EP0022276A1 - Anlage zum Befördern von Milch über grosse Entfernungen durch ein Rohrleitungssystem - Google Patents

Anlage zum Befördern von Milch über grosse Entfernungen durch ein Rohrleitungssystem Download PDF

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EP0022276A1
EP0022276A1 EP80200107A EP80200107A EP0022276A1 EP 0022276 A1 EP0022276 A1 EP 0022276A1 EP 80200107 A EP80200107 A EP 80200107A EP 80200107 A EP80200107 A EP 80200107A EP 0022276 A1 EP0022276 A1 EP 0022276A1
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Johannes M. H. Van Vlaenderen
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17D—PIPE-LINE SYSTEMS; PIPE-LINES
    • F17D3/00—Arrangements for supervising or controlling working operations
    • F17D3/03—Arrangements for supervising or controlling working operations for controlling, signalling, or supervising the conveyance of several different products following one another in the same conduit, e.g. for switching from one receiving tank to another
    • F17D3/08—Arrangements for supervising or controlling working operations for controlling, signalling, or supervising the conveyance of several different products following one another in the same conduit, e.g. for switching from one receiving tank to another the different products being separated by "go-devils", e.g. spheres

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  • the invention relates to an installation for conveying liquids, especially those intended for consumption, such as milk, over long distances through a piping system.
  • Installations of this type are known, but efforts at using such installations for transportation over long distances, for instance amounting to 10 to 15 kilometers, have not as yet been crowned with success, specifically in those cases where a part is played by such problems as the deterioration of the quality of the milk and keeping the pipeline and the other equipment clean and free from infection.
  • an installation according to the invention is composed of a forwarding station, a receiving station and an interposed pipeline, which forwarding station possesses means for pumping milk through the pipeline to the receiving station in series with auxialiary liquids for keeping the pipeline clean, and also possesses means for keeping the milk separate from the auxiliary liquids and the auxiliary from each other during transportation, this being accomplished by means of separators which are caused to be carried along upon each change of liquid and which seal off the pipes of the piping system, which receiving station possesses means for receiving the incoming milk, the auxiliary liquids and the separators between them as well as means for delivering the milk separately from the auxiliary liquids to means for further transportation, such as a tank vehicle, furthermore means for pumping the auxialiary liquids, kept separate from each other by the separators, back to the forwarding station, as well as means for keeping the receiving station's own installation clean, the receiving station comprising the auxialiary liquids, kept separate from each other by the separators, back to the forwarding station, as well as means for
  • valve member of the stop valve at the entry of the pipeline into the reservoir, in the position nearest to the reservoir, with a spraying duct, in such a way that, in the closed position, this valve member allows a spraying jet of auxiliary liquids to pass, as part of a method allowing the reservoir to be safeguarded against infection in a simple manner, use being made of auxiliary liquids which are already present.
  • the means of the forwarding station for causing the separators to be carried along in the pipeline upon each change of liquid are constituted by a length of pipe having a larger inside diameter than that of the separators, which pipe accomodates in longitudinal direction a number of bars which jointly form an elongate cage, whioh cage can accomodate a number of separators that are arranged in a row, the pipe containing sluicing means which can discharge one separator in each instance so that this separator is caused to be carried along with the flow, and which pipe contains near the sluicing means, upstream in the liquid, perturbing means for raising the flow resistance of the leading separator in the liquid, in such a way that only a minor inclination of the pipe is sufficient for causing this separator to be carried along by the liquid at the proper time after this separator has been released by the sluicing means.
  • a separator preferably consist of an at least substantially spherical wall of resiliently elastic material, the inside of which is completely filled up with an incompressible liquid such as water as well as with a diamagnetic substance which can co-operate with detectors arranged on the outside of the pipes.
  • the sealing power of this type of closing elements being based on the resilient stretch of the enveloping wall, has been found to be extremely reliable without produoing a high resistance inside the pipeline.
  • the installation according to the invention can thus convey milk over long distances, of the order of 15 to 30 kilometers and more, and, in other words, is capable of transporting milk over distances amounting to several times the length of the milk column which is pumped over.
  • the installation works almost fully automatically and requires no return line for reconveying the auxiliary liquids to the forwarding station, since this can be accomplished through the same, single transmission line which is provided. Furthermore, the formation of foam is extensively prevented.
  • the piping system of the receiving station to be discussed hereinafter, towards which the balls are pumped is characterized by such a diameter that the balls fit with some clearance in the pipes, allowing the liquids to flow along them in some situations which will be described hereinafter.
  • the pipeline which comes from the forwarding station is narrower, and the balls, with their resilient pressure, fit in it in a manner which is virtually sealing.
  • the storage circuit only comprises the narrower pipes.
  • the constrictions, or, if preferred, the expansions, are indicated in Figs. 2 through 28.
  • the receiving station which is shown diagrammatically in Fig. 1 comprises a reservoir 1, a pipe 2, which is connected at 5 to the long-distance transmission line which comes from the forwarding station (not shown) being bifurcated into a pipe 3 and a pipe 4.
  • the pipe 3 opens centrally into the reservoir 1.
  • the mouth 6 is located above a tube 7 which protrudes centrally and vertically through the bottom of the reservoir 1 and which is provided with open slots 8 along its part which protrudes into the reservoir 1.
  • the pipe 3 has a branch 9 which leads to the upper part of the reservoir 1, inside which this branch 9 ends in a spherical nozzle 11.
  • the branch 9 has an inlet stub 10 for the supply of mains water.
  • the reservoir 1 possesses a supply pipe 12 for feeding compressed air, and is furthermore connected to a discharge pipe 13.
  • the reservoir 1 is provided at four different heights with a level signaler which is capable of indicating the level reached by the milk or the auxiliary liquid, use being made of a signal imparted to the automatic control system (not shown). These four level signalers bear the reference numbers 14, 16, 17 and 18.
  • the tube 7 extends downwardly outside the reservoir in the form of the pipe 19, which ends in the coupling 15, which serves for connecting either the connecting hose 21 which connects to a milk tank vehicle (not shown), or the pipe bend 20 to the connection 22, which leads to a storage circuit (see Fig. 30) for the auxiliary liquids, which storage circuit opens at its other end into the pipe 4.
  • a bypass circuit 23 with an interposed pump 24 is connected to the pipe 19. Furthermore, sluicing means 23 and 24 are fitted at the tube 7, and are actuated by the automatic control system (not shown). They serve for controlling the passage of the separators, hereinafter referred to as balls, which control will be discussed in more detail in the course of the further description.
  • the tube contains the balls 100, 101 and 102, while a ball 103, at the front of the incoming milk column 200, is just falling into the tube 7.
  • the pipe 19 comprises a throat or constriction 25 and a finger stop 26. This arrangement will be further explained hereinafter.
  • the numbers 27 and 28 indicate annular detectors which convey an impulse to the automatic control system (not shown) when a ball passes in the pipe.
  • the number 29 indicates a vent branch.
  • the number 30 indicates an automatic switch which serves for guiding the balls.
  • the piping system of the receiving station is equipped with the stop valves 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39, which can be actuated by the automatic control system (not shown).
  • the receiving station as shown in Fig. 1 is marked by the situation where the milk column 200 has just entered the receiving station, preceded by a column of air from which the milk column 200 has been separated by the ball 103.
  • a milk tank vehicle (not shown) is connected to the hose 21; the pipe bend 20 is disconnected.
  • a detector (not shown), arranged at some distance upstream of the receiving station, has imparted a signal to the automatic control system that the milk has arrived.
  • the "Receiving" button (not shown) is then depressed in the receiving station, whereupon the automatic control system causes the valves and sluicing means to assume the proper position for receiving, as shown in Fig. 1.
  • the milk in the pipeline by way of a ball, pushes forward the air contained in the pipeline. This air escapes through the pipe 13 which (if required with the use of an interposed sound-deadening device) leads to the free atmosphere.
  • the balls 100, 101 and 102 are already in the tube 7, where they rest upon the sluicing means 24', their final position after the preceding reception of milk. The reason for the prior presence of these three balls 100, 101 and 102 will be discussed hereinafter.
  • the passing if the ball 103 along the detector 27 is signalled through to the automatic control system (not shown).
  • Fig. 1 shows in its final situation that the milk 200 enters through the pipe 3 into the reservoir 1, and that the leading ball 103 is about to fall into the tube 7.
  • the reservoir 1 is filled with milk up to the level signaler 17.
  • the valve 34 is opened, causing the pump 24 to be engaged.
  • the milk flows into the tank vehicle.
  • Fig. 4 shows the situation of the milk level rising up to the level signaler 18, which happens when the milk-feeding capacity becomes greater than the discharging capacity. This causes the valve 36 to be closed, so that the back pressure in the reservoir 1 keeps supply and discharge in equilibrium.
  • valves 31 and 39 are opened, causing the inside of the reservoir to be sprayed with buffer water 300.
  • valve 31 is closed and the spraying is interrupted.
  • This front part of the column of buffer water still contains some milk, which milk now enters the tank vehicle.
  • the amount of buffer water which gets into the tank vehicle along with this milk does not result in any obejctionable diluting of the milk.
  • the tank vehicle is not shown in the drawing.
  • the mixture of milk and buffer water contained in the reservoir is pumped into the tank vehicle.
  • the pump 24 stops when the level signaler 14 is passed.
  • the tank vehicle can be disconnected from the connection 21.
  • the hose 21 should be visualized as being disconnected, the pipe bend 20 being connected instead.
  • the reservoir 1 can now be brought into flow communication with the storage circuit 1000 (see Fig. 30). This is furthermore accomplished by depressing a button (not shown), as a result of which the automatic control system receives the instruction of "Claening". This causes the valve 35 to be opened, and the ball 100 is sluiced with the aid of the fingers of the sluicing means 23' and 24'. This ball 100 now comes to rest sealingly upon the constriction 25. If necessary, the ball is prevented from slipping through, use being made of the finger stop 26.
  • Fig. 11 the valve 35 is closed, and the valves 31 and 39 are open.
  • the inside of the receiving station is now washed, use being made of the pressure in the transmission line.
  • the buffer water 300 is followed by the ball 105, the passage of which is merely registered and counted by the automatic control system.
  • the ball 105 is followed by the pre-rinsing water 301.
  • a pressure builds up in the bypass, as a result of which the ball 100 is forced through the constriction 25 and, by way of the pipe 22, towards the storage circuit 1000 (Fig. 30).
  • the ball is followed by the water 300 and 301.
  • the pump 24 is stopped and the valve 34 closed, whereupon the water rise again, continuing to fall and rise alternately between the level signalers 16 and 17 in the same manner as had first been performed by the milk.
  • valve 31 is closed as a result of the ball 106 -which separates the pre-rinsing water 301 from the cleaning liquid 400 which is now flowing in -- having passed the detector 27.
  • the valve 31 is opened, and the cleaning liquid 400 flows again through the pipe 9 and the spherical spray nozzle 11, on the one hand, and through the spray duct 133 (also see Fig.7), on the other, into the reservoir 1.
  • the valve 34 is opened and the pump 24 started.
  • the ball 101 has now come to separate the two liquids 301 and 400.
  • the level of the cleaning liquid 400 in the reservoir continuous alternating between the level signalers 16 and 17, as had first been the case with the milk and with the water.
  • Fig. 16 shows how, upon the cleaning liquid 400 reaching the level 16 for the first time, the pump 24 is stopped, the valve 31 is closed, and the ball 102 sluiced.
  • Fig. 17 shows that the valve 31 has been opened again and that the cleaning liquid 400 has again reached the level 17.
  • the pump 24 is started.
  • the procedure described with respect to Figs. 16 and 17 is repeated, and the ball 103 is sluices.
  • the launching of additional balls into the cleaning liquid has the purpose of attaining improved cleaning of the transmission line as a result of the sweeping action of the balls.
  • Fig. 1B the cleaning liquid 400 has fully entered into the receiving installation, and the ball 107 -- which separates the cleaning liquid 400 from the post-rinsing water 500 -- has passed the detector 27. As a result, the valve 31 is closed. The level of the cleaning liquid 400 in the reservoir 1 continues to fall.
  • Fig. 20 shows a repetition of the preceding separation of liquids.
  • the post-rinsing water 500 is now entering the reservoir 1 through the spraying devices.
  • valve 33 is opened and subsequently, for five seconds, the valve 34 as well, causing the balls 105, 106, 107 and 108 to fall into the tube 7, having been pushed forward by the mains water 700.
  • valve 36 is opened, and the compressed air 600 is blown off into the free atmosphere through the pipe 13, if required with the use of a sound-deadening device (not whown).
  • the absence of excess pressure in the transmission line is signalled by the pressure switch 40 to the automatic control system.
  • Fig. 26 compressed air 800 is blown in, at the instruction of the pressure switch 40, through the valve 38 which has been opened in the meantime, the valve 35 and 37 being opened as well.
  • the switch 30 is shifted while the valve 37 is being opened.
  • the auxiliary liquids and the separators are now pressed back from the storage circuit 1000 (Fig. 30), through the valve 37, towards the forwarding station (not shown).
  • Fig. 26 shows the moment in which the separator of cleaning liquid 400 and post-rinsing water 500 is passing the valve 37.
  • Fig. 27 shows the situation after arrival of the return dispatch at the forwarding station (not shown). Upon expiration of the maximum of time required for the return dispatch, the valve 38 is closed, and the valves 31 and 36 are opened. The compressed air for the return dispatch is now likewise blown off through the pipe 13.
  • Fig. 28 shows the valves, balls, etc. restored to the situation as represented in Fig.1, the installation thus being ready for receiving the next dispatch of milk.
  • Fig. 29 shows the delivery mechanism, or output part, of the forwarding station, which is not shown itself, which output part' consists of a pipe 50 which is sufficiently wide for accomodating, inside a cage 51 constituted by bars, the balls 103 through 111, in such a way that the milk and the auxiliary liquids which are to leave the forwarding station at the point 52 will be capable of flowing readily along them.
  • the cage of bars is closed on the rear side with the stop 70 so as to allow the balls to be collected on their way back from the receiving station.
  • the numbers 53 and 54 indicate sluicing means, and the number 55 indicates a sight glass for checking whether all balls are present after the arrival of a return consignment as well as for observing the entry of the milk and of the auxiliary liquids.
  • the sluicing means 53 and 54 are actuated, and the first ball 103 starts functioning as separator between the column of air in the transmission line 56 and the milk.
  • Each change of liquid is accompanied by the sluicing of another ball.
  • a flow perturber 58 for example in the form of a ring, is provided slightly upstream from the position of the leading ball. This causes the pure flow around the ball to be disturbed, thus inducing a positive resistance of the ball of sufficient magnitude to allow it to be reliably carried along by the flow of liquid even at the aforementioned minor angle of inclination of the pipe 50.
  • Fig. 30 diagrammatically represents the storage circuit, which assembly is constituted by tubing in which the balls are a sealing fit.
  • Fig. 31 is a sectional view of a ball 60. It consists of a wall 61 of resiliently elastic material such as rubber, in which wall 61 a valve 62 is provided. The inside is occupied by a steel ball 63. The remaining space is filled (virtually) complete with water 64.
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FR2605253A1 (fr) * 1986-10-21 1988-04-22 Elf Aquitaine Lubrifiants Installation d'enfutage
FR2702398A1 (fr) * 1993-03-12 1994-09-16 Steap Sarl Dispositif pour vidanger une tuyauterie contenant un fluide liquide ou pâteux.

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US3779270A (en) * 1972-05-26 1973-12-18 Signet Controls Inc Sphere launcher and receiver
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US3779270A (en) * 1972-05-26 1973-12-18 Signet Controls Inc Sphere launcher and receiver
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WO1988003246A1 (fr) * 1986-10-21 1988-05-05 Societe Des Lubrifiants Elf Aquitaine Installation d'enfutage
FR2702398A1 (fr) * 1993-03-12 1994-09-16 Steap Sarl Dispositif pour vidanger une tuyauterie contenant un fluide liquide ou pâteux.

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