At the lithium battery raw material production base in Xianning, Hubei, the company faces multiple challenges in material transportation: traditional manual handling and semi-automated equipment have issues such as dust escape, efficiency fluctuations, and high maintenance costs. To address these practical pain points, Head Powder has provided a fully automated pipeline conveying system, achieving continuous and stable transportation of lithium battery raw materials from warehouses to production lines in a sealed, intelligent, and low-loss manner.

Project Background

This lithium battery raw material project involves various powder materials, including cathode materials, anode materials, and auxiliary materials. During the initial stage of production, the customer found that the original conveying method not only caused excessive dust concentration in the workshop but also caused unstable batching accuracy due to manual errors, and the equipment failure rate was high, affecting overall production capacity. Enterprises urgently need a conveying solution that balances environmental protection, high accuracy, and low operating costs.

Core solutions

Head Powder has designed a fully automatic sealed pipeline conveying system based on material characteristics (particle size, flowability, abrasiveness, etc.) and the on-site spatial layout. The system uses pneumatic conveying principles combined with intelligent control modules to achieve full-process automation from feeding, conveying, metering to dust removal. Key equipment includes rotary feeders, silo pumps, pipeline directional valves, pulse dust collectors, and central control systems. All units are connected by sealed pipelines to prevent dust leakage.

Product advantages

To address customer pain points, this solution offers the following value:

• Environmental compliance: fully sealed conveying with no dust leakage, meeting environmental regulatory requirements.
• Precision improvement: Through the linkage between PLC and weighing modules, batching accuracy is stabilized within ±0.5%.
• Reduced labor: Only 1~2 inspection personnel are needed from material input to workshop delivery, minimizing human intervention.
• Normal operation: wear-resistant lining is used at worn parts of the pipeline to reduce downtime and maintenance time.
• Energy-saving and efficient: The system starts and stops on demand, reducing energy consumption by about 20% compared to traditional mechanical conveying.

Application Effects

After the project was put into operation, the client's workshop saw a significant drop in PM2.5 concentration, material loss rate dropped from the original 2% to below 0.3%, and the overall production line efficiency improved by nearly 15%. At the same time, thanks to automatic measurement and recording functions, the customer's quality traceability system is more robust. This fully automatic pipeline conveying system has become a benchmark case for lithium battery raw material transportation in the Xianning area of Hubei.