CN214307489U - Urban area air purification tower - Google Patents

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CN214307489U
CN214307489U CN202022843024.7U CN202022843024U CN214307489U CN 214307489 U CN214307489 U CN 214307489U CN 202022843024 U CN202022843024 U CN 202022843024U CN 214307489 U CN214307489 U CN 214307489U
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The utility model belongs to the technical field of air purification, in particular to an urban area air purification tower, which comprises a lower bracket, the upper side of the lower bracket is provided with a tower body, the inside of the tower body is sequentially provided with a suction part, a first purification part, a hot drying part, a cooling part, a second purification part and a tower top exhaust part, the suction part is fixedly connected with a first suction fan, the first purification part comprises a first clapboard, the first clapboard is provided with a water tank, the water tank is provided with a guide plate, the suction part is provided with an air duct, the guide plate is provided with a return duct, the guide plate is provided with a pipe network, the pipe network is provided with a water inlet pipe, the upper side of the pipe network is provided with a second suction motor, the upper side of the hot drying part is provided with an electric heating box, the cooling part is provided with an air cooler, the second purification part is provided with an active carbon adsorption layer, the active carbon adsorption layer is provided with a plurality of connecting pipes, the tower top exhaust part is provided with a main exhaust pipe, the main exhaust pipe is provided with an exhaust pipe, the outer side of the tower top exhaust part is provided with an exhaust pipe, the exhaust branch pipe is communicated with an exhaust ring pipe, and the exhaust ring pipe is provided with exhaust holes.

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Urban area air purification tower
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of air purification, concretely relates to regional air purification tower in city.
Background
In recent years, due to the emission of automobile exhaust, secondary pollution caused by factory manufacturing, pollutants caused by heating in winter, dust caused by poor movement and the like, haze is more and more serious, people cannot be seen clearly especially in some cities with high industrial levels, and the haze contains a plurality of components harmful to human bodies, so that various diseases can be induced, and the health of people is threatened.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model aims at: aims to provide an urban area air purification tower to solve the problems in the background technology.
In order to realize the technical purpose, the utility model discloses a technical scheme as follows:
a city area air purification tower comprises a lower support, wherein a tower body is arranged on the upper side of the lower support, a suction part, a first purification part, a hot drying part, a cooling part, a second purification part and a tower top exhaust part are sequentially arranged in the tower body from bottom to top, a plurality of first suction fans are fixedly connected around the inner wall of the suction part, a plurality of first air inlets corresponding to the first suction fans are arranged on the outer wall of the suction part, the first purification part comprises a first partition plate arranged between the suction part and the first purification part, a water tank is arranged on the upper side of the first partition plate, a water pump box is arranged on the right side of the water tank, a guide plate is arranged on the upper side of the water tank, the guide plate inclines from bottom to top from left to right, an air duct is arranged between the upper end of the right side of the suction part and the right end of the guide plate, a water strainer is arranged on the left side of the guide plate, and a backflow duct is arranged at the left end of the guide plate, the backflow pipeline is communicated with the water pump box, the upper side of the guide plate is provided with a pipe network which is distributed in a grid shape, a water inlet pipe is arranged between the pipe network and the water pump box, the periphery of the pipe network is provided with a plurality of liquid spraying openings, the upper side of the pipe network is provided with a plurality of second suction motors, the upper side of each second suction motor is provided with a water-proof air-permeable plate, the upper side of the hot drying part is provided with an electric heating box, the upper side and the lower side of the electric heating box are respectively provided with a high-temperature air outlet and a second air inlet, the cooling part is provided with an air cooler, the upper side and the lower side of the air cooler are respectively provided with a normal-temperature air outlet and a third air inlet, the second purifying part is provided with an activated carbon adsorption layer, the bottom of the activated carbon adsorption layer is provided with a fourth air inlet, the upper side of the activated carbon adsorption layer is provided with a plurality of connecting pipes, the tower top exhaust part is provided with a main exhaust pipe, the connecting pipes are communicated with the main exhaust pipe, and the side of the main exhaust pipe is uniformly provided with a plurality of exhaust branch exhaust pipes, the outer side of the exhaust part at the top of the tower is provided with an exhaust ring pipe surrounding the tower body, the exhaust branch pipe penetrates through the tower body and then is communicated with the exhaust ring pipe, and the exhaust ring pipe is provided with a plurality of exhaust holes.
By adopting the technical scheme of the utility model, the lower bracket can stably support the tower body, and is usually set to be 1.5-3 m during actual construction; when purifying air to be purified containing haze and smoke dust in an urban area, a purification tower can be arranged in the center of the purification area, and then corresponding purification towers are arranged at the edges of the area for construction, or rectangular diffusion, triangular diffusion and circumferential diffusion can be adopted for construction, as shown in fig. 8;
the purification flow of the purification tower is as follows:
the method comprises the following steps that external air to be purified containing haze and smoke dust is sucked from a first air inlet in the outer wall of a suction part through a first suction fan of the suction part on the lower side of a tower body, the air to be purified sucked into the suction part enters the first purification part through a vent pipeline and flows upwards, at the moment, a water pump box of the first purification part is opened, water in a water tank is pumped into a pipe network through a water inlet pipe, the water is sprayed downwards from a liquid spraying port of the pipe network to form water mist, so that the water mist is washed away in the reverse direction of the air to be purified, large particle impurities and smoke dust in the air to be purified are washed away through the water mist, the water mist falls to a guide plate and then flows through a water filter net along the inclined direction of the guide plate, the water filter net filters the impurities in the water, the filtered water repeatedly enters the water tank through a backflow pipeline, and the water is recycled;
a second suction motor above the pipe network works to suck the air purified by the first purification part into the hot drying part, moisture in the air can be preliminarily filtered out through the water-proof air-permeable plate, the air is sucked from a second air inlet by an electric heating box of the hot drying part to be heated and dried, the moisture in the air is removed again, and the high-temperature air after being heated and dried is discharged through the high-temperature air outlet;
the air cooler of the cooling part sucks high-temperature air from the third air inlet, the high-temperature air is discharged to the second purification part through the normal-temperature air outlet after being cooled to the normal temperature, the high-temperature air enters from the fourth air inlet on the lower side of the activated carbon adsorption layer and is adsorbed by activated carbon to adsorb micro particles, impurities and harmful gases in the normal-temperature air, so that the normal-temperature air is purified for the second time, the completely purified air is discharged to the main exhaust pipe through the connecting pipe and is uniformly sent to the exhaust ring pipe on the outer side of the tower body through each exhaust branch pipe, and the completely purified air is uniformly dispersed downwards from the upper end of the tower body through each exhaust hole of the exhaust ring pipe, and the operation is repeated for many times until the external air to be purified containing haze and smoke dust is completely eliminated;
the utility model discloses a large granule impurity and smoke and dust in the air that treats air-purifying can be washed away through the water smoke in first purification portion and detach, and rethread second purification portion can pass through activated carbon adsorption with small granule, impurity and harmful gas in the air of preliminary purification simultaneously and detach, make containing haze, smoke and dust and harmful gas in the air obtain effectual getting rid of, make the air obtain purifying.
Further inject, all be equipped with a plurality of bracing pieces between first baffle, electric heat box and air-cooler and the body of the tower inside. By the structure, the water tank, the electric heating box, the air cooler and the tower body are supported and fixed more stably.
Further limit, all be equipped with the mount between first suction fan and the suction portion inner wall. By the structure, the first suction fan and the inner wall of the suction part are supported and fixed more stably.
Further limiting, the liquid spraying ports are arranged on the lower side of the circumferential surface of the pipe network and are uniformly distributed along the lower side of the circumferential surface of the pipe network. With such a structure, water can be uniformly sprayed through the liquid spray opening, and the coverage area of spraying water is wider.
Further limited, the exhaust holes are arranged on the outer side surface and the lower side of the exhaust ring pipe and are circumferentially distributed along the outer side surface of the exhaust ring pipe. With such a structure, the purified air can be uniformly diffused to the periphery and the lower side through the exhaust hole.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following advantages:
1. large particle impurities and smoke dust in the air to be purified can be removed through water mist washing by the first purifying part, and meanwhile, tiny particles, impurities and harmful gases in the primarily purified air can be removed through activated carbon adsorption by the second purifying part, so that the haze, the smoke dust and the harmful gases in the air are effectively removed, and the air is purified;
2. the washed water mist falls to the guide plate and then flows through the water filter screen along the inclined direction of the guide plate, the water filter screen filters impurities in the water, and the filtered water repeatedly enters the water tank through the return pipeline, so that the water is recycled;
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The present invention can be further illustrated by the non-limiting examples given in the accompanying drawings;
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of an air purification tower for urban areas according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing an internal structure of an embodiment of an air purification tower for urban areas according to the present invention;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the structure at A in FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of the structure at B in FIG. 2;
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the internal structure of an embodiment of an air purification tower for urban areas according to the present invention;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged view of the structure at C in FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of the structure at D in FIG. 5;
fig. 8 is a schematic view of the construction and arrangement structure of an embodiment of the air purification tower for urban areas of the present invention;
the main element symbols are as follows:
the air conditioner comprises a lower support 1, a tower body 2, a suction part 3, a first suction fan 31, a first air inlet 32, an air duct 33, a first purification part 4, a first partition plate 41, a water tank 42, a water pump box 421, a guide plate 43, a water filter screen 431, a return duct 432, a pipe network 44, an inlet pipe 441, a liquid spraying port 442, a second suction motor 443, a water-stop air-permeable plate 444, a heat drying part 5, an electric heating box 51, a high-temperature air outlet 511, a second air inlet 512, a cooling part 6, an air cooler 61, a normal-temperature air outlet 611, a third air inlet 612, a second purification part 7, an activated carbon adsorption layer 71, a fourth air inlet 711, a connecting pipe 712, a tower top exhaust part 8, a main exhaust pipe 81, an exhaust branch pipe 811, an exhaust ring pipe 82, an exhaust hole 821, a support rod 91 and a fixing frame 92.
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In order to make the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions of the present invention are further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.
As shown in fig. 1-8, the utility model relates to an urban area air purification tower, which comprises a lower bracket 1, a tower body 2 is arranged on the upper side of the lower bracket 1, a suction part 3, a first purification part 4, a hot drying part 5, a cooling part 6, a second purification part 7 and a tower top exhaust part 8 are arranged in the tower body 2 from bottom to top in sequence, a plurality of first suction fans 31 are fixedly connected around the inner wall of the suction part 3, a plurality of first air inlets 32 corresponding to the first suction fans 31 are arranged on the outer wall of the suction part 3, the first purification part 4 comprises a first baffle plate 41 arranged between the suction part 3 and the first purification part 4, a water tank 42 is arranged on the upper side of the first baffle plate 41, a water pump box 421 is arranged on the right side of the water tank 42, a guide plate 43 is arranged on the upper side of the water tank 42, the guide plate 43 inclines from bottom to top from right, a vent pipeline 33 is arranged between the upper end of the right side of the suction part 3 and the right end of the guide plate 43, a water filter net 431 is arranged at the left side of the guide plate 43, a return pipeline 432 is arranged at the left end of the guide plate 43, the return pipeline 432 is communicated with the water pump box 421, a pipe network 44 which is distributed in a grid shape is arranged at the upper side of the guide plate 43, a water inlet pipe 441 is arranged between the pipe network 44 and the water pump box 421, a plurality of liquid spraying ports 442 are arranged on the circumferential surface of the pipe network 44, a plurality of second suction motors 443 are arranged at the upper side of the pipe network 44, a water-proof air-permeable plate 444 is arranged at the upper side of the second suction motor 443, an electric heating box 51 is arranged at the upper side of the hot drying part 5, a high-temperature air outlet 511 and a second air inlet 512 are respectively arranged at the upper side and the lower side of the electric heating box 51, an air cooler 61 is arranged at the upper side and the lower side of the air cooler 61, a normal-temperature air outlet 611 and a third air inlet 612 are respectively arranged at the upper side and the lower side of the air cooler 61, an activated carbon adsorption layer 71 is provided with a fourth air inlet 711, a plurality of the activated carbon adsorption layer 712, the tower top exhaust part 8 is provided with a main exhaust pipe 81, the connecting pipe 712 is communicated with the main exhaust pipe 81, the side surface of the main exhaust pipe 81 is uniformly provided with a plurality of exhaust branch pipes 811, the outer side of the tower top exhaust part 8 is provided with an exhaust ring pipe 82 surrounding the tower body 2, the exhaust branch pipes 811 penetrate through the tower body 2 and then are communicated with the exhaust ring pipe 82, and the exhaust ring pipe 82 is provided with a plurality of exhaust holes 821.
By adopting the technical scheme of the utility model, the lower support 1 can stably support the tower body 2, and during actual construction, the lower support 1 is usually set to be 1.5-3 m; when purifying air to be purified containing haze and smoke dust in an urban area, a purification tower can be arranged in the center of the purification area, and then corresponding purification towers are arranged at the edges of the area for construction, or rectangular diffusion, triangular diffusion and circumferential diffusion can be adopted for construction, as shown in fig. 8;
the purification flow of the purification tower is as follows:
the external air to be purified containing haze and smoke dust is sucked from a first air inlet 32 on the outer wall of a suction part 3 through a first suction fan 31 of the suction part 3 on the lower side of a tower body 2, the air to be purified sucked into the suction part 3 enters a first purification part 4 through an air duct 33 and flows upwards, at the moment, a water pump box 421 of the first purification part 4 is opened, water in a water tank 42 is pumped into a pipe network 44 through a water inlet pipe 441, the water is sprayed downwards from a liquid spraying port 442 of the pipe network 44 to form water mist, so that the water mist is washed reversely with the air to be purified, large particle impurities and smoke dust in the air to be purified are washed away through the water mist, the water mist falls to a guide plate 43 and then flows through a water filter net 431 along the inclined direction of the guide plate 43, the water filter net filters the impurities in the water, and the filtered water repeatedly enters the water tank 42 through a return duct 432, so that the water is reused;
the second suction motor 443 above the pipe network 44 operates to suck the air purified by the first purification part 4 into the heat drying part 5, moisture in the air can be filtered out primarily through the water-proof air-permeable plate 444, the electric heating box 51 of the heat drying part 5 sucks the air from the second air inlet 512 to be heated and dried, moisture in the air is removed again, and the heated and dried high-temperature air is discharged through the high-temperature air outlet 512;
the air cooler 61 of the cooling part 6 sucks in high-temperature air from the third air inlet 612, the high-temperature air is cooled to normal temperature and then discharged to the second purifying part 7 through the normal-temperature air outlet 611, the air enters from the fourth air inlet 711 on the lower side of the activated carbon adsorption layer 71, micro particles, impurities and harmful gases in the normal-temperature air are adsorbed by activated carbon, the normal-temperature air is purified for the second time, the completely purified air is discharged to the main exhaust pipe 81 through the connecting pipe 712, and is uniformly sent to the exhaust ring pipe 82 on the outer side of the tower body 2 through each exhaust branch pipe 811, and the completely purified air is uniformly dispersed downwards from the upper end of the tower body 2 through each exhaust hole 821 of the exhaust ring pipe 82, and the steps are repeated for many times until the external air to be purified containing haze and smoke dust is completely eliminated;
the utility model discloses a large granule impurity and smoke and dust in the air that treats air-purifying can be washed away through the water smoke in first purification portion and detach, and rethread second purification portion can pass through activated carbon adsorption with small granule, impurity and harmful gas in the air of preliminary purification simultaneously and detach, make containing haze, smoke and dust and harmful gas in the air obtain effectual getting rid of, make the air obtain purifying.
Specifically, a plurality of support rods 91 are arranged between the first partition plate 41, the electric heating box 51, the air cooler 61 and the interior of the tower body 2. With the structure, the water tank 42, the electric heating box 51 and the air cooler 61 are supported and fixed more stably with the tower body. In fact, other structures can be considered according to the situation, so that the water tank 42, the electric heating box 51 and the support and fixation between the air cooler 61 and the tower body are more stable.
Specifically, a fixing frame 92 is disposed between the first suction fan 31 and the inner wall of the suction portion 3. With such a structure, the first suction fan 31 is more stably supported and fixed to the inner wall of the suction portion 3. In fact, other structures may be used as the case may be, so as to make the supporting and fixing between the first suction fan 31 and the inner wall of the suction portion 3 more stable.
Specifically, the liquid ejecting ports 442 are disposed below the circumferential surface of the pipe network 44 and are uniformly distributed along the lower side of the circumferential surface of the pipe network 44. With this configuration, water can be uniformly discharged through the liquid discharge port 442, and the water discharge area can be widened. In fact, other configurations may be used depending on the circumstances, and water can be uniformly sprayed and the coverage of water spray can be widened.
Specifically, the exhaust holes 821 are disposed on the outer side and the lower side of the exhaust collar 82 and circumferentially distributed along the outer side of the exhaust collar 82. With such a structure, the purified air can be uniformly discharged to the periphery and the lower side through the exhaust hole 821. In fact, other structures can be used according to the situation, so that the purified air can be uniformly diffused.
The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Modifications and variations can be made to the above-described embodiments by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, it is intended that all equivalent modifications or changes which may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and technical spirit of the present invention be covered by the claims of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides an urban area air purification tower, includes lower carriage (1), lower carriage (1) upside is equipped with body of the tower (2), its characterized in that: the tower body (2) is internally provided with a suction part (3), a first purification part (4), a hot drying part (5), a cooling part (6), a second purification part (7) and a tower top exhaust part (8) from bottom to top in sequence, a plurality of first suction fans (31) are fixedly connected to the periphery of the inner wall of the suction part (3), a plurality of first air inlets (32) corresponding to the first suction fans (31) are arranged on the outer wall of the suction part (3), the first purification part (4) comprises a first partition plate (41) arranged between the suction part (3) and the first purification part (4), a water tank (42) is arranged on the upper side of the first partition plate (41), a water pump box (421) is arranged on the right side of the water tank (42), a guide plate (43) is arranged on the upper side of the water tank (42), the guide plate (43) inclines from bottom to top from left to right, an air vent pipeline (33) is arranged between the upper end of the right side of the suction part (3) and the guide plate (43), the water filter screen (431) is arranged on the left side of the guide plate (43), a backflow pipeline (432) is arranged at the left end of the guide plate (43), the backflow pipeline (432) is communicated with the water pump box (421), a pipe network (44) distributed in a grid shape is arranged on the upper side of the guide plate (43), a water inlet pipe (441) is arranged between the pipe network (44) and the water pump box (421), a plurality of liquid spraying ports (442) are arranged on the circumferential surface of the pipe network (44), a plurality of second suction motors (443) are arranged on the upper side of the pipe network (44), a water-stop air-permeable plate (444) is arranged on the upper side of each second suction motor (443), an electric heating box (51) is arranged on the upper side of the hot drying part (5), a high-temperature air outlet (511) and a second air inlet (512) are respectively arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the electric heating box (51), an air cooler (61) is arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the air cooler (61), an air outlet (611) and a third air inlet (612) are respectively arranged on the upper side and the lower side of the normal-temperature air cooler (61), second purification portion (7) are equipped with activated carbon adsorption layer (71), activated carbon adsorption layer (71) bottom is equipped with fourth air intake (711), activated carbon adsorption layer (71) upside is equipped with a plurality of connecting pipes (712), top of the tower exhaust portion (8) are equipped with total exhaust pipe (81), connecting pipe (712) are linked together with total exhaust pipe (81), total exhaust pipe (81) side evenly is equipped with a plurality of exhaust branch pipes (811), top of the tower exhaust portion (8) outside is equipped with exhaust ring canal (82) around body of the tower (2), exhaust branch pipe (811) run through body of the tower (2) after be linked together with exhaust ring canal (82), exhaust ring (82) are equipped with a plurality of exhaust holes (821).
2. The urban area air purification tower of claim 1, wherein: a plurality of support rods (91) are arranged between the first partition plate (41), the electric heating box (51), the air cooler (61) and the interior of the tower body (2).
3. The urban area air purification tower of claim 1, wherein: and a fixing frame (92) is arranged between the first suction fan (31) and the inner wall of the suction part (3).
4. The urban area air purification tower of claim 1, wherein: the liquid spraying ports (442) are arranged on the lower side of the circumferential surface of the pipe network (44) and are uniformly distributed along the lower side of the circumferential surface of the pipe network (44).
5. The urban area air purification tower of claim 1, wherein: the exhaust holes (821) are arranged on the outer side surface and the lower side of the exhaust ring pipe (82) and are circumferentially distributed along the outer side surface of the exhaust ring pipe (82).
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