Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en14010071
Keywords
sieving screen; inertial vibrator; dual-frequency; spectrum; FEM simulation
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- European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, under the Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation
- EIT RawMaterials GmbH [18253]
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A new design of dual-frequency inertial drive has been developed to improve the processing efficiency of bulk materials by generating excitation force with variable amplitude and frequency; Finite element model is used to check strength, achieving more efficient motion trajectories and energy saving.
The low energy efficiency and excessive power of electric motors of large-scale vibrating machines for processing bulk materials motivated a new design of the inertial drive. This drive consists of one motor and two coaxial unbalanced masses, whose rotational frequencies are related in the ratio 2:1. This approach allows for a generation of the excitation force with variable amplitude and frequency, which changes depending on the inertial characteristics and shaft rotation frequency and does not relate to the phase difference of the unbalanced masses. Because of this, the symmetry axis of the resulting vector hodograph can be changed. The spectral composition of the exciting force up to 200 Hz contains higher harmonics, the energy share of which is 25.4% from the 2nd harmonic and 14.1% from the 3rd and higher harmonics that correspondingly improves bulk material treatment in comparison to single-frequency vibrators. The finite element model is used for checking the strength capacity of the most loaded units of a dual-frequency drive. Its use allows the realization of complex trajectories of motion that are more technologically efficient for variable parameters of the treated media and energy saving in sieving screens and other vibrating machines.
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