en.Wedoany.com Reported - NetEase Lingdong, in collaboration with Hubei Xingrui Silicon Materials Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Xingfa Group, has completed the deployment of an intelligent unmanned loader project at the industrial salt warehouse of the chlor-alkali workshop. The project achieves stable and uniform on-demand material feeding, effectively improving nighttime production yield and providing a replicable unmanned solution for the chemical industry.
Xingfa Group is a major player in China's fine phosphorus chemical industry, with an annual phosphorus ore production capacity of 5.85 million tons, the world's second-largest glyphosate production capacity, an 85% domestic market share for electronic-grade phosphoric acid, and a mass production capability of hundreds of kilograms for black phosphorus. With the development of businesses such as new energy materials and electronic chemicals, the requirements for process stability in production have continuously increased, while manual operation modes have constrained improvements in capacity and quality.
At the salt dissolution tank process section of Xingrui Company, manual operations face three major pain points. In terms of process, operators on night shifts find it difficult to maintain a uniform feeding rhythm due to physiological fatigue, adopting a pattern of concentrated feeding and concentrated breaks, which leads to fluctuations in salt dissolution tank concentration and affects nighttime production yield. In terms of efficiency, chemical production requires continuous 24/7 operation, but manual work is limited by physiological constraints, resulting in shift gaps and fatigue-induced efficiency loss, failing to meet process requirements. In terms of environment, the worksite is in a high-risk and highly corrosive state, exacerbating health risks for personnel, making recruitment difficult for enterprises, and causing conventional equipment to rust and corrode easily under acid-base erosion, increasing operational costs.
NetEase Lingdong provides a closed-loop solution integrating unmanned vehicles, intelligent scheduling, and production system linkage. The unmanned loader interfaces with on-site weighing equipment and the production system to monitor salt dissolution tank concentration in real time, automatically calculate and issue feeding tasks, and execute uniform feeding with centimeter-level precision, eliminating concentration imbalances caused by manual concentrated feeding. The cloud-based intelligent control system supports remote monitoring and automatic task distribution, enabling 24-hour continuous operation of equipment, avoiding shift interruptions, and improving overall operational efficiency by 120%. To address the chemical environment, the entire vehicle and sensors are designed with anti-corrosion, dust-proof, and waterproof features, reducing equipment rust and damage rates and maintenance frequency, thereby lowering downtime and operational costs.
This project demonstrates the potential of unmanned equipment in overcoming physiological limitations and optimizing process stability. Its full-chain closed-loop model, integrating production systems, scheduling systems, and unmanned equipment, can be replicated and promoted in fields such as phosphorus chemicals and silicon materials.
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