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News Release from: Corus Northern Engineering Services | Subject: Maintenance on mining crusher rolls
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 October 2007
R + R on gearboxes and rolls for mining
company
CNES helps eliminate unforeseen breakdowns and increase the service life of gearboxes and crusher rolls at the Cleveland Potash mines in Yorkshire
By carrying out Repair and Refurbishment (R + R) work on critical gearbox casings and crusher rolls for a UK-based mining company, Corus Northern Engineering Services (CNES) has not only increased the service life of the gearboxes, but also eliminated gearbox breakdowns Cleveland Potash, a business unit of ICL Fertilisers, is a producer and supplier of potash fertilisers for agricultural and industrial applications based in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, on the Northeast coast of England
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 2 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company operates the UK's only potash mine, from which it produces approximately one million tonnes of potash for fertilisers and around half a million tonnes of salt each year.
Customers use potash for a variety of applications, including fertiliser production, glass making, sugar beet cultivation and for use in the chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries.
The salt is used primarily for road de-icing.
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The potash and salt deposits are mined from beneath the North Yorkshire Moors and under the North Sea.
The mine here is almost one mile deep (the deepest in Europe), stretches for six miles inland and seven miles under the North Sea.
The working environment for equipment and machinery is extremely harsh.
CNES has been working closely with Cleveland Potash since 2001.
Andy Bland, Business Development Engineer at CNES comments: "CNES does a variety of work for Cleveland Potash, including weld reclamation of crusher rolls and refurbishment of large gearbox casings.
Cleveland Potash came to CNES because of a combination of our engineering expertise, recovery and workshop facilities.
We also have a history of working with large industrial gearboxes.
Most of the refurbishment work we do involves no detailed drawings of the gearbox, just a general arrangement drawing, which means you need to rely on the skills and experience of the engineer - which we have here.
At the Cleveland Potash mine, the six-tonne gearboxes drive cutting machines that cut away more than one million tonnes of rock each campaign from the face of the mine.
Because of the harsh, corrosive working environment in the mines, the Auger gearboxes last for around two years before they need a complete overhaul.
CNES carries out between three and four overhauls each year for Cleveland Potash".
The gear casings are sent to the CNES Teesside workshops as an empty shell, stripped of their component parts.
CNES then shot blasts the casings and all working surfaces, the alignment and condition of the bearing housings is checked, and then a full inspection report submitted to Cleveland Potash.
This report includes specifications on how CNES intends to reclaim the casings to the original dimensions.
Bland continues: "We also carry out weld reclamation work on crusher rolls, which have a value of around 150,000 euros per pair.
These crusher rolls are used to fine grind the salt and potash.
Cleveland came to us because we developed a weld reclamation process that saved the company around 60 per cent of the cost of purchasing a brand new pair of rolls".
Weld reclamation and metallurgical experts at Corus developed a specific welding procedure for the Cleveland Potash crusher rolls.
The weld reclamation machine at Scunthorpe operates continuously on the rollers for 365 hours, depositing a special 120mm thick hardened layer onto the rollers.
The rollers undergo an intermediate stress relieving operation halfway through the welding process.
The CNES welding experience and skills of the engineers enabled it to develop this custom process for the client.
For more information on CNES and the CPE range of services for the mining, quarrying and cement industries, use the Processingtalk Reader Response service, visit the website, or telephone the sales department. Request a free brochure from Corus Northern Engineering Services ...
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