China's Most Powerful Cutter Suction Dredger Tian Kun Leads the World
Zhang Xia
DATE:  Nov 03 2017
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
China's Most Powerful Cutter Suction Dredger Tian Kun Leads the World China's Most Powerful Cutter Suction Dredger Tian Kun Leads the World

(Yicai Global) Nov. 3 -- Asia's largest, most advanced cutter suction dredger Tian Kun will undock on Nov. 3. At present, final preparation works is underway.

The successful undocking of Tian Kun will mark the further upgrading of the research and development capacity of China's dredging equipment, whose relevant technologies are already at an advanced level worldwide. 

Tian Kun was jointly developed by several Chinese enterprises and institutions over 5 years. The cutter suction dredger is 140 meters long and 27.8 meters wide, with a maximum dredging depth of 35 meters and reamer power of 6,600 kilowatts it can dredge 6,000 cubic meters of mud per hour. Equipped with four different types of drilling reamers, such as general purpose, clay, rock digging and heavy excavation according to geological conditions, Tian Kun is capable of excavating rocks.

Tian Kun is designed as a full power-driven self-propelled heavy cutter suction dredger equipped with dual-positioning system with an unlimited worldwide navigation area. The dredger comes equipped with Asia's most powerful excavation system, the transmission system with maximum power and the most advanced automatic control system in the world and can realize automatic dredging, monitoring and unmanned control, which will greatly improve operational efficiency and can be used for dredging and reclamation in coastal and deep-sea port waterways. In addition, Tian Kun is very eco-friendly and properly designed and has independent intellectual property rights for related energy conservation technologies. Tian Kun ensures the comfortable living conditions of crew and safe operation of equipment.

The final stage of land construction of Tian Kun is complete. After undocking, accurate positioning of equipment, commissioning and trial work are carried out. When water testing concludes, the ship will enter into the adjustment stage of outfitting, equipment and system and it is expected be come into production in June next year.

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Keywords:   Cutter Suction Dredger