my magic industry

Chapter 227

By the river in early spring, a group of people looked at this tall conveyor belt nervously. When a team member connected the waterwheel, the power roller of the conveyor belt did start to rotate, relying on the friction brought by the leather on it to drive The conveyor belt starts to run clockwise.

"Is this a success?"

Master Edgar asked with a sigh of relief looking at the successfully running conveyor belt. The iron and steel industry plan proposed by Xia Lin contained too much content. Master Fine had a lot of equipment that he had never seen with similar principles.

If it wasn't for Xia Lin's regular production meetings, no one would be able to understand the principles of these things.

But since these things are so important, Xia Lin even invested huge sums of money, and craftsmen like them naturally hoped for success.

"I haven't tested the cargo capacity yet!"

Xia Lin shook his head, and asked the four team members to load the prepared coal onto the conveyor belt in batches. The first shovel of coal went up, and the conveyor belt ran very smoothly, but after the second and third shovels went up, Xia Lin It was found that the conveyor belt had some slight deformation.

This is not good news!

Xia Lin watched the details silently.

Soon, the rated 450kg of coal was loaded onto the conveyor belt, and the speed of the conveyor belt slowed down very obviously, and it couldn't reach the speed of 0.5m/s designed by Xia Lin, and even moving it seemed extremely There is also a phenomenon that the conveyor belt is out of touch with the power pulley.

"Get some of the coal off the top and have a look!"

Xia Lin was a little disappointed. It seemed that the conveyor belt could not meet his design requirements, but if it could reach 70%, it would be enough to maintain the continuous production of the blast furnace, so he could still accept it.

The team members shoveled some coal as promised, but the working condition of the conveyor belt still did not improve much.

"It seems that the friction between the belt and the idler is still a bit poor, and the power that the water wheel can provide is really not enough."

Sighing, Xia Lin asked the workers to clean up all the loads on the conveyor belt, and then slowly tried to see what the maximum cargo capacity could be for it to operate normally. The result was 11kg/m, which was only designed by Xia Lin. half.

This kind of performance cannot meet the continuous production needs of blast furnaces at all, so we can only find another way to solve the problem of blast furnace charging.

The group returned dejectedly to the machine tool factory that was temporarily the stronghold of the research team. This is basically the technology research and development center of the industrial park. Dwarf masters usually live in the machine tool factory. , the price is expensive, and steel machine tools also need to be kept secret.

Usually, the guards would not let anyone in except for Xia Lin, several factory directors of the industrial park, and employees responsible for moving materials and products.

Even at this time, ordinary team members are resting in the grass shed built outside the machine tool factory, waiting for the next step instructions.

And the dwarf masters who lived here gradually made the space inside more full of life.

In addition to beds, desks and various cabinets for personal belongings, they also erected two pillars on the left side of the back door of the machine tool factory and pulled a clothesline to dry clothes.

Xia Lin sat on the low dwarf chair and thought hard about the solution to the feeding problem. He inadvertently glanced at the clothesline and the clothes on it, and suddenly had some inspiration.

He quickly turned his eyes back to the clothesline, staring closely at the clothes and ropes floating in the wind, the more he looked, the more he realized that it looked like something, that was the cableway!
"Why did you forget about this thing!"

Thinking of the cableway, Xia Lin slapped his thigh in frustration and joy, stood up, and said to the dwarf masters:

"Don't worry, everyone, I have a solution to the conveyor belt problem! Go find some hoists!"

Xia Lin rubbed her brown hair. You must know that when the modern blast furnace was just developed, the iron and steel plant used the feeding cableway to feed materials.

Even in his previous life, there were still many iron and steel factories that used hoisting systems for blast furnaces, but the systems were all electronic. He always thought about conveyor belts, but forgot that there was such a simple and convenient method.

Although the feeding cableway's feeding is not uniform enough, which will affect the composition of some molten iron, but in Xia Lin's opinion, it is completely enough.

With winches, steel cables, and wooden hoppers, Xia Lin quickly drew up a simple hoisting and feeding system for blast furnaces, and then he immediately led his team to the river to start assembling the feeding cableway.

The feeding height is 10m, and the inclination angle of the two figure-eight cableways is 30 degrees. There is no friction loss between the conveyor belt and the drum, and the working efficiency of the hoist is excellent.

A hopper full of about 2kg of material can be easily lifted to a predetermined position at a speed of about 200m/s, and then the hopper is tilted to feed through a touch mechanism on a wire rope.

The hopper that has finished feeding is turned down by the winch, and the hopper that has been filled with another cableway goes up.

Reciprocating in this way, almost two and a half tons of material can be loaded in one minute, which can fully meet the continuous production requirements of the blast furnace.

Having finally solved another obstacle leading to the modern steel road, Xia Lin looked at the two cableways with a sense of accomplishment in his heart, and the surrounding team members also celebrated happily.

The dwarves are quite envious of this kind of hoist cableway. In order to prospect for mines, their clans usually live in the mountains.

The terrain there is steep, and the dwarves have to bring ropes when they go out. When they encounter some valleys, they can slide to the opposite side of the mountain by setting up ropes.

It's just that this method is extremely rough. If you are unlucky, you may be stuck in the middle and wait for your companions to rescue you. This is not bad. If you are unlucky, you may fall to the cliff because the rope is not strong enough. His body was smashed to pieces.

With this kind of hoist and wire rope, the dwarves can completely set up various long-term cableways within their range of activities, and they no longer have to worry about bad luck bringing their clansmen down the cliff.

It's a pity that they have lost contact with their clan for a long time now, so even if they have winches and wire ropes, there is no use for them.

Unexpectedly, his hoist and steel wire rope also aroused the homesickness of the dwarf masters, and Xia Lin led the research team to continue to overcome the difficulties in the steel project one by one.

The spraying facility of the dressing plant is not a problem. The water pressure can be increased to a certain level through the water pump designed and manufactured when preparing to build the employee community, and then the coal below is sprayed through the sprinkler head. Washed, the effect is not bad.

The coal pounding device in the coal tower of the coking plant is also easy to solve. The remaining coal loading car, coke pushing car, coke holding car and coke quenching car shell are easy to solve, but there is currently no mature power system that can be installed on it. For the time being, only human propulsion can be used, and an operator who controls the direction and brakes is set in front.

Step by step to materialize the equipment on these drawings, the members of the research team set foot carefully like climbers, and after confirming the safety of the foothold, they proceeded to the next fulcrum.

In the end, there were only two difficulties left in front of the research team, that is, the construction of the storage chamber coke oven and the blast furnace body.

The cost of these two facilities is high and they cannot be moved. They must be built together with the factory facilities at the end. Xia Lin announced that the research plan for this stage has been successfully completed. Every dwarf master and employees participating in the research can get the first prize. Stage one Gold Lent bonus.

(End of this chapter)