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This article describes a new design solution for a hybrid bearing intended for use in prosumer wind turbines with a vertical axis of rotation of the turbine rotor. The automatic rotational speed-dependent load-switching, lubrication and cooling systems applied in the hybrid bearing ensure a particularly long service life and highly quiet running while maintaining high energy efficiency over the full rotational speed range of shafts with turbine rotors. The hybrid bearing design has been adapted to the use of lubricating fluids with the lowest possible viscosity, including oil-water emulsions and even water itself. The use of water as a lubricant makes the bearing system highly environmentally friendly and completely fire-safe.

The operating costs of breaking coal particles into fine powder, to achieve optimum combustion for the boilers in a power plant, are made up of power input to carry on an energy intensive comminution mechanism and to overcome friction losses within pulverising machines. The operating costs also include the cost of the replacement of the processing system’s components due to wear. This study presents the development and application of an attrition test machine that enables an investigation of the factors that influence pulverizing efficiency. The attrition tester simulates grinding conditions in real vertical spindle mills. In this kind of mill, as with the tester, the size reduction process results from a shearing action during the redistribution of the coal particles. The redistribution and attrition within the coal bed are forced by movement of the rollers (or by a disc rotation, in the case of the tester). The testing method was oriented toward mechanical properties, i.e., internal friction shear strength, abrasiveness and grindability. This method enables facilitated testing procedures and a more exact simulation of grinding in vertical spindle coal mills. Ball-race mills and Loesche roller mills were used.

The article describes experimental studies of effective belt tension between the mined hard coal and a rubber conveyor belt. Effective belt tension has a critical impact on the safety and operational reliability of belt conveyors transporting excavated material after ascending or descending. Three samples of flame-retardant conveyor belts from three manufacturers and raw power coal material were used in the tests. In order to determine the significance of the influence of variable parameters on the values of static friction coefficients, the hypothesis on the equality of mean values of the studied variable in three populations was verified by means of the analysis of variance. On the basis of the obtained results, the maximum belt speed was determined as a function of the permissible inclination angle of the belt conveyor.