@ARTICLE{K._Smyksy_Comparative_2013, author={K. Smyksy and Ziółkowski, E. and Wrona, R.}, number={No 3}, journal={Archives of Foundry Engineering}, howpublished={online}, year={2013}, publisher={The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences}, abstract={Investigations of operating parameters of widely used sand mixers reveal a wide variability range in the values of parameters associated with their power demand. Power efficiency of manufacturing processes has received a great deal of attention lately, which encourages the research efforts to optimise this aspects of operation of machines and installations as well. In the first place these machines and installations have to work properly as a part of the process line- which applies also to moulding sand mixers. Experiments conducted by the authors suggest that the same goal can be achieved at variable energy input levels. To obtain information about the power demands of sand mixers requires the use of highly specialised equipment, methodology and result processing procedures. This study provides a brief characteristic of measurement equipment and results of measurements taken on a unit AG-015 (based on a roller mixer) and a laboratory rotor mixer.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Comparative Analysis of Power Measurement Results in the Testing of Sand Mixers}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/87603/PDF/24_paper.pdf}, doi={10.2478/afe-2013-0072}, keywords={Sand preparation, Power measurements of mixers}, }