Reliable, stable and robust: HBK torque sensors have worked well in Shuikou dam ship lifts for more than 10 years.
In many power machinery and transport machinery such as motors, fans, pumps, gearboxes, automotive drive shafts, marine propeller shafts and oil rigs, the torque in drive shafts is an extremely important parameter for the entire power system. A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock and the canal inclined plane. A vertical ship lift is large electromechanical equipment for a cargo ship passing dam. It's composed of four parts which includes an upper lock head, lower lock head, ship reception chamber and the main lift system. The main lift system consists of lifting equipment, corresponding control equipment and testing equipment distributed in four lifting points. Each lifting device at different lifting point includes DC motor, reduction gearbox, hoist drum wrapped lifting rope and hydraulic brakes.
In order to operate a ship reception chamber synchronously (including electrical synchronization), smoothly and safely, the output shafts of reduction gearboxes at four lifting points should be connected to a closed rectangular shaft system which constitutes mechanical rigid synchronous system.
To ensure power equilibrium, make sure torque outputs of drive motors for the mechanical synchronous drive system remain the same. It is important that the synchronous transmission shaft does not suffer excessive torque and rupture.
When a winch motor fails, the other three winch motors will supplement power to the failed lifting point via synchronizing shaft system immediately in order to ensure normal operation of the main hoist. Synchronizing torque shafts is monitored and reflects the power allocation.
In order for the ship to avoid sinking or floating when the brake releases, the drive system will generate a certain torque output in advance according to unbalanced force and its direction between the ship reception chamber and the balancing weight.
The HBK torque transducer T40FM was used in the Silin dam ship lift (Capacity: 500tons, Dimensions of navigable ship: 55×10.8×1.6metres, vertical lift: 76.6metres) in China. Four HBK T40FM torque transducers were installed into rectangular ring synchronized shaft systems to monitor the working torque of each synchronized shaft. The torque signals are used for monitoring applied torque, controlling equilibrium torque and triggering an alarm if the limit torque is exceeded.
The Shuikou Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Minjiang River in Fujian Province, China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation and it supports a 1,400 MW power station with 7 x 200 MW Kaplan turbines. The dam also provides navigation with a 500-ton flight of 3 ship locks and a 500-ton ship lift. Other purposes include flood control, irrigation and recreation.
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