AU2005201346B2 - Water bath separator - Google Patents

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AU2005201346B2
AU2005201346B2 AU2005201346A AU2005201346A AU2005201346B2 AU 2005201346 B2 AU2005201346 B2 AU 2005201346B2 AU 2005201346 A AU2005201346 A AU 2005201346A AU 2005201346 A AU2005201346 A AU 2005201346A AU 2005201346 B2 AU2005201346 B2 AU 2005201346B2
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03BSEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS
    • B03B11/00Feed or discharge devices integral with washing or wet-separating equipment
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03BSEPARATING SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS
    • B03B5/00Washing granular, powdered or lumpy materials; Wet separating
    • B03B5/28Washing granular, powdered or lumpy materials; Wet separating by sink-float separation
    • B03B5/30Washing granular, powdered or lumpy materials; Wet separating by sink-float separation using heavy liquids or suspensions
    • B03B5/36Devices therefor, other than using centrifugal force
    • B03B5/40Devices therefor, other than using centrifugal force of trough type
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07BSEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
    • B07B1/00Sieving, screening, sifting, or sorting solid materials using networks, gratings, grids, or the like
    • B07B1/12Apparatus having only parallel elements
    • B07B1/14Roller screens
    • B07B1/15Roller screens using corrugated, grooved or ribbed rollers
    • B07B1/155Roller screens using corrugated, grooved or ribbed rollers the rollers having a star shaped cross section

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Abstract

A water bath separator includes a tank (1) for receiving a volume of water for forming a water bath having a top water surface (3) and a light material conveyor path (17) extending from the tank such that an upstream end of the light material conveyor path is closely below the top water surface when the tank is in filled operating condition. The light material conveyor path includes a sorting conveyor (14) provided with a row of rotatable, driven shafts (29) mutually spaced in a conveying direction (18) and each extending transversally to that conveying direction. The shafts (29) each carry a row of radially extending impellers (30) for intermittently urging material on the sorting conveyor upward and in conveying direction, the impellers of each of said rows being mutually spaced in longitudinal direction of the respective shaft. The sorting conveyor (14) has an upstream portion located in the tank (1) such that an upstream end of the sorting conveyor is immersed in the water bath (2) when the tank is in filled operating condition.

Description

P/011 Regulation 3.2 AUSTRALIA Patents Act 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION STANDARD PATENT Invention Title: Water bath separator The following statement Is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to us: la TECHNICAL FIELD AND BACKGROUND ART The invention relates to water bath separator for separating floating material from material that sinks when deposited in a water bath. Such a water bath separator is disclosed in GB-A-695543. 5 A known application of water bath separators is in the field of sorting construction and demolition waste. Depositing construction and demolition waste in a landfill is expensive. Recycling of potentially reusable constituents of the waste replaces the costs of disposing a usable or reusable fraction of the waste by the creation of value of the usable or reusable materials obtained thereby create a value and contributes to reducing the consumption of natural resources. 0 Construction and demolition waste is preferably first sized to present only clean, large items on an "overs" sort line. The "unders" line can screen out a product as fine as sand and have the balance cleaned up with an air system, for instance such that a stream of particles mainly having sizes in a range between 1 cm and 2.5 cm is obtained. A water-bath separator is preferably used after that for separating a flotsam fraction from a jetsam fraction of the "unders" or the "overs" 5 material. The sorting may also be carried out in another order, with other size ranges or even only to sort floating particles from sinking particles. The material to be separated is fed to the water bath and a water flow is maintained in the water bath that entrains the floating fraction to a conveyor that picks up the floating material out of the water bath towards a vibrating screen where water that loosely clings to the material is separated 20 from the material. The heavier material is transported by an incline conveyor from a lower portion of the water bath to a granulate bunker, or can be send over a quality control sorting line, for the final check for materials, such as PVC. A problem of water bath separators is that particles of the light fraction of the materials to be 25 sorted are not always quickly engaged by the 2 conveyor for removal from the water bath- in particular, particles that float deeply, such as materials having a specific weight close to the specific weight of water, such as tropical wood or particles having a particular shape, sometimes remain at the upstream end of the discharge conveyor 5 before being entrained out of the water bath. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the invention to provide a solution for more reliably and quickly discharging floating material from a water bath 10 separator. According to the invention, this object is achieved by providing a water bath separator according to claim 1. In operation, the impellers of the upstream and of the sorting conveyor impart not only traction in conveying direction onto the floating 15 particles that have floated to the contours of the rotary trajectories of the impellers, but also upward motion, so that the contact pressure between the floating particles and the impellers is temporarily increased from a very low pressure, which is due to the floatation of the particles in the water, to a peak pressure that allows the particles to be engaged effectively by the 20 impellers. Particular embodiments of the invention are set forth in the dependent claims. Further objects, features, effects and details of the invention are described below with reference to a presently most preferred embodiment 25 shown in the drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is schematic, partially cut-away side view of an example of a water bath separator according to the invention; 8 Fig. 2 is a partially cut-away and view of the separator shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a sorting conveyor of the separator according to Figs. 1 and 2; and 5 Fig, 4 is a side view in cross section along the line IV-W in Fig. 3. MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The water bath separator shown in the drawings is equipped with two water tanks, a separating tank I for receiving a volume of water for forming a water bath 2 having a top water surface S and a buffer tank 4 for 10 storing a buffer volume of water for replenishing the water bath 2 to compensate for water displacements out of the water bath 2. A pump 5 in a return conduit 6 is provided for pumping water into the separating tank 1 via the conduit 6 and branches 7.9 thereof. Feeding of material to be sorted to the water bath 2 is preferably 15 carried out at a relatively constant rate, so that the amount of material fed to the tank is on the one hand limited to avoid that floating and sinking particles prevent each other from floating up and sinking down and, on the other hand, the sorting capacity of the separator is fully used. Although the material to be sorted may be fed to the water bath 2 in many ways, for 20 ensuring a controlled and relatively constant supply rate, a supply conveyor 10 is provided for conveying materials to be sorted in a transport direction 11. The supply conveyor 10 has a downstream end 12 extending above the bath 2 and ending above a portion of the bath 2 about half way between the locations where a heavy material conveyor 18 and a light material conveyor 25 14 intersect the water surface 3 The heavy material conveyor 13 defnes a conveyor path 16 in a direction 26 extending from a lower portion of the tank 1 to an unloading area 15 outside the tank 1, where material transported along the conveyor path 16 is deposited.
4 The light material conveyor 14 defines a conveyor path 17 in a direction 18 extending from an upper portion of the tank 1 - closely (preferably 20-40 cm) below the water surface 3 when the tank I is in filled, operating condition - located at a higher level than the lower portion of the 5 tank 1 from which the heavy material conveyor path 16 extends. For maintaining a flow along the top water surface 3 away from an upper portion 20 of the heavy material conveyor path 16 that intersects the top water surface S when the tank 1 is in filled operating condition, a structure for causing a flow in the water bath 2 is provided. According to the 10 present example, the return conduit 6, its branches 7-9, the pump 5, outflow orifices 21-23 and the buffer storage tank 4 form this structure. However, also other means for maintaining such a flow are conceivable, such as driven propellers or vanes in the water bath 2. A discharge conduit 24 is provided for emptying the tank 1. 15 In operation, water is circulated through the conduits and the tanks in accordance with the arrow 25 and this results in a flow pattern in the water bath 2 as indicated by arrows 27, 28. The water flows out of the tank over an edge that extends under the light material conveyor 14, for instance at a rate of 200-300 m 8 /hour into the buffer storage tank 4 (arrow 20 43). Because the water flow along the top water surface $ is directed away from the upper portion 20 of the heavy material conveyor path 16 that intersects the top water surface 8 when the tank 1 is in filled operating condition, material that floats in the water drifts towards the light material conveyor 14 by which it is picked up out of the water bath 2. Material that 25 sinks reaches an upstream portion of the heavy material conveyor 13 and is conveyed along the conveying path 16 out of the water bath 2 separate from the light material. The light material conveyor path 17 is formed by a sorting conveyor in the form of a row of rotatable, driven shafts 29 mutually spaced 30 in the conveying direction 18 and each extending transversay to the 5 conveying direction 18. The shafts 29 each carry a row of radially extending impellers 30 for intermittently urging material on the sorting conveyor upward and in conveying direction 18. The impelinr 30 of each of the rows are mutually spaced in longitudinal direction of the respective shaft 29 and 5 the sorting conveyor has an upstream portion 31located in the tank 1 such that an upstream end of the sorting conveyor is immersed in the water bath 2 when the tank 1 is in filled operating condition. In operation, the impellers 30 of the upstream end of the sorting conveyor impart not only traction in conveying direction 18 onto the floating 10 particles that have floated to the contours 32 of the rotary trajectories 33 of the impellers 30, but also upward motion, so that the contact pressure - between the floating particles and the impellers 80 is temporarily increased from a very low pressure, which is due to the floatation of the particles in the water, to a peak pressure that allows the particles to be engaged 15 effectively by the impellers 30. The vertical accelerations and decelerations of the particles also contribute to separating water and any non-floating material clinging to the floating particles from the floating particles before removal out of tank 1 containing the water bath 2, immediately from the start of conveyance of 20 particles along the conveyor path 17. The rotary trajectories 83 of the impellers 80 carried by the shafts 29 project between rotary trajectories 33 of the impellers 30 carried by a neighbouring one of the shafts 29, so that successive impellers 30 are in close succession and particles are effectively advanced along the conveying 25 path 17. Particles floating above the upstream end of the conveying path 17 are particularly effectively engaged, because the impellers 30 each have a contour 34 that is shaped such that members 85 project radially outward from adjacent portions of that contour 34. According to this example, the 30 members 35 are provided in the ibrm of flage 35, a plurality of fingers 35 6 being circumferentially distributed around each impeller 30. The fingers 35 are preferably made of rubber or another resilient material and extend radially outward with a tangential component opposite to the sense of rotation 36 of the impellers 30 when in operation. This allows the projecting 5 members 35 to absorb impacts of transported material particularly effectively. The impellers 30 carried by the most upstream one of the shafts 29 are positioned to be fully immersed in the water bath 2 when the tank 1 is in filled operating condition. This allows floating particles to be conveyed 10 out of the bath 2 to float to a position above the most upstream impellers 30, so that the impellers 30 engage the particles more effectively and can also engage particles with a relatively large draft from below for effectively imparting upward movement and traction in conveying direction to such particles. 15 According to the present example, the impellers 30 are releasably fixed to the shafts 29 and driving of the impellers 30 is achieved by the driving rotation of the shafts 29. To this end, a motor 37 is provided that is coupled to the shafts 29 for driving the shafts 29. The sorting conveyor 14 extends over a sifting area 38 for receiving 20 undersize material and water fallen through the sorting conveyor 14, so that conveying light materials out of the bath 2 and sorting of the light materials by size and separation of water from the larger particle size fraction of these light particles is achieved by the same conveyor 14. For further separation of water from the undersize fraction, a sieve 25 39 is provided in and downstream of the sifting area 38 for sieving water from the undersize material. In operation, the sieve 39 is vibrated such that material on the sieve 39 is conveyed in transport direction 40. A motor 41 and an excenter transmission 42 drive vibration of the sieve 39. Water that is separated at the sieve 39 is passed to the buffer storage tank 4 (arrow 48).
7 The oversize fraction of the light material is conveyed by the conveyor 14 past the sifting area 38 to a bunker or other storage facility. Also the heavy material is conveyed to a bunker or other storage facility. 5 Within the framework of the invention as defmed by the claims construed in the light of technical and functional considerations including those appearing from the description, many other embodiments than the above-described embodiment are conceivable, such as an embodiment in which the conveying path for conveying the flotsam (light) and jetsam 10 (heavy) material fractions do not project out of the bath in opposite directions but at the same side of the bath or at an end and a lateral side of the bath. The jetsam material may also be removed from the bath by other means than a conveyer, such as for instance by a scoop or by tilting the separating tank after the water has been discharged from the separating 15 tank. The word "comprising" does not exclude that other items than the mentioned item or items are provided or that a larger number of the mentioned item is provided.

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1. A water bath separator, compnsig: a tank for receiving a volume of water for forming a water bath having a top water surface; and a light material conveyor path extending from the tank such that 5 an upstream end of the light material conveyor path is closely below the top water surface when the tank is in filled operating condition; characterized in that the light material conveyor path comprises a sorting conveyor comprising a row of rotatable, driven shafts mutually spaced in a conveying direction and each extending transversally to said 10 conveying direction, said shafts each carrying a row of radially extending impellers for intermittently urging material on the sorting conveyor upward and in conveying direction, the impellers of each of said rows being mutually spaced in longitudinal direction of the respective shaft, said sorting conveyor having an upstream portion located in the tank such that 15 an upstream end of the sorting conveyor is immersed in the water bath when the tank is in filled operating condition.
2. A separator according to claim 1, wherein rotary trajectories of impellers carried by at least one of said shafts project between rotary trajectories of the impellers carried by a neighbouring one of said shafts. 20
3. A separator according to claim 1 or 2, wherein mid impellers each have a contour comprising at least one member projecting radially outward from adjacent portions of said contour.
4. A separator according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein at least some of the impellers carried by a most upstream one of 25 said shafts are positioned to be fully immersed in the water bath when the tank is in filled operating condition. 9
5. A separator according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said sorting conveyor extends over a sifting area for receiving undersize material and water fallen through the sorting conveyor.
6. A separator according to claim 5, further comprising a sieve at least in or 5 downstream of the sifting area for sieving water from the undersize material.
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