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Date submitted2023-07-20
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Date accepted2023-10-25
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Date published2024-04-25
Directions in the technological development of aluminium pots
- Authors:
- Еvgenii S. Gorlanov
- Leopold I. Leontev
Directions for the technical and technological development of aluminium industry, existing and promising projects to reduce the energy consumption and the environmental impact are analyzed. The active participation of the state in the organization of financial instruments for the ecological reconstruction of obsolete production facilities is discussed. In spite of the fact that the technology of aluminium pots is developed towards the increase of a single capacity, but with limited potential of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gases emission, the possibilities for the increase of specific output are practically non-existent. Therefore, such projects like pots, equipped with inert anodes and drained cathodes arise and are under development, the successful completion of which is unlikely after multi-year researches and pilot tests. To continue the works related to inert anodes the decisive answer about the industrial safety of local sources of the massive oxygen emissions to atmosphere is required from competent entities. The drained cathode project, after discussing the existing problems, seems unfeasible. As opposed to the existing technology the development of the pots with vertical electrodes offers great opportunities to the designs of inert anodes and drained cathodes. Positive results of using shaped electrodes, homogenizing their surface and developing the methods for the synthesis of composite cathodes directly during the electrolytic process were obtained in laboratory conditions. It is expected that the combination of these trends and the successive dimensional scaling shall allow using the vertical electrodes at the next level for the fold increase of specific pot capacity and for the decrease of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Date submitted2021-02-28
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Date accepted2021-11-30
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Date published2021-12-27
Substantiation of analytical dependences for hydraulic calculation of high-viscosity oil transportation
- Authors:
- Alexander K. Nikolaev
- Natalia А. Zaripova
One of the development priorities in oil and gas industry is to maintain gas and oil pipeline networks and develop pipeline-connected gas and oil fields of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, a promising region the resource potential of which will not only meet a significant portion of internal and external demand for various types of raw materials and primary energy carriers, but will also bring great economic benefits to subsoil users and the state. The mineral and raw material centers of the Nadym-Purskiy and Pur-Tazovskskiy oil and gas bearing areas are among the most attractive regions of the Arctic zone. It is necessary to develop a scientifically substantiated approach to improve the methods of oil transportation from the field to the existing pipelines. As it is known, the task of increasing the efficiency of pipeline transportation of high-viscosity oil is inseparably connected with solving problems in the field of thermal and hydraulic calculation of pipeline system. The article presents the substantiation of dependencies for hydraulic calculation of pipelines transporting high-viscosity oil exhibiting complex rheological properties. Based on the laws of hydraulics for non-Newtonian fluids, the formulas for calculating head losses for fluids obeying Ostwald's law are proposed, their relationship to the classical equations of hydraulics is shown. The theoretical substantiation of looping installation for increasing the efficiency of pipeline transportation of high-viscosity oil taking into account the received dependences for power fluid is considered.
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Date submitted2018-09-21
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Date accepted2018-11-19
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Date published2019-02-22
Feasibility of type of deep-water technologies for the extraction of marine ferro-manganese nodules
- Authors:
- D. A. Yungmeister
- S. M. Sudarikov
- K. A. Kireev
The conditions for the occurrence of near bottom minerals presented in the form of sulphides (the Logachev deposit) and ferro-manganese nodules (The conditions for the occurrence of benthic minerals presented in the form of sulphides (the Logachev deposit) and ferro-manganese nodules (FMN) are considered. An analysis of the structures and parameters of various means of collecting and transporting sulphides and iron ore from the bottom to the surface is given, and the possibility of effectively using vessel lifting on a cable-rope is indicated. Structural schemes for collecting FMN and sulphides in the form of containers on a cable, equipped with manipulators with gripping devices of a disc, drum or clamshell type, are proposed. In them, the capture of rock pieces or FMN is carried out by creating a vacuum in the collectors of the executive bodies and attracting to them pieces of rock or FMN by a pressure drop of water inside and outside the reservoir. It was given the approximate parameters of the mining system. So, for a cable-rope made of kevlar with a diameter of 50 mm, the capacity can be 200-400 thousand tons per year for one installation with different specific mass concentration of FMN per 1 m 2 ) are considered.
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Date submitted2017-08-25
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Date accepted2017-11-17
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Date published2018-02-22
Improved estimation of open pit excavator capacity
- Authors:
- S. N. Zharikov
The paper addresses issues related to estimation of operational time for open pit excavators during truck loading operations. The author analyzes the method of annual capacity estimation and highlights disagreements in different ways of operational time logging. Recommendations are offered concerning estimation of excavator capacity taking into account its repair cycle. The paper contains an analysis of the cyclical nature of various types of maintenance in the interval between capital repairs as a function of operational time. Guidelines are proposed that allow to calculate annual production days of the excavator with regards to the repair cycle and adjusted utilization coefficient throughout the shift. It has been established that decreasing the coefficient of excavator utilization throughout the shift and more precise logging of annual work days lead to a slower decrease in estimated machine capacity than the one described in the reference literature. According to the suggested method, estimated excavator capacity is more than 23 % higher than the value stated in the reference literature.
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Date submitted2015-08-26
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Date accepted2015-10-16
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Date published2016-04-22
Reserch of modernized perforator-hammer for drifting special roadway the underground mines «Metrostroy»
- Authors:
- D. A. Yungmeister
The article describes the design of modernized hammer-perforators for tunnel complexes for construction of auxiliary mine workings of «Metrostroi», St Petersburg, protected by patents. The article deals with assembly variants of the executive device of percussion type for breaking faces of complicated structure. Particular attention is paid to hammers working in the mode of the «counter-shearing» accomplished by dual jackhammers. The results of experimental tests to determine pike penetration into rock array for different values of rock hardness and pressing force. It is noted that the proposed solution replaces manual labor, reduces working cycle time.
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Date submitted2009-08-24
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Date accepted2009-10-06
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Date published2010-02-01
Increase of an overall performance clearing combine complexes by perfection of their structure
- Authors:
- A. A. Yaichnikov
The present stage of development of the coal extraction and the problems arising during their operation is considered. The analysis of an operating mode of the coal extraction with entering updatings into the standard method of an estimation is lead. The technical decision directed on increase of efficiency and stability of work of clearing mechanized complexes is offered.