CN207339203U - The anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line - Google Patents

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CN207339203U
CN207339203U CN201721012952.0U CN201721012952U CN207339203U CN 207339203 U CN207339203 U CN 207339203U CN 201721012952 U CN201721012952 U CN 201721012952U CN 207339203 U CN207339203 U CN 207339203U
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石玉龙
张誉文
卢艳萍
李凡
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The utility model discloses a kind of anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line, including babinet, the bottom of box is equipped with jack, and jack base is connected with pedal, and mandril is supported by sliding block upwards upwardly through backing plate, and sliding block is slidably connected with cabinet wall in circumferential direction;Lower box is equipped with the opening for user's foot pedals at pedal;Sliding block is supported by de-icer boot storage rack upwards, and de-icer boot storage rack is equipped with de-icer boot.The utility model is simple in structure, easy to de-icer boot of storing and take, and easy to be promoted to transmission line of electricity by lifting device, is highly convenient for the anti-icing improvement project of transmission line of electricity.

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The anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line
Technical field
It the utility model is related to power supply technique field, more particularly to a kind of anti-icing transformation device of anti-icing transmission line of electricity.
Background technology
The normal operation of modern society be unable to do without the regular supply of electric power.In the winter time, since temperature is low, in sleet etc. Under weather condition, icing phenomenon easily occurs on transmission line of electricity.Transmission line of electricity, especially ultra-high-tension power transmission line, power supply distance length, The capacity of transmission of electricity is big, once breaking down, it will the electricity consumption entity and individual to downstream cause the huge economic loss of total amount.Such as There occurs the accident of tower and broken string, use of this accident to downstream for the 500KV extra high voltage networks of Central China Power Grid in 2005 Economic loss caused by electric unit has exceeded 10,000,000 yuan.Through looking into, the main reason for this accident is exactly the icing of transmission line of electricity Thickness exceedes caused by the ice covering thickness that design allows.Certainly, except this extreme case of the broken string of falling tower, powerline ice-covering Harm is also possible to show overload, uneven icing or the same period does not deice, ice coating wire is waved, insulator rupture etc..
In modern industrial production, many large electricity consumers such as electrolysis aluminum production enterprises, according to the scale of production, a blowing out Accident will cause few then million, at most 10,000,000 economic loss.Therefore, it is modern society that transmission line of electricity, which stablizes supply electric power, The fundamental importance that can be run well, Anti-icing of Transmission Lines become a research topic with extremely strong realistic meaning.
At present, the research direction of international and national, is gathered on clearing ice technology, is roughly divided into following several classes:
1st, natural external force deicing.This is clearing ice technology most simple and practicable and most ripe at present.The technology mainly utilizes The natural external forces such as strong wind and difference variation in nature remove powerline ice-covering;This is most simple and practicable and most ripe at present Clearing ice technology.
2nd, mechanical deicing.Mechanical deicing is that icing is directly rooted out by machinery, mainly includes electromagnetic pulse deicing, slides Shovel scrapes three kinds of modes of deicing and artificial deicing.These de-icing methods are more ripe, but removing rate is low, affected by environment big.Electromagnetism The repulsion that pulse de-icer makes full use of the magnetic field of vortex to be produced with coil magnetic field sensing expands conducting wire, after current impulse disappearance The principle of wire contraction, make the icing of conductive line surfaces after conducting wire expansion and contraction repeatedly spalling and drop.Shovel is slided to strike off Ice is the impulsive force that the impulsive discharge electric current of capacitor is converted to executing agency by the pulsed magnetic field that coil produces, and then will The icing of conductive line surfaces hits to split and drops.
3. heat ice-melting method.Heating ice-melting method is to utilize the transmission electric current more than normal current density to pass through transmission line of electricity Caused Joule heat melts the icing of conducting wire, and extreme case is short-circuit ice-melt.Mainly use alternating current and direct current at present Two kinds of heating de-icing technologies of electric current, the dielectric loss de-icing technology produced using high-frequency and high-voltage excitation also have small range of answer With.2011, by the research team of Hunan University Wang Yao south institute band and Hunan electric power system Testing & Research Institute, National University of Defense technology etc. The scientific achievement that multiple mechanisms combine " the new ice-melt of transmission line of electricity, clearing ice technology and the device " that undertakes and complete is melted in power transmission line Ice played an important role in field.Their newest advanced DC de-icing devices developed, in a plurality of 220 kV DC ice melting is successfully realized on transmission line of electricity.
These existing achievements in research, are of great significance for removing ice of power transmission line, but these researchs all only will Research direction has been placed on " deicing after icing ", how not to prevent the correlative study of powerline ice-covering still at present.
Utility model content
The purpose of this utility model is to provide a kind of supply lines that can be used in carrying out transmission line of electricity ice-covering-proof transformation The anti-freeze transformation unit in road.
To achieve the above object, the anti-freeze transformation unit of the supply line of the utility model includes the babinet of top opening, Babinet is 1.2-1.5 meters high, and the bottom of box is equipped with jack, and jack includes base and mandril, and base is connected with pedal, mandril Stretch out base upwards, mandril is fixedly connected with backing plate upwards, and backing plate is supported by sliding block upwards, sliding block in circumferential direction with babinet Inner wall is slidably connected;Lower box is equipped with the opening for user's foot pedals at pedal;Sliding block is supported by anti-icing upwards Cover storage rack, de-icer boot storage rack are equipped with de-icer boot;
De-icer boot includes the semi-circular tube of the tempered glass of section semicircular in shape, the internal diameter of semi-circular tube and transmission of electricity to be rebuilt The outer radial adaptation of circuit;Two base of semi-circular tube is respectively diagonally downward to the left protective plate and tempering for being externally connected with tempered glass The right protective plate of glass system, the inner surface of left protective plate are equipped with left link, and the inner surface of right protective plate is equipped with right link;
Radially protrusion has some axial projections and radial protrusion to the semi-circular tube, and axial projection and radial protrusion enclose Into some anti-icing card slots, upper anti-icing card slot is uniformly distributed on the outer surface of semi-circular tube, is arranged with upper anti-icing card slot anti-icing Agent block;
On the left protective plate and right protective plate respectively to be externally provided with it is some under anti-icing card slot, under anti-icing card slot in left protection Be uniformly distributed on the outer surface of plate and right protective plate, under be arranged with anti-freezing agent block in anti-icing card slot;
De-icer boot storage rack includes some cross bars for being used to support de-icer boot arranged in arrays, and each column is positioned at same vertical Linked together by vertical link between the end of the cross bar in face, be connected between each vertical link by some waling stripes Together, parallel interval is set each waling stripe in the up-down direction, and a de-icer boot is linked with each cross bar;
Flexible band is stacked on the sliding block of de-icer boot storage rack side, the both ends of elastic webbing are respectively equipped with left hook and right extension Hook, the length under elastic webbing diastole state are less than the air line distance between left link and right link.
The left link and right link be equipped with respectively along the length direction uniform intervals of left protective plate and right protective plate it is multigroup, One elastic webbing of hook joint is distinguished on every group of left link and right link.
Two adjacent anti-icing cards are connected with being respectively equipped with radial protrusion in axial projection at the upper anti-icing card slot The permeable through hole of groove, the top of the permeable through hole is located at axial projection and the top of radial protrusion and its bottom is positioned at axial convex Play the bottom with radial protrusion;Present the back taper of thick lower point in the bottom section of the left protective plate and right protective plate.
The undermost waling stripe and vertical link are connected with supporting leg separately down, and supporting leg is supported on the sliding block On;When the mandril of the jack is located at upper extreme position, the top of the superiors' de-icer boot is higher than 1.5-1.7 meters of babinet bottom wall.
The utility model is simple in structure, easy to de-icer boot of storing and take, and easy to be promoted to power transmission line by lifting device At road, the anti-icing improvement project of transmission line of electricity is highly convenient for.
In work, operating personnel can control the height of de-icer boot storage rack conveniently by pedal, at utmost local Just de-icer boot is fetched.Babinet is 1.2-1.5 meters high, is adapted to the height of majority, takes easy to the people of normal height out of babinet thing Product.
The water of thawing is flowed downward by the semi-circular tube, left protective plate and right protective plate of de-icer boot, finally by left protective plate and The bottom of right protective plate flows down.Since left protective plate and right protective plate are respectively along two base of semi-circular tube respectively diagonally downward to peripheral hardware Put, and the back taper of thick lower point is presented in the bottom section of left protective plate and right protective plate, therefore water can be by reverse taper portion Flowed down at tip, without going past being adsorbed onto after left protective plate and right protective plate on transmission line of electricity again, further prevent water loading and exist Freeze the possibility of attachment on transmission line of electricity.
There is certain corrosivity, installation site after melting by larger current, anti-freezing agent regularly in transmission line of electricity Also require the protective device of transmission line of electricity that there is higher intensity exposed to outdoor.Semi-circular tube, left protective plate and right protective plate are equal It is made of tempered glass, it is good insulation preformance, corrosion-resistant and there is higher intensity, it is very suitable for Anti-icing of Transmission Lines use.
Length under elastic webbing diastole state is less than the air line distance between left link and right link, so that elastic webbing exists It can be stretched when pushing down transmission line of electricity, semi-circular tube and elastic webbing is compressed transmission line of electricity.
Left link and right link be equipped with respectively along the length direction uniform intervals of left protective plate and right protective plate it is multigroup, every group One elastic webbing of hook joint is distinguished on left link and right link.In this way, a de-icer boot can be fixed by a plurality of elastic webbing, make to prevent Ice cover is combined more firm with transmission line of electricity, because of factors such as vibrations de-icer boot will not be caused to be rotated relative to transmission line of electricity.
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Fig. 1 is structure diagram when the utility model is used;
Fig. 2 is the schematic cross-section using the improved transmission line of electricity of the utility model;
Fig. 3 is the schematic cross-section of axial projection and radial protrusion;
Fig. 4 is the structure diagram of elastic webbing;
Fig. 5 is the schematic top plan view of semi-circular tube in Fig. 2;
Fig. 6 is the structure diagram of de-icer boot storage rack;
Fig. 7 is the left view schematic diagram of Fig. 6.
To make simplified form easy to read, upper anti-icing card slot anti-icing card slot with not shown in Fig. 7.In Fig. 2, upper anti-icing card The position of groove 12 and the position of radial protrusion 11 coincide, and do not indicate the position of anti-icing card slot 12 individually in Fig. 1.
Embodiment
As shown in Figures 1 to 7, the anti-freeze transformation unit of the supply line of the utility model includes the babinet of top opening 31,31 high 1.2-1.5 meters of babinet, 31 bottom of babinet is equipped with jack, and jack includes base 32 and mandril 33, and base 32 connects Pedal 34 is connected to, mandril 33 stretches out base 32 upwards, and mandril 33 is fixedly connected with backing plate 35 upwards, and backing plate 35 is supported by cunning upwards Block 36, sliding block 36 are slidably connected with 31 inner wall of babinet in circumferential direction;31 lower part of babinet is equipped with pedal 34 to be used to use The opening 37 of person's foot pedals 34;Sliding block 36 is supported by de-icer boot storage rack upwards;De-icer boot storage rack is equipped with de-icer boot;Thousand Jin top is conventional structure, and concrete structure is no longer described in detail.
The semi-circular tube 2 of the tempered glass of de-icer boot including section semicircular in shape, the internal diameter of semi-circular tube 2 with it is to be rebuilt defeated The outer radial adaptation of electric line 3;2 liang of bases of semi-circular tube are respectively diagonally downward to the left protective plate 4 for being externally connected with tempered glass With the right protective plate 5 of tempered glass, the inner surface of left protective plate 4 is equipped with left link 6, is set on the inner surface of right protective plate 5 There is right link 7;
Radially protrusion has some axial projections 10 and radial protrusion 11, axial projection 10 and footpath to the semi-circular tube 2 Some anti-icing card slots 12 are surrounded to protrusion 11, upper anti-icing card slot 12 is uniformly distributed on the outer surface of semi-circular tube 2, upper anti-icing card Anti-freezing agent block is arranged with groove 12;
On the left protective plate 4 and right protective plate 5 respectively to be externally provided with it is some under anti-icing card slot 13, under anti-icing card slot 13 exist Be uniformly distributed on the outer surface of left protective plate 4 and right protective plate 5, under be arranged with anti-freezing agent block in anti-icing card slot 13;To make drawing Clearly, anti-freezing agent block not shown in figure.
De-icer boot storage rack includes some cross bars 38 for being used to support de-icer boot arranged in arrays, and each column is positioned at same perpendicular Linked together between the end for the cross bar 38 faced directly by vertical link 39, between each vertical link 39 by some levels even Bar 40 links together, and parallel interval is set each waling stripe 40 in the up-down direction, and one is linked with each cross bar 38 and is prevented Ice cover.
Flexible band 1 is stacked on the sliding block 36 of de-icer boot storage rack side, the both ends of elastic webbing 1 are respectively equipped with left hook 8 With right hook 9, the length under 1 diastole state of elastic webbing is less than the air line distance between left link 6 and right link 7.
The undermost waling stripe 40 and vertical link 39 are connected with supporting leg 41 separately down, and supporting leg 41 is supported on institute State on sliding block 36;When the mandril 33 of the jack is located at upper extreme position, the top of the superiors' de-icer boot is higher than 31 bottom of babinet 1.5-1.7 meters of wall.In this way, the staff in the range of normal height, can control de-icer boot storage rack by pedal 34 The height for being raised to proper operation is acted, is easy to use.
The left link 6 and right link 7 are equipped with along the length direction uniform intervals of left protective plate 4 and right protective plate 5 respectively It is multigroup, one elastic webbing 1 of hook joint is distinguished on every group of left link 6 and right link 7.
In this way, to transmission line of electricity 3 transform after, a de-icer boot can be fixed by a plurality of elastic webbing 1, make de-icer boot with Transmission line of electricity 3 combines more firm, because of factors such as vibrations de-icer boot will not be caused to be rotated relative to transmission line of electricity 3.It is described anti- Ice agent block is villaumite or Lu Limei;The villaumite is sodium chloride or calcium chloride or magnesium chloride.
In axial projection 10 at the upper anti-icing card slot 12 be respectively equipped with radial protrusion 11 connect two it is adjacent on The permeable through hole 14 of anti-icing card slot 12, the top of the permeable through hole 14 be located at the top of axial projection 10 and radial protrusion 11 and Its bottom is located at the bottom of axial projection 10 and radial protrusion 11;The bottom section of the left protective plate 4 and right protective plate 5 is in The back taper of upper thick lower point.
In use, the utility model is promoted at transmission line of electricity 3 to be onstructed using equipment such as hoist engine or cranes; Then operating personnel picks up the de-icer boot of de-icer boot storage rack top, and be open 37 is suspended on transmission line of electricity 3 downward, then Operating personnel takes out elastic webbing 1 from sliding block 36, and the left hook 8 of elastic webbing 1 is suspended to the left link 6 of the above-mentioned de-icer boot of this step On, the right hook 9 of elastic webbing 1 is suspended on the right link 7 of the above-mentioned de-icer boot of this step, so that the de-icer boot is fixed on transmission of electricity On circuit 3;One elastic webbing 1 is installed between each group of left link 6 and right link 7 of the de-icer boot, completes the de-icer boot Installment work;
Repeat above-mentioned installation process along the length direction of transmission line of electricity 3, installed successively on transmission line of electricity 3 anti-icing Cover, and make to be fitted close between adjacent de-icer boot;After de-icer boot is filled on power transmission line section to be onstructed, that is, complete transformation work Make.
The improved anti-icing transmission line of electricity of the utility model, 3 body of transmission line of electricity are covered by de-icer boot, run into rain in the winter time During snowy day gas, rain or snow can only fall on de-icer boot.Upper anti-icing card slot 12 on de-icer boot blocks what is set with in anti-icing card slot 13 Anti-freezing agent block is contacted with sleet, and the solidification point of water reduces(Subzero 20 DEG C or so would generally be reduced to).Due to for ice and snow, Actually the process melted and solidified constantly occurs for its surface, because melting equal with the speed solidified(The speed of thawing does not have Have more than the speed of solidification), therefore general performance is solid-state.In this way, after solidification point declines, the speed of ice dissolution will exceed The speed of solidification, even if what is contacted with anti-freezing agent block is solid ice and snow, it also can gradually melt, and melt the water of part along anti- When ice cover flows downward, solid portion thereon can be driven to come off in the lump, so that ice and snow can not adhere to, accumulate in de-icer boot On, play actively anti-icing effect.
When running into ice and snow weather through the improved transmission line of electricity 3 of the utility model, the water of thawing by de-icer boot semi-circular tube 2nd, left protective plate 4 and right protective plate 5 flow downward, and are finally flowed down by the bottom of left protective plate 4 and right protective plate 5.Since a left side is anti- Backplate 4 and right protective plate 5 are outwards set diagonally downward respectively along 2 liang of bases of semi-circular tube respectively, and left protective plate 4 and right protective plate The back taper of thick lower point is presented in 5 bottom section, therefore water can be flowed down by the tip of reverse taper portion, anti-without going past a left side It is adsorbed onto again on transmission line of electricity 3 after backplate 4 and right protective plate 5, further prevents water loading and freeze what is adhered on transmission line of electricity 3 Possibility.
Above example is only to illustrative and not limiting the technical solution of the utility model, although with reference to above-described embodiment pair The utility model is described in detail, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that:Still can to the utility model into Row modification or equivalent substitution, without departing from any modification or partial replacement of the spirit and scope of the utility model, it should all Cover among the right of the utility model.

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1. the anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line, includes the babinet of top opening, babinet is 1.2-1.5 meters high, and the bottom of box is equipped with Jack, jack include base and mandril, and base is connected with pedal, and mandril stretches out base upwards, and mandril is fixedly connected upwards There is backing plate, backing plate is supported by sliding block upwards, and sliding block is slidably connected with cabinet wall in circumferential direction;Lower box is at pedal Equipped with the opening for user's foot pedals;Sliding block is supported by de-icer boot storage rack upwards, and de-icer boot storage rack is equipped with anti- Ice cover;
De-icer boot includes the semi-circular tube of the tempered glass of section semicircular in shape, the internal diameter of semi-circular tube and transmission line of electricity to be rebuilt Outer radial adaptation;Two base of semi-circular tube is respectively diagonally downward to the left protective plate and tempered glass for being externally connected with tempered glass The right protective plate of system, the inner surface of left protective plate are equipped with left link, and the inner surface of right protective plate is equipped with right link;
Radially protrusion has some axial projections and radial protrusion to the semi-circular tube, if axial projection and radial protrusion surround Dry anti-icing card slot, upper anti-icing card slot are uniformly distributed on the outer surface of semi-circular tube, and anti-freezing agent block is arranged with upper anti-icing card slot;
On the left protective plate and right protective plate respectively to be externally provided with it is some under anti-icing card slot, under anti-icing card slot in left protective plate and Be uniformly distributed on the outer surface of right protective plate, under be arranged with anti-freezing agent block in anti-icing card slot;
De-icer boot storage rack includes some cross bars for being used to support de-icer boot arranged in arrays, and each column is located at same vertical plane Linked together between the end of cross bar by vertical link, one is connected to by some waling stripes between each vertical link Rise, parallel interval is set each waling stripe in the up-down direction, and a de-icer boot is linked with each cross bar.
2. the anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:
Flexible band is stacked on the sliding block of de-icer boot storage rack side, the both ends of elastic webbing are respectively equipped with left hook and right hook, Length under elastic webbing diastole state is less than the air line distance between left link and right link.
3. the anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line according to claim 1 or 2, it is characterised in that:The left link and the right side Link be equipped with respectively along the length direction uniform intervals of left protective plate and right protective plate it is multigroup, on every group of left link and right link point Other one elastic webbing of hook joint.
4. the anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line according to claim 3, it is characterised in that:At the upper anti-icing card slot In axial projection with the permeable through hole that connects two adjacent anti-icing card slots is respectively equipped with radial protrusion, the permeable through hole Top is located at axial projection and the top of radial protrusion and its bottom and is located at the bottom of axial projection and radial protrusion;It is described left anti- Present the back taper of thick lower point in the bottom section of backplate and right protective plate.
5. the anti-freeze transformation unit of supply line according to claim 4, it is characterised in that:The undermost level is even Bar and vertical link are connected with supporting leg separately down, and supporting leg is supported on the sliding block;The mandril of the jack is located at upper pole During extreme position, the top of the superiors' de-icer boot is higher than 1.5-1.7 meters of babinet bottom wall.
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