Method for operating a
comminution device with a rotor (1) having a large
moment of inertia, in particular a chipper, shredder, refiner,
crusher or mill, wherein the
comminution device - includes an electric primary drive (12) for driving the rotor (1) during the
comminution operation and - an electric secondary drive (15) for accelerating and / or decelerating the rotor (1) outside of the comminution operation, as well as - a power converter (16) for supplying the secondary drive (15) with electrical energy, - a
rotary encoder (20) for detecting the rotation of the rotor or secondary drive (15), - an evaluation unit (19) for recording and evaluating the signals from the
rotary encoder (20), - a first controller (21) and a second controller (22) for outputting a manipulated variable to the power converter (16), and - a
data processing and
control unit (17), wherein a) the primary drive (12) is de-energized or the
data processing and
control unit (17) de-energizes the primary drive (12), b) the
data processing and
control unit (17) outputs a
signal about the target speed to the first controller (21), c) the
rotary encoder (20) detects the number of pulses generated by the rotation of the secondary drive (15) and outputs it as a
signal to an evaluation unit (19), d) the first controller (21) in a first control loop extracts the actual rotational speed from the signals of the evaluation unit (19), compares the actual rotational speed with the target rotational speed and determines a manipulated variable from the comparison, e) the first controller (21) outputs the manipulated variable to the converter (16), and f) the process steps c) to e) are repeated until the target rotational speed is reached, and wherein the rotor (1) is positioned g) upon reaching the first knife change position, a reference
signal is generated and output to the data
processing and control unit (17), h) the data
processing and control unit (17) outputs a signal about the target position of the rotor (1) for the next knife change position to the second controller (22), i) the evaluation unit (19) determines the actual position of the rotor (1) from the number of signals from the rotary
encoder (20) after generating the reference signal and outputs it to the second controller (22), j) the second controller (22) in a second control loop compares the actual position with the target position, determines a manipulated variable from the comparison and outputs the manipulated variable to the converter (16), wherein k) the process steps i) to j) are repeated until the target position is reached, and wherein I) the first control loop and second control loop form a
cascade control system.