The article presents the results of experimental investigations of the magnitude and nature of change loads drive of mine shuttle car VS-30 used to deliver ore to extraction chambers in potash mines. The design of program-recording complex "VATUR" developed by employees of the department "Mining Electrical Engineering" Perm National Research Polytechnic University. In the investigation of operating modes of the drive of self-propelled mine wagons were carried out measurements and recording the instantaneous values of voltage and current of electric motors, calculated values of active and apparent power consumed by the motor pump stations and bottom conveyors of mine shuttle car. Carried out investigations modes of operation and changing loads on the units and details of the tram drive. It is proved that the operation of electric motors of the mine shuttle cars increased characterized by a systematic overload. Outdated system controlling the rotational speed of shafts drive motor gives rise to considerable dynamic loads on components of mechanical transmissions for shuttle cars. Significant loss of time causing the reduction in technical performance longwall set of equipment of potash mines arises during the maneuvering operations and unloading ore from shuttle cars. Based on the analysis of the change of loading drives and statistics of dangerous failures were justified the technical solutions to improve the reliability of mine shuttle car. The recommendations to increase the efficiency of transporting potash in the longwall set of equipment, improving maneuverability of self-propelled cars and reduce downtime for unloading are given.

Dramatic changes in the global energy market due to COVID-19 pandemic, the OPEC+ agreement, and increasing rates of green energy share in the world community have brought negative effects on the oil sector. In the long term, oil will reduce its importance as an energy resource, but for many years, it will continue to play a significant role in the world of energy. The oil industry has huge potential in terms of technical expertise, management, and financial resources to reduce its greenhouse emissions and ensuring an affordable availability of predictable energy. However, nowadays this sector has lost investing attractiveness. It is an interdisciplinary problem with a solution at the intersection of different stakeholders’ interests. The article is a review one and devoted to the issue of the implementation a public-private partnership (PPP) as a key tool that allows the use of the state and the business’ available resources to achieve the sector’s sustainable development and investment attractiveness. Research and analysis of PPP were based on foreign and domestic literature, using classification and generalization methods, retrospective and critical analysis. This paper contains identified groups of drivers, constraints, and recommendations for further successful PPP implementation in the Russian case.

The results of experiments on determination of the cylindrical part mass loss of the cone-shaped strikers made of 38XM (AISI P20), У8 (AISI W1-A), and X12MФA (AISI D2) steels, which have been subjected to heat treatment applied by the striking tools manufacturers, and additional cold treatment, with their friction and abrasive wear on granite, are presented. It was found that the strikers made of steel X12MФA with all types of heat treatment show the greatest wear resistance under the wear conditions (static conditions), while the strikers made of 38XM have the lowest wear resistance. Cryogenic treatment and, to a lesser extent, cold treatment increase the wear resistance of all materials. The comparison of set values of wear resistance Ist and hardness HV of the strikers, as well as the analysis of their microstructure allows to conclude that wear resistance of a tool depends not only on its hardness, but also on the type, volume, shape of carbides forming the structure of material used for tool manufacturing. For this reason, after the cryogenic treatment, the tool made of X12MФA steel shows the greatest wear resistance, because its material has the highest content of carbon (~1.5%) and alloying elements (~13%), which provides up to 10.8% increase in the number of fine carbide particles in its structure, that ensure wear resistance increase, after the cold treatment. The results obtained for Ist are compared with the earlier obtained data on wear resistance of the same striker at striking upon granite (in dynamic conditions). The conclusion about similarity of the wear mechanisms of the analyzed strikers in dynamic and static conditions is made.