CN109292932B - Flocculation sediment river course system - Google Patents

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CN109292932B
CN109292932B CN201811310315.0A CN201811310315A CN109292932B CN 109292932 B CN109292932 B CN 109292932B CN 201811310315 A CN201811310315 A CN 201811310315A CN 109292932 B CN109292932 B CN 109292932B
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The invention relates to the technical field of riverway water treatment, and discloses a flocculation sediment riverway system which comprises a treatment area, wherein the treatment area comprises a water inlet end and a water outlet end, the water outlet end is provided with a flap gate, the water inlet end is provided with a dosing assembly for adding a flocculating agent into river water, the water inlet end is provided with a plurality of partition plates, the partition plates are prefabricated reinforced concrete plates, and the partition plates are in inverted T shapes; the difference between the upper end surface of the partition plate and the liquid level of the river water is not less than one sixth of the depth of the river water. The water inlet end is used for water inlet, the water outlet end is used for water outlet, the existing river channel can be adopted in the treatment area, and the flap gate is arranged at the water outlet end to control the flow velocity of water in the treatment area, so that the flocculation and sand settling are realized after the medicine is added. Flocculated flocculate is settled to between the baffle, and the baffle blocks the effect to flocculate production, reduces flocculate and is taken away by silt accumulational probability. Flocculate is piled up between the baffle, and silt is piled up in the treatment zone, reduces the probability that the river course is blockked up. And the clapboard has a blocking effect on the river water and reduces the flow velocity of the river water.

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Flocculation sediment river course system
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of riverway water treatment, in particular to a flocculation desilting riverway system.
Background
Flocculation refers to the phenomenon of making suspended particles in water or liquid gather and grow or form flocs, thereby accelerating the coagulation of particles and achieving the purpose of solid-liquid separation, and the phenomenon or operation is called flocculation.
River course water diversion gets into city in-process, needs to carry out flocculation and sediment setting to river course water and handles, and in the processing procedure, adopt usually to add the flocculating agent in water, later let the silt of river deposit in the region of the sediment setting of flocculation to reach the effect of the sediment setting of flocculation.
However, the flocculated particles are not separated from the silt in the river water, so that the flocculated particles are easily impacted by the silt and the inertia of the river water, the flocculated particles are easily taken away by the river water, and the flocculated particles and the settled silt are accumulated to easily cause the problem that the river channel is blocked.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problem that the river channel is easy to block in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a flocculation sediment river channel system which can reduce the probability of blocking the river channel.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:
a flocculation sediment riverway system comprises a treatment area, wherein the treatment area comprises a water inlet end and a water outlet end, the water outlet end is provided with a flap gate, the water inlet end is provided with a dosing assembly for adding a flocculating agent into river water, the water inlet end is provided with a plurality of partition plates, the partition plates are prefabricated reinforced concrete slabs, and the partition plates are in inverted T shapes; the difference between the upper end surface of the partition plate and the liquid level of the river water is not less than one sixth of the depth of the river water.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the end of intaking is intake, goes out water end and goes out water, and the treatment area can take current river course, sets up the flap gate at the play water end and controls the velocity of flow of the water in the treatment area to flocculation and sand setting after adding the medicine. Flocculated flocculate is settled to between the baffle, and the baffle blocks the effect to flocculate production, reduces flocculate and is taken away by silt accumulational probability. Flocculate is piled up between the baffle, and silt is piled up in the treatment zone, reduces the probability that the river course is blockked up. And the baffle can block the river water, reduce the flow velocity of the river water and improve the flocculation effect.
The invention is further provided with: the medicine feeding assembly comprises a medicine storage tank, a plurality of discharging pipes used for discharging medicine, a plurality of propelling type stirrers matched with the discharging pipes, a control center and a plurality of digital diaphragm metering pumps connected with the control center and used for controlling the medicine discharging amount of the discharging pipes.
By adopting the technical scheme, the medicament in the medicament storage tank is led out through the discharge pipe, and the control center controls the working frequency of the digital diaphragm metering pump, so that the medicament discharge amount is controlled.
The invention is further provided with: the medicine storage tank is used for storing polyaluminium chloride.
By adopting the technical scheme, the polyaluminium chloride is a novel coagulant developed in recent years, and is an inorganic high-molecular coagulant. The method has the advantages that the coagulation effect is good, and compared with aluminum sulfate, the effect is 1.25-3 times when the turbidity is low; the adaptability to the change of the temperature, turbidity, alkalinity and organic matter content of raw water is strong; the flocculating agent is formed quickly, the sedimentation speed is high, and the flocculating and sedimentation time can be shortened; the pH value of the treated water is reduced a little, the pH value adaptive range reaches 5-9, and the treatment cost is low.
The invention is further provided with: the medicine storage tank is connected with a feeding pipe and a discharging pump which is arranged on the feeding pipe and is used for guiding materials to the medicine storage tank; an electromagnetic flowmeter for metering the medicine feeding amount is arranged on the feeding pipe; the electromagnetic flowmeter is connected with the control center.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, transport the medicament through the vehicle and with the leading-in storage tank of medicament, the pump work of unloading to make the medicament lead-in to storage tank in, the electric-magnetic flow meter detects into the dose. By monitoring the medicine feeding amount and the medicine discharging amount, the medicine can be timely added into the medicine storage tank.
The invention is further provided with: the baffle of the end far away from the water inlet end is provided with a detection assembly for detecting the turbidity of river water, and the control center is coupled to the detection assembly to receive a detection signal and control the medicine output amount of the discharge pipe.
By adopting the technical scheme, the discharge amount is controlled by the control center by detecting the turbidity in the river water, so that different amounts of medicaments are output by adapting to different environments, and the effect of saving the medicaments is achieved while full flocculation is achieved. And the detection component is arranged at one end far away from the water inlet end, so that the river water is fully mixed with the medicament and flocculated, and the relation between the turbidity of the river water and the dosage is conveniently judged.
The invention is further provided with: the detection component is set as a turbidity meter.
By adopting the technical scheme, the turbidity of the river water is detected by selecting the river water as a sample, so that whether the current medicine output amount is suitable for the current river channel is judged, and the medicine output amount is automatically adjusted.
The invention is further provided with: the detection assembly comprises a mounting shell arranged between two partition plates close to the water outlet end, a spring arranged in the mounting shell along the vertical direction, a detection plate arranged above the spring, and a displacement sensor used for measuring the displacement of the detection plate.
Through adopting above-mentioned technical scheme, the flocculation thing falls in the check out plate top, and the check out plate receives the pressure of flocculation thing, and the flocculation thing volume on the check out plate is different, and the displacement volume on the check out plate vertical direction is different, through judging the pressure of flocculation thing, judges the volume of flocculation thing. Thereby automatically adjusting the medicine output amount through the control center. The control center judges the change of the turbidity of the river water according to the amount of flocs accumulated above the detection plate in a period of time.
The invention is further provided with: the control center is used for executing the following modules,
a receiving module coupled to the detecting component for receiving the detecting signal;
the processing module is used for comparing the detection signals and then outputting a variable frequency signal for controlling the variable frequency of the digital diaphragm metering pump;
and the execution module controls the frequency conversion of the digital diaphragm metering pump based on the frequency conversion signal to control the medicine output amount.
By adopting the technical scheme, the control center receives the detection signals, the processing module compares the detection signals and judges whether the medicine output amount needs to be changed, and if the medicine output amount needs to be changed, the digital diaphragm metering pump is adjusted to the corresponding frequency to control the medicine output amount by changing the output frequency conversion signal.
The invention has the following advantages:
1. the flocculate is blocked by the partition plate, so that the probability of river channel blockage is reduced;
2. the dosage is automatically controlled by detecting the turbidity of the river water, so that the applicability is strong;
3. the medicine output amount is convenient to control.
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Fig. 1 is an overall structural view of a river system;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the process of the control center;
fig. 3 is a structural diagram of a detection unit in embodiment 3.
Reference numerals: 1. a treatment zone; 2. a dosing assembly; 3. a flap gate; 4. a partition plate; 5. a medicine storage tank; 6. a discharge pipe; 7. a control center; 8. a digital diaphragm metering pump; 9. a check valve; 10. a feed pipe; 11. a discharge pump; 12. an electromagnetic flow meter; 13. a turbidity meter; 14. a connecting rod; 15. a receiving module; 16. a processing module; 17. an execution module; 18. mounting a shell; 19. a spring; 20. detecting a plate; 21. a displacement sensor; 22. mounting a plate; 23. a propeller type stirrer.
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The invention is further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Example 1, a flocculation desilting river system, as shown in fig. 1: comprises a treatment area 1, and the length of the treatment area 1 is more than 1400 meters. The treatment zone 1 comprises a water inlet end and a water outlet end. The water inlet end is provided with a dosing assembly 2 for adding a flocculating agent into river water. The water outlet end is provided with a flap gate 3, the flap gate 3 can conveniently regulate and control the water level and the flow, the durability is good, and the flap gate 3 adopts a winch to control the opening and closing degree, so that the effect of controlling the flow velocity of water is achieved. The medicine adding component 2 is used for adding a medicine into the river water, and the medicine reacts with the river water in the treatment area 1 to form flocculation and sand settling effects.
A plurality of partition plates 4 are arranged at the water inlet end, the number of the partition plates 4 is preferably ten, the partition plates 4 are prefabricated reinforced concrete slabs, and the partition plates 4 are inverted T-shaped; the distance between the partition boards 4 is more than six meters, and the difference between the upper end surface of each partition board 4 and the liquid level of the river is not less than one sixth of the depth of the river. Baffle 4 produces the effect of slowing down to the flow velocity of river on the one hand, and baffle 4 produces the flocculation thing on the other hand and blocks the effect, and the flocculation thing drops to piling up between baffle 4, and silt is piled up in treatment area 1, and then reduces the probability that the river course is blockked up.
The medicine feeding assembly 2 comprises a medicine storage tank 5, a plurality of discharge pipes 6 connected with the medicine storage tank 5 and used for discharging medicine, a plurality of push type stirrers 23 matched with the discharge pipes 6, a control center 7 and a plurality of digital diaphragm metering pumps 8 used for controlling the medicine discharging amount of the discharge pipes 6. The control center 7 is connected with the digital diaphragm metering pump 8 and is used for controlling the digital diaphragm metering pump 8. The discharging pipes 6 are all provided with electromagnetic valves to control the opening and closing of the discharging pipes 6.
The medicine storage tank 5 is connected with a feeding pipe 10 and a discharging pump 11 which is arranged on the feeding pipe 10 and is used for guiding the materials to the medicine storage tank 5. The feed pipe 10 is provided with an electromagnetic flowmeter 12 for metering the amount of the fed medicine. The electromagnetic flow meter 12 is connected with the control center 7, and the control center 7 obtains the medicine feeding amount from the electromagnetic flow meter 12; the control center 7 is connected with the discharging pump 11 and controls the opening and closing of the discharging pump 11. The feed pipe 10 is provided with an electromagnetic valve for controlling the opening and closing of the feed pipe 10. The feed pipe 10 is provided with a check valve 9 for preventing the backflow of the medicament.
The medicine storage tank 5 is used for storing polyaluminium chloride. Polyaluminium chloride is a novel coagulant developed in recent years, and is an inorganic high-molecular coagulant. The method has the advantages that the coagulation effect is good, and compared with aluminum sulfate, the effect is 1.25-3 times when the turbidity is low; the adaptability to the change of the temperature, turbidity, alkalinity and organic matter content of raw water is strong; the flocculating agent is formed quickly, the sedimentation speed is high, and the flocculating and sedimentation time can be shortened; the pH value of the treated water is reduced a little, the pH value adaptive range reaches 5-9, and the treatment cost is low.
Example 2, example 2 is proposed on the basis of example 1.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2: the baffle 4 of the end far away from the water inlet end is provided with a detection component for detecting the turbidity of river water. The control center 7 is coupled to the detection component to receive the detection signal and control the dosage of the discharge pipe 6.
The detection component is set as a turbidity meter 13, and the turbidity meter 13 outputs a detection signal. The turbidity of the river water is detected by selecting a sample, a detection signal is output to the control center 7, the control center 7 is set as a computer, and the detection signal is analyzed by the control center 7 to control the medicine output amount. When the turbidity of the river water is low, the medicine output amount of the discharge pipe 6 is reduced; when the river water turbidity is high, the medicine output quantity of the medicine output pipe is increased.
The control center 7 is used for executing a receiving module 15, a processing module 16 and an executing module 17.
The receiving module 15 is coupled to the detecting component and configured to receive the detecting signal. The control center 7 and the detection component complete signal transmission in a wired or wireless connection mode.
The processing module 16 compares the detection signals and outputs a frequency conversion signal for controlling the frequency conversion of the digital diaphragm metering pump 8. The processing module 16 compares and judges the turbidity of the river water according to the detection signal detected by the turbidity meter 13, and the processing module 16 outputs different variable frequency signals according to different turbidities of the river water.
The execution module 17 controls the digital diaphragm metering pump 8 to carry out frequency conversion based on the frequency conversion signal so as to control the medicine output quantity. The execution module 17 controls the working frequency of the digital diaphragm metering pump 8 according to the frequency conversion signal, so as to control the dosage of the discharge pipe 6.
The medicine output amount of the liquid storage tank is automatically controlled through the field river water turbidity, so that different amounts of medicines can be used according to different areas, and the effect of saving the medicines is achieved.
Embodiment 3, embodiment 3 differs from embodiment 2 in the difference of the detection components and the data processing manner of the processing module 16.
As shown in fig. 3: the detection assembly comprises a mounting shell 18 arranged between two partition plates 4 close to the water outlet end, a spring 19 arranged in the mounting shell 18 along the vertical direction, a detection plate 20 arranged above the spring 19, and a displacement sensor 21 for measuring the displacement of the detection plate 20. A seal is provided between the sensing plate 20 and the mounting housing 18 to reduce the probability of the spring 19 coming into contact with water.
The partition plate 4 is provided with an installation plate 22, the installation plate 22 is provided with a connecting rod 14 connected with the detection plate 20 in a penetrating mode, and the displacement sensor 21 is arranged on the installation plate 22 and used for detecting the displacement of the connecting rod 14 along the vertical direction. The flocs fall above the detection plate 20, the detection plate 20 receives the pressure of the flocs, the amount of the flocs on the detection plate 20 is different, the displacement amount of the detection plate 20 in the vertical direction is different, and the amount of the flocs is judged by judging the pressure of the flocs. The displacement sensor 21 outputs a detection signal.
And a processing module 16 in the control center 7 compares the detection signals and outputs a variable frequency signal for controlling the frequency conversion of the digital diaphragm metering pump 8. The turbidity in the river water is judged according to the accumulated amount of the flocculate in a period of time, so that different variable frequency signals are output to control the drug output amount.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and all technical solutions belonging to the idea of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that modifications and embellishments within the scope of the invention may occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the principle of the invention, and are considered to be within the scope of the invention.

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1. The utility model provides a flocculation sediment river course system, includes treatment area (1), treatment area (1) is including intaking end and play water end, it is provided with flap gate (3) to go out the water end, intakes the end and is provided with and is used for adding medicine subassembly (2) of flocculating agent in the river, characterized by: a plurality of partition plates (4) are arranged at the water inlet end, the partition plates (4) are prefabricated reinforced concrete slabs, and the partition plates (4) are inverted T-shaped; the difference between the upper end surface of the partition plate (4) and the liquid level of the river water is not less than one sixth of the depth of the river water;
the baffle plate (4) at one end far away from the water inlet end is provided with a detection assembly for detecting the turbidity of river water, and the control center (7) is coupled with the detection assembly to receive a detection signal and control the medicine output amount of the discharge pipe (6);
the detection assembly comprises a mounting shell (18) arranged between two partition plates (4) close to the water outlet end, a spring (19) arranged in the mounting shell (18) along the vertical direction, a detection plate (20) arranged above the spring (19), and a displacement sensor (21) used for measuring the displacement of the detection plate (20);
set up mounting panel (22) on baffle (4), wear to be equipped with connecting rod (14) of being connected with pick-up plate (20) on mounting panel (22), displacement sensor (21) set up and detect connecting rod (14) along vertical direction displacement volume on mounting panel (22).
2. The flocculation sediment riverway system of claim 1, which is characterized in that: the medicine adding assembly (2) comprises a medicine storage tank (5), a plurality of discharging pipes (6) used for discharging medicine, a plurality of propelling type stirrers (23) matched with the discharging pipes (6), a control center (7) and a plurality of digital diaphragm metering pumps (8) connected with the control center (7) and used for controlling the medicine discharging amount of the discharging pipes (6).
3. A flocculated sediment riverway system according to claim 2, wherein: the medicine storage tank (5) is used for storing polyaluminium chloride.
4. A flocculation sediment riverway system according to claim 3, wherein: the medicine storage tank (5) is connected with a feeding pipe (10) and a discharging pump (11) which is arranged on the feeding pipe (10) and is used for guiding materials to the medicine storage tank (5); an electromagnetic flowmeter (12) for metering the medicine feeding amount is arranged on the feeding pipe (10); the electromagnetic flowmeter (12) is connected with the control center (7).
5. The flocculation sediment riverway system of claim 4, wherein: the detection assembly is provided as a turbidity meter (13).
6. The flocculation sediment riverway system of claim 4, wherein: the control center (7) is used for executing the following modules,
a receiving module (15) coupled to the detecting component for receiving the detecting signal;
the processing module (16) is used for comparing the detection signals and then outputting variable frequency signals for controlling the variable frequency of the digital diaphragm metering pump (8);
and the execution module (17) controls the frequency conversion of the digital diaphragm metering pump (8) based on the frequency conversion signal to control the medicine output amount.
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