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Mine Planning and Equipment Selection (MPES) 2010

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Mine Planning and Equipment Selection (MPES) 2010

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Never Touch a Running System? Longwall Cutting Sequences and their Potential

The optimisation and validation of shearer cutting methods is a time consuming engineering task. Many different parameters, of which not all can be controlled, can vary. The easiest solution, to increase the installed power and the longwall length, is not always the best. A different cutting method can increase the capacity without the need of new machines. The Department for Mining and Metallurgy Machinery at RWTH Aachen University therefore developed ProSL, the simulation tool for shearer and longwall operations. ProSL enables the engineer to create his own cutting methods and compare it with other methods. Machine-data can easily be varied to see the impact on the method. The research shows that sophisticated longwall methods increase the productivity of the system. The paper presents the results of the calculation with ProSL and shows how higher efficiency and lower costs can be achieved._x000D_
FORMAL CITATION:Nienhaus, K and Hetzel, S, 2010. Never touch a running system? Longwall cutting sequences and their potential, in Proceedings Mine Planning and Equipment Selection (MPES) 2010, pp 191 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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