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CN113617508A - Self-adaptive online control device and method for grading crusher - Google Patents

Self-adaptive online control device and method for grading crusher Download PDF

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CN113617508A
CN113617508A CN202110983196.0A CN202110983196A CN113617508A CN 113617508 A CN113617508 A CN 113617508A CN 202110983196 A CN202110983196 A CN 202110983196A CN 113617508 A CN113617508 A CN 113617508A
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陈洪
张明远
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李金涛
刘国军
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文柯然
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Abstract

The invention relates to a self-adaptive online control device and a self-adaptive online control method for a grading crusher, which are used for automatically adjusting the rotating speed of the crusher according to the feeding amount of the crusher. The device comprises a belt scale, a programmable controller and a frequency converter, wherein the belt scale monitors the current material quantity passing through in real time and transmits data signals to the programmable controller, the programmable controller outputs adaptive signals to control the output frequency of the frequency converter aiming at the collected belt scale weighing signals, and the frequency converter is connected with a variable frequency motor driving a tooth roller of the grading crusher. The invention can automatically adjust the rotating speed of the crusher tooth roller according to the feeding amount, can automatically reduce the rotating speed of the crusher when the feeding amount is small or the feeding is interrupted, and can realize the effects of reducing energy consumption, slowing down the abrasion of the running part of the crusher and reducing the excessive crushing rate of materials.

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Self-adaptive online control device and method for grading crusher
Technical Field
The application belongs to the technical field of crushers, and more particularly relates to a self-adaptive online control device and method for a grading crusher, which can automatically adjust the rotating speed of a toothed roller of the grading crusher according to the feeding amount.
Background
The grading crusher is a device for grading and crushing materials into certain sizes. At present, a grading crusher usually adopts a double-toothed roller form, the two toothed rollers are respectively powered by two motors, the two toothed rollers are driven after being decelerated by a speed reducer or a belt pulley, the motors work at a power frequency, and the rotating speed of the toothed rollers is also fixed and unchanged. The rotating speed of the gear roller under the power frequency is the rotating speed under the working condition of the maximum designed processing capacity of the crusher, and in order to guarantee the processing capacity of the crusher, the conditions that the feeding amount is instantaneously too large, the size of a crushed material occasionally exceeds the standard and the like are considered during the design of the maximum processing capacity of the grading crusher, so that the designed processing capacity of the crusher is reserved with allowance, namely the designed processing capacity of the crusher is larger than the feeding amount of actual work.
The ideal working state of the crusher is that materials are uniformly fed by a feeding belt according to the maximum designed treatment capacity, but the feeding amount of the belt in actual production often cannot reach the maximum treatment capacity, the feeding amount fluctuates, and even the feeding is interrupted. When the feeding amount is small or feeding is interrupted, the tooth roller of the crusher only needs a low rotating speed to meet the requirement of crushing, but actually, the crusher always runs at a high speed at a rated rotating speed, so that the waste of electric energy and the unnecessary abrasion of running parts of the crusher are caused, and the adverse effect of excessive crushing of materials is also caused.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a self-adaptive online control device of a grading crusher, which monitors the feeding quantity of the crusher in real time and automatically adjusts the rotating speed of a toothed roller of the crusher according to the feeding quantity, so that the crusher always maintains an efficient and energy-saving running state.
In order to solve the problems, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
a self-adaptive online control device and a method for a grading crusher comprise a weighing device, a programmable controller, a first frequency converter, a second frequency converter, a first variable frequency motor and a second variable frequency motor, wherein the weighing device is arranged below a feeding belt at the head of the grading crusher and used for collecting a weighing signal of a belt scale, the weighing device is electrically connected with the input end of the programmable controller, the output end of the programmable controller is electrically connected with the first frequency converter and the second frequency converter, the first frequency converter is connected with the first variable frequency motor for driving a first tooth roller of the grading crusher, and the second frequency converter is connected with the second variable frequency motor for driving a second tooth roller of the grading crusher.
The technical scheme of the invention is further improved as follows: the weighing device is a belt scale.
The technical scheme of the invention is further improved as follows: and the belt weigher, the first frequency converter, the second frequency converter and the programmable controller are communicated by RS 485.
The technical scheme of the invention is further improved as follows: the belt scale adopts SY/ICS-ZLC type electronic belt scale; the programmable controller adopts Siemens S7-200SR 40; the first frequency converter and the second frequency converter are both three-crystal VM1000H type frequency converters.
A self-adaptive online control method of a grading crusher utilizes the device, carries out real-time monitoring and weighing on the amount of materials passing through the current time by a weighing device, and transmits data signals to a programmable controller; the programmable controller judges the material amount to be fed into the grading crusher through the signal input by the belt scale, and outputs a corresponding signal to control the output frequency of the first frequency converter and the second frequency converter according to a self-adaptive control strategy, wherein the first frequency converter drives the first variable frequency motor, the first variable frequency motor drives the first crushing tooth roller, the second frequency converter drives the second variable frequency motor, and the second variable frequency motor drives the second crushing tooth roller.
The technical scheme of the invention is further improved as follows: the self-adaptive control strategy is to set the design processing capacity of the grading crusher to U t/h,
when the feeding amount reaches or exceeds U t/h, the first variable frequency motor and the second variable frequency motor operate at the frequency of 50 HZ;
when the feeding amount is 50 t/h or less, the first variable frequency motor and the second variable frequency motor operate at the frequency of 10 HZ;
when the feeding amount is between 50 t/h and U t/h, the operation frequencies of the first variable frequency motor and the second variable frequency motor are mapped to 10HZ to 50HZ in an equal proportion.
In the process, the first variable frequency motor and the second variable frequency motor both run at the same frequency at the same time.
The technical scheme of the invention is further improved as follows: the design processing capacity of the grading crusher is 200t/h, and the weighing device is a belt scale.
Due to the adoption of the technical scheme, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
the invention can automatically adjust the rotating speed of the tooth roller of the grading crusher according to the feeding amount, can automatically reduce the rotating speed of the grading crusher when the feeding amount is small or the feeding is interrupted, can reduce the energy consumption, slow down the abrasion of the running part of the grading crusher and reduce the excessive crushing rate of materials.
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fig. 2 is an electrical schematic block diagram of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. the device comprises a feeding belt, 2, a belt scale, 3, a programmable controller, 4, a first frequency converter, 5, a second frequency converter, 6, a first variable frequency motor, 7 and a second variable frequency motor.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples.
The invention discloses a self-adaptive online control device of a grading crusher, which is shown in a figure 1 and a figure 2 and comprises a belt scale 2, a programmable controller 3, a first frequency converter 4, a second frequency converter 5, a first variable frequency motor 6 and a second variable frequency motor 7. The belt scale 2 is arranged below the upper belt of the feeding belt 1 of the grading crusher and is positioned near the machine head at one side of the grading crusher. The belt weigher 2 is electrically connected with the input end of the programmable controller 3, the output end of the programmable controller 3 is electrically connected with the first frequency converter 4 and the second frequency converter 5, and the belt weigher 2 can be replaced by other weighing devices as long as weighing and weighing signal uploading functions can be realized.
The invention also discloses a self-adaptive online control method of the grading crusher, wherein a belt scale 2 carries out real-time monitoring and weighing on the current material quantity, and transmits a data signal to a programmable controller 3, the programmable controller 3 judges the material quantity to enter the grading crusher through the signal input by the belt scale 2, and outputs a suitable signal according to a self-adaptive control strategy to control the output frequency of a first frequency converter 4 and a second frequency converter 5, the first frequency converter 4 drives a first variable frequency motor 6, the second frequency converter 5 drives a second variable frequency motor 7, the first variable frequency motor 6 drives a first crushing tooth roller, the second variable frequency motor 7 drives a second crushing tooth roller, and finally the operation of the grading crusher is controlled in a suitable range.
The belt weigher 2 and the programmable controller 3 adopt a modbus/rtu communication protocol, the belt weigher 2 transmits real-time weighing data to the programmable controller 3 from an internal register, and the programmable controller 3 takes the acquired data as the processing capacity of the grading crusher.
The self-adaptive control strategy is that when the feeding amount reaches or exceeds 200t/h, taking a grading crusher with the design processing capacity of 200t/h as an example, a first variable frequency motor 6 and a second variable frequency motor 7 of the grading crusher run at the frequency of 50 HZ; when the feeding amount is 50 t/h or less, the first variable frequency motor 6 and the second variable frequency motor 7 of the grading crusher operate at the frequency of 10 HZ; when the feeding amount is between 50 t/h and 200t/h, the running frequencies of the first variable frequency motor 6 and the second variable frequency motor 7 of the grading crusher are mapped to 10HZ to 50HZ in an equal proportion. In the process, the first variable frequency motor 6 and the second variable frequency motor 7 both run at the same frequency at the same time, so that the normal operation of the grading crusher is ensured.
The formula for the linear positive correlation is: when the feed amount was X t/h, the operating frequency K =10+40 (X-50)/(U-50). Taking the design processing capacity of 200t/h as an example, the running frequency K =10+40 (X-50)/(200-50), for example, the feeding amount is 100 t/h, the running frequency of the motor is 23.3HZ, namely, the rotating speed of the grading crusher and the feeding amount of the belt are in linear positive correlation in the design range.
The belt weigher 2 is connected with the programmable controller 3 through an RS485 interface, the programmable controller 3 serves as a master station, the address of the belt weigher 2 is '1', the first frequency converter 4 is connected with the programmable controller 3 through an RS485 interface, the programmable controller 3 serves as the master station, the address of the first frequency converter 4 is '2', the address of the second frequency converter 5 is connected with the programmable controller 3 through an RS485 interface, the programmable controller 3 serves as the master station, and the address of the second frequency converter 5 is '3'.
One embodiment of the invention employs the following elements:
the belt scale 2 adopts a SY/ICS-ZLC type electronic belt scale;
the programmable controller 3 adopts Siemens S7-200SMART SR 40;
the first frequency converter 4 adopts a frequency converter of three-crystal VM1000H type;
the second frequency converter 5 adopts a frequency converter of three-crystal VM1000H type;
the components are convenient to obtain materials, low in cost and convenient to popularize and use on site.
After the invention is used, the rotating speed of the tooth roller of the grading crusher can be automatically adjusted according to the feeding amount, the rotating speed of the grading crusher can be automatically reduced when the feeding amount is small or the feeding is interrupted, the energy consumption can be reduced, the abrasion of the running part of the grading crusher can be slowed down, the excessive crushing rate of materials can be reduced, and the invention has extremely high popularization and application values.

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1. The utility model provides a hierarchical breaker self-adaptation online control device which characterized in that: including weighing device, programmable controller, first converter, the second converter, first inverter motor, second inverter motor, weighing device installs in the feed belt below that is located the hierarchical breaker aircraft nose department, it is used for gathering the signal of weighing of belt weigher, weighing device and programmable controller's input electric connection, programmable controller's output and first converter, second converter electric connection, first converter links to each other with the first inverter motor who drives the first fluted roller of hierarchical breaker, the second converter links to each other with the second inverter motor who drives the second fluted roller of hierarchical breaker.
2. The adaptive online control device of the classification crusher according to claim 1, characterized in that: the weighing device is a belt scale.
3. The adaptive online control device of the classification crusher according to claim 2, characterized in that: and the belt weigher, the first frequency converter, the second frequency converter and the programmable controller are communicated by RS 485.
4. The adaptive on-line control device of a classification crusher according to claim 3, characterized in that: the belt scale adopts SY/ICS-ZLC type electronic belt scale; the programmable controller adopts Siemens S7-200SR 40; the first frequency converter and the second frequency converter are both three-crystal VM1000H type frequency converters.
5. A self-adaptive online control method of a grading crusher is characterized by comprising the following steps: the device of claim 1 is utilized, the weighing device is used for monitoring and weighing the amount of the material passing through at present in real time, and data signals are transmitted to the programmable controller; the programmable controller judges the material amount to enter the grading crusher through the signal input by the belt scale, and outputs a corresponding signal to control the output frequency of the first frequency converter and the second frequency converter according to a self-adaptive control strategy, wherein the first frequency converter drives a first variable frequency motor, and the first variable frequency motor drives a first crushing tooth roller; the second frequency converter drives a second variable frequency motor, and the second variable frequency motor drives a second crushing tooth roller.
6. The adaptive online control method of the classification crusher according to claim 5, characterized in that: the self-adaptive control strategy is to set the design processing capacity of the grading crusher to U t/h,
when the feeding amount reaches or exceeds U t/h, the first variable frequency motor and the second variable frequency motor operate at the frequency of 50 HZ;
when the feeding amount is 50 t/h or less, the first variable frequency motor and the second variable frequency motor operate at the frequency of 10 HZ;
when the feeding amount is between 50 t/h and U t/h, the operation frequencies of the first variable frequency motor and the second variable frequency motor are mapped to 10HZ to 50HZ in an equal proportion.
7. The adaptive online control method of the classification crusher according to claim 6, characterized in that: the design processing capacity of the grading crusher is 200t/h, and the weighing device is a belt scale.
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