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Department of Electrical Engineering

Ore level detector

Abstract

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It was the objective of this project to design and build a transmitter/receiver unit that indicates when the ore level in a vertical ore chute falls below the level of the signal path. The design was commissioned by De Beers Consolidated Mines to be implemented in South Africa's largest diamond producing mine, the Finsch Mine at Limeacres in the north-western Cape. The system requirements laid out'by de Beers stressed that the unit is to be used as a backup system, and thus its absolute reliability was of highest importance.

Degree

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Grantor dc:publisher.institution
Department of Electrical Engineering
Year dc:date.issued
1990

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Broek, Michael
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Downing, B J

Rights

Language dc:language.iso
eng

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8337
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8337

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2026-07-22
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citation

Broek, Michael. Ore level detector. Department of Electrical Engineering, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8337