Monster Factory - 1228

If you want large-scale mechanized mining of diamonds, it is necessary to come up with a matching mechanized mining program.

This is a long research and development process that needs to start from nothing, a little bit in mining practice, and slowly explore and improve.

For example, in a brown coal mine in Hamburg, Germany, in order to increase the production capacity to the limit, the engineers specially designed and manufactured the world’s largest single-piece construction machinery-the 293 type scoop wheel excavator.

When this kind of excavating machinery is activated, nearly 150,000 tons of coal can be excavated every day.

Engineers have pushed mechanized mining to the limit.

But from designing to manufacturing this steel behemoth, engineers spent a total of five years.

It takes five years to build a giant steel beast. This is when engineers have a lot of similar mining equipment to learn from, and this equipment only needs to rotate the winch for mining.

How long does it take to design a diamond mining equipment that does not have any design ideas to learn from?

soon.

Because of the intervention of [Virtual Factory 5.0].

The last upgrade of Monster Factory gave Longxitan Factory a virtual factory 5.0 system. This system is equivalent to giving a group of cold machines a soul to think about themselves. In the virtual world, through tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of different combinations, to find the best process combination method for all the machines in the factory.

The machine gradually produces fatal tolerances during operation, and the system automatically calibrates.

In the process of product processing, every detail is checked by the system to reduce the influence of human operation to the limit.

To give a very simple example, when a machine tool leaves the factory, the manufacturer will often give it a theoretical processing limit accuracy. But in actual use, this extreme accuracy is impossible to be processed at all. Because in the machine tool work, there are too many factors that will affect the accuracy, even a small change in the workshop temperature will affect it.

But in the virtual factory system, these effects are all eliminated.

Any changes cannot escape the sensing and measurement of the system, and these changes will be automatically adjusted and compensated by the system.

Since~

The virtual factory system can automatically reorganize the machines in the factory to find the optimal solution.

Given the knowledge of the geological conditions and geomorphic drop coordinates of the three drilling mines, the virtual factory can of course find the most scientific mining plan through rigorous simulation experiments in the virtual world.

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With the virtual factory going online.

In front of Ye Qing’s eyes, rows of graphic bars resembling game menus suddenly appeared.

What are displayed on these graphic bars are not skills, but machine tools, smelting equipment of different shapes, and construction machinery. In addition to these, there are all industrial products and all auxiliary processing robots in the Longxitan factory.

A Titan X was dragged from the graphics bar by Ye Qing. As soon as the icon fell on one of the three drill mines, the icon immediately expanded and became a real Titan X with the same size as the drill mine.

The Titan X is only the size of a cigarette case at Ye Qing’s feet. It stopped at the side of the drill mine, it seemed so insignificant.

But if you really drive a Titan X there, no matter the height it is on the side of the mine, or the floor area, it will be no different from the reduced model in front of you.

Ye Qing pulled both hands, and the surrounding terrain and Giant X-shaped quickly zoomed in, becoming as high as Ye Qing.

This is convenient for observation. Then a mining truck and mining truck were dragged out by Ye Qing and placed behind the Titan X in the order of front and back.

The materials for the two construction vehicles were taken from the Dysprosium metal mine on the side of the Nijaya factory, and the last counterattack iron ore crushing tower was used as the finishing touch.

Ye Qing set the crushing diameter of the counterattack iron ore crushing tower to 60 millimeters.

This crushing tower has a two-cavity structure. It can easily crush ore fragments with a hardness of not more than 8 on the Mohs’ hardness into blocks of uniform fist size.

The discharging conveyor belt is divided into crushed material and powdered material. The crushed uniform stones are screened out and leave from the crushed material, and those powder and soil leave from the powdered material.

For large-scale mechanized operations, of course, it is impossible to learn from the indigenous people and only pick up soft soil and gravel to manually select diamonds. In Ye Qing’s plan, any objects in the three drill mines must be screened again.

The rock belts buried in the ground and the mountain on the border are the best targets for screening.

The Titan X mines soil and rocks. Loaders and transport vehicles are responsible for transporting the minerals to the inlet of the crushing tower.

The crushing tower is then responsible for crushing them into uniform stones.

This process does not need to spend any thought to design, there are several kinds of mines under the giant animal industry, and the equipment can be used on the spot by moving the equipment from that mine.

Fluorite has a Mohs hardness of four.

The hardness of feldspar is six.

The hardness of quartz, granite, and basalt is seven.

The topaz has a hardness of eight.

The hardness of various minerals in nature is usually between four and seven. The crushing tower can crush ores with a hardness of no more than eight, and the hardness of diamonds is the highest, reaching ten.

Therefore, the crushing tower cannot destroy the diamonds. As long as the diamonds are contained in the scraps processed by it, they will remain in the scraps intact.

The last step is to screen out the diamonds from these scraps.

Ye Qing’s idea is to start with hardness.

Since diamonds are the hardest objects in the world, can you design a device that can process all rock fragments with a hardness of nine, or less, into granules with a diameter of no more than two millimeters?

If it can, the diamond with a hardness of ten can be completely separated from these fragments.

It only needs to design a screening equipment with a screening diameter of no more than two millimeters. After the granular fragments are screened and separated, the remaining 100% will be diamonds.

At this time, Dianjing took out a model from his pocket.

This is based on Ye Qing’s thoughts and hastily designed a diamond separation device.

The model was thrown on the ground, and it suddenly turned into a rectangular mechanical device nearly three meters high. Refer to the Titan X type next to it, and its true height should be about 20 meters.

“Boss, according to your idea, this separator uses the principle of a hammer mill, which can hammer fist-sized ore into granules through a hammer table driven by hydraulic power.”

“The hydraulic driving force has been adjusted to just the strength that can crush the topaz.”

“Will it be too simple…” Ye Qing kept muttering while looking at the rectangular mechanical equipment, “Theoretically speaking, our thinking is correct. The hammer is not strong enough to break the diamond. But it is so simple. I don’t think it makes sense for other engineers to think of it.”

“It should be no problem. It may be that the group of engineers can design a plan, but can’t come up with the corresponding material solution.” Dianjing bit his finger, and pointed to the shrinking drill tunnel on the ground: “Three drilling mines Here, I have added a randomly distributed diamond with a one-in-100,000 chance.”

“These diamonds are all directly copied data from the factory’s diamond inventory. Now they are hidden in the ore. Let’s try it.”

Ye Qing no longer struggled, “Try it first.”

Ye Qing chose to start the simulation.

Just after the selection, the Titan X on the side of the drill mine suddenly started. After a short warm-up period, it slammed into the mountain not far away without hesitation.

Tons of rock fragments were easily broken from the mountain by it.

These rocks were loaded into mining trucks by loader, and finally tilted into the counterattack iron ore crushing tower.

The broken tower roars!

After continuing to zoom in on the details, the crushing material port and the powder material port continuously spit out tons of crushed material.

In these scraps, dots of red luminous particles are scattered all over.

That is the diamond, which is specially added to these diamonds with self-luminous properties, so that it is easy to identify.

When the scraps entered the diamond separation equipment, both Ye Qing and Dianjing couldn’t help but squeeze their fists.

Boom~

The hammer table in the diamond separation equipment slammed on these scraps with one hammer.

During the first smashing operation, Ye Qing and Dianjing only heard the noise, but couldn’t see what was going on inside. When waiting for the second operation, Ye Qing hurriedly made the shell of the diamond separation equipment transparent and enlarged it on the hammer table.

Now Ye Qing’s eyes were covered with fist-sized rock fragments. In this pile of fragments, Ye Qing could clearly see three luminous bodies.

The hammer platform fell for the third time.

Then……

The luminous bodies have changed from three to dozens…

Because after the hammer fell, it not only smashed the rocks, but also smashed three peanut-sized diamonds.

“What’s the situation?” Ye Qing was caught off guard by this result. “Didn’t I explain to you before, should I use softer metal as the material for the hammer table?”

Dianjing looked innocent, “I did it.”

Ye Qing and Dianjing both understand the truth that things are easy to break when they pass through steel.

Diamond is the strongest object in the world. No metal can leave scratches on its surface, but this does not mean that it will not break.

To give a simple example, the Mohs hardness of general steel is about 5.5.

What if you use this steel hammer to hit a piece of granite with a hardness of seven?

Of course, it will blow the granite with a hammer, because the ductility of granite is much lower than that of a hammer.

If this hammer hits a diamond, a diamond with extremely high hardness but extremely poor ductility will also be broken.

That’s why Ye Qing asked Dianjing to use a softer metal as the hammer, but he has already taken measures to deal with it. Why does the diamond break?

Fortunately, this is a simulation experiment, Ye Qing can make adjustments in time, “Continue to increase the softness of the hammer table by 10%, and repeat the action just now.”

This time, one diamond was broken.

The softness is automatically increased, and the experiment continues.

Each time one ton of scraps, the hammer worked eleven times, and nine diamonds of different sizes were separated.

These diamonds are all intact, but Ye Qing and Dianjing didn’t show the smile they should have on their faces.

A new problem appeared.

Although the softness of the hammer table is perfectly balanced with the diamond, the hammer table performs work downwards, and the hammer table, which automatically stops when it touches the diamond, also loses its continued work on the rock that remains at the same level as the diamond.

In other words, how big the diamond is, and how big the broken rock particles are.

And in many times of work, the surface of the hammer table made of soft metal has appeared a layer of dents pushed out by rocks and diamonds.

Dianjing held back for a long time, and said, “His grandma’s…”