Cement Energy Environment

28 Optimization of Transportation • Several OEMs are leading the way toward electrification. For example: - Liebherr prepared prototype diesel-electric truck that will be commercially available by 2021 (Trial taken in Austria) - Komatsu developing a 45-ton all-electric dump truck with regenerative braking to take advantage of moving heavy loads downhill. - Artisan is a smaller company specializing in electric vehicles for underground use. Recently unveiled a 40-ton underground hauler. - Rio Tinto operates autonomous haulage trucks at four mines in Australia. In Rio Tinto is working on an autonomous rail system, AutoHaul. - Fortescue mining has the world’s first fully autonomous hauling fleet at an iron ore mine. • Electrical Vehicles have Advantages of less carbon, lower O&M costs, less breakdown as electric motors are mechanically simpler etc. - Automation added that MOEF has issued an OM dated 29.10.20 for coal transportation to power plants shall be with covered wagons or Conveyor belt from delivery point to plant only, no truck transport to curb emissions. - Hindustan Zinc is the first Indian mining company to introduce Electrical vehicles in underground mining, signs MoU with Epiroc Rock drills AB for zero emissions & sustainable mining by introduction of battery electric Vehicles (BEV) in underground mining. Transport of material is pivotal concern in mining activity. In the transport activity, major innovations can be done by way of electrification and automation. The electrical operated vehicles produce less carbon, but they often have lower O&M costs because their fuel is cheaper and they break down less often because electric motors are mechanically simpler.