CN210512457U - Sludge drying machine for sludge treatment - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a sludge drying equipment technical field just discloses a sludge drying machine for sludge treatment, including the dryer section of thick bamboo, the bottom fixedly connected with installation base of dryer section of thick bamboo, the bottom fixedly connected with supporting leg of installation base, the connecting hole has been seted up to the bottom of dryer section of thick bamboo left end, and the left side of dryer section of thick bamboo is equipped with the sludge box, and the mounting hole has been seted up to the lower right corner of sludge box. The utility model discloses a to take the rotation and establish the inside at the axis of rotation, and through type of industry post and rotation post, make the rotation post follow the axis of rotation and can carry out the rotation under the drive of taking the rotation again, the crushing effect of spliced pole to mud has been improved greatly, the quality of mud after the drying has been promoted, avoided a large amount of mud to depend on the stirring post again under the inconsistent circumstances of rotation post and axis of rotation direction simultaneously, the clearance number of times and the clearance degree of difficulty have been reduced, it can work for a long time to have guaranteed equipment, thereby the holistic rationality of equipment and reliability have been improved.
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Technical Field
The utility model relates to a sludge drying equipment technical field specifically is a sludge drying machine for sludge treatment.
Background
The sludge dryer is a device for drying sludge by heating and stirring the sludge, the dried sludge can be used for burning, making bricks, manufacturing biochemical fiberboards and being used as fertilizer, the sludge dryer not only reduces the burden of the sludge on the environment, but also changes the sludge into valuable, so the sludge dryer receives more and more attention.
When the existing sludge drying machine is used, when sludge just enters a drying cylinder, the moisture content of the sludge is large, the evaporation capacity is the largest at the moment and is the highest point of drying efficiency, but the sludge cannot be crushed at the moment, so that the contact degree of the sludge and hot air is low, the evaporation efficiency of the sludge is lower, the overall working efficiency of the equipment is reduced, when the crushing machine plays the maximum role, materials run to more than half of the drying cylinder at the moment, so that the effective space cannot be fully exerted, and a unidirectional rotation stirring mode is adopted, the maximum benefit of the contact of the sludge and the hot air cannot be achieved, the dried sludge becomes color difference, meanwhile, the sludge is easy to adhere to a stirring column, the cleaning frequency and the cleaning difficulty are increased, the equipment cannot work for a long time, and therefore the sludge drying machine for sludge treatment is provided.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a not enough to prior art, the utility model provides a sludge drying machine for sludge treatment possesses the advantage of drying efficiency height, drying quality is good and long-time work, has solved the problem mentioned among the above-mentioned background art.
The utility model provides a following technical scheme: a sludge drying machine for sludge treatment comprises a drying cylinder, wherein the bottom of the drying cylinder is fixedly connected with an installation base, the bottom of the installation base is fixedly connected with a supporting leg, the bottom of the left end of the drying cylinder is provided with a connecting hole, the left side of the drying cylinder is provided with a sludge box, the lower right corner of the sludge box is provided with an installation hole, the bottom of the sludge box is fixedly connected with a conveying belt, the conveying belt enters the inside of the drying cylinder through the installation hole and the connecting hole, the right end of the conveying belt is fixedly sleeved with an installation column, two ends of the installation column are respectively movably sleeved with an installation plate, the top end of the installation plate is movably sleeved with a movable column, the installation column is in transmission connection with the movable column through a connecting belt, the middle of the movable column is fixedly connected with a blade positioned at the inner side of the installation plate, the left end of the drying cylinder, the upper surface of heating chamber is fixed and is installed the heater, the lower right corner of drying cylinder is equipped with the discharge gate, and the upper right corner of drying cylinder is fixed and is cup jointed with exhaust duct, exhaust duct's the other end and circulating fan's middle part are fixed and are cup jointed, circulating fan fixed mounting is at unable adjustment base's upper surface, unable adjustment base and drying cylinder fixed connection, circulating fan's the upper left side is fixed and is cup jointed another exhaust duct, another exhaust duct's the other end is fixed and is cup jointed on the right side of heating chamber, the upper surface fixed mounting of installation base right-hand member has power device, power device's the outside be equipped with the guard plate of installing base fixed connection, power device's the left side is fixed and is cup jointed the axis of rotation, the other end of axis of rotation passes the inside of drying cylinder and the activity cup joints on, the middle part of the rotating column is fixedly sleeved with an I-shaped column located in the inner cavity of the rotating shaft, the rotating column is fixedly connected with a connecting column, the middle part of the I-shaped column is provided with a clamping groove, a rotating belt is movably sleeved in the clamping groove, and the other end of the rotating belt is movably connected with a power device.
And carefully selecting, wherein the opening size of the connecting hole is the same as that of the mounting hole, and the height value of the connecting hole is larger than that of the conveying belt.
And selecting, wherein the inside of the rotating shaft is hollow, and the diameter value of the inner cavity of the rotating shaft is respectively greater than the length value of the I-shaped column and the width value of the rotating belt.
Carefully selecting, the quantity of rotating post and I-shaped post is five, and rotates the post equidistance and distributes on the axis of rotation.
Carefully selecting, be equipped with eight spliced poles on the rotation post, and the inclination of spliced pole on two adjacent rotation posts is opposite.
Carefully selecting, the length value of the clamping groove is larger than the width value of the rotating belt, and the depth value of the clamping groove is larger than the thickness value of the rotating belt.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses beneficial effect below possessing.
1. The utility model discloses a to take the rotation and establish the inside at the axis of rotation, and through type of industry post and rotation post, make the rotation post follow the axis of rotation and can carry out the rotation under the drive of taking the rotation again, the crushing effect of spliced pole to mud has been improved greatly, the quality of mud after the drying has been promoted, avoided a large amount of mud to depend on the stirring post again under the inconsistent circumstances of rotation post and axis of rotation direction simultaneously, the clearance number of times and the clearance degree of difficulty have been reduced, it can work for a long time to have guaranteed equipment, thereby the holistic rationality of equipment and reliability have been improved.
2. The utility model discloses an establish the right-hand member at the conveyer belt with the blade, make receive the breakage of blade behind the mud entering drying cylinder, avoided unable broken mud to influence the contact benefit between mud and the hot-air, promoted the drying efficiency of equipment, guaranteed that effective space has obtained full play to the rationality and the feasibility of equipment have been improved.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a partial schematic view of the structure of the present invention.
In the figure: 1. a drying cylinder; 2. installing a base; 3. supporting legs; 4. connecting holes; 5. a sludge tank; 6. mounting holes; 7. a conveyor belt; 8. mounting a column; 9. mounting a plate; 10. a movable post; 11. a connecting belt; 12. a blade; 13. an air inlet pipeline; 14. a heating chamber; 15. a heater; 16. a discharge port; 17. an exhaust duct; 18. a circulating fan; 19. a fixed base; 20. a power plant; 21. a protection plate; 22. a rotating shaft; 23. rotating the column; 24. forming a model column; 25. connecting columns; 26. a card slot; 27. the belt is rotated.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 1-2, a sludge dryer for sludge treatment comprises a drying cylinder 1, wherein the bottom of the drying cylinder 1 is fixedly connected with an installation base 2, the bottom of the installation base 2 is fixedly connected with a supporting leg 3, the bottom of the left end of the drying cylinder 1 is provided with a connecting hole 4, the opening size of the connecting hole 4 is the same as the opening size of an installation hole 6, the height value of the connecting hole 4 is larger than the height value of a conveyor belt 7, the opening size of the connecting hole 4 is the same as the opening size of the installation hole 6, and the height value of the connecting hole 4 is larger than the height value of the conveyor belt 7, so that the conveyor belt 7 can convey sludge in a sludge box 5 to the inside of the drying cylinder 1 through the installation hole 6 and the connecting hole 4, thereby preventing the sludge from entering the inside of the drying cylinder 1 due to excessive sludge conveying, preventing the sludge from spilling to pollute the surrounding of the equipment, and ensuring that the sludge conveyed on the conveyor, the rationality and the stability of the equipment are improved, the left side of the drying cylinder 1 is provided with the sludge box 5, the lower right corner of the sludge box 5 is provided with the mounting hole 6, the bottom of the sludge box 5 is fixedly connected with the conveyor belt 7, the conveyor belt 7 enters the inside of the drying cylinder 1 through the mounting hole 6 and the connecting hole 4, the right end of the conveyor belt 7 is fixedly sleeved with the mounting column 8, two ends of the mounting column 8 are respectively and movably sleeved with the mounting plate 9, the top end of the mounting plate 9 is movably sleeved with the movable column 10, the mounting column 8 is in transmission connection with the movable column 10 through the connecting belt 11, the middle part of the movable column 10 is fixedly connected with the blade 12 positioned on the inner side of the mounting plate 9, the left end of the drying cylinder 1 is fixedly sleeved with the air inlet pipeline 13, the other end of the air inlet pipeline 13 is fixedly connected with the heating chamber, an exhaust duct 17 is fixedly sleeved at the upper right corner of the drying cylinder 1, the other end of the exhaust duct 17 is fixedly sleeved with the middle part of a circulating fan 18, the circulating fan 18 is fixedly installed on the upper surface of a fixed base 19, the fixed base 19 is fixedly connected with the drying cylinder 1, the other end of the circulating fan 18 is fixedly sleeved with the other exhaust duct 17, the other end of the other exhaust duct 17 is fixedly sleeved on the right side of the heating chamber 14, a power device 20 is fixedly installed on the upper surface of the right end of the installation base 2, a protection plate 21 fixedly connected with the installation base 2 is arranged on the outer side of the power device 20, a rotating shaft 22 is fixedly sleeved on the left side of the power device 20, the inside of the rotating shaft 22 is hollow, the diameter value of the inner cavity of the rotating shaft 22 is respectively larger than the length value of the I-shaped column 24 and the width value of the rotating belt 27, the diameter value of the inner cavity of the rotating shaft 22 is respectively larger than, the I-shaped column 24 and the rotating belt 27 can work in the rotating shaft 22, the friction effect of the I-shaped column 24 and the rotating belt 27 on the inner wall of the rotating shaft 22 is avoided, the working efficiency of normal operation of equipment is ensured, meanwhile, the loss caused by the friction of the I-shaped column 24, the rotating belt 27 and the rotating shaft 22 is prevented, and the service life of the parts of the equipment is ensured, so that the feasibility and the reliability of the whole device are improved, the other end of the rotating shaft 22 penetrates through the inside of the drying cylinder 1 and is movably sleeved on the left side of the drying cylinder 1, the rotating column 23 is movably sleeved on the rotating shaft 22, the number of the rotating columns 23 and the I-shaped column 24 is five, the rotating columns 23 are equidistantly distributed on the rotating shaft 22, the I-shaped column 24 drives the rotating column 23 to synchronously rotate, and sludge in the drying cylinder 1 can be uniformly stirred, the sludge caking phenomenon caused by uneven stirring is avoided, the sludge crushing effect is improved, the working efficiency of normal operation of equipment is ensured, and the quality of dried sludge is improved, so that the stability of the device is improved, the middle part of the rotating column 23 is fixedly sleeved with the I-shaped column 24 positioned in the inner cavity of the rotating shaft 22, the rotating column 23 is fixedly connected with the connecting column 25, the rotating column 23 is provided with eight connecting columns 25, the inclination angles of the connecting columns 25 on two adjacent rotating columns 23 are opposite, the inclination angles of the connecting columns 25 on the rotating column 23 and the inclination angles of the connecting columns 25 on two adjacent rotating columns 23 are opposite, so that the sludge can move along with the drying cylinder 1 to the discharge port 16, meanwhile, the sludge can roll up and down under the action of the connecting columns 25, the contact area of the sludge and hot air is increased, the drying efficiency of the equipment is improved, and the effective space is fully exerted, thereby the rationality and the feasibility of equipment have been improved, draw-in groove 26 has been seted up at the middle part of I-shaped post 24, the length value of draw-in groove 26 is greater than the width value of rotating band 27, and the depth value of draw-in groove 26 is greater than the thickness value of rotating band 27, the length value through draw-in groove 26 is greater than the width value of rotating band 27 and the depth value of draw-in groove 26 is greater than the thickness value of rotating band 27, make to rotate band 27 and can stably rotate in the inside of draw-in groove 26, the skew and the obscission that take place after having avoided rotating band 27 to operate for a long time have guaranteed the stable operation of equipment, the stability and the reliability of equipment have been improved, rotating band 27 has been cup jointed in the activity of draw-.
The working principle is as follows: firstly, the equipment is started, a conveyor belt 7, a heater 15, a circulating fan 18 and a power device 20 work, the conveyor belt 7 drives a mounting column 8 to rotate, the mounting column 8 drives a movable column 10 to rotate through a connecting belt 11, finally, blades 12 are driven to rotate, simultaneously, air in a heating chamber 14 is heated by the heater 15 and then enters the inside of a drying cylinder 1 through an air inlet pipeline 13, simultaneously, air in the drying cylinder 1 enters the heating chamber 14 through an air outlet pipeline 17 under the action of the circulating fan 18 for circular heating, simultaneously, the power device 20 drives a rotating shaft 22 to rotate, the rotating shaft 22 drives a rotating column 23 to rotate, simultaneously, the power device 20 drives a rotating belt 27 to rotate, the rotating belt 27 drives the rotating column 23 to rotate through an I-shaped column 24, when the air in the drying cylinder 1 reaches a certain temperature, primarily treated sludge is put into a sludge box 5, and the sludge enters the inside of the drying cylinder 1 through a mounting hole 6 and a connecting hole 4 under the, when the sludge moves to the right end of the conveyor belt 7, the sludge contacts with hot air gushing out from the air inlet pipeline 13 under the action of the blades 12 and moves rightwards, then the connecting column 25 stirs and crushes the sludge, the sludge continues to move rightwards and upwards and downwards, and the dried sludge is discharged through the discharge hole 16 when moving to the right end of the drying cylinder 1 and collected, and the process is repeated.
It is noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Simultaneously in the utility model discloses an in the drawing, fill the pattern and just do not do any other injecions for distinguishing the picture layer.
Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that 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. The utility model provides a sludge drying machine for sludge treatment, includes a drying section of thick bamboo (1), its characterized in that: the bottom fixedly connected with installation base (2) of a drying cylinder (1), the bottom fixedly connected with supporting leg (3) of installation base (2), connecting hole (4) have been seted up to the bottom of a drying cylinder (1) left end, and the left side of a drying cylinder (1) is equipped with sludge box (5), mounting hole (6) have been seted up to the lower right corner of sludge box (5), and the bottom fixedly connected with conveyer belt (7) of sludge box (5), conveyer belt (7) enter into the inside of a drying cylinder (1) through mounting hole (6) and connecting hole (4), and the fixed erection column (8) that has cup jointed of the right-hand member of conveyer belt (7), mounting panel (9) has been cup jointed in the activity respectively at the both ends of erection column (8), movable post (10) has been cup jointed in the top activity of mounting panel (9), erection column (8) are connected with movable post (10) transmission through connecting band (11), the middle part fixedly connected with of activity post (10) is located blade (12) of mounting panel (9) inboard, the left end of drying cylinder (1) is fixed to have cup jointed intake stack (13), the other end fixedly connected with heating chamber (14) of intake stack (13), the last fixed surface of heating chamber (14) installs heater (15), the lower right corner of drying cylinder (1) is equipped with discharge gate (16), and the upper right corner of drying cylinder (1) is fixed to have cup jointed exhaust duct (17), the other end of exhaust duct (17) and the middle part fixed cup joint of circulating fan (18), circulating fan (18) fixed mounting is at the upper surface of unable adjustment base (19), unable adjustment base (19) and drying cylinder (1) fixed connection, the upper left side of circulating fan (18) is fixed to have cup jointed another exhaust duct (17), another the other end fixed cup joint of exhaust duct (17) is on the right side of heating chamber (14), the upper surface of the right end of the mounting base (2) is fixedly provided with a power device (20), a protective plate (21) fixedly connected with the mounting base (2) is arranged on the outer side of the power device (20), a rotating shaft (22) is fixedly sleeved on the left side of the power device (20), the other end of the rotating shaft (22) penetrates through the interior of the drying cylinder (1) and is movably sleeved on the left side of the drying cylinder (1), a rotating column (23) is movably sleeved on the rotating shaft (22), a model column (24) positioned in the inner cavity of the rotating shaft (22) is fixedly sleeved in the middle of the rotating column (23), a connecting column (25) is fixedly connected on the rotating column (23), a clamping groove (26) is arranged in the middle of the I-shaped column (24), a rotating belt (27) is movably sleeved in the clamping groove (26), and the other end of the rotating belt (27) is movably connected with the power device (20).
2. The sludge dryer for sludge treatment according to claim 1, wherein: the size of the opening of the connecting hole (4) is the same as that of the opening of the mounting hole (6), and the height value of the connecting hole (4) is larger than that of the conveyor belt (7).
3. The sludge dryer for sludge treatment according to claim 1, wherein: the inside of axis of rotation (22) is hollow form, and the diameter value of axis of rotation (22) inner chamber is greater than the length value of I-shaped post (24) and the width value of rotating band (27) respectively.
4. The sludge dryer for sludge treatment according to claim 1, wherein: the number of the rotating columns (23) and the number of the I-shaped columns (24) are five, and the rotating columns (23) are equidistantly distributed on the rotating shaft (22).
5. The sludge dryer for sludge treatment according to claim 1, wherein: eight connecting columns (25) are arranged on the rotating columns (23), and the inclination angles of the connecting columns (25) on two adjacent rotating columns (23) are opposite.
6. The sludge dryer for sludge treatment according to claim 1, wherein: the length value of the clamping groove (26) is larger than the width value of the rotating belt (27), and the depth value of the clamping groove (26) is larger than the thickness value of the rotating belt (27).
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