduled to produce 160,000 tons of copper in concentrate per year

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Siemens gearless drives for Quellaveco conveyor being ...

Conveyors are an increasingly important gearless drive market. Powered by Siemens’ new gearless drive technology, thyssenkrupp’s high-capacity overland conveyor will access one of the world’s largest copper reserves in Quellaveco. The Quellaveco mine in Peru contains approximately 7.5 Mt of copper in ore reserves. With the rugged landscape in Quellaveco,

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Go gearless with ABB’s mill and conveyor drives for more ...

2021-5-25 · Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile. Commissioning of the world’s most powerful gearless conveyor drive system. Our longstanding association with Swedish mining company Boliden is an example of how ABB’s gearless drives

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ABB to Supply Gearless Conveyor Drive System for World’s ...

2013-4-4 · ABB to Supply Gearless Conveyor Drive System for World’s Largest Underground Copper Mine in Chile. 4 April 2013. Share Article Make an Enquiry ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order to provide the electrical equipment, including its new gearless conveyor drives, for Codelco’s largest operation in Chile ...

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Gearless drive systems for belt conveyor and grinding ...

2013-2-18 · The Siemens Drive Technologies Division has commissioned a gearless belt conveyor system in the Antapaccay copper mine in Peru. This is the first large-scale reference for this technology outside ...

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ABB commissions world's most powerful gearless conveyor ...

2020-9-30 · Chuquicamata is the world’s largest open pit copper mine by excavated volume. The conveyor drive system has three 11,000 tonne-per-hour conveyors that feature gearless conveyor drives and ABB ...

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ABB commissions copper mine conveyor - Control Global

2020-10-30 · ABB and Takraf reported Sept. 28 that they commissioned and tested what's reported to be the world's highest-powered, gearless conveyor drive system, enabling continuous operations at the Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile.. ABB provided engineering design, gearless conveyor drives, electrical equipment for power supply, energy distribution and

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Toromocho – A giant in high-altitude mining

2021-2-16 · powerful gearless mill drive systems ever made - at the world’s highest altitude mining project: the 4,700 m Toromocho copper mine in Peru. Toromocho Mountain is one of the world’s largest untapped sources of high-quality copper. It is also one of the highest. Located among the peaks of the Andes at an altitude of 4,700 meters

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Moving Material at the World’s Most Challenging Mine

2020-4-15 · gearless drive technology to power thyssenkrupp’s new high-ca-pacity overland conveyor at Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper mine in Peru. Christian Dirscherl, vice president for mining, Ex-cavation and Transport at Siemens, said that the motors for the project have already been manufactured.

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Antapaccay Copper Mine - Mining Technology

Siemens’ drive technology at Antapaccay mine. Antapaccay copper mine is equipped with a gearless belt conveyor system featuring Siemens drive system. The system was developed by Siemens in collaboration with the ThyssenKrupp. “The upper part of the deposit is made up of mineralised exoskarn areas, copper carbonates and copper oxides.”.

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Siemens’ gearless drive technology powers high-capacity ...

2019-10-16 · Powered by Siemens’ new gearless drive technology, thyssenkrupp’s high-capacity overland conveyor will access one of the world’s largest copper reserves in Quellaveco. The Quellaveco mine in Peru contains approximately 7.5 million tons of copper in ore reserves – enough to wire 80 million homes or equip 90 million electric vehicles.

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Go gearless with ABB’s mill and conveyor drives

2021-5-25 · Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile. Commissioning of the world’s most powerful gearless conveyor drive system. Our longstanding association with Swedish mining company Boliden is an example of how ABB’s gearless drives

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Gearless drive systems for belt conveyor and grinding ...

2013-2-18 · The Siemens Drive Technologies Division has commissioned a gearless belt conveyor system in the Antapaccay copper mine in Peru. This is the first large-scale reference for this technology outside ...

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Siemens: Gearless Conveyor Drives help Mines

2019-2-11 · The gearless drive system installed at the Las Bambas Copper Mine includes four low-speed synchronous motors (4.4 MW, 66 rpm) and the associated SINAMICS SL150 converters. In 2015, another direct conveyor

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Gearless Drive Commissioning in Chile - TENOVA

2019-6-3 · The first four 5 MW gearless drives were recently commissioned at the head drive station of conveyor CV-02, which forms part of Tenova TAKRAF´s scope of supply for an underground mining project in northern Chile and the world’s most powerful belt conveyor system.. Conveyor CV-02 is the second of TAKRAF’s mega 11,000 tph gearless drive

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Gearless Mill Drives - ABB

2021-2-17 · Ore processed: Copper/Zinc Drive Rating: SAG Mill 20,1 MW, 9,23 rpm Ball Mills 11,2 MW, 11,38 rpm Award of Contract: March 1999 Start of Operation: June 2001 ABB’s scope of supply: Four complete Gearless Mill Drive Systems including: Wrap-around Motors Cycloconverters & Excitations Transformers, E-House Containers incl.: Cycloconverters, MCC ...

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ABB, TAKRAF commission conveyor drive system at ...

2020-9-29 · Swiss-Swedish technology company ABB and TAKRAF have completed the commissioning and testing of a gearless conveyor drive system at the Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile. Located 1,650km north of Santiago, Chile, the mine is claimed to be one of the largest open pit copper mines and the second deepest open-pit mine in the world.

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Green drives: Energy-efficient drive systems boost copper ...

2008-4-24 · Baden, Switzerland — Gearless mill drive systems will maximize productivity and energy efficiency at a new copper mine in northern Brazil. ABB says it recently won an order from Vale (formerly CVRD) to deliver such a system to the Salobo mine, located at the Tapirape-Aquiri National Forest, in the state of Pará, Brazil.The mine is operated by a wholly owned subsidiary

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Belt Conveyors - for mining applications - TAKRAF GmbH

The underground system (comprising two conveyors of about equal length), as well as the overland conveyor, boast advanced gearless drive technology. Some important parameters of the conveyor system: 11,000 t/h crushed copper ore; 11 x 5 MW gearless belt drives; 10 MW installed drive power per drive drum; St 10,000 conveyor belt employed for the ...

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(PDF) Operation of High-Power Cycloconverter

Operation of High Pow er Cycloconverter-F ed. Gearless Drives under Abnormal Conditions. J. Pontt, Member IEEE, J.Rodr ´ ıguez, Senior Member IEEE, K.Tischler, N.Becker, J.Rebolledo. Abstrac t ...

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