Mining electrification and infrastructure towards all-electric mines

Ensuring the selection of the right electrical technologies and products, their correct dimensioning, compliance with environmental conditions - leading to substantial savings in investment and energy consumption. Collaborating with the industry to find new ways to transition from diesel to electricity.

The future for mining electrification has already started. Electricity transformation of off-grid mining to battery energy storage and renewables is underway. A lot of progressive companies are investing in fully-electric or hybrid-electric vehicles to dump diesel, cut costs and pollution and use new technologies more appealing to the millennials. However, they also present a new set of challenges for mine operators concerning infrastructure, maintenance, and operating constraints.

ABB Ability™ eMine can electrify your mining equipment, from pit to port and mine to market.

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Building on decades of experience in mining project electrification and over 10 years’ experience in providing charging infrastructure for buses, trucks and cars, we are able to offer solutions that are uniquely designed to handle the requirements of the mining industry based on the latest technologies.

Enabling technologies

Trolley assist for diesel-electric trucks

Diesel consumption reduced by up to 90%
Mining EV fast charging pilot

Set to become the world’s fastest and only fully automated charging system up to 600kW
High power rectifiers

DC rectifiers or AC converters
Pre-fabricated containerized E-houses

Custom-engineered, modular outdoor enclosures, skid or wheel mounted
Motors for heavy electric vehicles

Optimized e-Drivetrain motor platform
Conduit & fittings

Protecting critical electrical and electronic wiring assemblies from engine hot spots
UPS uninterrupted power supply

Power protection of sensitive loads
Skid mounted unit substations

Stepping down the voltage to large motors for mining
Drives and PLCs

Low harmonic drive for outdoor, compact and rugged drive modules for HEV and more
MV solutions

MV switchgear, MCC, relays, bus transfer solutions and more
LV solutions

Conventional MCC, mission-critical power distribution and UPS in a single system
Microgrids

Distributed energy resources (DERs) for off-grid mines

Electrification and automation for each process in your mining operations

Underground mining

Hoist systems, electric trucks, E-houses, MCC, explosion-proof drive, compact power systems
Open-pit mining

Electrification and drive systems for excavators, spreaders and shovels
Crushing and conveying

Belt conveyor systems, gearless conveyor drives, drive systems for crushers
Grinding

Electrification and drive systems for fine grinding, harmonic and power factor correction filters
Beneficiation

High power converters, variable speed drives, intelligent power distribution for mineral processing and refining plants
Shipping

Firewarning, intercom and lighting for stockyards, portal scrapers, stackers, reclaimers, train or ship loading and unloading

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