Crane Systems

ABB systems work for JSW Steels Ladle Cranes

at Toranagallu

ABB Crane Systems India delivered its first ISU based

Multidrive System for a Steel Plant Ladle Crane in India
.
JSW Steel Limited, Tornagallu, Karnataka
JSW Steel Limited is one among the largest Indian Steel
companies in India today with capacity of 7.8MT. The
company consists of the most modern, eco-friendly steel
plants with the latest technologies for both upstream and
downstream processes.
Customer requirements
1. 5 Nos. 300+75/10T Ladle Cranes along with 11 other
cranes of lesser capacity for other Steel Melt Shop.
2. Squirrel cage induction motors and some field devices,
the complete electrics including drives, automation,
power distribution panels, encoders, etc.
3. Automation package for the 300T Ladle cranes.
4. ISU based Multidrive system with full ISU redundancy for
the five 300T Ladle cranes.
5. The automation package consists of AC800M based PLC
system with a Crane Maintenance Station.
Challenges
1. Having complete ISU based multidrive solution for an
EOT crane in Steel Melting shop.
2. Integration of our all electrical system with the Chinese
OEM and accommodate all the equipments in their
design.
3. To configure the remote I/Os of different girders, operator
cabin and drives.

Solution by ABB
The ISU redundancy delivered on the cranes is a unique
installation that prevents a critical crane operation from
coming to a stop in the event of an ISU / Convertor failure.
In the event of an ISU failure the entire drive system and the
crane come to a halt. This could lead to unacceptable loss
of production time and hot metal in the ladle. In the delivered
configuration with 2 nos. ISUs, the failed ISU is isolated from

the DC bus, and the standby ISU is switched into the circuit
to power the DC bus to continue the operation without any
further loss of production time. The failed ISU can then be
physically isolated and suitable repairs can be undertaken
without stoppage to the crane operation.
Benefits received from ABB
1. The Crane Maintenance Station (CMS) used generates
historical data of the cranes, real time display of
parameters and signals, hours of operation and much
other information that is useful to JSW Steel to plan their
maintenance schedules of the cranes.
2. The Crane Maintenance Station (CMS) system also
provides trends, graphical displays of the crane motion,
various parameters like speed, current and voltage levels
of different drives, fault indications and recommended
remedial actions among others.
3. JSW can not only maintain past records of operation,
but also can use this information for analysis and take
suitable preventive actions to prevent future occurrences
of undesirable events.

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For more information please contact:

ABB AB
Process Automation
Crane Systems, 2nd Floor Plot # 5 & 6, 2nd Phase
Peenya Industrial Area
Bangalore - 560058
Karnataka, INDIA
Tel: +91 80 2294 9449
www.abb.co.in/cranes

ABB AB
Crane Systems
SE-721 59 Vsters, Sweden
Phone: +46 21 32 50 00
Fax:
+46 21 34 02 90
e-mail: cranes.sales@se.abb.com
www.abb.com/cranes
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