CN206143135U - Dewatering system is carried to petroleum coke - Google Patents

Dewatering system is carried to petroleum coke Download PDF

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CN206143135U
CN206143135U CN201621123491.XU CN201621123491U CN206143135U CN 206143135 U CN206143135 U CN 206143135U CN 201621123491 U CN201621123491 U CN 201621123491U CN 206143135 U CN206143135 U CN 206143135U
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The utility model provides a dewatering system is carried to petroleum coke, including the coke drum, water storage device, dewatering device and settling basin, coke drum bottom valve below has connect the breaker, the burnt groove of breaker export warp swift current is connected to mixed buffer tank, be equipped with agitating unit in the mixed buffer tank, the export that mixes the buffer tank below is connected to dewatering device through pipeline, the piston advancing mechanism that with pipeline meet is equipped with in the exit, burnt water mixed slurry flows from the export that mixes the buffer tank when piston advancing mechanism retreats, and impel to dewatering device along pipeline when the antedisplacement of piston advancing mechanism. The breaker entry corresponds in vertical direction with the coke drum export, promotes the coke whereabouts to prevent to block up. The coke breakage subtracts small -size and does benefit to and suspend in aqueous and form burnt water mixed slurry, does benefit to the coke and discharges from mixing the buffer tank under the condition that does not increase the water distribution to by piston advancing mechanism along the pipeline propelling movement to dewatering device.

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A kind of petroleum coke conveys dewatering system
Technical field
This utility model is related to a kind of delayed coking unit petroleum coke processing system, specifically a kind of delay coke makeup Put the conveying of the petroleum coke after hydraulic decoking and dewatering system.
Background technology
Delayed coking is a kind of Petroleum Processing Technology, is, with mink cell focus as raw material, to be warmed up to pyrogenetic reaction through heating furnace 500 DEG C or so of temperature, carries out pyrogenetic reaction into coke drum.Reaction produces lighter hydrocarbons and petroleum coke, under lighter hydrocarbons are entered by pipeline Trip device carries out separating, refinement treatment, and in coke drum, the petroleum coke of residual starts hydraulic decoking system after steam, water cooling Coke in coke drum is smashed discharge coke drum by system, and the coke drum of emptying is carried out next time after the process such as pressure testing, preheating Heavy oil cracking is lighter hydrocarbons and petroleum coke by oil-filled pyrogenetic reaction, such 2 coke drum circulate operations.
Hydraulic decoking is to produce water under high pressure with multi-stage centrifugal pump, sprays high-energy water jet crushing through decoking device nozzle A kind of method of coke, it, equipped with bottom valve under coke drum, is to slip burnt groove under bottom valve that current way is now, Jiao Shui during decoking Mixture by bottom valve, slip burnt groove pile up in the burnt pond, dehydration, decoking water precipitating is provided with by burnt pond and determine pond, the water in burnt pond is certainly Water purification is squeezed into by decoking water pot storage by water pump after flowing sedimentation tank clarification, the water purification devoked in water pot is used for hydraulic decoking, The crawl entrucking of coke grab bucket crane or belt feeder after being dehydrated in burnt pond transfers out device.Existing petroleum coke processing method The storage and dehydration of coke are carried out using the larger Jiao Chi of floor space, petroleum coke produces certain VOC volatilizations, and dust, Environment is had adverse effect on, the closed conveying of petroleum coke is realized and is dehydrated very necessary.
In order to solve the problems, such as VOC volatilizations and dust pollution, it is thus proposed that a kind of scheme is to reduce Jiao Chi, Jiao Shui mixing Thing is allocated into after certain water diluted again into after Jiao Chi, is delivered to by centrifugal pump in the drain sump of closing and is dehydrated.It is this Need to allocate substantial amounts of water into Jiao Chi in mode, system water consumption is big, needing again to set up a down-stream tank in system is used for The storage and sedimentation of water distribution is de- solid so that system footprint is big, and investment is high, and operation energy consumption is big, therefore the method does not obtain generally should With.It is another it has been proposed that a kind of scheme is the burnt aqueous mixtures discharged after coke drum decoking is introduced into a filter and carries out primary filter Water, the coke after drainage fall into the chain-linked conveyer of filter bottom, and are delivered to drainage bin by which and are further dehydrated.This side Formula does not need extra water distribution, but the choke flow extreme difference after preliminary drainage, filter bottom cannot automatic moving, need Multiple stage conveyer is laid along filter bottom all coke of bottom of pond could smoothly to be exported so that the induction system of equipment is extremely Complexity, builds difficulty and high cost, and is easily caused the failures such as conveyer is stuck.
Utility model content
Technical problem to be solved in the utility model is to overcome drawbacks described above, there is provided one kind can avoid dust pollution, Floor space is little, and the simple petroleum coke of device structure conveys dewatering system.
This utility model by solving the technical scheme that adopts of above-mentioned technical problem is:A kind of petroleum coke conveying dehydration system System, including for reacting the coke drum for generating coke, for storing the water storage device for devoking water, for decoking is separated from coke The dehydration device of water and the Sedimentation tank for sewage settlement treatment, the boosted pump of Sedimentation tank and lift line are connected to water storage dress Put, be additionally provided with for mixing coke and devoking the mixing surge tank of water, be connected to below the bottom valve of the coke drum for inciting somebody to action The disintegrating machine that the coke that coke drum is discharged is crushed, the burnt groove that slips of the outlet Jing closings of disintegrating machine are connected to mixing surge tank, mix Agitating device is provided with surge tank, is mixed the outlet below surge tank and dehydration device is connected to by conveyance conduit, it is slow in mixing Rush and at tank lower exit port, be provided with the piston-like movement mechanism connected with the conveyance conduit.
Each coke drum is provided with a mixing surge tank.
Two coke tower configurations, one mixing surge tank, two coke drums are connected to by each independent burnt groove that slips respectively The mixing surge tank, or slipping after burnt groove converges to a conveying road for two coke drums connection be connected to mixing surge tank.
It is provided with for opening when piston-like movement mechanism retreats, and in piston-like movement in the exit of mixing surge tank The valve that mechanism is closed when moving forward.
Described mixing surge tank top is provided with the overfall for being connected to Sedimentation tank, and drainage screen is provided with overfall.
Described agitating device is by the puddler for being horizontally set on mixing surge tank lower inside and is fixed on puddler Blade constitute.
Described agitating device is by the puddler and the blade being fixed on puddler being vertically arranged in mixing surge tank Constitute.
Described piston-like movement mechanism has a set of reciprocating piston mechanism, or is provided with more than two sets alternately fortune Capable piston mechanism.
The upper end of the mixing surge tank is connected to exhaust treatment system by gas piping.
Described slipping is connected to the flushing water pipeline for being communicated to water storage device on burnt groove, be connected to flushing water on flushing water pipeline Pump.
The beneficial effects of the utility model are:Disintegrating machine is set directly at below bottom valve so as to entrance and coke drum Outlet in the vertical direction correspondence, using coke itself gravity and decoking water percussion, promotion be deposited in disintegrating machine The coke of porch falls, to prevent blocking.After first carrying out crushing by the coke come off in coke drum by disintegrating machine, it is easy to defeated Send, coke can be avoided to slip blocking in burnt groove, suspended in water beneficial to coke further through coke size is reduced, so as in mixing Burnt water mixed slurry is mixed to form with except defocused decoking water in surge tank.Coke is fully mixed to form mixed slurry with water, has Uniformly discharge from mixing surge tank beneficial to coke is smooth in the case where water distribution is not additionally increased, and by piston-like movement machine Structure pushes to dehydration device along conveyance conduit, logical without transporting velocity or blocking conveying are reduced due to the unstable of amount of coke Road.The pollution of petroleum coke volatile ingredient and dust to environment is not only overcome using the system, and reduces equipment and take up an area face Product.The device structure that the system is adopted is relatively simple, easily constructs, is easy to be transformed in existing petroleum coke processing system, Beneficial to popularization and application.
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Fig. 1 is a kind of structural representation of embodiment of this utility model.
Labelling in figure:1st, water storage device, the 2, first coke drum, the 3, second coke drum, 4, dehydration device, 5, dehydration device goes out Material valve, 6, batcher, 7, bottom valve, 8, disintegrating machine, 9, mixing surge tank, 10, agitating device, 11, piston-like movement mechanism, 12nd, Sedimentation tank, 13, elevator pump, 14, decoking water pump, 15, flush water pump, 16, conveyance conduit, 17, dehydration return piping, 18, slow Rush tank overflow pipe, 19, lift line, 20, decoking water pipeline, 21, flushing water pipeline, 22, first slips burnt groove, and 23, second slips Jiao Groove, 24, conveying road, 25, exhaust treatment system.
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Embodiment of the present utility model is illustrated below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
Petroleum coke conveying dewatering system of the present utility model includes:For reacting the coke drum for generating coke, according to usual The mode of circulate operation of rotating at least provided with two, the first coke drum 2 as shown in Figure 1 and the second coke drum 3;Remove for storage The water storage device 1 of Jiao Shui, such as water pot, tank or the equipment with identical functions;For the dehydration for separating decoking water from coke Device 4 and the Sedimentation tank 12 for sewage settlement treatment.Dehydration device 4 and Sedimentation tank 12 can adopt routine techniquess, for example with Used as dehydration device 4, its side wall arranges outlet to tank body of the inwall equipped with drainage screen, and lower end arranges coke export.Sedimentation tank 12 One-level subsider or Multistage settling groove can be then arranged as required to.The boosted pump 13 of Sedimentation tank and lift line 19 are connected to storage Clear water after sedimentation is delivered to water storage device 1 and is recycled by water installations 1.
System of the present utility model is additionally provided with mixing surge tank 9, and the mixing surge tank 9 is used for coke drum hydraulic decoking heel row The mixing of the coke and decoking water that go out.The top of mixing surge tank 9 can arrange the overfall for being connected to Sedimentation tank, at overfall It is provided with drainage screen.The water having more when mixing 9 inlet amount of surge tank and being excessive can enter Sedimentation tank from overfall after filtering. The disintegrating machine 8 that the coke for coke drum is discharged is crushed, the outlet Jing of disintegrating machine are connected to below the bottom valve 7 of the coke drum The burnt groove that slips of closing is connected to mixing surge tank 9.As the coke that hydraulic decoking is discharged has larger granule, coke is first passed through Crusher in crushing into after fritter is easy to convey in pipeline.Disintegrating machine is set directly at below bottom valve so as to entrance and Jiao The outlet in the vertical direction correspondence of charcoal tower, using the percussion of the gravity and decoking water of coke itself, promotion is deposited in brokenly The coke of broken machine porch falls, to prevent blocking.In order to prevent slipping burnt groove blocking, can be communicated to arranging on burnt groove is slipped The flushing water pipeline 21 with flush water pump 15 of water storage device 1.When burnt groove generation blocking is slipped, flush water pump conveying water punching Wash and slip burnt groove and dredged.
The water yield generally with coke discharge coke drum is less, and coke is easily precipitated and gathered together, and causes mobility It is low, it is unfavorable for subsequent delivery.And aggregation of the coke in bottom is uneven, the coke output for being easily caused discharging opening, is unstable Fixed, output, transporting velocity was slow at least, and output surge then easily causes blocking.Therefore, before this it has been proposed that extra water distribution Mode, washes away coke and increases overall mobility ensureing smoothly to convey by substantial amounts of making up water, but this mode consumes The water yield is big, needs again to set up a down-stream tank for the storage of water distribution and settles de- solid so that system footprint is big, investment Height, operation energy consumption are big.This utility model arranges agitating device 10, the stirring to solve the technical problem in mixing surge tank Device is used to stir the decoking water that coke and coke drum after crushing are discharged.As coke is in advance through crusher in crushing, Size is easy to the flow action low suspensions such as the eddy flow caused in agitation and burnt water mixed slurry is formed in water after reducing.Form burnt After water mixed slurry, coke is dispersed in water, can keep certain mobility, in the case where additionally water distribution is not carried out Also smoothly uniformly can discharge from mixing surge tank, without transporting velocity or stifled is reduced due to the unstable of amount of coke Plug transfer passage.Outlet below mixing surge tank 9 is connected to dehydration device 4 by conveyance conduit 16, under mixing surge tank 9 Square exit is provided with the piston-like movement mechanism 11 connected with the conveyance conduit 16.The piston-like movement mechanism moves back and forth, To flow out outlet of the burnt water mixed slurry when piston-like movement mechanism retreats from mixing surge tank 9, and push away in piston type When entering the reach of mechanism 9, promoted from piston-like movement mechanism 11 and advanced to dehydration device 4 along conveyance conduit 16.
Agitating device 10 in mixing surge tank can be vertically arranged mode to adopt, it would however also be possible to employ horizontally disposed mode. During using being vertically arranged, agitating device is by the puddler and the blade being fixed on puddler being vertically arranged in mixing surge tank Constitute.It is stirred by the blade that rotarily drives of vertical puddler.During using horizontally disposed mode, as shown in figure 1, stirring dress Put and be made up of the puddler and the blade being fixed on puddler that are horizontally set on mixing surge tank lower inside.Puddler level Rotational band movable vane piece is stirred.The stirring scope of horizontal alr mode can more fully cover mixing buffering pot bottom, more Coke is desirably prevented in the localized clusters of mixing buffering pot bottom, and advantageously forms uniform Jiao's water mixed slurry and row Go out.
Described piston-like movement mechanism can arrange a set of reciprocating piston mechanism, and the piston mechanism is arranged on defeated Send in pipeline, or be arranged on and be connected in the housing of conveyance conduit, piston machine is driven using modes such as motor crank, hydraulic jacks Structure is moved, so as to the burnt water mixed slurry in being forced into conveyance conduit or housing is moved along conveyance conduit.Piston-like movement machine Structure can also arrange more than two sets piston mechanism alternate runs, wherein when a set of piston mechanism is retreated, before another piston mechanism Move, so as to continual conveying.For efficient conveying, prevent burnt water mixed slurry from flowing back into mixing surge tank.In mixing The exit of surge tank arranges valve, and the valve is opened when piston-like movement mechanism retreats, and flows out burnt water mixed slurry, and Burnt water mixed slurry is promoted to close when conveying in the reach of piston-like movement mechanism.When more than two sets piston mechanism alternate runs of setting When, valve can also relative set it is multiple, coordinate with the action of each piston mechanism.
In this utility model, each coke drum can be provided with a mixing surge tank, it is also possible to two coke tower configurations one Individual mixing surge tank, such as, shown in Fig. 1, the first coke drum 2 and the second coke drum 3 share a mixing surge tank 9.It is burnt at two During charcoal cone pulley stream cycle operation, mixing surge tank 9 is in running order all the time, improves the utilization rate of equipment.Using two coke When tower shares the mode of a mixing surge tank, two coke drums 2,3 can be connected to by each independent burnt groove that slips respectively The mixing surge tank.The burnt groove 22,23 that slips that two coke drums 2,3 connect can also be converged to into a conveying road as shown in Figure 1 Mixing surge tank is connected to after 24.
Gas piping can also be connected in the upper end of mixing surge tank 9, coke in surge tank will be mixed by gas piping and produced Raw waste gas is delivered to exhaust treatment system 25 and carries out individual processing.
Basic procedure of the present utility model is:During decoking, coke drum bottom valve 7 is opened, start disintegrating machine 8, by decoking device It is put in coke drum, starts decoking water pump 14 and devoke.Big lump coke is broken by the burnt aqueous mixtures Jing disintegrating machines 8 discharged from coke drum It is broken, then mixing surge tank 9 is entered by slipping burnt groove.Agitating device 10 in mixing surge tank 9 stirs burnt aqueous mixtures, bottom Piston-like movement mechanism 11 burnt aqueous mixtures be transported to into dehydration device 4 be dehydrated.After opening dehydration device blow-off valve 5, dehydration Coke Jing batchers 6 afterwards go entrucking or belt feeder to transport out device.In mixing surge tank 9, Jing's excessive sewage overflows after filtering Head piece flow to Sedimentation tank 12, and waste gas is discharged Jing after the process of exhaust treatment system 25.Sewage in dehydration device 4 also flows after filtering To Sedimentation tank 12.The boosted pump 13 of water purification after the process of Sedimentation tank 12 lifts decoking water pot 1 and stores.When slipping burnt groove generation blocking Flush water pump 15 can be started to dredge.

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1. a kind of petroleum coke conveys dewatering system, including for reacting the coke drum for generating coke, for storing the storage for devoking water Water installations(1), for from coke separate decoking water dehydration device(4)With the Sedimentation tank for sewage settlement treatment(12), The boosted pump of Sedimentation tank(13)And lift line(19)It is connected to water storage device(1), it is characterised in that:It is additionally provided with for mixing Jiao The mixing surge tank of charcoal and decoking water(9), in the bottom valve of the coke drum(7)Lower section is connected to Jiao for coke drum is discharged The broken disintegrating machine of charcoal(8), disintegrating machine outlet Jing closing the burnt groove that slips be connected to mixing surge tank(9), in mixing surge tank It is provided with agitating device(10), mix surge tank(9)The outlet of lower section passes through conveyance conduit(16)It is connected to dehydration device(4), Mixing surge tank(9)It is provided with lower exit port and the conveyance conduit(16)The piston-like movement mechanism for connecting(11).
2. a kind of petroleum coke as claimed in claim 1 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:Each coke drum is provided with one Mixing surge tank.
3. a kind of petroleum coke as claimed in claim 1 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:Two coke drums(2、3)Configuration One mixing surge tank(9), two coke drums(2、3)The mixing surge tank is connected to by each independent burnt groove that slips respectively (9), or two coke drums(2、3)What is connected slips burnt groove(22、23)Converge to a conveying road(24)After to be connected to mixing slow Rush tank.
4. a kind of petroleum coke as claimed in claim 1 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:In mixing surge tank(9)Go out It is provided with mouthful for opening when piston-like movement mechanism retreats, and the valve closed when piston-like movement mechanism moves forward.
5. a kind of petroleum coke as claimed in claim 1 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:Described mixing surge tank(9) Top is provided with the overfall for being connected to Sedimentation tank, and drainage screen is provided with overfall.
6. a kind of petroleum coke as claimed in claim 1 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:Described agitating device is by level The puddler for being arranged on mixing surge tank lower inside and the blade being fixed on puddler are constituted.
7. a kind of petroleum coke as claimed in claim 1 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:Described agitating device is by vertical The puddler being arranged in mixing surge tank and the blade being fixed on puddler are constituted.
8. a kind of petroleum coke as described in claim 1 or 4 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:Described piston-like movement Mechanism has a set of reciprocating piston mechanism, or the piston mechanism for being provided with two sets of alternate runs.
9. a kind of petroleum coke as claimed in claim 1 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:The mixing surge tank(9)'s Upper end is connected to exhaust treatment system by gas piping(25).
10. a kind of petroleum coke as described in any one of claim 1-3 conveys dewatering system, it is characterised in that:Described slips Jiao It is connected on groove and is communicated to water storage device(1)Flushing water pipeline(21), on flushing water pipeline, it is connected to flush water pump(15).
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