The invention provides
lunar soil component and particle size grading separation equipment and method. The grading separation equipment comprises a box body, a grading rotary vibration
sieve, an optical separation unit, an electric separation unit and an
infrared separation unit, the grading rotary vibrating screen comprises a vibrating screen cylinder, at least two screens and a storage box; the storage box is connected with the
discharge hole; the
optical sorting unit comprises a first conveying belt, an optical recognition
assembly and a first material collector. The electric separation unit comprises a drum electric separator and an ore bucket; the
infrared separation unit comprises a second conveying belt, an
infrared assembly and a second material collector.
Lunar soil particles are conveyed from the feeding port to the discharging port through the vibrating screen cylinder, the
lunar soil particles are sorted into at least three different particle size ranges through the at least two screens and conveyed to the storage box through the corresponding discharging port, the
lunar soil particles in the different particle size ranges can be directly obtained, and the screening efficiency is improved; the optical recognition
assembly recognizes lunar soil particles containing glass substances and removes the lunar soil particles into the first material collector, the drum electric separator removes lunar soil particles containing rock minerals into an ore bucket below the drum electric separator, and the lunar soil particles containing nanometer
elemental iron are guided into the infrared separation unit; the infrared assembly is used for precisely positioning the lunar soil particles containing the nanometer zero-valent iron and removing the lunar soil particles into the second material collector, glass substances and rock minerals are further removed, and the lunar soil particles containing the nanometer zero-valent iron and higher in purity are obtained. The equipment can realize effective separation of bonded aggregate rocks and glass components, and the situation that the original properties of lunar soil are damaged and the quality of additive manufacturing is affected is avoided.