Under the "double carbon" goal, the electrification of mining machinery will open a market of 100 billion

In recent years, under the guidance of China's "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral" goals, the construction of green mines has been the trend of The Times. If the mine wants to walk out of a green, low-carbon and sustainable development road, it is inseparable from the electrification of mining engineering vehicles and the support of complete sets of digital mining equipment.

For a long time, mining production enterprises are the main force to promote the transformation and upgrading of the mining industry and high-quality development, representing the latest form of industry development. In the context of China's efforts to achieve the double carbon goal, the major mining production enterprises aim at the "double carbon" goal, take the green development road, and accelerate the construction of smart mines and green mines, which has a huge demand for new energy mining machinery. In the face of the new trend in the development of the mining industry, many leading construction machinery manufacturers have laid out the field of new energy mining machinery, developed unmanned electric mining cards, green mine intelligent comprehensive solutions, and boosted the low carbonization and unmanned mine operation.

Build a green mine

Major mining enterprises to increase the use of new energy mining machinery

In recent years, the green development of China's mining industry has accelerated significantly, and the development of mineral resources has become a conscious action and inevitable choice under the premise of ecological protection, and the construction of green mines has become a vivid practice of ecological civilization construction in the mining field. The "14th Five-Year Plan" proposes to unswervingly implement the new development concept and promote high-quality development as the theme, which not only provides new growth space for the development of China's mining industry, but also puts forward clear requirements and directions for China to accelerate the construction of a modern mining system and put forward green development throughout the whole process and all aspects of mine construction. To this end, China's major mining enterprises have begun to increase the use of new energy mining machinery, and accelerate the digital transformation of "green, safe, harmonious, intelligent and efficient" mines.

In May 2021, Xizang Yulong Copper Mine mining truck "oil to electricity" project was officially put into operation, the project includes 2 automatic intelligent electrical station, 90 tons of pure electric wide body mining trucks 40, is the world's highest altitude pure electric heavy truck operation demonstration project. In September of the same year, the country's largest pure electric mining wide-body truck with a load of 60 tons was officially put into operation in Yimin open-pit mine, the staff said that the alternative practice of electric trucks has achieved remarkable results, in terms of vehicle performance, automatic transmission control is simpler, noise reduction, power is better than traditional vehicles, and can meet the needs of safe and stable production in the mine. In January 2022, Jiangxi Copper and Tage Zhixing signed an agreement, the two sides will combine the actual situation of Dexing Copper mine, based on the localized unmanned transportation technology system, unmanned electric wheel mining card unmanned transformation, unmanned transportation system hardware and software deployment, to achieve unmanned vehicles and shovel, bulldozers collaborative production operations. And mixed operation with manned vehicles. From the perspective of safety, production capacity and manpower, Jiangxi Copper and Tage Zhixing will use unmanned technology to "tailor" and solve practical problems such as special weather faced by Dexing Copper Mine one by one.

Yulong Copper mine pure electric heavy truck change power station

In addition, some foreign mining companies have also scheduled to purchase electric mining vehicles. Serbia Zijin Mining ordered four NTE240 electric wheel mining vehicles from North Shares again in July 2021. NTE240 electric wheel mining vehicles have the characteristics of high efficiency, low consumption, high reliability and the lowest operating cost of safe life cycle. At present, the two parties have completed assembly and commissioning and officially delivered them. Vale will purchase electric mining trucks from Xugong Group for the transportation of iron ore from mines, and the two companies have signed a memorandum of cooperation under which in the first half of 2022, Xugong Group will produce two zero-emission battery-powered mining trucks with a load of 72 tons for delivery to Vale for mine testing. In addition, Vale pre-purchased a zero-emission electric mining vehicle with a load of 240 tons, which will also be delivered to the test at the agreed time.

Vale will buy electric mining vehicles from Xugong Group

It can be seen that the demand for electric mining vehicles at home and abroad continues to rise, the future of electric engineering vehicles hidden huge business opportunities, according to industry professionals said that electric mining engineering vehicles will usher in explosive growth, is expected to 2025 to 2030 mining vehicle automation, electrification will be expected to reach 100 billion market scale, By then, China's entire new energy mining machinery industry chain will benefit.

Green transformation track

New energy mining machinery manufacturing capacity has expanded significantly

In the face of the strong demand for electric mining engineering vehicles at home and abroad, many construction machinery manufacturers are concentrating on the research and development of new energy electric mining engineering vehicles and intelligent mining equipment on the power change circuit, expanding production capacity to meet the rapid growth of market demand, and improving the level of China's industrial chain supply chain.

In December 2021, Huai Chai Car, a well-known engine manufacturer at home and abroad, developed a mining "perpetual motion machine" - a three-axis pure electric wide-body mining card WT90EA with a load of 60 tons. In addition to being driven like a traditional mining car, this wide-body mining card can also be remotely controlled to achieve driverless driving. Huai Chai Car launched WT90EA pure electric driverless wide-body mining card in time, reflecting Huai Chai Car has accurate judgment on the market and excellent product strength.

Weichai three-axis pure electric wide body mining card WT90EA

Not only that, Shandong Linong Group's MTE86 off-highway electric wide-body dump truck, Zoomlion's 8 series of 15 new energy products, Sany Heavy Industry's new flagship product electric iSEE2 and other electric new energy engineering vehicles came into being, further improving the number of electric engineering vehicles.

In addition, China has also made many achievements in the construction of comprehensive solutions for green mines and the application of 5G technology, such as:

On October 12, 2021, Baidu Apollo released the unmanned demonstration application plan for mining trucks. The unmanned demonstration application results of mining card unveiled by Baidu Apollo are jointly built with Huaneng Yimin Coal and Power Company. The product has completed the day and night operation test of Yimin open-pit mine. It realizes "vehicle-shovel alignment", autonomous navigation, autonomous unloading, and active obstacle avoidance, and can carry out unmanned driving at multiple forks and complex road conditions, and complete accurate unloading in designated areas such as waste dumps, making the functional types and efficiency of mine automation operations in the industry leading position.

Baidu Apollo released unmanned demonstration application scheme for mining trucks

Sanhe Intelligent New launched the world's first 5G+ intelligent drill rig, and its 5 categories of more than 20 types of mining equipment fully demonstrated Sanhe Intelligent's leading core strength in green manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing industry; Luoyang Molybdenum Industry also hand in hand with Huawei, the first in the country to apply 5G technology in the field of unmanned mining. The application of 5G network in the original intelligent mining equipment gives full play to the characteristics of 5G ultra-high speed and ultra-low delay, and completely solves the technical bottleneck of signal transmission in the special complex environment of the mine.

Luoyang Molybdenum Industry and Huawei to apply 5G technology in the field of unmanned mining

At present, in order to speed up the promotion of green low-carbon transformation, construction machinery manufacturers to improve their awareness of responsibility, towards the intelligent, unmanned, green direction to increase efforts to expand the production of new energy electric mining engineering vehicles, many companies have begun to plan to deploy large projects.

In January 2022, Chery new energy mining card project plans a total investment of 850 million yuan, the products are mainly pure electric and hydrogen fuel mine wide body dump trucks, heavy-duty dump trucks, tractors, etc. After the completion of the first phase of the project can form 5,000 units of new energy mining vehicle production capacity; It is expected that the market in 2022 is expected to exceed 10,000 loaders, mining wide body dump trucks, dump trucks and other pure electric construction machinery, and exceed 50,000 units in 2023; Lingong Heavy Machinery will build a large excavator and new energy mining truck project in the intelligent equipment City, and it is expected to achieve an annual output of 13,000 new energy mining trucks and 3,000 ultra-large excavators after the completion of the project.

It can be seen that China's construction machinery manufacturers, starting from meeting the actual needs of users, have been constantly exploring new products, new technologies and new directions on the mine green transformation track, which will promote the global mining machinery industry pattern to be reshaped.