Abstract
Mines now absorbing Industry 4.0 technologies face the challenges of production energy efficiency enhancement and energy safety improvement. Following the environmental standards involves the requirement of turning from diesel to electric drive of mining machinery and equipment. This significantly improves miners’ working environment in ore mines. At the same time, the share of energy consumption increases in the situation of low energy security of mines, particularly at peak loads. The article discusses the conditions, and proposes a scenario of mine energy supply system reliability enhancement. For this purpose, a mining engineering system is viewed as an energy asset, with identification of its expanding capabilities.
Highlights
IntroductionGlobal trends of all without exception large production corporations joining Industry 4.0 give a conclusive interpretation of the prospects of mining industry development – transition to intelligent control systems with the alteration of the role of the human factor in design and development, as well as operation of mining engineering systems and their health monitoring
Global trends of all without exception large production corporations joining Industry 4.0 give a conclusive interpretation of the prospects of mining industry development – transition to intelligent control systems with the alteration of the role of the human factor in design and development, as well as operation of mining engineering systems and their health monitoring.Industry 4.0 is and not so much new technologies; rather, it is a new approach to production and consumption
A cross-cutting priority of mining and energy engineering is the identification of expanding capabilities of energy in mining engineering systems for the enhancement of energy efficiency, industrial, energy and environmental safety of production with the minimization of the share of diesel fuel-fired power plants and internal combustion engines in the total pattern of energy consumption of mines
Summary
Global trends of all without exception large production corporations joining Industry 4.0 give a conclusive interpretation of the prospects of mining industry development – transition to intelligent control systems with the alteration of the role of the human factor in design and development, as well as operation of mining engineering systems and their health monitoring. This can be explained by the fact that a significant share of mines operates in the areas with poor energy infrastructure, and by the widespread use of heavy load-haul-dump machinery and dump trucks with diesel engines in underground mines, on the other hand. In this context, a cross-cutting priority of mining and energy engineering is the identification of expanding capabilities of energy in mining engineering systems for the enhancement of energy efficiency, industrial, energy and environmental safety of production with the minimization of the share of diesel fuel-fired power plants and internal combustion engines in the total pattern of energy consumption of mines
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