2010 International Conference on Computational and Information Sciences

Parameters Optimum Design for Linear Vibrating Screen

Junxia Yan Chusheng Liu

College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
China University of Mining and Technology China University of Mining and Technology
Xuzhou, China Xuzhou, China
e-mail:yanjx0122@cumt.edu.cn e-mail:liuchushengcumt@163.com

Lala Zhao Jun Li

College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
China University of Mining and Technology China University of Mining and Technology
Xuzhou, China Xuzhou, China
e-mail:lalazhao@163.com e-mail:lijunmay@163.com

AbstractAccording to requirements for grading and

characteristics, mathematical model of linear vibrating A. Determination of ObjectiveFunction and Design
screen with the pursuit of minimum power consumption per Variables
productive is established. By means of MATLAB Production of linear vibrating screen can be
optimization technology, the best design is acquired. The expressed as (1) [7]
results show that power consumption per productive
obtained from optimization is decreased significantly
Q = 3600 Bh (1)
compared with empirical design. Where
B (m) width of screen surface;
Keywords-parameters optimum; linear vibrating screen; h (m) thickness of material layer on screen surface;
MATLAB (t/m3) density of material;
(m/s) average velocity of material.
I. INTRODUCTION As for linear vibrating screen, average velocity of
With development of computer technology, CAD material is represented as (2)
technology has been become a powerful tool applied for = k q A cos (1 + tan tan ) (2)
engineering design field and provide good condition for
realize optimization. As a modern design theory and Here
method, mechanical optimization can seek the best design k q comprehensive empirical coefficient;
scheme from many schemes. It not only improves design A (m) amplitude;
efficiency and quality, but also make product obtain (rad/s) vibrating circular frequency;
reliable performance and excellent technological effect [1-
5].
() gradient of screen surface;
Screening machine is widely used in industry just like () vibrating direction angle.
building materials, metallurgy, coal, chemical, petroleum, It can be obtained from (1) and (2) that
and road building and so on. In design and selection of the Q = 3600 Bhk q A cos (1 + tan tan ) (3)
motion parameters, it still uses traditional analogy design
Total power consumption is
and empirical data. If mechanical optimization is applied
1
into design of vibrating screen, the design results will be N= (N1 + N 2 ) (4)
economical and reasonable. In this paper we discuss the
optimization design of linear vibrating screen [6,7].
Here is transmission efficiency; N 1 (Kw) and
II. MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF OPTIMIZATION DESIGN N 2 (Kw) represent vibration power consumption and
In practical work, basic requirement of vibrating friction power consumption respectively. They are defied
screen is high production rate with low power by
consumption. So got maximum productivity by means of
minimum power consumption, namely got per unit CMA 2 n 3
N1 = (5)
production with minimum power consumption can be 1740480
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 f m MAn 3 d Vibrating direction angle is usually selected as
N2 = (6)
30 ~60 , so constraint functions g 7 and
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Where C denotes damping coefficient, M (kg) g 8 are obtained as
denotes vibration mass, f m denotes bearing friction
coefficient, d (m) denotes bearing inner diameter, and n g 7 ( X ) = x 4 30 0
(r/min) denotes number of vibration. g 8 ( X ) = 60 x 4 0
Throwing index of linear vibrating screen is [2]
As above, optimization mathematical model of linear
A 2
K = (7) vibrating screen is an optimization problem with 4 design
g cos variables and 8 inequality constraints, and it can be
Here g (m/s2) is acceleration of gravity. expressed as
n min f ( x) x R 4
In addition = (8)
30 and it is constrained by g i ( x ) 0 i = 1,2,3"8
From (3) - (8), power consumption of per unit
production can be written as III. OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND RESULTS
N MK g (CA + f m d ) cos
E= = A. Optimization Method
Q 232064 3 ABhk q cos (1 + tan tan )
Many constrained optimization can be used to solve
(9) small optimization problem. Here we use random
Obviously independent variable A K direction method which has advantages that, it has no
special demand for behavior of objective function, with
are influencing factors of E, so design variable is which the program design is simple and algorithm
selected as
convergence is fast. So it is an effective method to solve
X = [x1 , x 2 , x3 , x 4 ] = [ A, K , , ]
T T
optimization problem [8].
Mx 2 g (Cx1 + f m d ) cos x 3 B. Optimization Program Diagram
f (x ) =
232064 3 Bhk q x1 cos x 4 (1 + tan x 4 tan x3 ) Start

Input design variable and initial value

B. Constraint Condition
Amplitude of linear vibrating screen A is usually
selected as 3.5mm~6mm, so constraint functions Calculate objective function and constrained function
g1 and g 2 are obtained as
g1 ( X ) = x1 0.0035 0 Whether the results are the No Establish
optimum new spot
g 2 ( X ) = 0.006 x1 0
Vibrating effect is reasonable when Throwing
Printout results
index K =3.0~3.3, so constraint functions g 3
and g 4 are obtained as End

g 3 ( X ) = x2 3 0 Figure 1. Optimization program diagram

g 4 ( X ) = 3.3 x 2 0 C. Analysis of Optimization Results

Gradient of screen surface is usually selected as Related parameters of linear vibrating screen are
-10 ~10 , so constraint functions g 5 and B=1m, M=600kg, f m = 0.005 , C=0.2, g=9.8 m / s 2 ,
g 6 are obtained as = 0.95 , = 2t / m 3 , d=0.1m, h=0.1m.
By substitution of the data above into optimization
g 5 ( X ) = x3 + 10 0 mathematical model, and select initial
g 6 ( X ) = 10 x3 0 value x 0 = [0.004,3,0,45] , optimization results can be
obtained as Table I shows.

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 TABLE I COMPARISON OF OPTIMUM DESIGN RESULTS TO ORDINARY 50574091 and 50774084. The authors also thank for the
DESIGNS
support by Open Found of Key Laboratory of Coal
Processing and Efficient Utilization under the Grant
A K E CPEUKF08-02. At last the authors thank for the support
Empirical by Program Sponsored for Scientific Innovation Research
0.004 3 0 45 0.0300 of College Graduate in Jiangsu Province under the Grant
design
Optimization CX09B_111Z.
0.006 3 10 30 0.0156
design
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