Control of continuous haulage systems

Conference · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:41718

Hutchinson, T L ^[1]

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1. Westfalia Mining Progress, Inc., Washington, PA (United States)

The desire to continuously haul mined material from the face to the primary haulage system (ie: conveyor belt or mine cars) is as old as {open_quotes}continuous miners{close_quotes}. In fact, without such a continuous haulage system, a continuous miner is not a {open_quotes}continuous{close_quotes} miner, rather, {open_quotes}an intermittent miner{close_quotes}. The need to improve development rates in longwall gate entries to match the ever-increasing retreat rates of the longwall machines has received unprecedented attention over the last few years and, no doubt, will continue to receive even more attention until development rates can keep up. The Continuous Haulage Systems in use today can be summarized into two types as far as controls are concerned. These types are an operator system and a remote system. This paper will focus on the needs of the development of controls used in remote haulage systems and how they are applied.

• OSTI ID: 41718
• Report Number(s): CONF-9407171--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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