Conceptual Design for a Radically Smaller Highly Adaptive and Application-Flexible Mining Maching for Utility and Development Work. Final Report, October 1, 2003-September 30, 2004.

Stern, A. H.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Coal mining;    Underground mining;    Mining machines;    Conceptual design;    Mining operations;   

RP-ID  :  DE2005838809

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this research project was to develop a preliminary conceptual design for a radically smaller, highly adaptive and application-flexible underground coal mining machine, for performing non-production utility work and/or also undertake limited production mining for the recovery of reserves that would otherwise be lost. Whereas historically, mining philosophies have reflected a shift to increasing larger mechanized systems (such as the continuous miner (CM)), specific mining operations that do not benefit from the economy of the large mining equipment are often ignored or addressed with significant inefficiencies. Developing this prototype concept will create a new class of equipment that can provide opportunities to re-think the very structure of the mining system across a broad range of possibilities, not able to be met by existing machinery. The approach involved pooling the collective input from mining professionals, using a structured listing of desired inputs in the form of a questionnaire, which was used to define the range of desired design specifications. From these inputs, a conceptual specification was blended, by the author, to embody the general concurrence of mission concepts for this machine.