ARTIFICIAL VISION TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN THE CRUSHING STAGE OF AN AGGREGATES COMPANY TO MINIMIZE ENERGY REQUIREMENTS

Our organization has developes an artificial vision system (AVS) to be implemented in the crushing stage of an aggregate processing plant, which main objective is to avoid equipment’s failures due to rock size and to minimize energy requirements. The aim is to have an automatic tool which can detect granulometry and be able to define which elements should (product) or should not (waste) access to crushing equipments. This is a cycle process and depends on final expected granulometry.

The impact of this artificial vision system is huge concerning low energy consumption goals because it is mainly concern in the equipment which major energy demands has. Energy consumption will be monitorized and controlled, as well as quantified. The results obtained are validated throughout a procedure and determinate its effectiveness towards to a correct equipment operating condition and therefore to certify its energy efficiency process, during and afterwards.

Our area of expertise covers geophysics methods (GPR Ground Penetrating Radar, ERT Electric High Resolution Tomograghy, Reflection and Refraction Seismic Data, Seismic tomography and MASW), including remote source methods based on the teledetection (hyperspectral analysis) by means of UAV in exploration programs, integration of geological and geophysical data with resource calculation and mine planning software (DATAMINE), mineral resource and ore reserve estimation, grade calculations and 3D models. We have a rich database, a strong infrastructure and competent human resources as well as a broad experience participating in EU financed programmes.