Doppelmayr Transport Technology GmbH

  • 14. April 2023
    818

    Raising of the Bardon Hill RopeCon® track to release backfilling volume

    As part of Aggregate Industries UK quarry restoration strategy, the RopeCon® system of Doppelmayr Transport Technology GmbH, Wolfurt/Austria, transports overburden for emplacement within the existing quarry. The design allows to control the drop height and, thus, to keep the discharge point close to the emplaced material from the beginning. This helps to minimise the impact from noise and dust during operation of the system. Recently, an assembly team retensioned the track ropes to raise the discharge height and enable the next backfilling phase (Figure 1).

    Fig. 1. The design of the RopeCon® system in the Bardon Hill quarry allows to control the drop height. Photo: Doppelmayr

    Technical details:

    • Section 1
      •      Length 499 m
      •      Difference in elevation - 71 m
      •      Conveying capacity 1,000 t/h
      •      Speed 3.3 m/s
      •      Motor rating continuous - 160 kW
    • Section 2
      •      Length 100 m
      •      Difference in elevation 11 m
      •      Conveying capacity 1,000 t/h
      •      Speed 2.6 m/s
      •      Motor rating continuous 45 kW

    Further information:
    Doppelmayr Transport Technology GmbH
    www.doppelmayr.com/referenzprojekte/referenzprojekt-rpc-bardon-hill/

  • 20. January 2023
    430

    Second Doppelmayr RopeCon® system for wood chips transport at the premises of Lenzing AG

    Like the first RopeCon® at the Lenzing plant, the second installation also impresses with high availability, wind stability and its ability to cross high-density plant infrastructure without any problem. As a consequence, the RopeCon® creates an optimal link between the raw materials storage facility and the digester house.

    For the planned expansion of wood chip transport between the storage area and the digester house at their cellulose processing plant, LENZING AG, a leading company in the field of the production of fibres made from the raw material wood, contracted a second RopeCon® conveying system to ensure sustainable raw material supply. The system has to cover a length of roughly 630 m between wood storage area and digester house, passing right across the existing plant infrastructure. In addition, the system had to guarantee high availability in order to allow optimal integration into the production process and reliably deliver the 350 tons an hour to their destination.

    The second RopeCon® installation has been built to run alongside the existing RopeCon®, which has been transporting beech wood chips since 2003. In the time since then, the system has proved to be a reliable and efficient solution for supplying the digester house. As the system is raised off the ground, it makes light work of crossing the existing infrastructure on the premises.

    Doppelmayr Transport Technology GmbH is a 100% subsidiary of the international Doppelmayr Group with headquarters in Wolfurt, Austria. Within the group, Doppelmayr Transport Technology is the point of contact for the transport of goods and materials. Doppelmayr is the technology leader and pioneer in ropeway engineering and is also present in other lines of business. Apart from material transport systems the group also designs, plans, and manufactures passenger ropeways for winter and summer tourism as well as for the urban transit sector, rope propelled APMs (e.g., the systems currently operating at the airports of Toronto and Mexico City) or fully automatic high-rise warehouses.

    Technical Details:
    Length: 630 m
    Vertical rise: 33 m
    Capacity: 350 t/h
    Speed: 2,65 m/s
    Motor rating, continuous: 60 kW

    Further information:
    Doppelmayr Transport Technology GmbH
    doppelmayr-mts.com

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