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The original title: "this is the real porter, inventory of six common ways of material transportation, how many have you seen?" "

If it is said to move materials from one place to another, in what way, there are more options now.

Image source: pixabay has corresponding handling equipment for particles, powders, liquids or gases. Let's take a look at the main ways of material transportation.

In the history of transportation, human beings first had to move objects with both hands, and later began to use simple tools and multi-person cooperation to carry, such as many people using ropes and sticks to lift, as well as rolling objects on logs.

Later, humans began to learn to use natural resources to provide energy transport over long distances, such as the use of water and wind.

In the 19th century, with the advent of the industrial revolution and new technology, a large number of conveying equipment began to appear, which not only reduced the intensity of workers, but also improved the efficiency of transporting materials.

For example, belt conveyors, screw conveyors and steel belt conveyors that we are familiar with all appeared in the mid-19th century.

Photo Source: with the development of technology and materials, pixabay transports a variety of objects, such as gases, liquids, etc., the distance of transportation has changed from workshop to city, even between countries, and transportation equipment has also become an indispensable equipment in society.

Next, let's take an inventory of the common ways of material transportation.

NO.1 spiral conveying screw conveying is the use of motor to drive the spiral rotation, moving materials to achieve the purpose of conveying materials, it can be horizontal, inclined, vertical or even any combination to transport materials.

The screw feeding system is mainly composed of material trough, spiral blade, rotating shaft and driving device.

Screw conveying is mainly used for conveying all kinds of powdery, granular and small bulk materials, and is widely used in grain industry, building materials industry, chemical industry, machinery manufacturing industry, transportation industry and other industries.

When the helical body rotates, the material entering the material trough is pushed in the direction of the rotating blade, and the thrust will make the material rotate around the axis with the rotation of the blade, so as to achieve the purpose of conveying materials.

Screw conveying can be used with all kinds of extruders and high-speed mixers to realize feeding automation.

NO.2 conveyor belt, also known as transport belt, is made of rubber and fiber, metal composite products, or plastic and fabric composite products to carry and transport materials, and the bottom depends on the belt or chain to drive the roller to rotate, thus driving the leather to transport materials.

Conveyor belt is widely used in agriculture, industrial and mining enterprises and transportation industry to transport all kinds of solid block and powder materials or pieces.

The conveyor belt can be transported continuously, with high efficiency and large inclination angle, the operation of the conveyor belt is safe, the conveyor belt is easy to use, easy to maintain, low freight, and can shorten the transportation distance, reduce the project cost and save manpower and material resources.

NO.3 pipeline transportation is mainly used for long distance large diameter or short distance small diameter transportation of gas or liquid, which is one of the most important equipment in petrochemical and natural gas industry.

Compared with other transportation modes, pipeline transportation has the characteristics of large volume, good tightness, low cost and high safety factor.

According to the transportation process, pipeline transportation can be divided into isothermal transportation, heating transportation and sequential transportation, etc.; according to the transportation medium, it can be divided into crude oil pipeline, product oil pipeline and natural gas pipeline.

Photo source: the development of pixabay pipeline transportation is closely related to the development of the energy industry. With the increasing use of fossil energy, the pipelines for conveying energy are paved farther and farther.

Compared with other transportation methods, pipeline transportation has the following characteristics: first, the amount of pipeline transportation is large, and the cost of capital construction is low compared with railway transportation; less affected by climate and other factors, it can operate stably and continuously for a long time, and cause less pollution to the environment; the price of pipeline transportation is about 1/5 to 1/6 of that of railway, which is only higher than that of waterway transportation; limited by topography, it basically does not occupy arable land.

NO.4 pipe chain transportation usually powder or small particle materials can be transported through gas transportation, spiral, inclined trough and other ways, but these transport methods will cause some environmental pollution, the use of pipe chain transportation can solve this problem.

The pipe chain conveying system is mainly composed of feed inlet, feed pipe, material outlet, sprocket, chain with disc, motor and so on; in the closed pipe, the circular disc is pulled by the chain, thus driving the material forward to complete the continuous transportation.

The whole conveying line is connected by two conveying pipes to form a circulation loop, and at the bend of the conveying pipe, a steering sprocket is arranged, and the material is transported at right angles or other angles through the reversing device, and each conveyor can turn many times.

Therefore, the pipe chain transportation will not be limited by the environment, can effectively avoid obstacles, the transportation direction becomes very flexible.

Pipe chain transportation can continuously transport powder, paste, small particles and small blocks and other bulk materials, and can transport materials horizontally, tilted and vertically, which is widely used in food, mining, chemical, pharmaceutical and other fields.

NO.5 suspension conveying is a commonly used transportation mode in industrial production, which transports the parts or finished products through suspension, and the parts are sprayed, plastic sprayed or dried in the process of suspension transportation.

The equipment of suspension conveying system has the characteristics of simple structure, high reliability, low cost and large conveying capacity.

The suspension conveying system is mainly composed of traction chain, sliding frame, hanger, overhead track, driving device, tension device, safety device and so on.

Suspension conveying is through the traction chain moving on the overhead track, the traction chain is connected with a sliding frame, and the sliding frame is connected with a hanger loaded with workpieces, which continuously conveys the suspended products forward under the operation of the drive motor.

Today, suspended transport has begun to come out of the workshop, and it is also widely used in e-commerce, logistics and service areas, such as hospitals and some specialty restaurants.

With the development of NO.6 magnetic power transportation technology, people are constantly looking for a more energy-saving and environmentally friendly way of transportation, magnetic power transportation is a subversion of the traditional way of transportation.

For example, traditional coal mines rely on conveyor belts, which are very energy-consuming and inefficient. A coal mining enterprise in China has applied magnetic power technology to the material conveying industry by installing a linear synchronous motor on the track. install a permanent magnet under the truck, as long as it is electrified, the truck will move forward quickly.

Magnetic power conveying has many advantages, such as strong climbing ability, low construction cost, large transport volume, high energy efficiency, environmental protection and so on. It can be widely used in end-to-end transportation of all kinds of materials, and it is the most ideal transportation solution in many industries.

Material transportation seems simple, but it plays a very important role, so various industries are constantly looking for the most ideal way of transportation.

What other transportation methods do you know?

The picture in this article is taken from Youtube "Conveying of bulk material".

Gif is intercepted from Youtube "Shaftless Screw Conveyors", "belt conveyor from ground to truck loader stacker" and "Power and Free Conveyor for Painting Valves"

This article is from the official account of Wechat: manufacturing principle (ID:zhizaoyuanli), author: Lao Zheng

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