ABB gearless mill drive system to power SAG mill

In addition, it includes the engineering for two 15.6 megawatt GMD systems for two 26 feet ball mills.This project reinforces ABB s continued good relationship with Newmont, Fluor and , and provides the groundbreaking challenge to engineer the GMD system for the world s first mill above 40 feet in diameter.

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will design and supply the world's largest SAG Mill for …

has been selected to design and supply a 42 ft x 25 ft, (12.8m x 7.6m) 28 MW gearless SAG mill, plus two 26 ft x 42 ft, (7.9m x 12.8m) 15.6 MW ball mills and two VTM-1500-WB VERTIMILLS ® for Newmont Mining Corporation's Yanacocha Conga copper-gold project in Peru. The 42 ft diameter SAG mill is the world's largest and is the first of its kind.

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Grinding Mills | Mineral Processing Equipment | CITIC HIC

We believe the projects that we have executed speak for themselves. CITIC HIC has engineered and provided 6 AG mills of Ø12.2m×11m (28000kW gearless drive) and 6 overflow discharge ball mills of Ø7.9×13.6m (2×9000kW gear …

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Toquepala goes for gearless mill drives

Grupo Mexico has opted for 15,000kW state-of-the-art gearless ball mill drives for the major plant overhaul at the Toquepala porphyry copper in Peru's Tacna Province.

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An electrical impact study between variable speed dual pinion mills …

When mill power is between 18 and 20 MW, which is the current manufacturing limit of ring geared mills [2], either a gearless mill drive (GMD) or a ring geared mill with dual pinion motors can be chosen. ... A case study using an 18 MW Ball mill will be presented and the power system considerations including different harmonic filtering and ...

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Gearless mill drives

ABB's Gearless mill drive system is the most powerful mill drive system in the market to power semiautogenous (SAG), ball and autogenous (AG) mills.

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Toquepala goes for gearless mill drives

Grupo Mexico has opted for 15,000kW state-of-the-art gearless ball mill drives for the major plant overhaul at the Toquepala porphyry copper in Peru's Tacna …

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Concepts of Gearless Ball-Mill Drives

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 …

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ABB Library

Paper held at SAG Conference 2011 - By S. Gaulocher (ABB), K.S. Stadler (ABB), Th. von Hoff (ABB), R. Veldsman (ABB), A. Fuerst (ABB) and J. Koponen (ABB): Gearless mill drives (GMDs) are the workhorse in the mineral processing industries, more specifically when it comes to grinding crushed ore and cement (in various production stages) in …

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Toromocho – A giant in high-altitude mining

The world's most powerful gearless mill drives The three gearless mill drive (GMD) systems are the ABB most powerful ever made. The GMD for the 40-foot SAG mill has a power rating of 28 megawatts (MW), and the GMDs for the two 28-foot ball mills have a power rating of 22 MW. They are the largest diameter and most powerful SAG and ball …

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Ball Mills Steel Ball Mills & Lined Ball Mills. Particle size reduction of materials in a ball mill with the presence of metallic balls or other media dates back to the late 1800's. The basic construction of a ball mill is a cylindrical container with journals at its axis.

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Manna and Ball to develop aluminium can facility in New Mexico

US-based enterprise and investment firm Manna Capital Partners has partnered with aluminium packaging company Ball to develop and operate an advanced aluminium can sheet rolling mill in New Mexico.. Manna signed a letter of intent to acquire a 1,300-acre area in Los Lunas, where it will develop the mill and recycling centre.

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Ball Bearing Gearless Crusher

When you put in a high capacity Kennedy Crusher you end the overloading and blinding of your elevators, screens and conveyors. 75% to 90% of the ore handled in the Kennedy is crushed so that it will pass the screen openings and can go directly to the ball mills for further reduction.

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ABB to supply gearless mill drives in Kazakhstan

ABB will supply one 28 megawatt GMD for a 40-foot semiautogenous (SAG) mill and two 22 megawatt GMDs for two 28-foot ball mills. May 28, 2012 - ABB won an order worth $44 million to deliver three gearless mill drive systems (GMDs) for a new copper mine to be operated by Kazakhmys PLC (Kazakhmys) in southeastern Kazakhstan.

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GMDs: the driving force behind sustainable mill operations

Gearless mill drives: better by design . GMDs eliminate the need for a ring-gear, pinion, gearbox, coupling, motor shaft and motor bearings, which are used in a conventional mill drive system to transmit the torque from the motor to the mill. Instead, the torque is transmitted through the magnetic field in the air gap between the stator and rotor.

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GE Motor Technology to Drive Mexico's Largest Ball Mill …

Grupo Mexico will use GE's advanced synchronous motor technology to add 84 megawatts (MW) of power at six Buenavista ball mills. Quadramatic motors run …

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SAG Mill Variable Speed Drive

Variable speed drives are not new. Many have been used in the cement industry on mills drawing up to 6,525 kW (8,750 hp). There are 39 gearless drive installations worldwide, but only one in North America (St. Lawrence Cement). Recently both Afton and Lornex in British Columbia installed variable speed dc drives on wet …

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Mill drives

The gearless ball mill drive can be designed in two basic arrangements. Fig. 8.13. shows an arrangement with the motor rotor supported by a strengthened and extended mill trunnion shaft and bearing. This arrangement retains maximum accessibility to both mill and motor. Fig. 8.14. shows a wrap-around construction with the motor rotor supported ...

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GRINDING: ABB commissions six gearless mill drives at …

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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Conveyor systems are responsible for almost 80% of the energy consumption in mines. Gearboxes are maintenance-intensive and their lifetime is relatively short.

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FL to deliver three SAG mills, three ball mills and …

FL will deliver the three gearless SAG mills, three gearless ball mills and cyclones to the 150,000 Mtpd site by late-2023. FL was chosen to deliver the equipment due to the high reliability and efficient performance of our SAG and ball mill technologies. The Josemaria open-pit mine is a high-grade copper-gold porphyry project.

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MINERAL PROCESSING: installs world's largest SAG mill

PERU - Finnish processing giant, , designed and supplied the world's largest semi-autogenous grinding mill for Newmont Mining's Yanacocha Conga copper-gold project in Peru.The 12.8 x 7.6 metre SAG mill will the first to exceed 12.2 metres in diameter. The SAG is equipped with an ABB gearless motor to allow operation at …

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Siemens modernises SAG mill gearless drive in Cadia Valley

This two-stage grinding circuit consists of a 40 ft SAG mill with a 20 MW Siemens gearless drive and two parallel 10 MW gear driven ball mills. Siemens has now fitted the SAG mill with a Sinamics SL 150 cycloconverter for closed-loop control as well as with a Sinamics DCM control module for the excitation circuit – the first time that both ...

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Ball Mills Manufacturer

For handling strenuous wet or dry grinding, our ball mills handle continuous millings through the use of chrome steel balls or ceramic balls as grinding media for varied …

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FL to supply ball mills, SAG mills and thickener …

The equipment includes two gearless SAG mills and two gearless ball mills plus three CCD thickeners, two tailings thickeners and one filtrate thickener. "This is a welcomed order as it underlines our leading position in the copper and gold mining arena when it comes to productivity and throughput. The order for SAG mills, ball mills and ...

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Remote Diagnostic Services for Gearless Mill Drives

As was mentioned above, a gearless mill drive constitutes both an important part, but also one of the most critical elements of a concentrator or a cement plant. Their purpose is to ensure the continuous rotation of specific types of tumbling mills, more specifically autogenous grinding (AG) mills, semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mills, or ball ...

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Gearless mill drives

the first GMD for a double-rotating ball mill in Carlin, Nevada, meeting a 160 °C heat challenge at the mill shell. GMDs have now been supplied for the world's ... The ABB gearless mill drive (GMD) is the most powerful mill drive system available, combining the highest levels of efficiency, reliability, flexibility and availability. ...

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ABB to supply gearless mill drives to Cerro Verde

April 1, 2012 - ABB will supply gearless mill drives (GMDs) for six ball mills and twin-drive systems for eight high pressure grinding rolls (HPGRs) at Cerro Verde copper mine in Peru. The two contracts were awarded in the first quarter of 2012. Deliveries are scheduled for Q4 2013 and Q1 2014.

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ABB successfully commissions six gearless mill drives at

Two 28 MW gearless mill drive systems (GMDs) are operating in the mine's 40 foot SAG mills and four 16.5 MW GMDS are employed in 26 foot ball mills along with associated control systems. The six ABB Gearless Mill Drives have been installed since late last year and are all now in continuous operation; ABB team at Mina de Cobre in …

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The Siemens 42ft gearless mill drive, still an …

next size Gearless Mill Drive, i.e. a 42ft mill. It is a dual design approach considering, on the one hand, the experi-ences Siemens made with Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) instal-lations over the past 40 years and, on the other hand, using computerized design tools calculating the system behavior where experience does not yet exist.

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Making remote mines and low ore grades economical and …

The six ABB GMDs, which are the most powerful mill drive systems on the market are all now in continuous operation. Two 28 MW gearless mill drive systems (GMDs) are operating in the mine's 40 foot SAG mills and four 16.5 MW GMDS are employed in 26 football mills along with associated control systems.

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Technologies for extraction and processing, including gearless mill drives (GMDs) and gearless conveyor drives (GCDs), help operators save energy and achieve greater throughput at large mills with higher grinding …

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TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL BENEFITS OF GEARLESS …

general, the bigger the mill diameter, the lower are the mill operating and critical speeds. Thus, for larger mills the number of poles will increase. As a result, the number of poles can vary from 48 to 72 poles (Fig. 3.) with typical mill speed requirements of about 10 rpm for larger SAG mills and about 15 rpm for smaller ball mills. Figure 3.

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Gearless mill drives

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 …

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