An approach processing system of industrial silicon raw material
By designing a fully automated industrial silicon raw material inbound processing system, the problems of low efficiency and high safety risks in the unloading, storage, batching and loading processes have been solved, achieving efficient and safe raw material processing and reducing operating costs.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202522244565.0
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-10-23
- Publication Date
- 2026-08-25
- Estimated Expiration
- 2035-10-23
AI Technical Summary
In the process of industrial silicon production, there are problems such as low efficiency, high safety risks, and high operating costs in the unloading, storage, batching and feeding of raw materials. In particular, the safety hazards caused by open-air storage and frequent manual intervention are prominent.
An inbound processing system for industrial silicon raw materials was designed, including an unloading unit, a screening and washing unit, a storage unit, and a batching unit. Through automated unloading, screening, washing, and storage, the entire process is automated, reducing manual intervention and improving safety and efficiency.
The entire raw material processing process has been automated, which has improved efficiency, reduced safety risks and operating costs, and enhanced the safety and economy of industrial silicon production.
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Abstract
Description
Technical Field
[0001] This utility model relates to the field of industrial silicon raw material processing technology, and specifically to an incoming processing system for industrial silicon raw materials. Background Technology
[0002] In the production process of industrial silicon (also known as metallic silicon or crystalline silicon), the unloading, storage, batching and feeding of raw materials generally suffer from problems such as low efficiency, high safety risks and high operating costs.
[0003] Specifically, after raw materials (silica, washed coal, wood chips, etc.) are transported to the production site by truck, most companies use closed warehouses to store them to keep them dry. However, some companies still use open-air storage methods, which makes the raw materials susceptible to environmental influences. In addition, the storage of coal poses a risk of spontaneous combustion.
[0004] Although the batching process uses an automated system, it still relies on manual loader feeding, resulting in low efficiency, high operational safety risks, and rising labor and equipment maintenance costs. In the feeding process, after the mixed material is conveyed to the top silo of the electric arc furnace by belt conveyor, the furnace operator needs to remotely control the vibratory feeder to add material, indicating insufficient overall automation.
[0005] The above process involves frequent manual intervention, significant safety hazards (such as the risk of spontaneous combustion and mechanical injury), and high costs. There is an urgent need for a fully automated solution covering the entire process from raw material unloading, storage, batching to loading, in order to improve the efficiency, safety, and economy of industrial silicon production. Utility Model Content
[0006] To address the technical problems of low efficiency and high safety risks when industrial silicon raw materials enter the site, this utility model provides an industrial silicon raw material inbound processing system. By guiding vehicles loaded with raw materials to a designated unloading area for automatic unloading, the system transports the materials by conveyor belt to a screening, washing, or storage unit, and finally delivers them to the workshop through a batching system. The entire process is highly automated, which can effectively improve efficiency and reduce safety risks.
[0007] The technical solution of this utility model is:
[0008] An inbound processing system for industrial silicon raw materials, comprising:
[0009] An unloading unit is used to guide a vehicle to the corresponding unloading area based on the vehicle's cargo information. The unloading unit includes an unloading platform that drives the vehicle to unload cargo.
[0010] Screening and washing units are used to process silica and wood chips;
[0011] The storage unit includes multiple storage areas for storing silica, refined coal, and wood chips respectively;
[0012] The feeding unit is used to feed silica, refined coal and wood chips into the mixing belt in proportion, and the output end of the mixing belt is located in the furnace top silo of the workshop.
[0013] A belt network connects the unloading unit, screening unit, washing unit, storage unit, and feeding unit.
[0014] Optionally, the unloading unit includes:
[0015] The information entry module is used to record vehicle license plate information and information about the goods being transported by the vehicle.
[0016] The visual guidance module includes multiple monitoring devices, each of which has a built-in voice broadcast module.
[0017] Optionally, the information entry module includes:
[0018] License plate recognition camera;
[0019] A computer is connected to the license plate recognition camera and the visual guidance module.
[0020] Optionally, the unloading unit further includes:
[0021] A drive mechanism having a support structure that can extend, retract, and tilt;
[0022] A hydraulic drive assembly for driving the drive mechanism to extend, retract, and tilt.
[0023] Optionally, the screening and washing unit includes:
[0024] A water washing assembly, located in the middle screening tower of the belt network, includes a high-pressure spray pipe array for spraying.
[0025] A screening assembly, located below the washing assembly, includes a vibrating screen having a fine material outlet, a qualified material outlet, and a coarse material outlet;
[0026] A homogenization component, located downstream of the coarse material outlet of the screening component, includes a crusher;
[0027] The qualified material outlet of the crusher is located on the belt conveyor, the coarse material outlet is located at the crusher inlet, and the fine material outlet is located at the inlet of the undersize bin.
[0028] Optionally, the screening and washing unit includes multiple vibrating screens, all of which are distributed along the flow direction of the silica, and the screen apertures of all the vibrating screens correspond to coarse material, fine material and impurities, respectively.
[0029] Optionally, the storage area includes:
[0030] Silica silos are used to store silica with uniform particle size.
[0031] The clean coal bin is an enclosed space located at the outlet of the conveyor belt network used for transporting clean coal;
[0032] An inert gas supply assembly, wherein the outlet for outputting inert gas is connected to the refined coal bin;
[0033] The clean coal monitoring component, located inside the clean coal silo, includes a pressure sensor, an oxygen concentration sensor, and a temperature sensor.
[0034] Optionally, the inert gas supply assembly includes:
[0035] A nitrogen generator is connected to the inner wall of the refined coal silo via a pipe, and multiple release holes are evenly arranged on the inner wall of the refined coal silo.
[0036] Optionally, the storage area further includes:
[0037] Wood chip bins are located at the output of the belt network used for transporting wood chips;
[0038] A spray assembly is located at the top of the wood chip bin and is used to spray water downwards;
[0039] The wood chip monitoring component, located inside the wood chip silo, includes temperature and humidity sensors.
[0040] Optionally, the feeding unit includes:
[0041] Feeders are used to output silica, coking coal, or wood chips;
[0042] A weighing hopper is located at the output end of the feeder and is used to weigh silica, refined coal, or wood chips.
[0043] Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of this utility model are:
[0044] The unloading unit guides vehicles loaded with raw materials to the designated unloading area, where the unloading platform automatically unloads the goods. The goods are then transported to the screening, washing, or storage units via a belt network, and finally delivered to the workshop via the feeding unit. The entire process is highly automated, which can effectively improve efficiency and reduce safety risks. Attached Figure Description
[0045] To more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of this application or the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of this application. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without creative effort.
[0046] Figure 1This is a schematic diagram of the structure of this utility model.
[0047] Figure label:
[0048] 10. Unloading unit; 11. Information entry module; 12. Visual guidance module.
[0049] 20. Screening and washing unit; 21. Washing assembly; 22. Screening assembly.
[0050] 30. Storage unit; 31. Silica silo; 32. Coal silo; 33. Wood chip silo.
[0051] 40. Feeding unit.
[0052] 50. Belt network. Detailed Implementation
[0053] In the following description, only certain exemplary embodiments are briefly described. As those skilled in the art will recognize, the described embodiments can be modified in various ways without departing from the spirit or scope of this invention. Therefore, the drawings and description are considered exemplary in nature and not restrictive.
[0054] The following disclosure provides many different embodiments or examples for implementing various structures of this invention. To simplify the disclosure, specific examples of components and arrangements are described below. These are merely examples and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Furthermore, reference numerals and / or letters may be repeated in different examples; such repetition is for simplification and clarity and does not in itself indicate a relationship between the various embodiments and / or arrangements discussed. In addition, examples of various specific processes and materials are provided in this invention, but those skilled in the art will recognize the application of other processes and / or the use of other materials.
[0055] The embodiments of this utility model will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
[0056] Example:
[0057] See Figure 1 This embodiment discloses an inbound processing system for industrial silicon raw materials, including an unloading unit 10, a screening and washing unit 20, a storage unit 30, a feeding unit 40, and a belt conveyor network 50. The unloading unit 10 guides vehicles to corresponding unloading areas based on their cargo information, with each unloading area corresponding to a different type of cargo. Each unloading area is equipped with an unloading platform 11, which tilts the vehicle, causing the cargo inside to spill onto the belt conveyor network 50. The belt conveyor network 50 then transports the different cargoes to the screening and washing unit 20 or the storage unit 30.
[0058] The screening and washing unit 20 is used to process silica and wood chips. The clean coal is directly transported to the storage unit 30. The silica and wood chips processed by the screening and washing unit 20 are also transported to the storage unit 30 for storage.
[0059] The storage unit 30 includes at least three storage areas, each capable of storing silica, wood chips, and refined coal separately.
[0060] The feeding unit 40 is used to feed silica, coking coal and wood chips onto the mixing belt in proportions required by the process. The output end of the mixing belt is located in the furnace top silo in the workshop.
[0061] In this embodiment, the unloading unit 10 guides the vehicle loaded with raw materials to the designated unloading area, and the unloading platform 11 automatically unloads the goods. Then, the goods are transported to the screening, washing unit 20 or storage unit via the belt network 50. Finally, the goods are delivered to the workshop via the feeding unit 40. The entire process is highly automated, which can effectively improve efficiency and reduce safety risks.
[0062] In one specific embodiment:
[0063] The unloading unit 10 includes an information input module 12 and a visual guidance module 13. The information input module 12 is used to record vehicle license plate information and cargo information carried by the vehicle, and the visual guidance module 13 is used to guide the vehicle to the corresponding unloading area.
[0064] Specifically, information entry equipment is set up at the gate of the site, such as a computer connected to a license plate recognition camera. When a truck is detected entering the site, a person (usually a gatekeeper) selects the type of raw materials carried by the vehicle, thereby completing the information entry.
[0065] The visual guidance module 13 includes multiple monitoring devices, each with a built-in voice broadcast module. Multiple monitoring devices are installed on the roads leading from the site entrance to all unloading areas. The voice broadcast module guides vehicles to their designated unloading areas based on license plate information identified by the monitoring devices.
[0066] In addition, the visual guidance module 13 can also be multiple variable guidance signs composed of light-emitting diodes set at key intersections, which change the directional arrows according to the vehicle license plate information, thereby guiding the vehicle to the corresponding unloading area.
[0067] The unloading platform 11 includes a drive mechanism and a hydraulic drive assembly. The drive mechanism includes a support structure, and the hydraulic drive assembly includes a hydraulic system that provides power and a telescopic structure that performs actions. The support structure is connected to the telescopic structure, and the telescopic structure drives the support structure to move in the vertical direction, thereby achieving the purpose of tilting the vehicle.
[0068] During operation, the telescopic structure drives the support structure (with the vehicle already on the support structure). Then, under hydraulic power, the support structure and the vehicle together tilt the front of the vehicle upwards by 0-55°, thereby unloading all the raw materials from the vehicle's cargo box. After unloading, the structure is reset.
[0069] The raw materials unloaded from the vehicle enter a hopper, and a belt network 50 is installed below the hopper. The belt network 50 transports silica and wood chip raw materials to the screening and washing unit 20, and transports clean coal raw materials to the storage unit 30. The belt network 50 refers to a conveyor belt structure that is connected by multiple conveyor belts and can transport materials over long distances.
[0070] The aforementioned screening and washing unit 20 includes a washing component 21, a screening component 22, and a homogenizing component. The washing component 21, screening component 22, and homogenizing component are located within the screening tower in the middle of the belt network 50 used for conveying silica.
[0071] The water washing assembly 21 includes multiple high-pressure water guns, which can rinse the silica and remove dirt and impurities from the silica surface. A sedimentation and recycling system is set below the high-pressure water guns to achieve the purpose of recycling water.
[0072] The screening component 22 is located below the washing component 21 and includes multiple vibrating screens. It separates coarse materials (large pieces of silica), fine materials (small pieces of silica and powder) and impurities according to the different aperture sizes of the screens on the vibrating screens.
[0073] The homogenization component is located downstream of the coarse material outlet of the screening component 22 and is equipped with a jaw crusher to crush the coarse material screened by the screening component 22 to the particle size required by the process.
[0074] Finally, the fine material screened by the screening component 22 and the silica that meets the requirements after being crushed by the homogenization component are returned to the belt network 50 and conveyed to the storage area for later use.
[0075] The storage area includes a silica silo 31 and a clean coal silo 32, an inert gas supply assembly, and a clean coal monitoring assembly. Since the clean coal is usually purchased directly, after the vehicles transporting the clean coal unload the clean coal in the unloading area, the clean coal falls through the hopper onto the belt network 50 used for transporting the clean coal and is directly transported to the clean coal silo 32 for storage.
[0076] The clean coal bin 32 is a closed structure. The inert gas supply component is used to input inert gas into the clean coal bin 32, usually nitrogen, to reduce the oxygen content in the clean coal bin 32 and form nitrogen inert protection to prevent the clean coal from spontaneously combusting.
[0077] Preferably, the inert gas supply assembly includes a nitrogen generator in the field area, which is connected to the inner wall of the coal bin 32 via a pipeline, and has multiple release holes arranged in a ring and evenly in the coal bin 32 for efficient and stable supply of nitrogen.
[0078] The clean coal monitoring component is located inside the clean coal silo 32. It includes a pressure sensor, an oxygen concentration sensor, and a temperature sensor to monitor the air pressure, oxygen concentration, and temperature inside the clean coal silo 32 in real time.
[0079] The aforementioned storage area also includes a wood chip bin 33, a spraying assembly, and a wood chip monitoring assembly. The vehicle transporting the wood chips travels to the unloading area, where the wood chips are unloaded into a hopper and fall onto a belt network 50 for transporting the wood chips, and then conveyed to the wood chip bin 33.
[0080] Both the spray system and the wood chip monitoring system are located inside the wood chip hopper 33. The spray system is situated at the top of the wood chip hopper 33 and can spray water downwards to increase the humidity of the wood chips. The wood chip monitoring system includes a temperature sensor and a humidity sensor to monitor the temperature and humidity of the wood chips in real time.
[0081] The spray system not only increases the humidity of the wood chips and inhibits spontaneous combustion, but also effectively reduces dust in the wood chip silo 33.
[0082] The feeding unit 40 includes a feeder and a weighing hopper. A feeder is provided in the wood chip bin 33, silica bin 31 and refined coal bin 32 respectively. The feeder is used to output silica, refined coal or wood chips. The weighing hopper is located at the output end of the feeder and is used to weigh silica, refined coal or wood chips.
[0083] Specifically, when the radar level gauge of the daily feed silo in the feeding unit 40 detects that the material level has reached the set safe level signal, the corresponding silos (coal silo 32, silica silo 31, and wood chip silo 33) receive a replenishment command and start the corresponding replenishment belts and feeders for discharging and replenishing. Among them, silica silo 31 is equipped with a vibrating feeder, coal silo 32 is equipped with a belt feeder, and wood chip silo 33 is equipped with a screw feeder. The feeders are frequency-controlled and the frequency is preset. Mid-process inspections or main control (monitoring inspection) are used to observe the situation and fine-tune the frequency to ensure stable operation.
[0084] When the radar level gauge in the reactor top hopper detects that the material level has reached the set safe level, the corresponding mixing belt of the feeding unit 40 receives the start command and starts the corresponding belt in a pre-set sequence. Silica, refined coal, and wood chips are discharged to the weighing hopper and metered and discharged to the mixing belt according to the set value. Each weighing hopper is equipped with 4 3200kg sensors (C6 accuracy, digital sensors).
[0085] First, the feeder of silica silo 31 starts feeding. When the mixed conveyor belt carrying silica runs to the bottom of clean coal silo 32, the clean coal feeder starts working. When the mixed conveyor belt carrying silica and clean coal runs to the bottom of wood chip silo 33, the feeder of wood chip silo 33 starts working.
[0086] The interval feeding time is preset according to the mixing belt speed and the hopper spacing. The frequency of each feeder is preset to control the thickness of the discharge layer and the length of the spreading material, so as to ensure that the material on the mixing belt is uniformly mixed.
[0087] The embodiments described above merely illustrate specific implementations of this utility model, and while the descriptions are detailed, they should not be construed as limiting the scope of this utility model patent. It should be noted that those skilled in the art can make various modifications and improvements without departing from the concept of this utility model, and these modifications and improvements all fall within the protection scope of this utility model.
Claims
1. An inbound processing system for industrial silicon raw materials, characterized in that, include: An unloading unit is used to guide a vehicle to the corresponding unloading area based on the vehicle's cargo information. The unloading unit includes an unloading platform that drives the vehicle to unload cargo. Screening and washing units are used to process silica and wood chips; The storage unit includes multiple storage areas for storing silica, refined coal, and wood chips respectively; The feeding unit is used to feed silica, coking coal and wood chips into the mixing belt in proportion, and the output end of the mixing belt is located in the furnace top silo of the workshop. A belt network connects the unloading unit, screening unit, washing unit, storage unit, and feeding unit.
2. The processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The unloading unit includes: The information entry module is used to record vehicle license plate information and cargo information carried by the vehicle; The visual guidance module includes multiple monitoring devices, each of which has a built-in voice broadcast module.
3. The processing system according to claim 2, characterized in that, The information entry module includes: License plate recognition camera; A computer is connected to the license plate recognition camera and the visual guidance module.
4. The processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The unloading unit also includes: A drive mechanism having a support structure that can extend, retract, and tilt; A hydraulic drive assembly for driving the drive mechanism to extend, retract, and tilt.
5. The processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The screening and washing unit includes: A water washing assembly, located in the middle screening tower of the belt network, includes a high-pressure spray pipe array for spraying. A screening assembly, located below the washing assembly, includes a vibrating screen having a fine material outlet, a qualified material outlet, and a coarse material outlet; A homogenization component, located downstream of the coarse material outlet of the screening component, includes a crusher; The qualified material outlet of the crusher is located on the belt conveyor, the coarse material outlet is located at the crusher inlet, and the fine material outlet is located at the inlet of the undersize bin.
6. The processing system according to claim 5, characterized in that, The screening and washing unit includes multiple vibrating screens, all of which are distributed along the flow direction of the silica, and the screen apertures of all the vibrating screens correspond to coarse material, fine material and impurities, respectively.
7. The processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The storage area includes: Silica silos are used to store silica with uniform particle size. The clean coal bin is an enclosed space located at the outlet of the conveyor belt network used for transporting clean coal; An inert gas supply assembly, wherein the outlet for outputting inert gas is connected to the refined coal bin; The clean coal monitoring component, located inside the clean coal silo, includes a pressure sensor, an oxygen concentration sensor, and a temperature sensor.
8. The processing system according to claim 7, characterized in that, The inert gas supply assembly includes: A nitrogen generator is connected to the inner wall of the refined coal silo via a pipe, and multiple release holes are evenly arranged on the inner wall of the refined coal silo.
9. The processing system according to claim 7, characterized in that, The storage area also includes: Wood chip bins are located at the output of the belt network used for transporting wood chips; A spray assembly is located at the top of the wood chip bin and is used to spray water downwards; The wood chip monitoring component, located inside the wood chip silo, includes temperature and humidity sensors.
10. The processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that, The feeding unit includes: Feeders are used to output silica, coking coal, or wood chips; A weighing hopper is located at the output end of the feeder and is used to weigh silica, refined coal, or wood chips.