Report of Investigations 9329: Flywheel-Powered Shuttle Car

Details

• Journal Article:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9329
• Personal Author:
  Bartels, John R. ; Hummer, Jon A. ; Mayercheck, William D.
• Description:
  This U.S. Bureau of Mines report describes the development, system- by-system evaluation, and preliminary surface testing of a flywheel- powered shuttle car. The use of a self-contained flywheel power source has the potential to eliminate the numerous safety and routing problems associated with tethered mobile equipment. An alternative to conventional power cable systems was developed consisting of the world's first seven-rotor stacked-flywheel system capable of storing 6 kw.H of energy at 16,700 rpm. Numerous interdependent systems were necessary for successful interfacing with a conventional shuttle car. Each system was evaluated and tested individually. Finally, the entire shuttle car was surface- tested. The tests indicated that the flywheel energy system can function and operate a shuttle car. The economics of the system and the design of required support systems were not addressed in the project. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-mines; Underground-mines; Trackless-vehicles; Mine-haulage; Flywheels; Shuttle-cars
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9329, 1991 Jan; :1-34
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRC - Pittsburgh Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  41 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10008481
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-200543
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5fa557fb6d6be785c8e9060d67e84a75a257f46e51f72d014d7ed2afeb9188d92fee6a36cf91b0749bc4eecdf0eac8a53cc4643e38587cb2b4289b89de459d55
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10505/cdc_10505_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 17.84 MB ]