Abstract:
—Open cast and deep mine operations increasingly depend on sophisticated electronic controllers and automated processing. This requires higher levels of power quality for the electrical power utilized in its operations. With the wide usage of sensitive electronic equipment in mineral process, voltage dips lasting for only a few tenths of a second, may cause production stops resulting in considerable associated costs. There are some processes that cannot tolerate interruption, such as some sequential line chemical processes. Since large production losses may occur due to voltage dips, poor power quality issues have been a major concern for mines. There is a need for equipment that supports production units to ride through the voltage dips so that the electrical unit is not interrupted during voltage dips. This paper proposes an application of the intelligent agent technology to create an efficient data acquisition and expert fault tolerant system in the mining process.