Maximium safety during maintenance of 5000 tons dredger at Loy Yang
A beautiful balancing act as Synchronous Lifter
One of the world’s most advanced heavy lifting systems has been deployed in Australia to maximise safety and precision during maintenance of a huge dredger at the largest coal mine in the Southern Hemisphere.
The successful lifting and balancing of its huge superstructure illustrates the versatility of the Synchronous Lift system for major industrial and civil engineering tasks, including manufactured structures, buildings, bridges, oil platforms, ships, turbines, generators, mills, mining equipment and heavy but delicate computerised/electrical equipment.The Synchronous Lifting technology chosen for the task of hoisting Dredger 16’s superstructure to inspect and refurbish the giant machine’s slewing ball race uses digital synchronisation control accurate to within a 1 millimetre between leading and lagging lifting points.
The Synchronous Lifting system was an eight-point model that can be used with multiple cylinders ranging from 10-1000 tonnes capacity each. “We needed to be assured – and this turned out to be exactly the case – that the technology package developed in conjunction with Enerpac would operate in total safety and reliability.”
All the values are stored in the control systems memory for later use. With satisfactory progression of the procedure, this provides both the contractor and the client with a clear guarantee that excessively high stresses have not occurred.”
