Calcium Carbide Furnace Tapping Robot

At present, manual operation is still adopted for the tapping process in domestic calcium carbide production. This procedure has the highest staffing density among all production processes, resulting in high labor costs. Tapping work involves multiple occupational hazards such as taphole injuries, scalds, mechanical injuries, struck-by hazards and electric shocks. Besides, the working environment is harsh with high temperature and heavy dust, which brings extremely heavy labor intensity to workers. Our self-developed and self-manufactured E-Hydic calcium carbide furnace tapping robot system liberates operators from manual work featuring severe safety risks, heavy workload and ultra-high temperature in front of the furnace. Operators can remotely control the robot via the human-machine interaction platform in the central control room to carry out operations including direct bus connection, remote-controlled burning, automatic furnace hole tapping...