CN219217639U - Liquid level oil slick collection device - Google Patents

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CN219217639U
CN219217639U CN202320785296.7U CN202320785296U CN219217639U CN 219217639 U CN219217639 U CN 219217639U CN 202320785296 U CN202320785296 U CN 202320785296U CN 219217639 U CN219217639 U CN 219217639U
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The utility model provides a liquid level floating oil collecting device, and belongs to the technical field of catering oil-water separation. The device includes floating collector, communicating pipe, sleeve pipe, water pump buffer tank, water pump and header tank, and floating collector is the hollow seal structure of back taper, and upper end and sleeve pipe are connected, and the sleeve pipe upper end is fixed with the top of header tank, and communicating pipe is with floating collector and water pump buffer tank intercommunication, and floating collector is free floating from top to bottom according to the working liquid level, has placed the water pump in the water pump buffer tank, and the water pump buffer tank is fixed in the header tank. The utility model solves the problems that the oil content of the waste water in the waste water lifting box is high after the waste water discharge capacity of the existing finished product restaurant oil-water separator is increased, the collection of the liquid surface floating oil is realized, the oil content of the waste water is reduced, and meanwhile, the problems that when the liquid surface of a floating type collecting device connected with a water pump fluctuates, the collector floats up due to the fact that the water in a connecting pipe is pumped out, the waste water cannot flow into the water pump, and the water pump idles and air lock is formed.

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Liquid level oil slick collection device
Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of catering oil-water separation, and particularly relates to a liquid level floating oil collecting device.
Background
The waste water discharged by restaurant business in the operation process is required to be provided with an oil-water separator according to the standard and standard requirements, the oil-water separator is selected according to the water discharge amount of the oil-water separator, but due to the limitation of the installation space, the consideration of reducing investment and other factors, the oil-water separator with smaller size is often selected, especially for the reconstruction of the existing restaurant business, the condition that the oil-water separator is arranged in a basement is required to lift and discharge the deoiled waste water, the phenomenon is more obvious, the existing restaurant oil-water separator is usually provided with a solid-liquid separation tank, an oil-water separation tank and a waste water collecting tank or a waste water lifting tank according to the standard requirements, the waste oil in the waste water is limited by the effective volume of the oil-water separation tank, and cannot be fully deoiled, namely flows into the waste water discharge tank or the waste water lifting tank, the waste water is kept still in the waste water discharge tank or the waste water lifting tank, the waste water is caused to be generated above the liquid level, and the waste oil in the waste water can not reach the standard when the waste water is discharged along with the waste water, and the waste water can only reach the standard, but the oil content of the waste water can not be accumulated and the waste water can be polluted by the liquid level after the waste water is discharged by the floating system, and the air is polluted by the air in the long time.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems of the background technology, a device capable of collecting liquid surface oil slivers is needed, and the device is applicable to stable liquid surfaces and floating liquid surfaces up and down.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present utility model adopts the following technical scheme: the utility model provides a liquid level oil slick collection device and collection method thereof, includes floating collector, communicating pipe, sleeve pipe, water pump buffer tank, water pump and header tank, floating collector is the hollow seal structure of back taper, and the upper end is connected with the sleeve pipe, the sleeve pipe upper end is fixed with the top of header tank, communicating pipe is with floating collector and water pump buffer tank intercommunication, and floating collector can be according to the free floating about the working level, water pump buffer tank has been placed in the water pump buffer tank, the water pump buffer tank is fixed in the header tank.
Furthermore, the floating collector is a frustum-shaped sealing body, the cone bottom is arranged at the upper part, the cone top is arranged at the lower part, the periphery of the cone bottom is provided with a raised water baffle, the upper edge of the water baffle is lower than the working liquid level of the water collecting tank, a plurality of channels are arranged in the surface of the cone, the upper ports of the channels are communicated with the water collecting tank formed by the water baffle and the upper part of the floating collector, the lower ports of the channels are collected to a connecting port, the sum of the flow sections of all the channels is 1-4 times of the flow section of a communicating pipe, the connecting port is connected to the upper port of the communicating pipe, the upper part of the floating collector is provided with a guide rod, and the guide rod is arranged in a sleeve and can move up and down.
Further, the upper edge of the water baffle of the floating collector is lower than the working liquid level of the water collecting tank and is 1-30 mm below the working liquid level.
Further, the communicating pipe connected with the connecting port of the floating collector has a flow cross section of 100-5000 mm 2
Furthermore, the guide rod is connected with the sleeve in a nested and matched mode, the guide rod is fixedly connected with the center of the frustum bottom of the floating collector, the upper end of the sleeve is fixedly connected with the fixing piece on the water collecting tank, and the amplitude of the vertical movement of the guide rod and the sleeve does not exceed the variation amplitude of the working liquid level.
Further, the start of the water pump can be set according to different working liquid levels, and the stop of the water pump can be set according to the rising or running time of the working liquid level.
Compared with the prior art, the liquid level floating oil collecting device has the beneficial effects that:
the utility model solves the problems that the oil content of the waste water in the waste water lifting box is high after the waste water discharge capacity of the existing finished product restaurant oil-water separator is increased, the collection of the liquid surface floating oil is realized, the oil content of the waste water is reduced, and meanwhile, the problems that when the liquid surface of a floating type collecting device connected with a water pump fluctuates, the collector floats up due to the fact that the water in a connecting pipe is pumped out, the waste water cannot flow into the water pump, and the water pump idles and air lock is formed.
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The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the utility model and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the utility model and together with the description serve to explain the utility model. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a structural layout of a liquid surface floating oil collecting device according to the utility model;
FIG. 2 is a top view of an embodiment 1 of a floating collector of a fluid level oil collection device according to the present utility model;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view A-A of an embodiment 1 of a floating collector of a fluid level oil collection device according to the present utility model;
FIG. 4 is a top view of an embodiment 2 of a floating collector of a fluid level oil collection device according to the present utility model;
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view B-B of an embodiment 2 of a floating collector of a fluid level oil collection device according to the present utility model.
In the figure: the water collecting tank 1, the communicating pipe 2, the floating collector 3, the water baffle 31, the channel 32, the connecting port 33, the guide pipe 34, the sleeve 4, the water pump buffer tank 5, the discharge pipe 6, the water pump 7 and the working liquid level 8.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present utility model will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present utility model. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, embodiments of the present utility model and features of the embodiments may be combined with each other, and the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present utility model, not all embodiments.
1. Referring to fig. 1-5, a liquid level floating oil collecting device and a collecting method thereof are described in the first embodiment, the device comprises a floating collector 3, a communicating pipe 2, a sleeve 4, a water pump buffer tank 5, a water pump 7 and a water collecting tank 1, wherein the communicating pipe 2 communicates the floating collector 3 with the water pump buffer tank 5, the floating collector 3 can freely float up and down according to a working liquid level 8, the water pump 7 is placed in the water pump buffer tank 5, the water pump buffer tank 5 is fixed in the water collecting tank 1, the floating collector 3 is of an inverted cone-shaped sealing structure, a cone bottom is arranged at the upper part, a cone top is arranged at the lower part, the periphery of the cone bottom is provided with a raised water baffle 31, the upper edge of the water baffle 31 is lower than the working liquid level 8 of the water collecting tank 1, a plurality of channels 32 are arranged in the cone surface, the upper ports of the channels 32 are communicated with a water collecting tank formed by the water baffle 31 and the upper part of the floating collector 3, the sum of the flow cross sections of all channels 32 is 1-4 times of the flow cross sections of the communicating pipe 2, the connecting port 33 is connected to the upper ports of the communicating pipe 2, the upper part of the floating collector 3 is provided with a guide rod 34, and the sleeve 34 can be arranged at the lower part of the guide rod 4.
The upper edge of the floating collector 3 is lower than the working liquid level 8 of the water collection tank 1 and is 1-30 mm below the working liquid level 8.
Communication pipe 2 connected to connection port 33, and the flow cross section of communication pipe 2 is 100 to 5000mm 2
The guide rod 34 is connected with the sleeve 4 in a nested and matched mode, the guide rod 34 is fixedly connected with the center of the frustum bottom of the floating collector 3, the upper end of the sleeve 4 is fixedly connected with a fixing piece on the water collecting tank 1, and the amplitude of the vertical movement of the guide rod 34 and the sleeve 4 does not exceed the variation amplitude of the working liquid level 8.
The start of the water pump 7 can be set according to different working liquid levels 8, and the stop of the water pump 7 can be set according to the rising or running time of the working liquid level 8.
The floating collector 3 may be a truncated cone, and a specific schematic diagram is shown in fig. 2 and fig. 3, in which 8 channels 32 are radially designed in a symmetrical path, and the floating collector 3 may also be a truncated quadrangular prism, and a specific schematic diagram is shown in fig. 3 and fig. 4, in which 4 channels 32 are radially arranged in a symmetrical path.
The collecting method by using the liquid surface floating oil collecting device comprises the following steps:
before the water pump 7 is started, because the floating collector 3 is connected with the water pump buffer tank 5 through the communicating pipe 2, the liquid level in the water pump buffer tank 5 is consistent with the working liquid level 8 in the water pump buffer tank 1, after the working liquid level 8 in the water pump buffer tank 1 reaches the set starting position of the water pump 7, the water pump 7 is started, at the moment, the working liquid level in the water pump buffer tank 5 is lowered, a level difference is formed between the working liquid level 8 in the water pump buffer tank 5 and the working liquid level 8 in the water pump buffer tank 1, so that the liquid in the water pump buffer tank 1 can flow into the floating collector 3, the floating oil in the water tank 1 flows into the water collecting tank at the upper part of the floating collector 3 through the communicating pipe 2 and is discharged by the water pump 7 through the discharging pipe 6, after the working liquid level 8 in the water tank 1 reaches the set stopping position of the water pump 7 or the set running time, the water pump 7 stops, and the liquid level floating oil collecting device in the water pump buffer tank 5 is recovered to be consistent with the liquid level 9 in the water tank 1.
The core technology of the innovation point of the utility model is as follows:
1. the inside of the frustum plays a role of a floating body, a water inlet of the floating collector 3 is formed by the water baffle 31 and the channels 32 at the periphery of the frustum, a plurality of channels 32 are arranged in the surface of the frustum, the upper ports of the channels 32 are communicated with the water collecting tank formed by the water baffle 31 and the upper part of the floating collector 3, the lower ports of the channels 32 are collected to the connecting ports 33, the sum of the flow sections of all the channels 32 is 1-4 times of the flow section of the communicating pipe 2, and the upper edge of the floating collector 3 is lower than the working liquid level 8 of the water collecting tank 1 and is 1-30 mm below the working liquid level 8.
2. The guide rod 34 is connected with the sleeve 4 in a nested and matched mode, the guide rod 34 is fixedly connected with the center of the frustum bottom of the floating collector 3, the upper end of the sleeve 4 is fixedly connected with a fixing piece on the water collecting tank 1, and the amplitude of the vertical movement of the guide rod 34 and the sleeve 4 does not exceed the variation amplitude of the working liquid level 8.
Introduction of the development process:
in order to solve the problem of oil slick in the waste water discharge chamber or waste water lifting chamber in the technical background, adopt the oil slick collector, the existing liquid level oil slick collecting technology, belong to petrochemical industry, smelting, collection of river and sea lake surface debris, suitable for the collection of mineral grease or collection of debris and rubbish floating on the water surface; the water surface floating grease in the restaurant wastewater is mostly a mixture of animal and plant edible grease and tiny food residues, has the characteristics of easy decomposition and caking and easy adhesion, and is not suitable for the existing liquid surface floating oil collecting technology.
For example, the water temperature in the wastewater collection box is required to be not less than 20 ℃ in a collection mode of combining the turntable and the crawler belt with the scraping plate, an electric heating device is required to be additionally arranged, and the energy consumption is increased; for example, a gear oil pump is adopted, and oil pump faults are caused by tiny residues in grease or condensed grease; for example, in patent application publication CN202220584753.1, a fish pond float collection device is disclosed, wherein a float collector floats on the surface of a fish pond, a submersible pump is installed at the bottom of the fish pond, and the float collector is connected with the submersible pump through a hose; the buoy of the floating collector is fixed on the peripheral wall of the top of the shell at equal angles, the siphon disc is arranged on the top of the shell, the filter screen is erected in the shell, a gap is reserved between the filter screen and the peripheral wall of the shell, and a pipe joint is arranged at the bottom of the shell and connected with a hose. In this patent, the floating collector is directly connected to the submersible pump and is used in a water body suitable for a large water surface, such as a pond, a fish pond, etc., but is not suitable for a water tank with a small volume, water in a connecting hose is directly discharged by the water pump after the water pump is started, the buoyancy of the floating collector is increased, the water surface is floated, and the water pump cannot pump water to form a gas (air lock) phenomenon.
In the research and development, a solution 1 is designed firstly, a container for collecting floating oil is arranged in a water collecting tank, a submersible pump is arranged in the container for extracting oil-containing fat wastewater, and the submersible pump pumps the oil and water entering the container out of the container. When the liquid level of the water collecting tank 1 is higher than that of the container, the floating oil can flow into the container after the water exceeding the container is completely discharged during the operation of the oil pump, and is discharged through the oil pumping pump, so that the problem of low working efficiency is also caused; the water level measuring device is added into the water collecting tank 1 to control the start of the oil pumping pump in the container, when the liquid level of the water collecting tank 1 is slightly higher than that of the container, the water pump is started to enable the floating oil on the liquid level to enter the container, the defect is that the opening of the container is slightly larger, the water quantity flowing into the container is larger than the water discharge quantity of the water pump, the oil pumping pump can only discharge the wastewater entering the container during operation, the floating oil still floats on the liquid level in the container, and the design requirement of discharging the floating oil and the wastewater together can not be met.
On the basis, the utility model further improves the water inlet of the container, enlarges the area of the inflow opening of the container, ensures that the contact surface of the floating oil on the liquid surface of the water collection tank 1 flowing into the water outlet of the container is larger, improves the instant inflow amount of the floating oil, reduces the flow cross section of the connecting channel between the water inlet of the container and the cavity of the container, ensures that the floating oil and the wastewater fall into the container are more concentrated, and ensures that the floating oil in the container is easier to be discharged by the oil pump under the disturbance of the water flow. It can be seen that the obtaining of the limiting parameters of the present application is not obvious and is not a conventional technical means easily imaginable to a person skilled in the art.
In the solution 2, a floating object oil collecting device is designed before, like the solution of patent application number CN202220584753.1, the floating oil collecting device is connected with the oil pumping water pump through a hose, so that the problem that the floating oil collecting device cannot work normally when the liquid level in the water collecting tank changes can be solved, but when the oil pumping water pump is started, water in the hose is extracted instantly, the flow section of the hose is reduced, and the water of the oil collecting device cannot enter the water pump; the improved hose connected between the floating oil collecting device and the water pump is connected by a plastic hose, when the water pump is started, water in the hose is pumped out instantly, water in the water collecting tank flows into the hose through the water at the water inlet of the collecting device, the water displacement of the water pump cannot be met due to the fact that the water flow speed is low, air is filled into the hose, buoyancy is formed to enable the collecting device to float out of the water surface, and floating oil and waste water cannot enter the water pump, so that an air lock phenomenon in a cavity of an impeller of the water pump is formed.
The water pump 7 is started to pump water in the water pump buffer tank 5, after the water level in the water pump buffer tank 5 is reduced, water supplemented by the floating collector 3 can be obtained, the upper edge of the floating collector 3 is lower than the working liquid level 8 of the water collecting tank 1, and is 1-30 mm below the working liquid level 8, in the process, the communicating pipe 2 between the floating collector 3 and the water pump buffer tank 5 is still filled with water, the floating collector 3 can not float upwards due to the reduction of the water quantity in the communicating pipe 2, and the problem that the floating collector 3 floats upwards and the water pump air lock is caused by no water in the communicating pipe 2 is solved.
The utility model adopts the Archimedes principle, a water pump buffer tank 5 is arranged outside an oil pump, a floating oil collector 3 is designed into an inverted cone shape, a cavity is arranged in the cone shape to play a role of a floating body, the upper port of a channel 32 is communicated with a water collecting tank formed by a water baffle 31 and the upper part of the floating collector 3 in a way that the cone bottom is arranged at the upper part and the cone top is arranged at the lower part, the lower port of the channel 32 is converged to a connecting port 33, the connecting port 33 is connected to the upper port of a communicating pipe 2, the sum of the flow cross sections of all the channels 32 is 1-4 times of the flow cross section of the communicating pipe 2, the communicating pipe 2 connected with the connecting port 33, and the flow cross section of the communicating pipe 2 is 100-5000 mm 2 The upper part of the floating collector 3 is provided with a guide rod 34, and the guide rod 34 is arranged in the sleeve 4 and can move up and down. The experimental prototype verifies that the solution of the utility model is formed.
The embodiments of the utility model disclosed above are intended only to help illustrate the utility model. The examples are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the utility model to the precise forms disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the utility model and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best understand and utilize the utility model.

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1. The utility model provides a liquid level oil slick collection device which characterized in that: including floating collector (3), communicating pipe (2), sleeve pipe (4), water pump buffer tank (5), water pump (7) and header tank (1), floating collector (3) are the hollow seal structure of back taper, and the upper end is connected with sleeve pipe (4), sleeve pipe (4) upper end is fixed with the top of header tank (1), communicating pipe (2) are with floating collector (3) and water pump buffer tank (5) intercommunication, and floating collector (3) can be according to free floating from top to bottom of working liquid level (8), water pump (7) have been placed in water pump buffer tank (5), water pump buffer tank (5) are fixed in header tank (1).
2. The liquid surface oil slick collecting device according to claim 1, wherein: the cone bottom of the floating collector (3) is arranged at the upper part, the cone top is arranged at the lower part, the periphery of the cone bottom of the floating collector is provided with a raised water baffle (31), the upper edge of the water baffle (31) is lower than the working liquid level (8) of the water collection tank (1), a plurality of channels (32) are arranged in the surface of the cone, the upper ports of the channels (32) are communicated with the water collection tank formed by the water baffle (31) and the upper part of the floating collector (3), the lower ports of the channels (32) are collected to a connecting port (33), the connecting port (33) is connected to the upper port of the communicating pipe (2), the upper part of the floating collector (3) is provided with a guide rod (34), and the guide rod (34) is arranged in the sleeve (4) and can move up and down.
3. The liquid surface oil slick collecting device according to claim 2, wherein: the sum of the flow cross sections of all the channels (32) is 1 to 4 times of the flow cross section of the communicating pipe (2).
4. The liquid surface oil slick collecting device according to claim 2, wherein: the upper edge of the floating collector (3) is lower than the working liquid level (8) of the water collecting tank (1) and is 1-30 mm below the working liquid level (8).
5. The liquid surface oil slick collecting device according to claim 2, wherein: the communicating pipe (2) is connected with the connecting port (33), and the flow section of the communicating pipe (2) is 100-5000 mm 2
6. The liquid surface oil slick collecting device according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein: the guide rod (34) is connected with the sleeve (4) in a nested matching way, the guide rod (34) is fixedly connected with the center of the frustum bottom of the floating collector (3), and the amplitude of the up-and-down movement of the guide rod (34) and the sleeve (4) does not exceed the variation amplitude of the working liquid level (8).
7. The liquid surface oil slick collecting device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: the starting of the water pump (7) is set according to different working liquid levels (8), and the stopping of the water pump (7) is set according to the rising or running time of the working liquid levels (8).
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