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Metso QdX4TM Mill Brochure

Metso QdX4TM Mill Brochure

Metso QdX4TM Mill Brochure

Product catalog summary
Introduction
The document introduces the Metso QdX4TM Mill Drive system, a high-powered mechanical solution designed for horizontal mill comminution, capable of delivering up to 32 MW. This system represents an evolution in mill drive architecture, transitioning from dual to quad pinion arrangements to enhance power transmission.

Specifications and Features
The Metso QdX4TM Mill Drive system is developed in collaboration with CMD and Ferry Capitain Engineering. It features internal torque splitting, dividing motor input power equally into two mill pinions. The system is designed to handle large grinding mills in the mining industry, with a focus on robust and innovative mechanical solutions.

Testing and Validation
A full-scale test bench was constructed to validate the system under severe operating conditions. The tests confirmed torque sharing, tooth contact patterns, and dynamic behavior, ensuring reliability and performance.

Foundation and Installation
The system's foundation design is standard, with no need for static or dynamic modal analysis. It features lower pier heights and reduced concrete volume, simplifying installation and reducing costs.

Lubrication Systems
The Metso QdX4TM Mill Drive includes two closed-loop, water-cooled lubrication systems for the internal drive gearing and open mill gearing. These systems are eco-friendly and equipped with instrumentation for monitoring temperature, pressure, and oil flow.

Economic and Operational Benefits
The system offers significant cost savings in foundation design, installation, and maintenance. It reduces equipment mass, shipping, and lifting requirements, and simplifies training and specialized services.

Conclusion
The Metso QdX4TM Mill Drive system is designed to deliver results, helping customers achieve their comminution goals with a reliable and efficient solution.
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metso Expect results Metso QdX4TM Mill Drive system mechanical solution Up to 32 MW in horizontal mill comminution

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Set-up allowance Thermal expansion Mill body deformation 100% input power helical input pinion shaft 14 MW Bearing deformation Set-up allowance Drop charge Frozen charge Set-up allowance 50% power share helical gearwheel 7 MW 50% power share helical gearwheel 7 MW Thermal expansion Gear tolerance Foundation deformation Helical mill pinions The natural progression in gear/pinion mill drives: The Metso QdX4TM Mill Drive provides the next step in the evolution of change in mill drive architecture, while allowing the system to be built with components that are within current manufacturing capabilities....

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Economic value Overall cost savings • Foundation design requirements are very similar to dual pinion drive mills. • Significant time savings in installation and commissioning, leading to quicker mill availability. • Reduced equipment mass means a reduction in required shipping and lifting/crane capacities. • Reduction in capital, operating and maintenance spare parts. • Less complexity, simplifies training and specialized services. • Standard motor design • Robust design: Cast and machined housing • Helical gear design per AGMA standards • Standard input shaft size and keyed couplings • Standard...

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Expect results It is our promise to our customers and the essence of our strategy. It is the attitude we share globally; our business is to deliver results to our customers, to help them reach their goals. metso Metso Minerals Industries, Inc., 2715 Pleasant Valley Road, York PA, 17402 USA, tel +1 717 843 8671, fax +1 717 845 5154. www.metso.com Subject to alteration without prior notice Brochure No. 3134-09-15-ESBL/Sala - English ©2015 Metso Printed in Canada

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