EP0783380B1 - Low velocity air density separator - Google Patents
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- EP0783380B1 EP0783380B1 EP95933903A EP95933903A EP0783380B1 EP 0783380 B1 EP0783380 B1 EP 0783380B1 EP 95933903 A EP95933903 A EP 95933903A EP 95933903 A EP95933903 A EP 95933903A EP 0783380 B1 EP0783380 B1 EP 0783380B1
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21B—FIBROUS RAW MATERIALS OR THEIR MECHANICAL TREATMENT
- D21B1/00—Fibrous raw materials or their mechanical treatment
- D21B1/02—Pretreatment of the raw materials by chemical or physical means
- D21B1/026—Separating fibrous materials from waste
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
- B07B4/00—Separating solids from solids by subjecting their mixture to gas currents
- B07B4/08—Separating solids from solids by subjecting their mixture to gas currents while the mixtures are supported by sieves, screens, or like mechanical elements
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
- B07B1/00—Sieving, screening, sifting, or sorting solid materials using networks, gratings, grids, or the like
- B07B1/28—Moving screens not otherwise provided for, e.g. swinging, reciprocating, rocking, tilting or wobbling screens
- B07B1/38—Moving screens not otherwise provided for, e.g. swinging, reciprocating, rocking, tilting or wobbling screens oscillating in a circular arc in their own plane; Plansifters
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
- B07B11/00—Arrangement of accessories in apparatus for separating solids from solids using gas currents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
- B07B11/00—Arrangement of accessories in apparatus for separating solids from solids using gas currents
- B07B11/06—Feeding or discharging arrangements
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
- B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
- B07B9/00—Combinations of apparatus for screening or sifting or for separating solids from solids using gas currents; General arrangement of plant, e.g. flow sheets
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21B—FIBROUS RAW MATERIALS OR THEIR MECHANICAL TREATMENT
- D21B1/00—Fibrous raw materials or their mechanical treatment
- D21B1/02—Pretreatment of the raw materials by chemical or physical means
- D21B1/023—Cleaning wood chips or other raw materials
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- the present invention relates to apparatuses and methods for separating fractions of a particulate material in general. More particularly, the present invention relates to apparatuses and methods for utilizing air to separate components of a particulate material on the basis of differing density and aerodynamic factors.
- the air density separator uses a vertical separation chamber through which a stream of air is drawn with a velocity in the range of four to five thousand feet per minute (20,3 to 25,4 m/s). Wood chips to be separated are metered by an auger into the separation chamber where the high velocity air stream disperses the chips evenly over the chamber. The more dense knots fall through the uprising current of air and are rejected. The lighter chips are drawn from the separation chamber by the flow of air and separated from the air by a cyclone.
- US-A-4,280,903 discloses an apparatus and method for separating mixed particulate material based on density and aerodynamic factors.
- the material to be separated falls onto a separating medium fixed in a chamber.
- the chamber is vibrated and the light particles are entrained upwardly by an air stream, whereas the heavier particles traverse the separating medium.
- US-A-4,299,694 discloses a separating apparatus and method where a series of separating rods or bars are adjustable in relative orientation to regulate the separation velocity and turbulence of an air stream to enhance the separating action.
- the apparatus and method of the invention comprises the features of claims 1 and 12, respectively.
- air is drawn through the conduit at a velocity insufficient to disperse the particulate material and the particulate material discharged onto the vibrating foraminous member is evenly dispersed across the cross section of the conduit into the upwardly moving air stream within the conduit.
- the air density separation apparatus of the present invention employs a vertical air separation chamber.
- the vertical air separation chamber is connected to a cyclone which in turn is connected to a fan.
- the fan draws air out of the cyclone which in turn causes air to be drawn up through the open-bottomed separation chamber.
- air density separators utilized in separating wood chips from wood knots, air is drawn rapidly up through the separation chamber at four to five thousand feet per minute (20.3 to 25.4 m/s).
- the wood chips are metered into the separation chamber through an air lock or a supply auger.
- the auger dumps the chips into the high velocity air stream where the high velocity air disperses the chips across the separation chamber so that the rising stream of air may separate the chips based on their density and cross-sectional area.
- the separation chamber is somewhat longer and the air is drawn up through the chamber at approximately seven hundred to eight hundred feet per minute (3.55 to 4.06 m/s). Because of the relatively low velocity of the air, the air stream itself is noneffective at dispersing the shredded plastic bottles and their associated paper labels evenly into the air stream.
- a grid of closely spaced narrow bars extends into the separation chamber. The bars are cantilevered into the separation chamber and are caused to vibrate by an oscillatory mounting.
- the shredded material may be fed by an ordinary chute without an air lock onto the deck of the grid of bars. Air moving rapidly between the bars lifts and separates the various constituents of the shredded bottles.
- the lightweight paper is drawn up through the separation chamber and into the cyclone.
- the cyclone removes the lightweight paper from the air stream and air is drawn from the cyclone by a fan.
- the air density separator of this invention is estimated to remove ninety-five to ninety-eight percent of the paper from a feed of shredded plastic bottles with a loss of plastic with the paper of only zero to one percent.
- FIG. 1 a low velocity air density separator 20 is shown in FIG. 1.
- the air density separator 20 has a vertically disposed conduit 22 which defines a vertical air separation chamber 24. Mixed particulate matter 44 is introduced into the separation chamber 24 from a material hopper 58.
- the air separation chamber 24 is connected by a duct 26 to a cyclone 28.
- the cyclone is connected to a fan 30. The fan draws air from the cyclone 28 which in turn draws air through the duct 26 which causes a stream of air indicated by arrows 32 to enter the bottom 34 of the conduit 22.
- the mixed material 44 is discharged from the hopper 58 along an inclined chute 60 onto a foraminous screen formed by a grill 36 disposed within the separation chamber 24.
- the grill 36 has a multiplicity of closely spaced narrow bars 38 which extend across the conduit 22 between a material inlet 40 and a trash outlet 42.
- the grill 36 is cantilevered from a mount 46 which resiliently supports the grill 36 on springs 48.
- a ferromagnetic member 50 is mounted to the grill 36 and is driven by a solenoid 52 to cause the grill 36 to vibrate at about sixty Hertz. Certain material will be entrained in the upwardly moving air and will leave the separation chamber through the duct 26. The remaining particulate material which is not entrained and which is of a size to pass through the grill 36 will exit the separation chamber 24 through the bottom 34 of the conduit 22 and will be collected on a conveyor 35.
- a conventional air density separator air is drawn up through the separation chamber at four to five thousand feet per minute (20,3 to 25,4 m/s) while the granular material to be separated such as wood chips is dispensed into the air chamber either by a chute with an air lock or by an auger which distributes the material across the separation chamber.
- the high velocity air stream moving up through the separation chamber is effective to disperse the granular material being separated in the air stream. Materials which are sufficiently dense fall down through the separation chamber whereas lighter materials become entrained in the air and are drawn into a cyclone where they are separated.
- An air density separator separates a particulate matter depending on what is known in the aerodynamic field as ballistic coefficient.
- Ballistic coefficient is a function of the density of the object, the area of the object presented to the air stream, and a shape-dependent coefficient.
- Ballistic coefficient controls the maximum rate at which an object will fall through a still column of air. Because the resistance of an object through the air increases with velocity, an object which is accelerated by the earth's gravitational force eventually reaches a velocity where the acceleration force of gravity is balanced by the drag force of the air through which the object is moving.
- This principal is used to separate the granular material into two or more components based on the ballistic coefficient of the granules.
- the granular material By introducing the granules into an upwardly moving stream of air which has a velocity which is greater than the terminal velocity of some of the particles and less than the terminal velocity of other particles, the granular material will be separated into two fractions.
- an air velocity in the range of four to five thousand feet per minute (20.3 to 25.4 m/s) is chosen which exceeds the terminal velocity of the wood chips, thereby causing them to rise to the top of the air chamber and be transported through a duct to a cyclone.
- the knots which have a terminal velocity greater than four to five thousand feet per minute (20.3 to 25.4 m/s), fall through the air to exit the bottom of the separation chamber.
- An exemplary problem addressed by the low velocity air density separator 20 is separating shredded paper from shredded plastic.
- the recycling of post-consumer plastic bottles has resulted in a feed stock formed by the shredding of plastic milk bottles or plastic pop bottles.
- the feed stock contains both plastic from the bottles and paper from the labels associated with the bottles.
- the plastic shards 54 as seen in FIG. 2 are of a thicker gauge of material than the paper or light grade plastic labels, they have a higher ballistic co-efficient and can be separated in theory in an air density separator.
- both the plastic and the paper are of relatively low ballistic coefficient and so the velocity of the air in the air density separator must be in the range of five hundred to a thousand feet per minute (2.54 to 5.08 m/s), preferably in the range of seven to eight hundred feet per minute (3.55 to 4.06 m/s).
- the problem with these low velocities can be readily demonstrated by taking a handful of paper confetti such as the punchings from a paper punch and dropping them into the air. Some of the paper punchings will become dispersed and rapidly reach their terminal velocity and slowly settle to the floor. Others, however, will clump together and fall as a unit reaching the floor first.
- it is observed with lightweight materials they must be adequately dispersed in the column of air moving up through the vertical separation chamber 24 if it is desired to reliably separate them on the basis of their ballistic coefficients.
- the grill 36 formed of closely spaced narrow bars 38.
- the bars 38 In a chamber having dimensions of approximately fourteen inches (35.5 cm) by twenty-six inches (66 cm), the bars 38 would have a depth of one and a half inches (3.8 cm) with a thickness of one and a half to three millimeters and a bar to bar gap of between one-eighth and one-fourth of an inch (0.32 and 0.63 cm) when used with a shredded material 44 having an average size of one-quarter inch to one half inch (0.63 cm to 1.27 cm).
- the bars 38 are formed into the grill 36 within a frame 64.
- One or more transverse reinforcements may be installed on the underside of the grill 36 formed by the bars 38.
- shredded plastic and paper is fed on the chute 60 onto the deck 62 of the grill 36.
- the chute 60 extends partially over the grill 36 within the separation chamber.
- a cover 63 may be provided to prevent buildup of material on portions of the grill not within the chamber.
- the vibrating grill 36 disperses the granular material across the deck.
- the air stream which passes up through the bars 38 of the deck lofts the lightweight paper 56 and entrains it in the flow of air.
- the heavier plastic 54 slides through the bars and drops out the open end of the duct 22.
- Table 2 summarizes the results of three tests which were run with twenty pound samples in the air density separator 20.
- a shredded mixture of plastic and paper having a bulk density of 18.5 pounds per cubic foot (296.5 kg/m 3 ) was fed at a rate of fifteen hundred pounds (680 kg) per hour into the separation chamber, 5.8 percent of the material was recovered from the cyclone as paper and 94.2 percent was recovered from the bottom of the separation chamber and consisted of plastic.
- test was run at feed rates of two thousand pounds (907 kg) per hour and twenty-five hundred pounds (1134 kg) per hour. A slightly lesser amount of paper was recovered at the higher rates. It appears separation of the paper from the plastic is slightly less effective at higher rates. Visual inspection of the separated plastic and paper indicated that approximately ninety-five to ninety-eight percent of the paper was removed from the plastic and only zero to one percent of the plastic was lost with the removed paper.
- the air density separator 20 inlet 40 does not require an air lock because of the relatively low velocity of the air.
- the relatively small effect that openings in the wall 70 of the conduit 22 have on the stream is utilized to allow an oversize tray 72 to extend from the deck 62 of the grill 36 through the wall 74 opposite the inlet wall 70. Trash which has become included in the granular material 44 traverses the sloped grill 36 and exits the duct 22 on the chute 72 which directs the trash for collection in a reject bin 78, as shown in FIG. 1.
- the cyclone 28 uses centrifugal forces to separate the majority of the particulate material from the air stream.
- the cyclone has an air lock 80 which allows the paper to be removed from the cyclone.
- the air that is withdrawn from the cyclone passes through the fan and then into a bag house (not shown) where any residual dust is removed before venting to the atmosphere.
- the low velocity air density separator 20 may employ a foraminous member of configuration other than a grill of narrow bars.
- the foraminous member could be a vibrating screen, or a vibrating plate with holes punched therein.
- the foraminous member could consist of an interdigitating bar screen with alternating bars oscillating one hundred eighty degrees out of phase with respect to adjacent bars.
- separation chamber 24 of approximately 10 feet in height has been illustrated, the separation chamber may be shorter or longer.
- the low velocity air density separator may be used to separate products other than shredded post-consumer plastic containers.
- the density separator 20 has utility for separating dirt and sand from wood chips.
- vibration is not limited to the vibratory action in a vertical plane produced by the solenoid arrangement shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 but encompasses vibrating in all planes and oscillatory motion such as employed by a bar screen.
- the grill 36 could be caused to vibrate at other frequencies and other mechanisms for causing the vibration could be employed including a drive employing eccentric weights, cam followers on a crank shaft, piezoelectric actuators and systems caused to vibrate by high amplitude low frequency air pressure waves including sound waves.
Description
Suction Pressure Head | Air velocity (Ft./Minute) (0.3 m/min) | Flow rate (CFM) (0.028 m3/min) |
@ 1" of H2O | 869 | 2,140 |
@ 2" of H2O | 825 | 2,030 |
@ 3" of H2O | 784 | 1,530 |
@ 4" of H2O | 739 | 1,800 |
@ 5" of H2O | 695 | 1,710 |
@ 6" of H2O | 656 | 1,615 |
@ 7" of H2O | 609 | 1,500 |
@ 8" of H2O | 559 | 1,375 |
PAPER | PLASTIC | |
1500#/HR | 5.8% | 94.2% |
2000#/HR | 5.7% | 94.3% |
2500#/HR | 5.3% | 94.7% |
Claims (14)
- An apparatus for separating mixed particulate material based on density and aerodynamic factors, said apparatus comprising:a substantially vertically extending conduit (22) having walls (70) with a top and a downwardly open bottom (34), the walls (70) defining a passage for the upward flow of air, said passage having a cross sectional area;a duct (26) connected to the top of the conduit and joined thereto so as to allow air to be drawn up through the conduit (22);a fan (30) connected to the duct (26) which draws air through the conduit (22) at low velocity insufficient to disperse said particulate material;a foraminous member (36) extending into the conduit (22) and into the air passage, said foraminous member (36) extending substantially from wall to wall in said conduit (22) and having openings of sufficient size to pass therethrough said particulate material; anda means (50, 52) for vibrating the foraminous member (36), wherein mixed particulate material discharged onto the foraminous member (36) is thus substantially evenly dispersed across said cross sectional area into an upwardly moving air stream within the conduit (22), with individual particles being thus exposed to said airstream, certain particles being entrained in the air and transported out of the conduit (22) upwardly, and other particles passing through the foraminous member (36) to exit the conduit bottom.
- The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the foraminous member (36) comprises a plurality of narrow bars (38) arrayed in spaced parallel relation.
- The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the bars (38) forming the grill (36) are between one and a half and three millimeters wide and are spaced apart between one-eight and one-quarter of an inch (3.2 mm and 6.3 mm).
- The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the foraminous member (36) is resiliently mounted externally to the conduit (22) and slopes downwardly into the conduit (22).
- The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a feed chute (60) extending into the duct and positioned above the foraminous member (36) for delivering mixed particulate material to the foraminous member (36).
- The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a cyclone (28) connected between the duct (26) and the fan (30).
- The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the conduit walls define a cross-sectional area, and wherein the fan (30) has the capability of drawing between five hundred and one thousand cubic feet (14.2 and 28.4 m3) of air per minute per square foot (0.09 m2) of cross-sectional area of the conduit when running at its maximum capability.
- The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the means (50, 52) for vibrating the foraminous member (36) is a solenoid (52) which magnetically engages the foraminous member (36) causing it to vibrate.
- The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the conduit (22) has a material inlet (40) and a material outlet (42) beneath and opposed to the inlet and wherein the foraminous member (36) extends between the inlet (40) and the outlet (42) and slopes downwardly from the inlet to the outlet so that granular material placed on the foraminous member (36) which neither falls through the foraminous member nor is entrained in a stream of air moving up through the conduit (22) progresses along the foraminous member (36) from the inlet (40) to the outlet (42) for discharge from the conduit (22).
- The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the conduit (22) has a rectangular cross-section and wherein the foraminous member (36) has a surface area substantially equal to greater than the cross-section of the conduit (22).
- The apparatus according to any of claims 1 to 10 wherein bottom (34) is open to the atmosphere so that a stream of air may be drawn from the bottom to the top of the conduit (22);the foraminous member (36) is a grill (36) of narrow bars (38) arrayed in spaced parallel relation which extends into the conduit (22), the grill (36) being resiliently mounted exterior to the conduit (22) such that the bars (38) slope downwardly into the conduit (22);the means (50, 52) causing the grill (36) to vibrate being mounted externally to the conduit (22) and in driving relation with the grill (36); and further comprising;an infeed chute (60) extending into the duct (26) above the grill (36) which delivers mixed particulate material having at least two components of differing terminal velocities to the grill (36); anda cyclone (28) in receiving relation with the duct (26) at the top of the conduit (22), wherein the component of the mixed particulate material having a lower terminal velocity is entrained in the air received in the cyclone (28) is separated from the air therein, the fan (30) connected to the cyclone (28) for pulling the stream of air through the conduit (22) and the cyclone (28).
- A method for separating into separate fractions a stream of mixed particulate material, based on density and aerodynamic factors, the method comprising the steps of:delivering a stream of particulate material to a vibrating foraminous member (36) enclosed in a conduit (22), wherein the material has at least two components having differing terminal velocities;drawing a current of air up through the conduit (22) at a velocity insufficient to disperse the material, but of sufficient velocity to entrain at least a portion of the particulate material;vibrating the foraminous member (36) for dispersing the material substantially evenly across the cross-sectional area of the conduit (22) into the upwardly moving current of air within the conduit (22), so that the dispersed material may be separated on the basis of its terminal velocity in the current of air, whereby the component of the mixed particulate material having a lower terminal velocity is entrained in the current of air;carrying the entrained component of the material in the current of air upwardly out of the conduit (22); andpassing the unentrained component of the mixed particulate material through the foraminous member (36) to exit the conduit bottom (34).
- The method of claim 12, wherein the current of air is drawn up through the conduit (22) at a velocity of between 500 and 1000 feet per minute (2.54 and 5.08 m/s).
- The method of claim 13, wherein the particulate material being separated is comprised of post-consumer plastic articles which are shredded to form the particulate material and wherein a first component is comprised of shards of plastic and second component is comprised of a thinner material having a lower terminal velocity.
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