The first Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) with a power of 6.5 MW was installed 1969 in a cement milling process in the cement plant Le Havre in France. In the first few years, the GMD was only used in the cement industry. The GMD is also known as "wrap-around motor" or

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 ...

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 total of over 500 years in operation time – and this number is steadily growing even as you read this. This is a benchmark we are immensely proud of. Your benefits

mill load cascaded, meaning the operation is normal as expected and start-up is continued. If the actual value of the torque is still equal to the maximum value, a frozen charge condition exists and the Gearless Drive is switched off allowing the mill to safely oscillate. An alarm (via HMI) alerts the operator and informs about the cause of the

In ore processing, grinding is an essential step for the overall performance of any mine. 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 ...

Gearless mill drive training . GMD theoretical system overview, operation and maintenance, ring motor knowledge and maintenance, PSR2 controller, System 800xA GMD applications. Ring-geared mill drive training . Operation and maintenance aspects of a medium voltage RMD with or without E-house.

A Mechatronic Solution Design and Experience with Large Gearless Mill Drives Reprint Authors: Dr. Ing. Horst Kümmlee, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Meinke Reprint: Ore Preparation And Gearless Drives, Siemens AG, Erlangen/Berlin, 2001 IAT mbH, Starnberg, Germany, 2001

Significant energy and cost economies can be achieved with a gearless mill drive working with a ball mill in these upper power ranges. This prospect should also be of interest to the cement industry. The technology is available for an up-sizing of cement grinding installations and the gearless mill drive is a proven, reliable drive.

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 and autogenous (AG) mills, This 'workhorse' for grinding operations combines a robust, service-friendly and fit for purpose ...

The company selected ABB's 26 MW gearless mill drive system (GMD) for the mine's 40 ft SAG mill, as well as other drives, electrical infrastructure equipment and a long-term service agreement (LTSA). This is expected to reduce operating costs, improve process throughput and reliability while saving energy and keep equipment in top form.

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. 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 Panama

Gearless Mill Drives Machinery Risk Solutions Practice 2009 Matt Dugalic P.Eng., MARSH – MRSP Risk Consultant, VP Kurt Tischler Dipl.-Ing., Siemens – …

Gearless motors up to 22 MW are in service in many of these ore processing plants. Gearless motor drives are also known as "ring motors" or "wrap around motors." The motor consists of a large number of magnets placed circumferentially on the shell of the grinding mill. This is similar to the rotor of a conventional motor.

plied gearless drives for two 36-foot ring motors, de-veloping a 12,000 kW gearless drive for the Kennecott, Utah, SAG mill and a 11,200 kW gearless drive for the El Teniente, Chile, SAG mill. In a continued call for larger, even more powerful drives, Siemens kept pace. In 1996, Freeport ordered the first gearless

CHH624 – Gearless Mill Drive Operation and Maintenance Course goal The goal of this course is to provide participants with the required practical knowledge and in-formation on safe operation and maintenance of the gearless mill drive (GMD) system. This training will help to enhance the operation and the maintenance of the GMD in order to ensure

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 ...

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.

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 wear to the mill lining. The mill…

Large Sag And Ball Mill Drive Systems - … Selection criteria for sag mill drive system. horizontal ball mill and inching drives, mill pinion gears, the sag mill drive is normally designed and optimized for mill heads, gear set, main drive, gearless mill drive optical systems selection criteria for sag mill drive systems . 6,5 mw appears to be the upper limit on a single pinion drive and 13 ...

The gearless drive accelerates the mill slowly to the preselected speed. In the Normal Stop procedure, the gearless drive reduces the mill speed to zero and stops the mill without oscillation. Inching is handled from the local control panel. The gearless drive starts the mill at low speed and stops the mill

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.

SAGMILL NNDN RING 13uu PIN~ GEAR AIR CLUT SAGMILL I RINGMOTOR I I {I 1 1 Fig. 1 — Twin-pinion drive gear driven motor. Fig.2— Gearless mill with a ringmotor. of the grinding systems. NPCS were capital costs in Table 1 are based on variable speed ac drive complete determined on grinding systems that operations with three different produc- with ring and pinion gears; and

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 …

Laguna Seca concentrator uses a SAG mill and three ball mills, all driven by gearless mill drive (GMD) systems. Table 1 gives an overview of the basic technical data of the installed drives. TABLE I. MILLS AND THEIR DRIVES IN THE LAGUNA SECA PLANT Equipment Drive Comments SAG Mill (Semi-autogenous Grinding) Quantity : 1 unit

This solution, integrated into the gearless Simine Mill GD mill drive, made it possible to selectively release charge that had clumped onto the mill's interior wall, thus keeping the mill from being damaged if the charge were to drop uncontrolled and shortening maintenance times considerably.

Gearless mill drive system in iron ore ­processing Diagramm eines getriebelosen Mühlenantriebssystems von ABB # Diagram of ABB's gearless mill drive system ABB was recently contracted to supply gearless mill drive (GMD) systems for two 38 foot semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mills at the Serra Azul iron ore mine in Brazil.

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 during at least in the first few years of its minimum 20 years mine life.

Detail of Training Simulator: drive control section with the SINAMICS controllers and the interface board to power section Your challenge: Maximum operations at the bottleneck The Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) is potentially the most critical bottleneck in the mine production process. Each hour of downtime can result in a heavy financial loss.