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world by revolution showing how machines can be
designed to do good work,that were once
done by hand
as technology improves even greater and
more impressive machines have been built
you'll be surprised to read this bolog at how innovative
some of them are with that in yours mind in
this bolog .I will be abel to write at the
top more then 10 most powerful industrial machines
number 10terbium fiber laser
lasers are increasingly being used in
manufacturing whether they be low
powered co2 devices that can etch marks
into metal
or much stronger versions that can cut
through some of the strongest materials.
one of the most powerful non-military
lasers in the world is installed at the
manufacturing technology center in
anstey in the uk
and it's an incredible machine it's a
rare earth terbium fiber laser that was
custom made for the facility
and can emit a beam that's up to 20
kilowatts in strength.
it's mounted to a six-axis handling
robot called the iq controller
and this is connected to a display panel
that shows statistics, such as the
cutting gas flow
the position of the robot how powerful
the laser currently is
and whether the safety systems are
operating correctly pieces can be cut
that weigh up to five tons and are up to
ten feet across
and the laser can pierce through steel
that's several inches thick by
pre-programming designs pieces can be
precision cut in ways never before
possible
and it's devices like these that open up
a whole new realm of manufacturing
capabilities
it's hoped that by having access to this
laser the facility will allow british
manufacturing to remain competitive with
the rest of the world
and will be able to develop new
techniques for the assembly fabrication
and joining of large pieces
number 11 big musky drag line
excavators are machines usually used in
mining to remove the overburden from the
above material that will ultimately be
mined
they're particularly useful in coal
mining and the larger they are the more
they can move
the biggest one to have ever been built
was called big musky and was created by
bucyrus erie
amazingly it weighed 13 000 and a half
tons and was more than 22 stories tall
making it one of the largest moving
vehicles on earth when it was in
operation
at 487 feet long 151 feet wide and 222
feet tall
it was able to move along the ground
with the use of two hydraulically driven
walker feet
it was fitted with a 220 cubic yard
bucket making it the largest and most
powerful single bucket machine ever
constructed
and was able to carry a maximum weight
of 325 tons at a time
the bucket was so big that it could fit
two greyhound buses in it
and the machine itself was so
complicated that it took two years to
build at a cost of around 175 million
dollars at today's rates
it would cost tens of thousands of
dollars to power big musky for an
hour with it requiring the equivalent
energy consumption of 27 000 homes to
run
and it only worked on one mine
for its entire operating life between
1969 and 1991
and in that time it moved more than 608
million cubic yards of overburden
which is twice as much as what had to be
moved to build the panama canal
this work exposed 22 million tons of
coal from the mine and it kept operating
at a cost effective level for all that
time
but it was only decommissioned when new
rules on air quality began to reduce the
demand and cost of coal around the world
at the same time as energy costs began
increasing
number 12. vortila rt flex 96c
car manufacturers are constantly showing
off their latest engines that provide
more power than ever before
but none of them come close to the
enormity of the most powerful
engine to ever be built the vortsila rt
flex 96c
built in finland this diesel engine was
designed to power the emmamersk
a cargo ship that carries 11 000
shipping containers
and can achieve a top speed of 31 knots
which is a third faster than
other ships in its class to do this the
engine is the most efficient of its kind
and these stats are almost unbelievable
it weighs 2 300 tons
it's 44 feet tall and 90 feet long which
makes it larger than a four-story
building
the 14 cylinders each burn six and a
half ounces of diesel fuel during a
single cycle
and this results in an output of more
than 107 000 horsepower
and more than 7 million newton meters of
torque
to put this into perspective this would
be enough to power a small town
and could tear even the most armored
tanks to pieces
it's an incredible feat of engineering
and further ships a plan to use them in
the future
compared to other engines the journey
time between china and the us is cut by
as much as four days
which has a major impact on worldwide
trade
number 12 gyratory crusher gyratory
crushers are used in mines and ore
processing plants to break large rocks
into smaller more manageable pieces that
can be further ground down to remove the
valuable material
they work by opening a gap with a rock
falls into then closing and crushing it
before opening up again so the resulting
debris can fall beneath and a new large
rock piece can fall in for the process
to repeat itself
the technology has been used for decades
but as stronger materials have been
developed
gyratory crusher machines have become
bigger and bigger the largest model is
called the kb63
130 and two of them are currently being
installed at the iron bridge mine
project in the pilbara in western
australia
they're instrumental to the facility
being able to produce the estimated 22
million tons of iron magnetite
concentrate
every year once it's at full capacity
which means many times more
weight in rock needs to be processed by
the gyratory crushers
it's almost hypnotic washing these
machines at work and the forces required
to crush rocks of all types
means they're some of the most powerful
machines used in any mine number 11
baymer group ship loader with an
estimated 80 percent of the volume of
worldwide trade being carried by sea
the shipping industry is undoubtedly the
backbone of the planet's economy
just a slight improvement in the speed
of a ship or turnaround time in port
can have a vast impact on profit margins
so companies are constantly looking for
ways to increase efficiencies in any way
they can
one of the most important parts in the
process is a port's ability to load and
unload ships by speeding this up they
can accommodate more ships and send them
back out to sea
quicker and one of the ways they do this
is by having a powerful and fast ship
loading machine
baymer group builds one of the widest
ranges of these devices and designed
them specifically to work with ships of
varying sizes
and handle virtually any cargo that they
carry by using a modular system of
conveyor belts vertical telescopic tubes
and bulk carriers
they can be adapted for pretty much any
purpose one of their largest
installations is at a port in malaysia
where the swivel mounted ship loader
receives bulk material
and can load as much as a thousand tons
of material every hour
number 10 bagger 293 bucket wheel
excavator
built in 1995 the bagger 293 is a bucket
wheel excavator that still holds the
record for being one of the largest and
most powerful vehicles on earth
it's used at a coal mine near hambuck in
germany where it's used to cut and
remove overburden to expose the deposits
beneath
at the front is a huge wheel that
continuously cuts away at the topsoil
and deposits it on conveyors that
transport it to trucks to take it to the
disposal sites
since the mine is one of the most
productive ones in the world vast
amounts of earth have to be moved and
the bagger 293 is ideal for the job
the machine is 738 feet long 151 feet
wide
314 feet tall and weighs just over 14
000 tons
it's mounted upon 12 caterpillar tracks
that allow it to be moved into position
at a speed of up to 30 feet a minute and
it's designed to be in constant
operation
the bucket wheel itself is almost 70
feet in diameter and has 18 buckets on
it that each can hold 530 cubic feet of
material
the excavator is powered by 16 megawatts
of externally provided electricity which
is the same consumption of a small town
incredibly you can move up to 240 000
tons of material per day
which makes it the most capable
earth-moving machine in the world
number 9 komatsu blast hole drill
to retrieve the precious rocks that lie
in the ground beneath
mining companies have to employ a wide
range of techniques
when the veins are close to the surface
an excavator is the best machine
but when it's far deeper drills are
needed to bore holes to give access
one of the most powerful options is a
blast hole drill
recently komatsu have announced a new
range that are more powerful than ever
before
the ph 77xr has a bit loading of 38 tons
and is designed to be able to adapt to
different ground conditions
it can be used for rotary tricone
drilling or percussive hammer drilling
and also features an auto bit changing
system so there's very little down time
when a bit breaks
the maximum diameter hole it can dig is
just under 11 inches
and it can dig up to 55 feet deep in one
pass
it's powered by a cummins qst 30 diesel
engine which produces over a thousand
horsepower
and the rotary head itself has 208
horsepower which enables it to spin at
up to 200 rotations per minute
at 5500 pound-feet of torque combined
with cameras and sensors that monitor
every movement and metric of performance
as the drill is operating
this is the most powerful efficient and
effective mining drill in use
around the world today
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bellas 757.10
on building sites and mines huge amounts
of material need to be moved around
and while this is usually done by a
fleet of transport vehicles the work
could instead be done by just one
the largest and most powerful haul truck
in the world is the bellas 75710
a record it has held since it was first
used in 2005.
this monster truck is 67 feet long 32
feet wide and 27 feet tall
and weighs 400 tons it's also powered by
two v16 diesel engines
which gives it a maximum speed of 25
miles per hour when its bed is full to
capacity
this is no mean feat because its bed is
able to carry a load of up to 500 tons
to do this each engine produces 2300
horsepower
but other adaptions have had to be made
too it has for example
double wheels on each axle and four
wheel drive hydraulic steering
this results in such a bulky design its
turning radius is around 102 feet
the 75710 is also so large that it's not
practical for use on smaller sites
but it's particularly useful on mining
sites that cover large areas
where large volumes of material need to
be transported significant distances
between where it's been dug up
where it needs to go to be processed
number seven slj900
have you ever looked at a bridge and
wondered how it's possible to build one
so quickly
for projects that need to be completed
to tight schedules it involves a
specialized machine called a launching
gantry
and is used to install pre-constructed
blocks the biggest and most powerful of
these is called the slj 932
and it was specifically designed in
china to assist with the large
infrastructure projects that are taking
place across the country
it's able to carry lift and place
different sections of road or railway
track
and once it's placed a heavy stone block
it can move forward over the next gap
and deposit another one
it then backs up to pick the next block
move forward to put it in place and
continues this for the entire span of
the bridge
the slj 900 weighs 640 tons it's almost
300 feet long
and just 23 feet wide when it's being
moved it's supported by 64 wheels which
are arranged into four
sections of 16 when it's being placed on
a track it has to be supported by a
sliding rail and strut
when it's in operation it can move at
five miles per hour without a load
and three miles an hour when it's
carrying the bridge pieces which it
means it can potentially build a 30 mile
stretch of bridge
in a single day number six
liber 9800 mining excavator
the r9800 is liebherr's top of the range
model of mining excavator
and can move a huge amount of material
in very little time
with a weight of 882 tons it's 35 feet
long
and 32 feet tall it has two huge 16
cylinder engines that in combination
produce 4 000 horsepower
which allows it to tear through the
ground its bucket has a capacity of 62
yards of material
and has a maximum digging power of up to
four hundred thousand foot pound of
force
this means it can make light work of
anything it's trying to dig through
and significantly improves the
efficiency of the mining operation
what's impressive about this is that it
offers a similar digging ability to the
much larger bucket
excavators it's more maneuverable so
it's better suited to use at mines that
require digging to take place at
different places around the site
it's available with a shovel attachment
or a backhoe attachment
depending on what it's needed for and in
either configuration it outperforms all
other excavators in its size range
it's commonly seen on mines across
europe and australia because of its
adaptability
and has been credited with significantly
increasing the output of the ones where
it's used
number five three gorgeous dam built
across the yangtze river near sandu ping
in central china
the three gorgeous dam is the biggest
and most powerful hydroelectric gravity
dam in the world
construction was complete in 2006 but it
took a further six years before
everything was working to its full
potential
and in 2012 it became the largest power
station in the world in terms of its
installed capacity
which at the time was 22 000 megawatts
the structure is 594 feet tall 7600 feet
long
and between 131 and 377 feet wide
while the reservoir it created covers an
area of 419 square miles
and is 370 miles long to generate such
huge amounts of electricity requires a
series of turbines
and in the case of the three gorges dam
there are 32
700 megawatt turbines and two 50
megawatt ones
as of 2018 its annual generation was 101
terawatt hours which makes up around 14
percent of china's total energy
that's provided by hydroelectric dams
despite there being more than 100 in the
country
it is an incredible feat of engineering
and apart from the machinery involved in
electrical production
several other amazing machines were
developed for its operation
to allow ships to pass by for example
there's a ship elevator that's able to
lift weights of up to three thousand
tons between the lower and higher flows
of the river
number four the z pulsed power facility
the z pulsed power facility which is
often simply known as the z machine
is an electromagnetic wave generator at
the sandia national laboratories in new
mexico
it's the largest machine of its type in
the world and is designed to create the
most powerful x-rays on earth
as well as being able to accelerate
small objects to high speeds and use
them as powerful impactors
while this may sound like a machine
predominantly used to study new theories
in the world of physics
it actually has far more real-world uses
than other large machines like the large
hadron collider
it's usually used to test the resilience
and strength of different materials
and helps manufacturers determine which
are best for new devices and products
with the ability to create conditions
not found anywhere else on earth
the machine is used to model the
behavior of nuclear weapons and the new
designs of nuclear power plants
as well as providing data to help
develop brand new energy production
methods
and ways to improve technologies that
are being used already
it's because of the z pulsed power
facility that new materials have been
developed to be used in extreme
environments
such as drill bits that can dig deeper
or molds that can hold their integrity
at higher temperatures
it's facilitated technological
progression and know-how far faster than
would be possible without it
and following an upgrade in 2007 that
increased its power output by 50 percent
it'll continue providing useful data for
decades to come
number three extrusion press
metal is used in a variety of different
applications in industry
but probably the most important is the
main material used to make components
that can withstand extreme pressures and
heat
and can be used time and time again
before needing to be replaced
it's our understanding of metallurgy
that allows vehicles
manufacturing machines and virtually
every bit of technology to exist
and components need to be produced in
such large quantities that it's not
feasible to pour liquid metal into molds
by hand
the alternative is a machine called an
extrusion press which pushes material at
high pressure into a mold
the benefit of this technique is that
you don't need to heat the material up
so it works with brittle substances that
would otherwise be difficult to shape
universal ally corporation is one of the
largest aluminum alloy component
manufacturers in the world
and to keep up with demand purchased the
largest extrusion press in 2005.
the 122 foot long machine was originally
built in germany during the second world
war
to make parts for aircraft and at a
weight of 16 000 tons had to be
completely disassembled before being
transported
then was refurbished before being put
back together at the company's facility
in canton georgia
with this machine alone the company has
been able to triple their output and
reduce the number of faults that occur
which has had a major impact on the
availability of the components they
produce
and the price to the end customer
number two terex rh-400
at a weight of 1078 tons the terex
rh-400 is the world's largest and most
powerful hydraulic shovel
used for mining the shovel on its own
weighs 80 tons
and is able to lift weights of up to 85
tons which means it can fill standard
size mining trucks in just three or four
scoops
amazingly it's able to shift as much as
9 900 tons of material every hour
which is easily a world record for a
machine like this the hydraulic system
in the rh-400 contains 3 400 gallons of
fluid
and have several heating units to keep
it warm so it can operate in virtually
any condition
this also significantly increases its
reliability
and most mines will use these 24 hours a
day seven days a week
as you'd expect from something that can
shift so much material the rh-400 is a
huge machine
measuring 36 feet long and 28 feet wide
it's powered by two 16-cylinder cat 351
6b engines
which provide 4 400 horsepower at 1800
rpm
this allows the shovel to exert up to 3
300 kilo newtons of force
against whatever it's trying to dig into
it's an incredibly effective machine
particularly at large mines where it
needs to move from one place to the next
throughout the day
and is virtually guaranteed to increase
the output of any operation
number one the tyson crane as it's
responsible for carrying huge and heavy
loads around the world
the shipping industry deals with some of
the heaviest machinery and equipment
that's used anywhere on earth
from cargo containers to the components
needed to build the largest of vessels
seriously powerful cranes are needed to
carefully lift and place these objects
into position
the biggest and most powerful crane of
all is the tyson crane
which is installed at the raffle
shipyard in yantai china
the crane was specifically designed and
built to place integrated modules onto
the hulls of vessels that are under
construction
and this meant it needed the ability to
lift weights of up to 20
000 tons since opening it's gone on to
set the record for the heaviest lift
ever performed by a crane when it
hoisted a 22
000 ton barge and it also holds the
record for the second and third largest
lifts
showing just how much more powerful it
is in comparison to its nearest
competitor
to be able to do this required complex
engineering however the crane is 436
feet tall
393 feet wide and uses more than 164
000 feet of steel cables all of which
allow it to lift these massive loads to
a maximum height of 260 feet.
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