Toromocho – A giant in high-altitude mining

ABB is delivering mine-wide electrical and process control solutions - and the most powerful gearless mill drive systems ever made - at the world's highest altitude mining project: …

Gearless mill drive (GMD) and digital services for Kinross

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.

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M. Ahrens, ABB, Switzerland J. Gonser, ABB, Switzerland Abstract Gearless mill drives are a well established solution for grinding applications in the minerals and mining industries. The paper describes the functionality and technical features of such drive systems as well as their advantages compared to other drive solutions. Due to the

Future of mining | ABB

The Gearless Mill Drive can be monitored anywhere anytime. This means greater drive efficiency and availability, with reliability pushed to nearly . ... Project_Report_VSD_on_Conveyors (English - pdf - Information) ... ABB's new Gearless Mill Drive generation: Maintenance-friendly features raise availability and productivity …

The Siemens 42ft gearless mill drive, still an …

Gearless Mill Drive, GMD, 42ft Mill size, Siemens, condition monitoring, finite element analysis, ring motor. Introduction As in all other industries, mining projects are forced to deliver an expected profitability over a long period of time. In contradiction to trends in other industries, however, mining projects are facing extraordinary ...

MANTE R. – Global Supply Manager Gearless Mill drive systems – ABB

Sector: Mining & Minerals; Mineral processing. Drive Systems for Grinding applications and Power compensation solutions. Purchasing turnover USD 3 digits Mio / year - Portfolio: • GMD (gearless mill drive system) • RMD (Gear mill drive system) • Harmonic filters and Power compensation systems. • HPR (high power rectifiers) system.

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More powerful and larger mills, higher ball charges and demanding ambient conditions call for a strong partner for grinding solutions. We help you meet these challenges with our drive systems that come with a long track record in improving performance and extending technical frontiers of all three mineral grinding applications: Gearless mills, ring-geared …

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trator plant. ABB motors and drives power the convey-ors, with total 7km in length. At the concentrator plant, the SAG mills driven by the two 22.5MW gearless mill drives – the most powerful in operation today – grind the ore down to particles, processing a total of 4,400 tons of ore per hour. The order to supply a 28MW GMD for the

Toromocho – A giant in high-altitude mining

ABB is delivering mine-wide electrical and process control solutions - and the most 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.

Grinding transformation

ABB introduced the world's first gearless mill drives (GMD) in 1969. These innovative drive systems mounted the rotor poles directly onto the mill so that the mill itself became …

TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL BENEFITS OF GEARLESS …

gearless motor mounted directly onto the mill. In addition, a gearbox can be used to reduce the speed of a high speed motor. This gearbox is then placed between the high speed motor(s) and pinion(s) and the low speed shaft driving the ring gear. Thus, there is the decision between gearless drives and drives using a gear, and, if gear driven,

Making remote mines and low ore grades …

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 …

CONGA: THE WORLD'S FIRST 42 FOOT DIAMETER 28 …

mill from and a 28 Mega-Watt (MW) Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) from ABB for the Conga Project in Peru. The test and study work showed that a single line 42 ft SAG mill circuit gave the most favorable project economics in comparison to an equivalently powered single line 40 ft SAG mill circuit. This paper

René Chacon, ABB, Switzerland, details how gearless mill …

For this expansion project, Kinross selected ABB to provide a 26 MW gearless mill drive system (GMD) for the mine's 40 ft SAG mill, as well as other drives, electrical …

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ABB Held Global Gearless Mill Drive User Meeting. ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, announced that it held the second global gearless mill drive (GMD) user meeting. The conference, a conjoint organisation between ABB Switzerland and ABB Peru, took place in Lima, Peru, 23-24 October 2008 at the Hotel Marriott. This …

Gearless mill drives

The ABB gearless mill drive (GMD) is the most powerful mill drive system available, combining the highest levels of efficiency, reliability, flexibility and availability. The …

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Gearless mill drives

The ABB gearless mill drive (GMD) is the most powerful mill drive system available, ... ABB has successfully realized GMD projects with both fewer and greater than four stator parts. 5. A thorough analysis of the complete system (mill, pole units, bearings, foundations,

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ABB's Marcelo Perrucci explains how Gearless mill drives, digitalization, AI and analytics are transforming grinding operations at mines worldwide. White paper

Moving Material at the World's Most Challenging Mine …

veyor project of this magnitude utilizing gearless drives that have been awarded to us since 2010. Together with our partner Siemens, we have managed to become one of the world leaders in bringing this technology to the market." From Drives to Digital Siemens is also working to supply gearless mill drive systems

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Build or revamp your mine and mineral processing plant using optimal system solutions, coordinated and seamlessly integrated into fully engineered packages. Our unified, cross-functional, enterprise-wide approach to digital transformation in mining - ABB Ability™ MineOptimize is paving the way from a mine with islands of automation to a fully ...

Extracting potential

ABB's gearless mill drive footprint in Russia The company was an early mover in the Russian market. As a result of this, ABB is benefitting from the recent boom of large projects in Russia and in the '-stan' countries. The company recently took an order for 12 GMDs in Russia, the largest single order in the history of GMDs in mining,

ABB marks 10 years since return to mining equipment …

ABB is set to celebrate its 10 th anniversary since it reacquired ownership of the gearless mill drive system business this week. The technology leader marks the …

Gearless mill drives

Maximum availability and productivity. 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 …

ABB increasing milling power and availability with GMDs

Case studies: Aktogay and Bozshakol. ABB has partnered with Kaz Minerals to supply GMDs for the company's Aktogay and Bozshakol copper mines in Kazakhstan, both of which are expected to process 25 Mt/y of ore. ABB was awarded a multi-million contract to provide a 28 MW GMD for a 40 ft (12.2 m) SAG mill and two 22 MW drives …

Comminution power – geared versus gearless

Comminution power – geared versus gearless. Posted by Paul Moore on 27th February 2023. It is well known in the mining industry that the biggest mining concentrators, with the highest throughputs and …

Gearless mill drive (GMD) and digital services for …

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 …

ABB's new Gearless Mill Drive generation: Maintenance …

ABB critically examines behaviour and practices, performs intense root cause analysis and makes modifications without exception to components that exhibit improvement potential. …

ABB process control and automation solutions for …

ABB in decision support systems R&D project for the Bogdanka coal mine Effective predictive diagnostics program and advanced data analysis for decision support systems. ... ABB's new Gearless Mill Drive generation: …

Aktogay Copper Mine

ABB provides complete electrification and automation solutions for the Aktogay copper plant under a contract awarded in December 2012. ABB was also awarded a $44m contract in May 2012 to provide three gearless mill drive systems, including the 28MW semi-SAG mill and two 22MW ball mills.

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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 …

René Chacon, ABB, Switzerland, details how gearless …

includes an oversized SAG mill and gyratory crusher. For this expansion project, Kinross selected ABB to provide a 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). GMDs improve process throughput