CN220444503U - Salt mud belt cleaning device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The application provides a salt mud belt cleaning device relates to salt mud processing technology field, including washing mud bucket and rabbling mechanism, in adding the barrel with salt mud cake from the feeder hopper, tubaeform feeder hopper can be with the whole parcel of discharge opening of pressure filter, can avoid salt mud cake to drop to washing mud bucket outside, be convenient for unload, industry water gets into the connecting pipe from the inlet tube, get into the connecting pipe from pressure filter exhaust filtrate from the feed liquor pipe, get into barrel and salt mud cake from shower nozzle blowout and mix again, shower nozzle blowout water and filtrate can be with the salt mud cake that drops on the feeder hopper inner wall dashes down, guarantee that salt mud cake falls into in the barrel, the device practicality is improved, then open rabbling mechanism stirs salt mud in order fully to dissolve and wash, the baffle can effectively avoid the influence of whirl phenomenon to the normal feed liquor of discharge pump this moment, facilitate the use, open the discharge pump at last and carry out secondary pressure filtration with salt mud from the discharge pipe to the pressure filter and form salt mud cake of low salt content, innocent treatment and utilization of salt mud can be realized.
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Technical Field
The application relates to the technical field of salt mud treatment, in particular to a salt mud cleaning device.
Background
In chlor-alkali production, according to the primary brine process of an ionic membrane caustic soda device, a large amount of salt mud is produced each year by adopting a two-alkali method for refining, the salt mud has high salt content, cannot be discharged without pollution, cannot be used in industries such as power generation, desulfurization, cement, brickmaking, greening and the like, cannot realize comprehensive utilization of the salt mud, and along with the improvement of the national energy conservation and emission reduction requirements, innocent treatment and utilization of the salt mud become great challenges for the development of the industry.
The technical scheme disclosed in the Chinese patent CN201920056688.3 is that the secondary salt mud cleaning device in the chlor-alkali production comprises a mud tank, at least one primary salt mud press filter, a salt mud dissolving tank and a secondary salt mud press filter, wherein mud stirrers are arranged in the mud tank and the salt mud dissolving tank. The utility model has reasonable and compact structure and convenient use, and the salt mud produced in the chlor-alkali industry can be used for cement production by adding water into the salt mud subjected to primary pressure filtration for washing, fully dissolving the salt in the salt mud and then carrying out secondary pressure filtration, thereby realizing the environmental protection treatment of the salt mud. Meanwhile, in the utility model, the liquid discharged by the primary salt mud filter press and the secondary salt mud filter press can be converged to the filter pressing liquid pipeline together and returned to the production device for recycling, thereby reducing the discharge of chemical wastewater and having the characteristics of safety, labor saving, simplicity and high efficiency.
The existing salt mud cleaning device has certain defects in the use process, when a filter press unloads salt mud cakes, the filter press easily falls outside a mud washing barrel, and the salt mud rotational flow phenomenon generated during stirring can influence the normal liquid inlet of a discharging pump, so that the filter press is inconvenient to use.
Disclosure of Invention
An aim of the embodiment of the application is to provide a salt mud belt cleaning device, and it can solve current salt mud belt cleaning device, and the pressure filter is when unloading salt mud cake, drops to the outside of washing the mud bucket easily, and the salt mud whirl phenomenon that appears during the stirring can influence the normal technical problem who advances of discharge pump moreover.
The embodiment of the application provides a salt mud belt cleaning device, including washing mud bucket and rabbling mechanism, wash mud bucket by the feeder hopper on upper portion and the barrel of lower part constitute, the feeder hopper is tubaeform, the fixed installation pole that is provided with in feeder hopper top, the fixed connecting pipe that is provided with in feeder hopper upper end, the intercommunication is provided with inlet tube and feed liquor pipe on the connecting pipe, just the intercommunication is provided with a plurality of shower nozzles on the connecting pipe, barrel internal fixation is provided with a plurality of baffles, a plurality of baffle evenly distributed in on the barrel inner wall, barrel bottom one side intercommunication is provided with the discharging pipe, the intercommunication is provided with the discharge pump on the discharging pipe;
the stirring mechanism comprises a driving motor, a rotating shaft and a plurality of stirring rods, wherein the rotating shaft is arranged in the mud washing barrel, the rotating shaft is rotationally connected with the mounting rod, the stirring rods are uniformly distributed on the rotating shaft, and the driving motor drives the stirring rods to rotate through the rotating shaft.
Wherein, feeder hopper top one side intercommunication is provided with the overflow pipe.
Wherein, the barrel lateral part has seted up the access hole.
The novel sewage treatment device is characterized in that a sewage discharge pipe is arranged at the bottom of the cylinder body in a communicated mode, and a first valve is arranged on the sewage discharge pipe.
And the water inlet pipe and the liquid inlet pipe are respectively provided with a second valve.
Wherein, the driving piece of discharging pump sets up to inverter motor.
Wherein, the output piece of discharging pump sets up to open impeller.
Wherein, the barrel lower extreme is fixedly provided with the support column.
Wherein, the feeder hopper top is the square, the feeder hopper bottom is circular, the barrel is circular barrel structure.
The utility model has the beneficial effects that:
according to the salt mud cleaning device, when the salt mud cleaning device is used, salt mud cakes are added into a cylinder body from the feed hopper, the horn-shaped feed hopper can wrap the discharge opening of the filter press integrally, the salt mud cakes can be prevented from falling to the outside of a mud washing barrel, the discharge is convenient, industrial water enters the connecting pipe from the water inlet pipe, filtrate discharged from the filter press enters the connecting pipe from the liquid inlet pipe and then is sprayed out from the spray head to enter the cylinder body to be mixed with the salt mud cakes, meanwhile, the spray head sprays water and the filtrate to flush the salt mud cakes falling onto the inner wall of the feed hopper, the salt mud cakes are guaranteed to fall into the cylinder body, the practicability of the device is improved, the stirring mechanism is started to stir the salt mud to sufficiently dissolve and clean, at the moment, the baffle can effectively avoid the influence of a rotational flow phenomenon on normal liquid inlet of the discharge pump, the salt mud is convenient to use, and finally the discharge pump is started to convey the salt mud from the discharge pipe to the filter press and filter press the salt mud cakes with low salt content secondarily, so that harmless treatment and utilization of the salt mud can be realized.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are needed in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it being understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present application and therefore should not be considered limiting the scope, and that other related drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a schematic elevational cross-sectional structural view of some embodiments of the present application;
FIG. 2 is a schematic top view of some embodiments of the present application;
fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a front view of some embodiments of the present application.
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100. washing mud barrels;
200. a stirring mechanism; 201. a driving motor; 202. a rotating shaft; 203. a stirring rod;
300. a feed hopper; 301. a mounting rod; 302. a connecting pipe; 303. a water inlet pipe; 304. a liquid inlet pipe; 305. a spray head; 306. an overflow pipe; 307. a second valve;
400. a cylinder; 401. a baffle; 402. a discharge pipe; 403. a discharge pump; 404. an access opening; 405. a blow-down pipe; 406. a first valve; 407. and (5) supporting the column.
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For the purposes of making the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application more clear, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. The components of the embodiments of the present application, which are generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.
Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present application, as provided in the accompanying drawings, is not intended to limit the scope of the application, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, which can be made by one of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments herein without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the present application.
It should be noted that: like reference numerals and letters denote like items in the following figures, and thus once an item is defined in one figure, no further definition or explanation thereof is necessary in the following figures.
In the description of the present application, it should be noted that, directions or positional relationships indicated by terms such as "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc., are directions or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, or are directions or positional relationships that are conventionally put in use of the product of the application, are merely for convenience of description of the present application and simplification of description, and are not indicative or implying that the apparatus or element to be referred to must have a specific direction, be configured and operated in a specific direction, and therefore should not be construed as limiting the present application. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used merely to distinguish between descriptions and should not be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
Furthermore, the terms "horizontal," "vertical," "overhang," and the like do not denote a requirement that the component be absolutely horizontal or overhang, but rather may be slightly inclined. As "horizontal" merely means that its direction is more horizontal than "vertical", and does not mean that the structure must be perfectly horizontal, but may be slightly inclined.
In the description of the present application, it should also be noted that, unless explicitly specified and limited otherwise, the terms "disposed," "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; can be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, and can be communication between two elements. The specific meaning of the terms in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art in a specific context.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the embodiment of the application provides a salt mud cleaning device, which comprises a mud washing barrel 100 and a stirring mechanism 200, wherein the mud washing barrel 100 is composed of a feeding hopper 300 at the upper part and a barrel 400 at the lower part, the feeding hopper 300 is in a horn shape, a mounting rod 301 is fixedly arranged at the top of the feeding hopper 300, a connecting pipe 302 is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the feeding hopper 300, a water inlet pipe 303 and a liquid inlet pipe 304 are communicated with the connecting pipe 302, a plurality of spray heads 305 are communicated with the connecting pipe 302, a plurality of baffles 401 are fixedly arranged in the barrel 400, the baffles 401 are uniformly distributed on the inner wall of the barrel 400, a discharging pipe 402 is communicated with one side of the bottom of the barrel 400, and a discharging pump 403 is communicated with the discharging pipe 402;
the stirring mechanism 200 comprises a driving motor 201, a rotating shaft 202 and a plurality of stirring rods 203, wherein the rotating shaft 202 is arranged in the mud washing barrel 100, the rotating shaft 202 is rotationally connected with the mounting rod 301, the stirring rods 203 are uniformly distributed on the rotating shaft 202, and the driving motor 201 drives the stirring rods 203 to rotate through the rotating shaft 202.
When the device is used, salt mud cakes are added into the barrel 400 from the feed hopper 300, the discharge opening of the filter press can be integrally wrapped by the trumpet-shaped feed hopper 300, salt mud cakes can be prevented from falling outside the mud washing barrel 100, discharging is facilitated, industrial water enters the connecting pipe 302 from the water inlet pipe 303, filtrate discharged from the filter press enters the connecting pipe 302 from the liquid inlet pipe 304, the salt mud cakes are sprayed out from the spray head 305 and enter the barrel 400 to be mixed with the spray head 305, meanwhile, the spray head 305 sprays water and the filtrate to flush the salt mud cakes falling on the inner wall of the feed hopper 300, the salt mud cakes are guaranteed to fall into the barrel 400, the practicability of the device is improved, the driving motor 201 is started to drive the rotation shaft 202 to rotate, the rotation shaft 202 drives the stirring rod 203 to rotate, salt mud is stirred to be sufficiently dissolved and washed, at the moment, the influence of a rotational flow phenomenon on normal liquid inlet of the discharge pump 403 can be effectively avoided by the baffle 401, the salt mud cakes with low salt content are formed by secondary pressure filtration from the discharge pipe 402, the filter is conveniently used, and harmless treatment and utilization of the salt mud can be realized.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, an overflow pipe 306 is disposed on one side of the top of the feeding hopper 300; when the salt slurry in the mud washing barrel 100 is too much, the salt slurry can enter the overflow pipe 306 and is sent to the collecting device for collection, so that the salt slurry is effectively prevented from overflowing, and the practicability of the device is improved.
As shown in fig. 3, in this embodiment, an access hole 404 is formed on the side of the cylinder 400; staff can enter from the access hole 404 to overhaul and maintain the inside of the mud washing barrel 100, and the practicability is good.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, a drain pipe 405 is disposed at the bottom of the cylinder 400 in a communicating manner, and a first valve 406 is disposed on the drain pipe 405; when the staff needs to repair and maintain the inside of the mud washing barrel 100, the first valve 406 can be opened, and the residual materials inside the barrel 400 can be discharged from the drain pipe 405, so that the practicability of the device is improved.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the water inlet pipe 303 and the liquid inlet pipe 304 are respectively provided with a second valve 307; the second valve 307 is convenient for staff to control the addition of industrial water and filtrate, and the practicability is good.
In this embodiment, the driving member of the discharging pump 403 is a variable frequency motor; the variable frequency motor enables staff to change the output frequency of the motor according to actual production conditions so as to adjust the liquid inlet amount of the filter press and improve the practicability of the device.
In this embodiment, the output part of the discharging pump 403 is an open impeller; the salt slurry inevitably contains stone and other impurities, and the open impeller can avoid affecting the normal liquid inlet of the discharge pump 403 when the impurities are more and larger, so that the practicality is better.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, a support post 407 is fixedly disposed at the lower end of the cylinder 400; the support column 407 plays a role in supporting and protecting the cylinder 400, and improves the use stability.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in this embodiment, the top of the feeding hopper 300 is square, the bottom of the feeding hopper 300 is circular, and the cylinder 400 is a circular cylinder 400; the horn-shaped feed hopper 300 can wrap the discharge opening of the filter press integrally, can prevent salt mud cakes from falling outside the mud washing barrel 100, and is convenient for discharging.
Working principle: the utility model provides a salt mud belt cleaning device is when using, add the barrel 400 with salt mud cake from feeder hopper 300 in, the whole parcel of discharge opening of pressure filter can be with the salt mud cake, can avoid salt mud cake to drop to the washing mud bucket 100 outside, industry water gets into connecting pipe 302 from inlet tube 303, from pressure filter exhaust filtrate gets into connecting pipe 302 from feed liquor pipe 304, it mixes with salt mud cake to get into barrel 400 from shower nozzle 305 blowout again, shower nozzle 305 blowout water and filtrate can be with the salt mud cake that drops on the feeder hopper 300 inner wall dashes down, guarantee that salt mud cake falls into barrel 400, open driving motor 201 and drive axis of rotation 202 and rotate afterwards, axis of rotation 202 drives puddler 203 and rotates, stir salt mud in order fully to dissolve the washing, baffle 401 can effectively avoid the influence of whirl phenomenon to the normal feed liquor of discharge pump 403 this moment, open discharge pump 403 and carry out the salt mud from discharge pipe 402 to the pressure filter press the salt mud to form salt mud cake of low salt content, innocent treatment and utilization of salt mud can be realized.
The foregoing is merely a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and variations may be made to the present application by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principles of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the present application.
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1. Salt mud belt cleaning device, its characterized in that: the mud washing device comprises a mud washing barrel and a stirring mechanism, wherein the mud washing barrel consists of a feeding hopper on the upper part and a barrel on the lower part, the feeding hopper is in a horn shape, an installation rod is fixedly arranged at the top of the feeding hopper, a connecting pipe is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the feeding hopper, a water inlet pipe and a liquid inlet pipe are communicated with each other on the connecting pipe, a plurality of spray heads are communicated with each other on the connecting pipe, a plurality of baffles are fixedly arranged in the barrel, the baffles are uniformly distributed on the inner wall of the barrel, a discharge pipe is communicated with one side of the bottom of the barrel, and a discharge pump is communicated with the discharge pipe;
the stirring mechanism comprises a driving motor, a rotating shaft and a plurality of stirring rods, wherein the rotating shaft is arranged in the mud washing barrel, the rotating shaft is rotationally connected with the mounting rod, the stirring rods are uniformly distributed on the rotating shaft, and the driving motor drives the stirring rods to rotate through the rotating shaft.
2. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: and an overflow pipe is communicated with one side of the top of the feed hopper.
3. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: and an access hole is formed in the side part of the cylinder body.
4. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the bottom of the cylinder body is communicated with a drain pipe, and a first valve is arranged on the drain pipe.
5. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: and the water inlet pipe and the liquid inlet pipe are respectively provided with a second valve.
6. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the driving piece of the discharging pump is set to be a variable frequency motor.
7. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the output piece of the discharging pump is provided as an open impeller.
8. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the lower end of the cylinder body is fixedly provided with a support column.
9. A brine sludge cleaning device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the utility model discloses a feed hopper, including the feeder hopper, the feeder hopper top is the square, the feeder hopper bottom is circular, the barrel is circular barrel structure.
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