Monster Factory

If you want large-scale mechanized diamond mining, you need to come up with a mechanized mining plan to accompany it.

This is a long process of R&D that needs to be improved from nothing to nothing, little by little, in mining practice.

For example, in a brown coal mine in Hamburg, Germany, engineers specifically designed and manufactured one of the world's largest single engineered mechanical equipment, the Model 293 Spoonwheel Excavator, to increase production capacity to the limit.

This excavation machinery is up and running, allowing the removal of nearly 150,000 tons of coal mines per day.

Mechanized mining was maximized by engineers.

But it took engineers five years, from designing to making this giant steel beast.

Five years to build a giant iron and steel beast, again when engineers have plenty of similar excavation equipment that can be borrowed from them, and this equipment only requires a simple spinning winch mining.

How long will it take to design a diamond mining equipment that doesn't have any design ideas to build on?

Soon.

Because of the intervention of [Virtual Plant 5.0].

The last upgrade of the Monster Factory gave the Longxi Beach Factory a Virtual Factory 5.0 system. This system gives a group of cold machines a soul to think about themselves, and in a virtual world, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of different combinations are used to find the best process combinations for all machines in the factory.

The machine gradually generates lethal tolerances during operation and the system calibrates automatically.

During processing, each detail is handled by the system to minimize the impact of man-made operations.

For example, when a machine comes out of a factory, manufacturers tend to give it the ultimate precision of theoretical machining. In practice, however, this extreme precision cannot be processed at all. Because in machine work, too many factors can affect accuracy, even small changes in workshop temperature.

In virtual plant systems, however, these impacts are all eliminated.

No change escapes system sensing and measurement, and these changes are compensated for automatically by the system.

Since ~

Virtual factory systems can automatically reconfigure machines in the factory to find the best solution.

With the known geological conditions and geomorphologically poor coordinates of the three mines, the virtual factory can, of course, find the most scientific mining solution in the virtual world through rigorous simulation experiments.

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With the Virtual Factory going live.

In front of Ye Qing's eyes, a row of graphic bars appeared similar to the game menu.

These graphics bars are not equipped with skills, but with a seat machine, a smelting machine with different shapes, and an engineering machine. In addition to these, there are all the industrial products in the Longxi Beach factory, all the auxiliary processing robots.

A giant god X-type was dragged out of the graphics bar by Ye Qing. As soon as the icon landed on one of the three drills, the icon immediately unfolded and turned into a real giant god X-type with the same size as the drilling shrinkage ratio.

The X-shaped Giant God is under Ye Qing's feet, only the size of the cigarette box. It's parked on the edge of the mine, and it looks so insignificant.

But if you actually drive a giant god X there, it's the same height on the edge of the mine, and the size of the ground, as the shrunk model in front of you.

Ye Qing pulled his hands together, and the surrounding terrain and the X-shape of the giant god quickly zoomed in, becoming as tall as Ye Qing.

This is easy to observe, then a mineral loader truck, the mineral truck was dragged out by Ye Qing and placed behind the giant god X in the front and rear order.

The materials for the two engineering vehicles were taken from a metal mine on the side of the Nicaraguan factory, and the last of the counter-attack iron ore shatter towers was closed.

Ye Qing set the shatter diameter of the counterattack iron ore shatter tower to 60 mm.

This crushing tower is a two-chamber structure that easily breaks into a fist-sized, homogeneous block of ore with a feed hardness not exceeding Morse Hardness 8.

Discharge transport belts are divided into shreds and powders, which are screened out of the shredded and uniform stones, leaving from the shredding and those powders and soils from the powder.

Large-scale mechanization operations, of course, are unlikely to be replicated by indigenous groups, picking up only loose soil and debris for manual diamond screening. In Ye Qing's plan, any objects in those three mines will be screened again.

Those rock belts buried underground, and that big mountain on the border, are the best screening targets.

The Giant God X mining soil and rock, loaders and transporters are responsible for transporting minerals to the feed port of the shredding tower.

The shredding tower is then responsible for breaking them into even stones.

This process doesn't take any thought to design, there are several mining sites under Giant Beast Industries that can be used locally by moving equipment from that mine.

Fluorescent Mozilla hardness is four.

Long stone hardness is six.

Quartz, granite, and basalt have a hardness of seven.

Yellowstone hardness is eight.

Nature's various mineral rock hardnesses are typically between four and seven, and fragmentation towers can break up ore hardnesses of no more than eight, while diamonds have a maximum hardness of up to ten.

So the shredding tower cannot destroy the diamond, and any debris it processes that contains the diamond will remain intact in the debris.

The final step is to screen the diamonds out of the debris.

Ye Qing envisioned the idea of starting with hardness.

Since diamonds are the hardest objects in the world, can a device be designed to process all rock debris below nine and nine into particles up to two millimeters in diameter?

If you can, that diamond with a hardness of ten can be completely separated from the debris.

Simply design a screening apparatus with a screen diameter of not more than two millimeters, and once the particulate debris size is screened and separated, the remaining 100 per cent is diamonds.

At this point, the crystal pulled a model out of its pocket.

This was before it rushed to design a diamond separation device along Ye Qing's lines.

When the model was thrown to the ground, it suddenly became a rectangular mechanical device close to three metres high. Referring to the next Giant God X, it should be about twenty meters in true height.

“Boss, in your opinion, this separator uses the hammer crusher principle to hammer fist-sized ore into granules through a hydraulically powered hammer. ”

“The hydraulic drive has been adjusted to exactly what can smash the jade stone. ”

“Isn't it too simple...” Ye Qing looked at this rectangular mechanical device and continued to mumble in his heart, "In principle, we are right, the hammer is not strong enough to smash the diamond. But with such a simple solution, I don't think it makes sense for other engineers to think. ”

“There should be no problem, maybe the engineers can design the solution, but can't come up with the corresponding material solution.” The crystal bit my finger, pointing back to the shrinking diamond tunnel on the ground: "I've added one in 100,000 randomly distributed diamonds to the three mines. ”

“These diamonds were copied directly from factory diamond stocks, and now they're hidden in ore, so let's give it a try. ”

Ye Qing stopped tangling, “Give it a try first. ”

Ye Qing chose to start the simulation.

After just choosing, the giant god X on the edge of the mine suddenly started, and after a brief warm-up, it hit the mountain not far away without hesitation.

Tons of rock pieces, which it easily smashed from the mountain.

The rocks were then loaded into the mine truck by the loader and eventually tilted into the counter-attack iron ore shatter tower.

Shatter Tower Boom!

After continuing to enlarge the details, the scrap port and powder port continue to spit into tons of scrap.

These debris are filled with red luminescent particles of star spots.

That is diamonds, which the crystal deliberately adds to the spontaneous light attribute for ease of identification.

When the debris entered the diamond separation device, Ye Qing and Jing couldn't help but pinch their fists.

Boom ~

The hammer in the diamond separating apparatus, one hammer, fell on top of the debris.

For the first shredding operation, Ye Qing and the crystal only heard the noise, can not see what exactly happened inside. When the second operation is carried out, Ye Qing hurry to make the housing of the diamond separation equipment transparent and zoom onto the hammer table.

Ye Qing's eyes are now covered with fist-sized rock debris. In this pile of debris, Ye Qing can clearly see three light emitters.

The hammer fell for the third time.

Then…

From three to dozens of luminous bodies...

Because when the hammer fell, not only did it smash the rocks, but it also smashed three peanut-sized diamonds with it.

“What's going on?” Ye Qing was a little overwhelmed by this result, "Didn't I tell you before to use softer metal as hammer material? ”

The crystal looked innocent, "I did. ”

Things past steel are easy to fold, Ye Qing and the crystal understand.

Diamonds are the most robust object in the world, and no metal can scratch its surface, but that doesn't mean it won't break.

For example, a typical steel Morse hardness is around 5: 05.

What happens if you take this iron hammer and hit a piece of granite with a hard seven?

Of course, a hammer will blow up the granite hammer because the granite is much less ductile than the iron hammer.

If this hammer were to hit the diamond, the very hard but poorly stretched diamond would also be broken.

That's why Ye Qing made the crystal use a softer metal as a hammer, but obviously a countermeasure has been taken, why is the diamond still broken?

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

This time, the diamond broke one.

Softness is automatically adjusted upwards, experiment continues.

Each time a ton of debris was used, the hammer worked eleven times, and nine diamonds of various sizes were separated.

These diamonds are all intact, but Ye Qing and the crystal face do not show the right smile.

New problems have arisen.

While the softness of the hammer is perfectly balanced with that of the diamond, the hammer works further down, touching the hammer that stops automatically when the diamond is touched, and also losing the ability to continue working on the rock that keeps the same level as the diamond.

That is, the size of the diamonds obtained and the size of the broken rock particles as well.

And over the course of many operations, a layer of indentation has appeared from the surface of the hammer made of soft metal, rooted by rocks and diamonds.

The crystal held for half a day, holding out a sentence, “Damn...”