This article is transferred from: People's Daily Online
At 15:40 on July 19, the coal train entered the Zhahanur circular loading line. The reporter saw that as the train moved forward at a constant speed, under the skillful manipulation of the loading personnel, the rams of the quantitative warehouses lowered the coal, and a loading chute moved up and down to steadily load 60 tons of coal into the carriages at one time. The average time for each loading was 52 seconds.
Shi Jili, a driver at the South Open-pit Coal Mine Loading Station of State Power Investment Inner Mongolia Company, said, "The coal assembly line can load a truck in 52 seconds, and a train of 100 vehicles can be loaded in more than an hour. A maximum of 1,232 carriages can be loaded in one day."
The coal train slowly enters the circular loading line. Photo by People’s Daily Online reporter Jin Honghua
The Zhaha Naoer Electric Coal Ring Loading Line is located in the eastern region of Inner Mongolia, which is rich in coal resources. It is an automated loading line specially designed for coal loading with high precision and high speed. The coal is directly transported from the coal production pit to the loading warehouse through the closed pipe gallery, and then loaded into the trucks moving at a uniform speed through the loading hopper, realizing the whole process of fully enclosed automatic loading.
Under the control of Shi Jili, the driver of the South Open-pit Coal Mine Loading Station of State Power Investment Inner Mongolia Company, 60 tons of coal at a time were steadily loaded into the carriage. Photo by People's Daily Online reporter Jin Honghua
This circular loading line is 3.6 kilometers long, with a coal loading warehouse in the middle, which can accommodate two hundred trains at the same time. It is also called "light bulb line" because it looks like a light bulb. The coal train enters from the beginning of the ring line, and without stopping on the way, it will make a detour to complete the coal loading, which minimizes the time for locomotive reversing and technical operations, and greatly improves transportation efficiency.
In order to reduce production dust and environmental pollution during operation, the loading loop is equipped with a micron-level dry fog dust suppression system, breathing port dust removal system, and cabin dust suppression system. As each coal-fired vehicle is pulled and moved forward, the coal dust suppression and disposal equipment installed in front of the loading warehouse completes the spraying coverage of the "liquid tarpaulin" at the same time.
Shenyang Bureau Group Corporation manages 9 major railway coal loading stations in Inner Mongolia, including Huolinhe, Baiyinhua, Hesgewula, and Zhahanur. All of them have ring-shaped loading lines, and they are equipped with automated loading warehouses. Hundreds of large trains come and go every day, and they are running at full capacity to continuously transport thermal coal from eastern Mongolia to various parts of the Northeast, effectively ensuring the supply of thermal coal to power plants in the Northeast.
