Abstract
State of the art and reasons for undertaking modernization activities of bucket wheel drive mechanisms of BWEs operating of domestic lignite open cast mines have been discussed in the paper.The distribution of loads and mass moments of inertia acting on the BWE mining system has been given. The applied overload protections in bucket wheel drive mechanisms in the form of various types of clutches have been presented. The gears and motors of bucket wheel drives have been described. Examples of modernized bucket wheel drive mechanisms have been given. List of requirements for bucket wheel drive mechanisms which should be met by BWEs operating in hard mineable soils has been presented.
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