FI129195B

FI129195B - Collection apparatus and system to collect material

Info

Publication number: FI129195B
Application number: FI20185803A
Authority: FI
Inventors: Anssi Mikola
Original assignee: Sennet Oy
Priority date: 2018-09-26
Filing date: 2018-09-26
Publication date: 2021-09-15
Also published as: PH12021550672A1; WO2020064928A1; FI20185803A1

Abstract

This disclosure relates to a collection apparatus (1301) to collect material from water moving in respect to the collection apparatus for recovery of the material, from said water, for a further use. The collection apparatus (1301) has a collection member (1302), collection member holder (1303) and at least one rotational part (1304) for moving the collection member (1302) at at least one collection member holder (1303) on the rotational part (1304), so that at least one collection member holder (1303) and/or a rotational (1304) part has been provided with an energy harvesting member (1305) to harvest energy form the moving water in respect to the collection apparatus (1301), to move the collection member (1302) of the collection apparatus (1301) by the rotational part (1304) being energized to rotate by the harvesting member (1305) harvesting energy from the respective movement of the water.

Description

COLLECTION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM TO COLLECT MATERIAL

TECHNICAL FIELD The embodiments of the invention concern material collection as such in a general level, but in more specific from waters. The embodiments of the invention concern also use of the so collected material, to be used in a recycling process. Embodiments of the invention also concern recycled material manufactured from the collected material, to be used in the recycling process.

BACKGROUND Figs 1-7 indicate a serious problem by pollution of the waters. This happens because — of, for example, as the used plastics, packages and other drop-and-forget related used materials are thrown into the waters when not anymore found useful. In some regions the rivers are used as they were sewers, but having connection to the sea, the river opening turning to a dumping site, where the water floating pollutants end up, therein, and start to form micro plastics, floats etc when sailing to the open sea. The plastics IS in the sea certainly have influence to the food chain, not only to the fish and the other animals and fish, but also back to human beings. The results, published last November in Environmental Science & Technology, show that rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the seas every year, depending on the data used in the models. The 10rivers that carry 93 percent of that trash are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste = into the Yellow Sea (FIG 5).

O

N x The materials from the rivers end up to the oceans. Over 8 million metric tons of o 25 plastic are being observed to enter to the oceans of the world every year (FIG 2). This - is detrimental to the animals living in the waters (FIG 3). a n People in cities do not either care or cannot imagine the severity of the problems 8 caused by throwing waste to the rivers for example (Fig4). If there are many people = that think that one does not make a difference, the cumulative effect can be drastic.

N Even if the problems with the floating debris in the waters were as such acknowledged, the solution has not been found at the priority date of this patent document. Although if there were some ideas as such what could be done with the waste, there is still remaining unsolved (Figs 6 and 7) the problem how to get the waste out of the water, so that the waters were still useful for shipping and traffic, for example. This concerns especially also the waters in rivers and channels like rivers. Korean patent application KR 20120011375 A discloses an apparatus for removing floating materials in a river using wind energy or solar energy. The apparatus has a catching net combined with the wheel elements of a wheel unit and an acquisition new adhered with the wheel unit. Chinese utility model CN 201231850 Y relates to a device for removing objects floating on the surface of water. The device is installed on a ship and is powered by the forward movement of the ship. Chinese utility model CN 207193929 U relates to cleaning device for removing floating garbage from river water. The cleaning device comprises a first fixing device and a second fixing device arranged on opposite banks of a river. The first fixing — device is provided with a vertically disposed driving roller, and the second fixing device 1s provided with a vertically disposed driven roller. The cleaning device may comprise a driving device comprising a water wheel.

SUMMARY It 1s an object of the invention to at least mitigate the influence of the problems that relate to the pollution of the waters. The object of the invention are achieved by aspects of the embodiments of the — invention. The embodiments can be used to concentrate and collect the materials from O waters. + <Q A collection apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention is a collection Ai 25 apparatus to collect material from water moving in respect to the collection apparatus E for recovery of the material, from said water, for a further use, wherein the collection e apparatus has a collection member, collection member holder and at least one 8 rotational part for moving the collection member at at least one collection member 2 holder on the rotational part, so that at least one collection member holder and/or a O . . . . N 30 rotational part has been provided with an energy harvesting member to harvest energy form the moving water in respect to the collection apparatus, to move the collection member of the collection apparatus by the rotational part being energized to rotate by the harvesting member harvesting energy from the respective movement of the water, wherein the collection apparatus has a drogue anchor coupling the collection apparatus to an anchor such that the shape of at least the collection member of the collection apparatus changes in response to objects colliding with the collection apparatus. A system using an embodied collection apparatus as a system element is a system comprising as a system element a collection apparatus according to the collection apparatus of the preceding embodiment to collect material from water moving in — respect to the collection apparatus for recovery of the material, from said water, for a further use, the system comprises at least one of the following further system elements: a concentrating device to concentrate the waste particles in water to a place where they can be collected for lifting the collected material, lifting device to lift the collected material from the water, a first handling device to transport said lifted — collected material at least partly to land, conveyer, container vessel, sorting device, to sort different materials to be separated from other material species of the collected material to material fractions, crushing device, to crush materials of at least one recovered material fraction, recovered from the collected material, for further processing in certain sized items of the material, incineration plant to incinerate the suitable fraction of the incineration sorted material originating to the collected material, a smelting plant to reconstitute suitable fraction of the reconstitution sorted material originating to the collected material, and a packing apparatus to pack suitable fraction of the collected material for a transport to another remote site for further processing. N 25 A re-cycling product manufactured by at least partly by an embodied system is N characterized in that what has been said in an independent claim direct to such a re- x cycling product. o N Other embodiments are shown in the dependent claims. Embodiments are combinable E in suitable part.

O 8 30 According to an embodiment example, the collection apparatus can be used in a river 2 at a collection site. According to an embodiment, the shape of the collection apparatus N can be changed, when observed, for allowing the ship and/or boat traffic in the river. This can be embodied by the position changes of the collecting member holders (with the rotation poles) in respect to each other in the apparatus, when a ship is detected to approach by a ship detector based on sensors specified to detect ships and their movements as such. The drogue anchors can be used in the shape changing, as well as optionally propulsion devices at the collection member holder locations. Optionally or in addition the propulsion devices can be positioned to the drogue anchors. Propulsion devices can be used with jet devices based on the water jets, to provide push or drag for movement. Water jet devices can be used as an option or in addition to the propulsion devices in an embodiment. In another embodiment they can be used in same collection apparatus, in suitable part in suitable location at the — apparatus. Shape changing, can be made to improve allowing water way vessels (i.e. ships or alike) as such to pass the embodied collection apparatus, in a control of a control means in the system, started as a response to a stimulus invoked by a sensor observation about a water way vessel. According to an embodiment the apparatus can be dragged by a ship or a like vessel — in still waters to provide the collection effects of floating pollutants. Other embodiments are illustrated in the dependent claims. Embodiments are combinable in suitable part as such. Number in this application means any positive integer beginning from one (1), for example one, two, three. An ensemble means in this application refers to integers from number 2, if otherwise not differently specified. The expression “to comprise” including the deflected forms has been used as an open N expression, i.e. without intention to limit the number of those objects that are being N comprised, for example. = 2 25

E FIGURES S In the following embodiments of the invention are described. While Figs 1 to & 7illustrate known techniques and/or problems in the field as such, Figs 8 to 17 > illustrate examples of embodiments. Same references are used in different Figs if otherwise not defined.

Figs 1and 2 illustrate waste floating on water as a problem, Fig 3 illustrates severity of the waste to animals, Fig 4 illustrates environmental adverse effects of the wastes to rivers, Fig 5 illustrates top 10 sources of the waste, 5 Figs 6-7 illustrates targets for the embodiments, Fig 8 illustrates embodied solution to the waste problems of waters, Fig 9 illustrates embodiment system to allow free use of the system for shipping, Fig 10 illustrates a transportation device as such to lift waste from a river, Figll illustrates a modular transportation device as such to lift waste from a river at concentrating area from a funnel, formed by concentrating devices, Fig 12 illustrates a value creation of embodiments of the invention, Fig 13 illustrates a general view to an embodiment of the invention, in the example of an embodied collection apparatus, a rolling collection member has been illustrated to move to the direction indicated by the arrows, on the rotational parts, Fig 14 illustrates functionality of embodiments, O Figs 15-17 illustrates optional modules according to an embodiment of the + 20 vention,

I N Fig 18 illustrates as a detail of an embodiment a modular pontoon structure E with a reference to an example with n parts, S Figs 19-20 illustrate a visual appearance of a river with an embodiment,

LO 0 S Fig 21 illustrate an embodied system self sufficient elements with an N . . embodied collection apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION FIG. 13 shows a collection apparatus 1301 to collect material from water moving in respect to the collection apparatus for recovery of the material, from said water, for a further use. The collection apparatus 1301 has a collection member 1302, a collection member holder 1303, and a rotational part 1304 for moving the collection member 1302 at the collection member holder 1303 on the rotational part 1304. The collection member holder 1303 has been provided with an energy harvesting member 1305 to harvest energy form the moving water in respect to the collection apparatus 1301.

In the embodiment of FIG. 13, the collection member 1302 of the collection apparatus 1301 is moved by the rotational part 1304. The rotational part 1304 is energized to rotate by the harvesting member 1305, which harvests energy from the respective movement of the water. The collection apparatus 1301 of FIG. 13 further has a drogue anchor 1307. This allows changing the shape of the collection member 1302 of the collection apparatus 1301.

The scope of the invention has been indicated in the following claims. However, it is clear to a skilled person in the art that features of the details may vary inside inventive concept of the shown embodiments without a departure from the scope of the invention.

N O

N +

I O N

I =

O

O 00

LO 0

O N

Claims

1. Collection apparatus (1301) to collect material from water moving in respect to the collection apparatus for recovery of the material, from said water, for a further use, wherein the collection apparatus (1301) has a collection member (1302), collection member holder (1303) and at least one rotational part (1304) for moving the collection member (1302) at at least one collection member holder (1303) on the rotational part (1304), characterized in that at least one collection member holder (1303) and/or a rotational (1304) part has been provided with an energy harvesting member (1305) to harvest energy form the moving water in respect to the collection apparatus (1301), to move the collection member (1302) of the collection apparatus (1301) by the rotational part (1304) being energized to rotate by the harvesting member (1305) harvesting energy from the respective movement of the water, wherein the collection apparatus (1301) has a drogue anchor (1307) coupling the collection apparatus (1301) to an anchor such that the shape of at least the collection member (1302) of the collection apparatus (1301) changes in response to objects colliding with the collection apparatus (1301).

2. Collection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the material (401) comprises at least one of the following in a solid form or alike: Plastics, metal, glass, ceramics, wood, paper, card board, ply-wood, a combination of said materials, and an object in a form of an article being comprising at least one of said materials.

3. Collection apparatus according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the energy harvesting member to harvest energy form the moving water in respect to the collection apparatus has been provided with a turbine (1305), to harvest the respective - movement of the water to the collection apparatus, to rotate the collection member.

QA

4. Collection apparatus according to claims 1, 2 or 3, wherein the apparatus <Q comprises a propulsion device to change the position and/or shape of the apparatus.

O 2

5. Collection apparatus according to any previous claim 1 to 4, wherein the - collection apparatus comprises an ensemble of floats (1306), comprising at least one S float therein, to hold the collection member at the surface of the water and/or in o 30 certain depth between the water surface and the bottom.

O

N

6. Collection apparatus according to any previous claim 1 to 5, wherein the collection apparatus is arranged to be movable from one position to another different position, propulsion devices and/or water jet devices being used to provide push or drag for movement.

7. System (1201) to collect material from water moving in respect to the collection apparatus for recovery of the material, from said water, for a further use, the system comprises at least one of the following further system elements: - a concentrating device to concentrate the waste particles in water to a place where they can be collected for lifting the collected material, - lifting device to lift the collected material from the water, - a first handling device to transport said lifted collected material at least partly to land, - conveyer, - container vessel, - sorting device, to sort different materials to be separated from other material species of the collected material to material fractions, - crushing device, to crush materials of at least one recovered material fraction, recovered from the collected material, for further processing in certain sized items of the material, - incineration plant to incinerate the suitable fraction of the incineration sorted material originating to the collected material, - a smelting plant to reconstitute suitable fraction of the reconstitution sorted material originating to the collected material, and - a packing apparatus to pack suitable fraction of the collected material for a SN 25 transport to another remote site for further processing,

O a characterized in that the system (1201) comprises as a system element e a collection apparatus according to any previous claim 1 to 6.

E

8. A re-cyling product characterized by being manufactured by at least 2 partly by a system element of the system (1201) of claim 7.

00 co

N