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Smart mill for increasing energy efficiency

A smart mill with a digital twin and industrial internet of things technologies to increase the energy efficiency of ore preparation processes.
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General information

Developer: Saint Petersburg Mining University

Industry

Mining, Information Technology, Metallurgy, Beneficiation, Processing of mineral and technogenic raw materials, Mineral processing, Digital design and modeling, Operation of technological facilities, Energy conservation, energy efficiency

Project research team

Head: Ilya Ilyich Beloglazov Scientific team: Alexander Alexandrovich Kulchitsky, Mikhail Yuryevich Nikolaev, Bogdan Yuryevich Vasilyev, Yuri Leonidovich Zhukovsky, Nikolai Alexandrovich Korolev

Scientific novelty

Digital twins of industrial equipment, based on modern computer modeling of solid mineral ore preparation processes, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies, and predictive analytics, allow mining enterprises to reach a new level of production process efficiency and significantly improve online monitoring and equipment condition forecasting.

Advantages

Improving energy and technological efficiency through: - Reducing specific energy consumption per unit of finished product by 11.6%; - Reducing specific energy consumption per unit of time by 23.9%; - Reducing total grinding time by 20%; - Increasing finished product yield by 12.2%; - Increasing specific mass of finished product per unit of time by 30.4%.

Commercial implementation

Automated grinding technology can be used for drum-type ball mills at mining, processing, and metallurgical enterprises. Furthermore, it can be successfully applied in dry and wet grinding processes for various ore and non-metallic minerals, construction materials of varying hardness, and in the food industry.

Development stage

Laboratory testing

Required investment

50,000,000.00 RUB

Investor's share in the project

90%

Protection documents

Certificate No. 2021669187 Certificate No. 2022683673 Patent No. 2806426 Patent No. 2797096

Participation in competitions

Winner of the "Mining Industry 4.0" competition at MiningWorldRussia 2022 in the "Digitalization of Mineral Processing" category; Gold medal and 1st degree diploma of the XXIX International Innovation Exhibition "HI-TECH 2023"; Gold medal and diploma of the XXVII Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovative Technologies "Archimedes-2024".

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