Hoisting: Materials Handling Course

Hoisting
Materials handling course

Introduction
 The transportation of miners, supplies, and mined material from an underground operation
is the connecting link between the mine plant and the surface plant.
 Unless the mine is accessible by a drift or adit, some type of hoisting system is necessary
for slopes or shafts.
Wire ropes
 A wire rope is designed to transmit forces longitudinally along its axis. It is used in a
variety of mining applications because of its flexibility, high tensile strength, and
dependability.
 Shaft hoisting ropes and principal slope haulage ropes are usually custom built; however,
proper rope selection for car spotters, etc., should not be overlooked.
 Because wire ropes for shafts and slopes represent the lifeline for a mine, they should be
made of the highest-quality improved plow steel. Such quality is necessary to deal with the
conditions of loading, winding, vibration, abrasion, and corrosion.
Shaft hoisting system
 A Shaft hoisting system consists of six major sections:

 A loading station for ore or a service station for workers and material
 Shaft conveyances called skips for ore transport and cages for transporting workers and
material
 Ropes that suspend the conveyances
 A shaft that connects the underground to the surface and that is equipped with a system to
guide the conveyance as they move in the shaft.
 A head-frame located on the surface that supports either the hoist itself and provides the
tipping arrangements for the rock.
 A hoist and hoist room
Hoisting components
Types of hoists
 There are two basic types of hoists are commonly used today:
 Drum hoists,
 in which the hoist rope is stored on a drum.
 Usually located some distance from the shaft and require a headframe and sheaves to
center the hoisting rope in the shaft compartment and maintain a rope fleeting angle of less
than 2o .
Drum Hoists
 Drum Hoists consist of:

1. Single drum hoist
2. Divided Single drum hoist
3. Differential Diameter Drum
4. Double-Drum Hoist
5. Multiple rope hoist
6. Bicylindrical Conical Drum Hoists
Drum Hoist
Drum type Usage

Single drum hoist Shallow application only
Divided Single drum hoist Used for a deeper shafts with balanced
hoisting
Differential Diameter Drum The conveyance in balance with counter
weight
Double-Drum Hoist Depth limits of about 1500 m
Multiple rope hoist Shaft sinking operation (safer)
Bicylindrical Conical Drum Hoists Depth more than 2000 m
Friction hoists
 In which the rope passes over the wheel during the hoisting cycle.
 It consists of a wheel material to resist slippage. The hoist rope is attached or stored on the
wheel.
 In early installations, the hoist was mounted on the ground, and a single rope was wound
around the drum and over the head sheaves to the conveyances in a balanced arrangement.
 Friction conveyors can either be a tower mounted or ground mounted.
Friction hoists
Hoists (Design Considerations)
 A mining engineer’s concern regarding mine hoist deign is to ensure that the motor
horsepower of the hoist is sufficient to do its assigned tasks.
Important Parameters of motor-hoist design:
1- Hoisting layout
2- Shaft/slope inclination
3- net weight of the loads
4- weight of skips, cages and cars
5- rope size and weight
6- hoisting distances
 7- drum dimension
 8- rope speed
 9- production required
 10- load/dump caging time
 11- acceleration and deceleration rates
Hoist production
 Tonnage of ore that can be handled with each skip can be calculated from
 SL ≡ Tonnage to be handled by each skip

 D ≡ Depth in ft
 V ≡ Velocity in ft/S
 TPH ≡ capacity in tons/hour
 The equation is based on the assumption that delay is 12 seconds and acceleration/
deceleration rates 0.3 m/S2 (2.5ft/S2
Cycle time
 Cycle time of the hoisting system consists of acceleration time ta, Constant speed time tv,
retardation tr time and load and dump time,
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 A Shaft hoisting system consists of six major sections:

 Drum Hoists consist of:

Drum type Usage

 SL ≡ Tonnage to be handled by each skip

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