Improved power collector for wing trippers in raw material handling plant

摘要

THE original area of the Raw Material Handling Plant (RMHP) at Durgapur Steel Plant, India has wing trippers for stacking the raw materials. Power was fed to these wing trippers from current collecting rails (copper bus bars) located at ground level. Frequent breakdowns in the collector system was causing delays as well as incurring demurrage costs due to interrupted upstream tippling operations. The wing trippers 1 & 3 were modified to each incorporate a wheel mounted extended platform on which was mounted a Cable Reeling Drum (CRD) which has resulted in the elimination of breakdowns, streamlining of tippling operations and an increase in productivity and quality.