Heavy hanged monorail starts. The future of transportation in OKD

Another transportation system? Containerization? More powerful mining locomotives? Stronger handling and lifting equipment? All these innovations introduced in OKD during this year brought considerations about increasing of hanged tracks load capacity in the mines. And that is why heavy track type is coming. A team from supplying company Polcarbo is already installing it at the north shaft of CSM Mine.

"The future of hanged transport in our mine resort is 24D/130 ZD, this is becoming a new norm of hanged transportation. It must meet a series of parameters, locomotives now are able to pull a sixteen and a half tons and removal of modern technologies require transport loads weighing up to forty tons," Jan Knispel, logistics manager for the technical department deputy, informed.

As he also said, already in February this year, a group of experts from various OKD mines met with monorail manufacturers - Ferrit, Transl and Zampra companies - to work together to define all operating conditions. "The result of many meetings was to develop a new monorail-type ZD 24D/130 manufactured in reinforced and no reinforced design. Available strength in coupling is 180 kN horizontally and 130 kN vertically," Knispel added.

They are installing it at the north shaft because of middle Bucyrus mining complex transfer from POP 2010 program. The shields will go in one piece as thirty-ton loads.

Radek Lukša