Detailed Description
The automatic sand discharge device for a corridor with multiple sand inlets opened and closed sequentially according to the invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings 1-4 and the embodiment. For convenience of description, the length L is defined along the longitudinal direction of the sand conveying gallery 1, the width B is defined along the transverse direction of the cross section of the sand conveying gallery 1, and the height or thickness H is defined vertically upward, and the size of each device number is represented by the characters and the corresponding numerical marks in the drawings, such as the length L1 and the width B1 of the sand conveying gallery 1; and the water flow is divided into upstream and downstream according to the flow direction of the water flow, the water flow flows from the upstream to the downstream, and the water flow faces the downstream and is divided into left and right banks.
The structure of the device is shown in figures 1 and 2, the device comprises a sand conveying gallery 1 (the length L1 and the net width B1 of the sand conveying gallery 1 are determined according to engineering design, if only the dam needs to be desilted, the length is 100m order of magnitude, if the silt needs to be removed to keep the reservoir capacity, the length is 1000m order of magnitude), a sliding plate 4 arranged below each sand inlet 3, triggering members 6 transversely and symmetrically arranged in the middle part below each sliding plate 4, a traction mechanism for driving the sliding plate 4 to longitudinally reciprocate along the sand conveying gallery 1, sliding plate resetting devices symmetrically arranged at two sides of the sliding plate 4 and an outlet gate Valve; wherein, the sand conveying gallery 1 is excavated and built on a riverbed (UB is an upstream riverbed and DB is a downstream riverbed in figure 1) at the upstream of the reservoir Dam, the downstream end of the sand conveying gallery 1 is connected with the Dam bottom of the reservoir Dam, the downstream end passes through the Dam bottom of the reservoir Dam through an outlet gate Valve, the upstream end of the sand conveying gallery 1 is closed and positioned in the reservoir, and sediment is deposited on the top of the sand conveying gallery 1 (DS is the upper surface of the sediment in figure 1); four corners below the sliding plate 4 are symmetrically provided with rollers 11, and the sliding plate 4 longitudinally reciprocates along the sand conveying gallery 1.
The cross section of the sand conveying gallery 1 is a composite section of an upper rectangle, a lower trapezoid or a semicircle, as shown in fig. 2(a) (fig. 2(a) is the cross section of the sand conveying gallery 1 with the lower trapezoid), the shape and the size of the section are unchanged along the longitudinal direction of the sand conveying gallery 1, the longitudinal section of the sand conveying gallery 1 is as shown in fig. 2(b), V in the figure indicates the flowing direction of water flow, and an arrow points to the downstream; the upper surface of a straight cover plate 2 at the top of a sand conveying gallery 1 is flush with the surface of a river bed, two sides of the cover plate 2 protrude out of the side wall of the sand conveying gallery 1 and form a closed sand conveying gallery 1 with a composite section, rectangular sand inlets 3 (length multiplied by width: L3 multiplied by B3) are sequentially arranged on the straight cover plate 2 along the longitudinal direction of the sand conveying gallery at certain intervals (the intervals of the sand inlets are designed according to the sand discharge requirement), and each sand inlet 3 has the same acting water head when opened; a sliding plate 4 is correspondingly arranged below each sand inlet 3, the length of the sliding plate 4 is 1.2 times of the length of the sand inlet 3, and the width of the sliding plate 4 is 1.1 times of the width of the sand inlet 3 (namely, L4 × B4 is 1.2L3 × 1.1B3), so that the sand inlet 3 can be completely sealed, in the embodiment, the width B4 of the sliding plate 4 is 0.95B1, and therefore the width B3 of the sand inlet can be calculated to be 0.86B 1; a plurality of brackets 13 are arranged on two inner side walls of the sand conveying gallery 1 according to a certain distance (the specific size is ensured that the sliding rails 12 do not bend and droop after bearing), the sliding rails 12 are arranged on the brackets 13, and the rollers 11 below the sliding plates 4 move on the sliding rails 12 in a reciprocating manner; positive trigger blocks 7 (the top view is trapezoidal, and the wider side is positioned at the upstream) are arranged on two side walls of the sand conveying gallery 1 at the upstream of each sand inlet 3, and the longitudinal position of each positive trigger block is away from the center of the sand inlet 3 by the length of a sliding plate 4; on both side walls of the sand conveying corridor 1 of each sand inlet 3 are arranged reverse trigger blocks 27 (the size of which is the same as that of the forward trigger block, and the wider side is positioned at the downstream) which are symmetrically arranged with the forward trigger block 7, the longitudinal position of the reverse trigger blocks is positioned at the center of the sand inlet 3, the heights of the two trigger blocks are flush with the trigger member 6, and the width of the wide side is 0.02B 1.
The minimum flow velocity in the sand conveying corridor 1 should be greater than the maximum starting flow velocity V of the siltDThe maximum flow velocity can be 2-3 times of the minimum flow velocity; wherein,g is the acceleration of gravity, D is the silt particle size, and H is the total operating head (i.e. the difference between the upstream water level of the reservoir and the Valve central elevation of the outlet gate).
The traction mechanism comprises two driving balls 5, two traction steel cables 8, four fixed pulleys 9 and a winch 10; wherein, the two driving balls 5 are strictly parallel and are respectively fixed on the two traction steel cables 8; the four fixed pulleys 9 are fixed at two ends of the sand conveying gallery 1 in pairs, and the height of the fixed pulleys is flush with that of the triggering member; the winch 10 is positioned at the top of the Dam; the traction steel cables 8 are positioned at two sides of the sand conveying gallery 1, the traction steel cables 8 firstly pass through a fixed pulley at the downstream end of the sand conveying gallery from a winch 10 at the top of the reservoir dam, sequentially pass through a trigger component below the sliding plate 4, then pass through the fixed pulley at the upstream end of the sand conveying gallery to be folded back, pass through the rollers 11 at four corners of the sliding plate, and then pass back to the winch 10 from the fixed pulley at the downstream end of the sand conveying gallery, and finally the annular traction steel cables 8 which have the same length and pull the driving balls 5 in a reciprocating mode are formed.
The triggering members 6 are transversely and symmetrically fixed at the middle part below each sliding plate 4, the structure of the triggering members is shown in fig. 3 (only the triggering member at one side below the sliding plate is shown in the figure, and the other side is not shown), and the triggering members comprise a positioning block 14, a telescopic rod 17 with a roller 19 and a pressure spring 18; wherein, the positioning block 14 is rectangular and fixed at one side of the middle part below the sliding plate 4, the outer side of the positioning block 14 is retracted into the width of the wide side of the trigger block at the position close to the side wall 21 of the sand conveying gallery and at the position closer to the outer side of the sliding plate 4, an inverted T-shaped groove is transversely milled at the middle part of the upper plane of the positioning block (as shown in 14-1 and 14-2 in figures 3(c) and (d)), the pressure spring 18 is placed in the transverse inner side section 14-1 of the T-shaped groove, the expansion link 17 is placed in the transverse outer side section 14-2 of the T-shaped groove, the rear end of the expansion link 17 abuts against the pressure spring 18, then the upper plane of the positioning block 14 is riveted with the lower plane of the sliding plate, the sliding plate forms a closed cavity with 14-1 and 14-2; one side of the positioning block 14 close to the side wall of the sand flushing gallery 1 is longitudinally and symmetrically provided with conical horn holes 15 (as shown in fig. 3 (c)) with large openings facing outwards, so that the driving balls 5 fixed on the traction steel cables 8 can be guided to smoothly enter the horn holes, the longitudinal inner side of each horn hole 15 is provided with a cylindrical hole 16 which is just used for the driving balls 5 to pass through and is concentric with the horn hole 15, and the diameter of each cylindrical hole 16 is equal to the diameter of a small opening of the horn hole 15; the telescopic rod 17 is an inverted T-shaped structure formed by a transverse inner side section 17-2 and a transverse outer side section 17-3, a rod end (namely an outer side end) close to the side wall 21 of the sand conveying gallery is provided with a groove 19-2 for mounting a roller 19 and a wheel axle hole 17-1 (as shown in figure 3 (e)), the wheel axle 19-1 is inserted into the wheel axle hole 17-1 and then riveted, the middle part of the telescopic rod 17 is provided with a cylindrical hole 20 for just passing the driving ball 5, and the height of the center of the hole is flush with the center of the horn hole 15 of the positioning block 14; the pull cable 8 passes through the flared hole 15 of the positioning block 14, the cylindrical hole 16 and the cylindrical hole 20 in the middle of the telescopic rod 17.
The relative position relationship between the internal components of the trigger component 6 according to the relative position change of the sliding plate 4 and the sand inlet 3 is described as follows:
when the sliding plate 4 is positioned right below the sand inlet 3 (as shown in fig. 3 (a)), the sand inlet 3 is closed, the forward trigger block 7 is positioned at the upstream of the sliding plate 4, the reverse trigger block 27 is longitudinally positioned at the center of the sand inlet, the driving ball 5 enters the bell-mouth 15 of the positioning block 14, the telescopic rod 17 extends towards the direction close to the side wall 21 under the action of the pressure spring 18, but the transverse outer section 17-3 of the telescopic rod abuts against the transverse middle section 14-2 of the T-shaped groove of the positioning block 14 and does not extend outwards continuously; the cylindrical hole 20 in the middle of the telescopic rod 17 and the cylindrical hole 16 in the middle of the positioning block 14 are transversely staggered (the dislocation width is 0.002B4 in the embodiment), the driving ball 5 is clamped, and the sliding plate 4 is pulled in the upstream direction under the action of the traction steel cable 8;
when the sliding plate 4 leaves the sand inlet 3 and is about to be fully opened (as shown in fig. 3 (b)), the outer end roller 19 of the telescopic rod 17 starts to contact the positive trigger block 7, the telescopic rod 17 is gradually retracted and pushes back the pressure spring 18 under the extrusion of the inclined surface of the positive trigger block 7, when the cylindrical hole 20 in the middle of the telescopic rod 17 is aligned with the cylindrical hole 16 of the positioning block 14, the driving ball 5 enters the cylindrical hole 20 (in the embodiment, the gradient of the inclined surface of the forward trigger block 7 is 2:1, the length from the roller 19 at the outer end part of the telescopic rod 17 to the contact of the forward trigger block 7 to the alignment of the cylindrical hole 20 in the middle part of the telescopic rod 17 and the cylindrical hole 16 of the positioning block 14 is 0.004B4), the sliding plate 4 stays at the full-open position of the sand inlet 3, the sand inlet discharges sand (see the position B in figure 1; the sand inlet at the position A finishes discharging sand, a sand discharging funnel is formed at the top, and the sliding plate 4 at the position is reset to the closed position); the pull cable 8 pulls the drive ball 5 to move the next slide 4.
The sliding plate resetting device comprises a plurality of linkage ropes positioned at two sides of the sliding plate and fixed pulleys 22 (shown in figures 2(a) and (b)) which are matched with each linkage rope and fixed at the bottom of the sand conveying gallery cover plate; wherein, two ends of each linkage rope are respectively fixed on two adjacent sliding plates after passing around the fixed pulley 22, and the fixed pulley 22 is positioned at the downstream oblique side of the sand inlet and is 0.5L4 away from the downstream end of the sand inlet; when two adjacent sliding plates are positioned right below the sand inlet to close the two sand inlets, the linkage rope fixed between the two sliding plates is in a loose state.
Fig. 4 illustrates the process of pulling the slide 4 back to the sand inlet 3 closed with the linkage rope:
the linkage ropes 23 are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the slide 4, and only one side is schematically shown, and the other side is not schematically shown. The initial working condition of the device is that all sand inlets 3 of the sand conveying gallery 1 are sealed by sliding plates 4, the driving balls 5 are positioned below the downstream (the left side of a figure 4 (a)) of the first sand inlet 3-1 in front of the reservoir dam, and the driving balls 5 on the two sides are strictly parallel; when the sand discharge is started, the outlet Valve is opened, the winch 10 is started, the traction steel cable 8 pulls the driving ball 5 to move upstream (the right side of the figure 4 (a)), the driving ball 5 is clamped when the first sliding plate 4-1 is reached, the sliding plate 4-1 is pulled to gradually open the sand inlet 3-1, and meanwhile, the linkage rope 23-1 is pulled and the linkage rope 23-2 is pulled tightly by bypassing the fixed pulley 22; when the sliding plate 4-1 reaches the full-open position of the sand inlet 3-1, the linkage rope 23 is also just straightened, the driving ball 5 just passes through the cylindrical hole 20 of the telescopic rod 17 to continue to move, and the sliding plate 4-1 is left at the full-open position of the sand inlet 3-1, as shown in fig. 4 (a); the traction steel cable 8 pulls the driving ball 5 to continuously move upstream, reaches the second sliding plate 4-2 and pulls open the second sliding plate, and the linkage rope 24-1 is synchronously elongated and the linkage rope 24-2 is tensioned; because the first group of linkage ropes 23 are tensioned, when the second sliding plate 4-2 moves upstream, because the length of each linkage rope is unchanged, the linkage ropes 23 are pulled anticlockwise to pull the first sliding plate 4-1 back to the position for closing the first sand inlet 3-1, and the telescopic rod is in an outward extending state under the action of the pressure spring 18, as shown in fig. 4 (b); continuing the same operation, the sand inlet 3-3 is opened, the slide plate 4-2 is pulled back to the position closing the sand inlet 3-2, the linkage rope 23 is restored to the slack state, and the linkage rope 25 is pulled tight, as shown in fig. 4 (c).
The driving ball 5 is pulled by the traction steel cable 8 to move towards the upstream direction of the reservoir, the sand inlets 3 are opened in sequence, only one sand inlet 3 is kept to be opened for sand discharge all the time, and the rest sand inlets 3 are reset and closed under the action of reverse pulling of the linkage rope, so that the key problem that the sand inlets 3 at the far end of the common sand conveying gallery 1 are silted up is solved.
When the driving ball 5 reaches the upstream end of the sand conveying gallery 1 and opens the farthest sand inlet 4, the driving ball 5 passes through the triggering component of the farthest sliding plate 4; a pressure spring 28 (shown in figure 1) is arranged in the lower middle of the upstream end cover plate 2 of the sand conveying gallery 1, and after the triggering component releases the driving ball 5, the pressure spring 28 pushes the sliding plate 4 backwards a small distance, so that the rod end roller of the telescopic rod 17 is separated from the forward triggering block 7, and the telescopic rod 17 returns to an extended state; the winch 10 runs reversely to pull back the driving ball 5, after the driving ball 5 is clamped by the triggering component of the sliding plate 4 at the upstream end of the sand conveying gallery, the sliding plate is pulled back to the position right below the sand inlet 3 at the upstream end of the sand conveying gallery, the reverse triggering block 27 squeezes the telescopic rod 17 at the same time to release the driving ball 5, the sliding plate 4 at the upstream end of the sand conveying gallery stays at the position right below the sand inlet 3 at the upstream end to seal the sliding plate, and the driving ball 5 is pulled further downstream, because the sliding plate 4 is reset, the telescopic rod 17 extends outwards, the cylindrical hole 20 in the middle of the telescopic rod 20 is staggered with the cylindrical hole 16 of the positioning block 14, the driving ball 5 is clamped when being pulled back to the central position of the sand inlet 3, the roller 19 at the outer side end of the telescopic rod 17 also contacts the reverse triggering block 27, the telescopic rod 17 is gradually retracted under the squeezing of the inclined surface of the reverse triggering block 27, when the cylindrical hole 20 in the, the drive balls 5 continue to move downstream through the trigger member and the slide 4 stays further downstream (0.004B4) from the sand inlet 3, and since the slide 4 is 1.2 times longer than the sand inlet 3 (B4-1.2B 3), the further downstream (0.004B4) can also completely close off its corresponding sand inlet 3. The driving balls 5 pass through the triggering components of each sliding plate one by one, and the driving balls 5 finally return to the position in front of the dam to wait for next sand discharge.
The sand discharging time of each sand inlet 3 is determined by the sand discharging effect, and when the sediment deposited above the sand inlet 3 is basically discharged and the sand content of the sand discharging water flow is obviously reduced, the sand is discharged to the next sand inlet 3. The sand discharging time of each sand inlet 3 is approximately the moving time of the driving ball 5 between the two sand inlets 3, and the speed of the winch 10 can be adjusted for control; if the sand discharging time required by a single sand inlet 3 is longer, the driving ball 5 can stay for a certain time when being positioned between two sand inlets 3.
In the embodiment, the upper opening clear width B1 of the sand conveying gallery 1 (figure 2) is 1.6m, the height of the rectangle is 0.7m, the height of the trapezoid is 1.0m, the bottom width is 0.6m, and the water passing area is 2.22m2The flow rate in the sand conveying gallery is 2.50m/s, and the sand discharge flow rate is 5.55m3And/s, the width B3 of the sand inlet 3 is 0.86B1 to 1.38m, the length L3 is 1.6m, and the inlet area of the sand inlet 3 is 2.20m2From this, the size of the slide 4 can be calculated, the width B4 being 1.1B3 being 1.52m and the length L4 being 1.2L3 being 1.92 m. The distance between every two sand inlets 3 is 20m,50 sand inlets are arranged, so that sediment deposited in the range of 1000m in the reservoir can be removed.
The device is suitable for long-strip-shaped reservoirs. If the sand discharge device is synchronously built on the surface of the reservoir bed during reservoir construction, when the thickness of the silt with the designed dead reservoir capacity is 20m, the underwater dynamic angle of repose of the silt is 30 degrees, and the sand is timely discharged at a certain deposition thickness, the effective width of the sand discharge can be maintained at about 70 m.
For a large reservoir, a plurality of independent devices can be arranged in front of a dam, for example, 3 sand washing holes are built in an underground power plant at the right bank of the three gorges, and an inlet gate of the sand washing hole can be used as an outlet gate of the device, so that the aim of continuing sand washing to the depth in the reservoir is fulfilled.