Description
This chapter aims to provide an overview of energy efficiency in the mining industry with a particular focus on the role of fuel consumption in hauling operations in mining. Moreover, as the most costly aspect of surface mining with a significant environmental impact, diesel consumption will be investigated in this chapter. This research seeks to develop an advanced data analytics model to estimate the energy efficiency of haul trucks used in surface mines, with the ultimate goal of lowering operating costs. Predicting truck fuel consumption can be accomplished by first identifying the significant factors affecting fuel consumption: total resistance, truck payload, and truck speed. Second, developing a comprehensive analysis framework. This framework involves generating a fitness function from a model of the relationship between fuel consumption and its affecting factors. Third, the model is trained and tested using actual data from large surface mines in Australia, obtained through field research. Finally, an artificial neural network is selected to predict haul truck fuel consumption. The visualized results also clarify the general minimum areas in the plotted fuel consumption graphs. These areas potentially open a new window for researchers to develop optimization models to minimize haul truck fuel consumption in surface mines.
- Introduction
- Energy consumption in mining
- Truck energy consumption
- Mine operating parameters
- Truck travel time
- Haol profile
- Identifying the most influential parameters
- Artificial neural network (ANN)
- Proposed model
- Developed ANN model
- Conclusion
Biography
Petrică Vizureanu obtained an MSc and Ph.D. in Heating Equipment from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, Romania, in 1992 and 1999, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor and Scientific Supervisor in Materials Engineering at the same university. His research interests include expert systems for heating system programming, computer-assisted design for heating equipment, heating equipment for materials processing, heat transfer, biomaterials, and geopolymers. Dr. Vizureanu has more than 150 papers Publications are visible in over 150 papers in international journals and conferences (proceedings) and 35 books to his credit. Hirsch index: 18.
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