CN114768377A - Compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter, which comprises a filter container body, a water inlet, a water outlet and a mud discharge port, wherein a microporous plastic pipe is arranged at the top of an inner cavity of the filter container body in a hanging manner, plastic microporous particles are filled in the space between the microporous plastic pipe and the filter container body, the water inlet is arranged at one side of the filter container body, one end of the water inlet extends to the inside of the filter container body and is connected with an open-pore water distributor High backwashing recovery rate, small backwashing wastewater quantity, small energy consumption, simple control, compactness and small volume.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to a filter, in particular to a compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter, and belongs to the technical field of water treatment and filtration.
Background
In industrial production, there are many liquids that require filtration for solid-liquid separation, for example: the gasified black grey water of the coal water slurry is treated and recycled, suspended matters are intercepted, turbidity and the suspended matters are controlled, and solid-liquid separation is needed. Mine water treatment and recycling and zero discharge need solid-liquid separation. The solid-liquid separation is needed for acid washing liquid reflux, alkali washing liquid reflux, washing gas water recycling, slag washing water recycling and the like in the metallurgical industry. In the treatment of water body pollutants, solid-liquid separation is needed for reaction precipitation treatment such as hard removal, phosphorus removal and fluorine removal.
In the ore dressing industry, the reuse of ore dressing waste water needs solid-liquid separation, the recovery of tap water pollution discharge muddy water, the treatment of black and odorous water body needs solid-liquid separation, the solid-liquid separation needs to be used for the liquid of other industries, and for the liquid, the solid-liquid separation needs to be carried out by using a filter device, a large amount of patent medium filter devices have the problems, such as high precision, small treated water quantity, difficult backwashing due to hardened and polluted filter materials, high backwashing water consumption and energy consumption, and the like, and the filter device with better effect is needed to solve the defects.
Disclosure of Invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter to solve the problems suggested in the background art described above.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: a compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter comprises a filter container body, a water inlet, a water outlet and a mud discharge port, wherein a microporous plastic pipe is arranged at the top of an inner cavity of the filter container body in a hanging mode, plastic microporous particles are filled in the space between the microporous plastic pipe and the filter container body, the water inlet is formed in one side of the filter container body, one end of the water inlet extends into the filter container body and is connected with an opening water distributor, the bottom end of the filter container body is communicated with the mud discharge port, a forward washing water inlet is fixedly installed in one side of the mud discharge port, a backwashing water inlet is fixedly installed in the top end of the filter container body, and the top of the other side of the filter container body is communicated with the water outlet.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the microporous plastic pipe is of an S corrugated pipe structure, and the surface of the microporous plastic pipe is in a high-surface-area honeycomb through hole shape.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the plastic microporous particles are hard, uniform, randomly-shaped, full-through-hole, high-porosity particles with a volume weight.
As a preferred technical scheme of the invention, the perforated water distributor is a circular spiral inside the filter container body, a trumpet-shaped expanding guide hole is downwards formed in the inner axis of the spiral, and sewage flows in a rotating mode and sinks in a swirling mode in the trumpet-shaped expanding guide hole.
As a preferred technical scheme of the invention, the forward washing water inlet and the backwashing water inlet are controlled by an adjustable automatic program, and the basic program comprises the following steps: stopping water inflow, opening a mud valve to discharge mud, closing the mud valve, flushing with air and water and stirring, opening the mud valve to discharge mud, and closing the mud valve, flushing with air and water and stirring.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the invention relates to a compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter, which realizes large flow, high precision, high backwashing recovery rate, small backwashing wastewater quantity, small energy consumption, simple control, compactness and small volume pursuing by medium filtration requirements through the combination of double filter material filtration interception precision steps and organic mixed arrangement, a water inlet flow type down-flushing-turning-up-flow filtration mode, the adsorption and precise filtration of a dense suspended matter slag layer brought by a random particle microporous filter material, the natural gravity dispersion of the random particle microporous filter material and the friction cleaning under the strong stirring of air and water.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. a filter container body; 2. a water inlet; 3. a water outlet; 4. a sludge discharge port; 5. a water inlet for forward washing; 6. a microporous plastic tube; 7. plastic microporous particles; 8. a perforated water distributor; 9. and (5) backwashing the water inlet.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without making any creative effort based on the embodiments in the present invention, belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1, the present invention provides a technical solution of a compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter:
according to fig. 1, including filter vessel 1, water inlet 2, delivery port 3 and row mud port 4, micropore plastic tubing 6 has been arranged to the top suspension of filter vessel 1's inner chamber, the space department packing of micropore plastic tubing 6 and filter vessel 1 has plastics micropore granule 7, water inlet 2 sets up the one side at filter vessel 1, the one end of water inlet 2 extends to filter vessel 1's inside and is connected with trompil water-locator 8, filter vessel 1's bottom and row mud port 4 intercommunication, row mud port 4's one side fixed mounting has positive washing water inlet 5, filter vessel 1's top fixed mounting has backwash water inlet 9, the top and the delivery port 3 intercommunication of filter vessel 1 opposite side.
According to the figure 1, the micropore plastic pipe 6 is of an S-shaped corrugated pipe structure, the surface of the micropore plastic pipe 6 is in a high-surface-area honeycomb through hole shape, the plastic micropore particles 7 are full-through-hole high-porosity particles with uniform hardness and random diameter, the volume weight is 0.4-0.6, the perforated water distributor 8 is a circular spiral inside the filter container body 1, a horn expanding guide hole is formed downwards in the center of the spiral, sewage flows in the horn expanding guide hole in a rotating mode and sinks in a rotating mode, the forward washing water inlet 5 and the backwashing water inlet 9 are controlled by an adjustable automatic program, and the basic program comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps of stopping water inlet, opening a mud valve to discharge mud, closing the mud valve to perform air-water down-flushing stirring, opening the mud valve to discharge mud, closing the mud valve to perform air-water up-flushing stirring, enabling a water inlet flow pattern to be down-flushing, turning over, upward-flowing through and filtering water, enabling a back-flushing mud discharging mode to be water inlet stopping, bottom discharging, inlet air back-flushing strong stirring and bottom discharging, enabling the filtering speed to be as high as 100m/h, enabling the filtering precision to reach a submicron level, enabling the back-flushing water quantity to be only 3-4 times of the container water capacity, enabling the back-flushing operation with strong friction stirring to be simple, consuming time and reducing the filtering capacity to recover by percentage, and according to the water quality and water quantity processing requirements, enabling the aperture of a filtering material, the appearance style and the single processing water quantity to be flexibly designed and matched with the requirements.
When the compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter is used in a concrete mode, a water inlet 2 and a water outlet 3 can be connected with an external water pump, a forward washing water inlet 5 and a reverse washing water inlet 9, and can be further connected with a compressed air machine, the appearance of a filter container body 1 is in an upper cylinder lower cone shape or an upper square lower cone shape, a built-in filter material is a plastic microporous tube or a plastic microporous plate, the filter container body is arranged on a top pore plate of the container in a hanging and sealing mode, hard uniform-diameter random plastic microporous particles are filled in the space of the plastic microporous tube plate, a liquid inlet tube is in an inner circle square spiral shape in the container, holes are formed in the inner side of the spiral for water distribution, a water inlet flow pattern is downward flushing, turning, upward flowing through filtered water, and a reverse washing mud discharging pattern is that water inlet is stopped, bottom discharging is performed, water inlet gas is strongly stirred and bottom discharging is performed. The filtering speed of the invention is up to 100m/h, the filtering precision can reach submicron level, the backwashing water volume is only 3-4 times of the container water volume, the operation of friction stirring strong backwashing is simple, the time is short, and the filtering capability is recovered by hundreds percent. According to the requirements of water quality and water quantity treatment, the aperture, the appearance style and the single treated water quantity of the filter material can be flexibly designed to meet the requirements.
The invention realizes the large flow, high precision, high backwashing recovery rate, small backwashing wastewater quantity, small energy consumption, simple control, compactness and small volume which are pursued by medium filtration requirements by the steps combination of double filter material filtration interception precision steps and organic mixed arrangement, a water inlet flow pattern down-stroke-turning-up-flow filtration mode, dense suspended matter slag layer adsorption precision filtration brought by random particle microporous filter materials, natural gravity dispersion of the random particle microporous filter materials and friction cleaning under air-water strong stirring
In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the indicated orientations or positional relationships are based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings and are only for convenience in describing the present invention and simplifying the description, but are not intended to indicate or imply that the indicated devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.
In the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, for example, it may be fixedly attached, detachably attached, or integrated; can be mechanically or electrically connected; the terms may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate, and may be communication between two elements or interaction relationship between two elements, unless otherwise specifically limited, and the specific meaning of the terms in the present invention will be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.
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1. A compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter comprises a filter container body (1), a water inlet (2), a water outlet (3) and a sludge discharge port (4), and is characterized in that a microporous plastic pipe (6) is suspended at the top of an inner cavity of the filter container body (1), plastic microporous particles (7) are filled in the space between the microporous plastic pipe (6) and the filter container body (1), the water inlet (2) is arranged on one side of the filter container body (1), one end of the water inlet (2) extends into the filter container body (1) and is connected with an open-pore water distributor (8), the bottom end of the filter container body (1) is communicated with the sludge discharge port (4), a forward washing water inlet (5) is fixedly arranged on one side of the sludge discharge port (4), and a backwashing water inlet (9) is fixedly arranged at the top end of the filter container body (1), the top of the other side of the filter container body (1) is communicated with the water outlet (3).
2. A compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter according to claim 1 wherein: the micropore plastic pipe (6) is of an S-shaped corrugated pipe structure, and the surface of the micropore plastic pipe (6) is in a high-surface-area honeycomb through hole shape.
3. A compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter according to claim 1 wherein: the plastic microporous particles (7) are all-through-hole high-porosity particles with uniform hardness and random diameters, and the volume weight is 0.4-0.6.
4. A compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter according to claim 1 wherein: the perforated water distributor (8) is a circular spiral inside the filter container body (1), a horn expanding diversion hole is formed downwards at the axis position in the spiral, and sewage flows in a rotating mode and sinks in a swirling mode in the horn expanding diversion hole.
5. A compact high-speed solid-liquid separation filter according to claim 1 wherein: the forward washing water inlet (5) and the backwashing water inlet (9) are both controlled by an adjustable automatic program, and the basic program comprises the following steps: stopping water inflow, opening a mud valve to discharge mud, closing the mud valve, flushing with air and water and stirring, opening the mud valve to discharge mud, and closing the mud valve, flushing with air and water and stirring.
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