【Major Industrial Equipment in the Chemical Industry】Explosion-proof wall-climbing rust-removal robot 503-2022
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This post was last edited by Desert Fish on 2022-8-21 at 11:21. Tianjin Fubao is a Sino-foreign joint venture established through investment by the internationally renowned specialty chemical storage company, Royal Fubao Group of the Netherlands, and Tianjin Bohai Chemical Group Co., Ltd. The partnership between Shihe Technology and Fubao Group originated from the TIEC industry matchmaking event organized by Qidi Technology Transfer on November 5 last year. Based on the technical requirements put forward by Fubao Group, after conducting on-site inspections of Fubao’s tank farms, the TIDE Technology Transfer team organized five teams that possessed cutting-edge technical solutions in various fields to hold technical exchanges, both online and offline, with the managers and maintenance supervisors of the seven tank farms in Fubao Group’s China and North Asia regions, as well as the operation optimization/innovation/business management teams and other innovation-related staff at Fubao Group in these regions; Shihe Technology was one of such teams. Subsequently, despite challenges such as equipment logistics and personnel quarantine during the pandemic, through ongoing communications and coordination as well as on-site equipment testing, Shihe Technology successfully completed the rust removal task on the outer walls of the storage tanks at Fubao’s Tianjin tank farm, laying a solid foundation for serving more tank farms in the future.
In August 2022, rust removal work was being carried out on the outer surface of the G-45 diesel finished product tank in the light oil tank area of Yanshan Petrochemical’s storage and transportation plant. An operator located dozens of meters away from the tank held a controller, using it to remotely operate an explosion-proof rust-removal robot that resembled a window cleaner, causing it to \"move\" along the outer surface of the tank. Wherever it went, all the rust spots were wiped away. It is reported that this is the first time Yanshan Petrochemical has introduced green and intelligent rust removal technology – explosion-proof rust removal robots, which use high-pressure water to clean the outer surfaces of oil tanks. This approach helps to reduce safety risks during construction, improves the efficiency of rust removal, and involves low pollution, minimal labor requirements, and low energy consumption, thus truly enabling the automated cleaning of storage tanks. It is reported that common methods for rust removal from large oil tanks include chemical rust removal, sandblasting, and electric rust removal. These methods involve safety risks such as hot work and working at heights, as well as environmental issues related to wastewater and dust treatment. By using an explosion-proof rust removal robot that employs ultra-high-pressure water to clean steel plates, rust removal can be achieved in such a way that the surface dries immediately without rust reappearing. The operator can remotely control the robot to move along the tank wall, **reducing the safety risks for the workers. The rust removal efficiency increases from 1 square meter per hour to 40 square meters per hour, and the time required to remove rust from a 3,000 cubic meter tank is reduced from 20 days to 7 days**, thereby improving the efficiency of the work. At the same time, the rust from the tank is recovered simultaneously with the wastewater; after filtration, it meets the discharge standards, producing no dust or wastewater, thus effectively reducing environmental hazards.
Learning*, it would be great to be able to use it if the chance arises
Sinopec has already started using it; anyone with money can use it