- Abstract:
- The problem of rock masses sticking and freezing on the working surfaces of mining equipment has been a common issue for many years. Ignoring these problems often leads to equipment and machinery breakdowns, resulting in costly repairs and financial losses for businesses. In practice, the use of preventive liquid has been widely used to combat high adhesion of working surfaces of mining and transport equipment. For example, in quarrying railway transport, when transporting goods prone to freezing and sticking to the surfaces of gondola cars or dump cars, portal structures are used, designed for spraying preventive liquid “top-down”. In this case, to apply a proven method of adhesion control on the support surfaces of walking excavators (support base and skis), it is necessary to change the spraying direction to “bottom-up”. This paper presents the schemes of the proposed device that allows you to apply a preventive liquid to the support surfaces of walking excavators. The paper provides justification of the main parameters of the device for combating the adhesion and freezing of rock masses on the support surfaces of walking excavators, as well as a mathematical model for their determination. The paper also calculates and presents the mass and dimensional parameters of the excavators in the form of a table.
- Keywords:
- walking excavator, support surfaces, adhesion, adhesion of rock mass, preventive liquid, methods of adhesion control, irrigation, cleaning of work surfaces
- For citation:
- Demchenko I.I., Popov N.A., Ignatova O.S., Bragin V.I., Antonov E.A. Use of preventive liquid to combat adhesion of support surfaces of stepper excavators. Mine Surveying and Subsurface Use. 2026; 26 (2): 19-25. (In Russ.). https://doi. org/10.56195/20793332-2026-26-2-19-25.
- Information about the authors:
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- Igor I. Demchenko – Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Professor of the Department of Mining Machines and Complexes, Siberian Federal University, Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
- Nikita A. Popov – Postgraduate Student, Assistant of the Department of Mining Machines and Complexes, Siberian Federal University, Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; e-mail:
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Olga S. Ignatova – Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Associate Professor of the Department of Mining Machines and Complexes, Siberian Federal University, Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
- Viktor I. Bragin – Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor, Professor of the Department of Mineral Processing, Siberian Federal University, Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation
- Egor A. Antonov – Deputy Chief Mechanic, Balakhtinsky Branch of Sibugol LLC, Bolshosirsky Mine, Krasnoyarsk redion, Balakhtinsky District, Bolshie Siry village, Russian Federation
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