Hot metal mixer cars

HOT METAL MIXER CARS

Automated special-purpose cars are design to receive hot metal from the blast furnace and deliver it to the BOF shop. A hot metal mixer car moves on tracks being hauled by the locomotive. Hot metal is charged into the mixer and discharged through its neck.
Two types of the car bodies are available: torpedo shaped cars and detachable bottom mixer cars. Detachable bottoms are fixed to the body with special quick-clamping devices.

Hot-metal mixer cars feature a few advantages over the conventional ones:

The car undercarriage incorporates specially designed trucks provided with the roll-type slide assemblies;
All thrust journal assemblies are provided with the solid-lubricant coating which needs no greasing, improves the car motion along the curvilinear track portions and reduces the wheel-set and rail wearout.

Moreover, the hot-metal mixer cars are fitted with automatic control facilities including:

Noncontract pickup employed to control the mixer car position on rail tracks;
Mixer car power supply connector;
Mixer charging level control facilities;
Mixer body temperature control facilities.

TECHNICAL DATA

Parameters	Values
Mixer car capacity, ton	150	300	420	600
Max. travel speed, km/hr	12	12	10	12
Allowable track curvature radius, m	75	80	100	120
Max. axle load, tp	48	40	54	53.5
Tilting angle, deg	±180
Mixer car tilting rate, rpm	0.02 to 0.4	0.04 to 0.4	0.02 to 0.5	0.02 to 0.5
Overal size, m:
- length (between automatic coupler axes)	20.86	29.15	31.86	40.04
- width	3.33	3.33	3.7	3.46
- height (from the rail head)	4.45	4.61	4.5	4.17
Weight (less refractory lining), ton	141	178	309	442