We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Investigation of Cycle Time Segments of Dragline Operation in Surface Coal Mine: A Statistical Approach.
- Authors
Mohammadi, Mousa; Rai, Piyush; Singh, Umesh; Singh, S.
- Abstract
Dragline is highly capital intensive equipment to procure, operate and maintain in any surface mining operation. Given this, every second of operation of this capital intensive equipment is absolutely important. Improvement of even a single second in the total cycle time has a tremendous bearing on the overall performance of this equipment. In this light, the present paper is an endeavour to critically analyze the cycle time of dragline operations in a major surface coal mine in India. Rigorous statistical analysis has been performed on individual cycle time segments, of complete dragline cycle. The segmental cycle times have been found to be statistically significant and appear to be best represented by lognormal, normal and beta distributions. Furthermore, the mean time of the statistical distribution for segmental cycle time of dragline has revealed the dependence of cycle time on cut geometry and depth. Results have been illustrated in the form of figures, graphs and tables.
- Subjects
DRAGLINES; COAL mining; CAPITAL intensive industries; STRIP mining; QUANTITATIVE research
- Publication
Geotechnical & Geological Engineering, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 6, p1765
- ISSN
0960-3182
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10706-016-9987-8