The picture shows the "Tiankun"
In 2018, Asia's largest self-propelled pump towing vessel "Tiankun", independently designed and built by China, experienced 4 days of sea voyages and successfully tested for the first time. This vessel is no ordinary towing vessel, and its real function is to carry out land reclamation operations for China. Worthy of being China's island-making artifact, it can create a football field in 1 hour? How cattle the Tiankun is, foreign countries can't buy it.
The Tiankun is a descendant of The Tian whale, China's last heavy self-propelled suction dredger. If the design and construction of the "Tian whale" draws on a large number of foreign excellent experience and active service achievements, then the "Tiankun" is a real "national heavy weapon" independently developed in China and has completely independent intellectual property rights from design to construction. Not only the localization of equipment, but also in terms of technology and performance, the "Tiankun" is more powerful than the "Tian whale".
The Tiankun is 140 meters long, 27 meters wide, has a maximum excavation depth of 35 meters, and a total power of 25,843 kilowatts. The design of the grinder is rated at 6600 kW, and four different types of stranded knives are also configured, which can be easily switched when facing rock formations of different properties, and easily excavate rocks with a strength of less than 50 MPa. This makes the dredging ability of the "Tiankun" very amazing, and the dredging capacity per hour can reach more than 6,000 cubic meters.
In addition, the mud pump transmission power of the "Tiankun" is 17,000 kilowatts, which has reached the leading level in the same field in the world, which makes the long-distance transportation capacity of the "Tiankun" up to 15,000 meters, and the daily blowing and reclamation of sand reaches more than 100,000 cubic meters. With the high-intensity dredging efficiency of the "Tiankun", the "Tiankun" can fill the amount of sediment required for nearly a football field in one hour, and can almost complete the reclamation operation at a speed visible to the naked eye, which can be described as a veritable "island-making artifact".
In addition to excavating hardware, the Tiankun is also equipped with China's advanced technical software. It is equipped with a double positioning system of steel pile trolley positioning and three cable positioning, which greatly improves the operation accuracy of the "Tiankun". In addition, the bridge of the "Tiankun" also uses a wave compensation system, which can also automatically correct the hull position to ensure construction safety in the face of harsh construction conditions with strong winds and waves. All this gives tiankun the ability to stabilize construction operations under various complex climatic and geological conditions.
The successful research and development and sea trial of the "Tiankun" is not only a sign of the improvement of China's shipbuilding industry, but also a new demonstration of China's comprehensive national strength. It is precisely because China's engineers and researchers are not satisfied with relying on foreign technology "Tian whale" that there will be a domestic equipment "Tiankun" born under the courageous study, and promote Chinese manufacturing to Chinese creation. We believe that in the near future, tiankun can play a role in land reclamation operations in the South China Sea and contribute to China's development.