Coal Application at coal seaport Shakhtersk OOOin Russia’s Sakhalin region

Job Report

L 580Wheel Loader

Coal seaport Shakhtersk OOO is part of the substantial Eastern Mining Company OOO in Russia’s Sakhalin region. The seaport dispatches coal from the Solntsevsky coal mine and from Udarnovskaya, which is one of the newest viable coal mines in Sakhalin. Today the Eastern Mining Company OOO has around 435 employees. In 2012 and 2013 the seaport was extensively

In 2014 the Eastern Mining Company OOO launched a production scale-up project to increase the seaport’s coal loading volume. The total loading volume increased from about 600,000 tonnes in 2012 to 2,8 million tonnes in 2015, equating to a six-fold increase in handling capacity. Previously, the loading of ships had been carried out by the vessel-loading

Seaport administration was tasked with selecting high-perfor-mance, cost-effective equipment capable of moving 35,000 m³ of material to the vessel-loading machine’s receiving and measuring bins each day. After researching all the solutions that the market had to offer, and impressed by the excellent local Liebherr service network and high productivity levels of the Liebherr wheel loaders, in spring 2016 the decision was made to purchase two Stage II / Tier 2 compliant Liebherr L 580 wheel loaders with a 7.5 m³ bucket. Each wheel loader is in use for 22 hours per day and the daily required handling capacity of a single machine is approximately 17,500 m³.

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modernised. This modernisation included the main conveyor belt, which moves coal from storage to the loading machine, and the purchase of new port vessels and new tow boats. The company has special handling machines and a vessel-loading machine with a capacity of 2,500 tonnes per hour.

machine, which has two bins that were loaded by crawler material handling machines with 4.0 to 6.0 m³ grapples. Due to a 4.3 million tonne increase in the coal loading volume in 2016, a rise over 20 per cent compared with the previous year, additional coal transportation solutions were needed to achieve the target flow rate.

Both L 580 wheel loaders have now been working reliably for in excess of 1,500 operating hours and together have achieved the increased loading volume required without the need for a bulldozer. Liebherr wheel loaders, with their ability to move larger volumes of material with less fuel, make it easy to achieve more. The L 580’s average fuel consumption of 13.2 litres per hour is 30 per cent lower than the fuel consumption of the previous machines in use at the seaport. Having experienced the reality of what the L 580 wheel loaders can achieve, seaport administration is looking forward to a new record of 4.3 million tonnes of coal handled in 2016.

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The L 580 loading coal at coal seaport Shakhtersk OOO The two L 580s delivering coal to the main conveyor belt

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Technical Data

Operating weight 24,720 kg

Tipping load, articulated (equipped with standard 5.0 m³ bucket) 18,000 kg

Engine output 209 kW / 284 HP

Bucket capacity 7.5 m3

Fuel consumption 13.2 litres / hour

Tyres Techking ET6A L3 26.5R25EM