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Cranes in mining and mineral processing
To optimize crane and hoist performance, Danfoss offers flexible control strategies combined with energy efficiency, operating within stringent safety requirements
Danfoss Drives smart features for cranes
![Sensorless antisway](/media/11852/sensorless-antisway.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Sensorless antisway
![Integrated safety](/media/11850/integrated-safety.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Integrated functional safety
![Mechanical brake control](/media/11851/mechanical-brake-control.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Mechanical brake control
![Shock load prevention](/media/11853/shock-load-prevention.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Shock load prevention
![Slack rope prevention](/media/11854/slack-rope-prevention.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Slack rope prevention
![Catch dropping load](/media/11849/catch-dropping-load.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Catch dropping load
Crane applications served by Danfoss drives
- Hoist: Lifting and lowering of the load.
- Bridge, gantry, or long travel: The part of an overhead crane consisting of girders, trucks, end ties, walkway and drive mechanism which carries the trolley and travels in a direction parallel to the runway.
- Trolley, or cross travel: The unit carrying the hoisting mechanism which travels on the bridge rails. The trolley run on a single motor or two motors coupled with common shaft.
- Jib or boom: The horizontal member supporting a moveable hoist fixed to a wall or to a floor-mounted pillar is known as a jib crane.
- Slewing: The angular movement of a crane boom or crane jib in the horizontal plane, as seen for example in tower cranes.
Crane types served by Danfoss drives
- Bridge crane
- Overhead crane
- Process crane
- Rail-mounted gantry crane
- Rubber tired gantry crane, RTG crane
- Goliath crane
- Grab crane
- Ship to shore crane (STS crane), container crane, port crane
- Marine crane
- Mobile crane
- Mobile harbor cane
- Tower crane
- Construction hoist
Danfoss Drives success stories for cranes
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Burj Khalifa reaches for the sky
![Chinese offshore](/media/7039/chinese-offshore-pipe-laying-vessel-02-1120x747.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Controlling a 3000t slew crane on Chinese offshore pipe-laying vessel
![Crane hoists](/media/2288/cranes_hoists_cs1_elgifoundry.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=410)
Efficient brake control for Mukand cranes in India
Hybridization for cranes
![Hybridization application](/media/10866/hybridization-applications_v2.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=520)
The future of energy is now – it’s storage
Hybridization in the form of energy storage is one of the leading recent technologies and is rapidly becoming a megatrend. Energy storage offers us flexible ways to make supply and demand meet by bridging the lag between energy generation and consumption, dampening peak loads and bridging outages.
Danfoss AC drives for cranes
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VACON® NXP Air Cooled
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VLT® AutomationDrive FC 302
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VLT® Automation Drive FC 360