Open Pit

The working environment of an open pit mine can be difficult place to distribute safe and reliable electricity.

Common electrical challenges in an open pit mine:

• Motor starting of large drills causing unacceptable voltage sag and brownouts.
• High harmonic distortion from variable frequency drives on large shovels.
• Poor voltage regulation from highly variable and cyclical loads.
• Mobile substations and e-houses that are regularly relocating.
• Difficult grounding conditions and transferred ground potentials.
• Extreme heat, cold, dust, moisture, vibration and flyrock.
• High altitude.

Whatever your challenge, Strutherstech has solutions. Whether you require a design of a brand new open pit electrical power system or need troubleshooting of an existing system, a selection of electrical engineering services for the open pit mining industry are listed below. Follow the links below or contact us for more information.