JP2003343953A - Method for forming snow mountain and reserving it cold and cold reserving member - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for reserving a snow mountain cold and a cold reserving material, capable of efficiently storing and reserving the huge snow mountain cold and taking out stored snow and ice cryogenic heat energy in a condition in which it can be effectively used when using it. <P>SOLUTION: Cut-off sheets 1, 2 are laid on the ground surface and its surroundings. After forming the snow mountain 3 deposited on the cut-off sheets 1, 2, an upper part of the whole snow mountain 3 and its face of slope are covered with cold reserving members 4, 5. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention mainly relates to snow areas to form snow mountains by accumulating winter snow, storing the snow mountains until the summer season, and utilizing the snowmelt water of the snow mountains as cold energy in the summer. The present invention relates to a snow mountain creation method, a cold insulation method, and a cold insulation member thereof for loading snow on a snow carrier with a backhoe or the like and transporting it to each snow utilization facility for effective use as refrigerant energy for cooling or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in heavy snowfall areas where there is a lot of snow, not only does snow impede traffic, but snow treatment costs such as snow removal and dumping are also a heavy burden, especially in local cities and rural areas. Snow has been regarded as a nuisance.

Therefore, as described above, the snow which has been treated as a troublesome one is stored, and the snow (ice) is used as a refrigerant for the storage of grains, foods, etc. in the summer, or the snow itself is iced. It has been used for a small amount for a long time in a limited area.

However, with the global warming in recent years,
As a measure for energy saving and CO ₂ control, it has been demanded in the snowy regions of Japan to effectively use the surplus snow, which has been costly for removing snow, as natural cold energy for the production and storage of many agricultural products. .

Therefore, the present inventors repeated various experiments in an actual snowy area for an effective method of storing huge snow mountains accumulated in the winter period in a good cold state until the summer, and evaluated the experimental results. And reached the present invention.

[0006]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION The present invention is capable of efficiently constructing a huge snow mountain and storing it in a cold storage state, and moreover, the stored snow and ice cooling energy can be taken out in a state where it can be effectively utilized when it is used. Prevent the movement of
(EN) Provided are a snow mountain formation, a cold insulation method, and a cold insulation material that suppress the generation of fog and do not adversely affect the surrounding environment.

[0007]

According to the present invention, a waterproofing material is laid on the ground surface and its peripheral portion, and a snow mountain accumulated on the waterproofing material is loaded, and then the upper part of the entire snow mountain and its slope portion. It consists of the method of forming and cooling the snowy mountains covered with cold insulation materials.

[0008] In that case, rice husks, straw, fallen leaves, thinned wood, bark wood, sawdust, and other artificial materials such as foam beads that are easily and inexpensively obtained from nature and artificial materials such as foam beads are used as the cold insulation members. A plurality of unit-shaped cold insulating members are used, and further the cold insulating members are made into a plurality of unit-shaped members, and their surroundings are stacked so that their respective upper and lower layers are alternately arranged to cover the snow mountain.

Further, the snow-cooling member of the present invention is formed by combining members each having a net-like sheet attached to a frame to form a skeleton, and the inside of the skeleton is filled with a natural material having a cold-insulating effect. Further, the net is made of a snow-cooling member provided with string-shaped width-stopping members made of fibers or the like at appropriate intervals in order to maintain the upper and lower intervals.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of a snow mountain creation method, a cold insulation method, and a cold insulation member according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a snow mountain created in one embodiment. FIG. 3 is a side sectional view showing a state of keeping cold with the cold keeping member of the invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of the unit-like cold keeping members 4, 5 covering the snowy mountains of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a direction AA of FIG. 2 is a side sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 2, FIG. 5 is a side view taken along line CC of FIG. 2, and FIG. 6 is a side view taken along line DD of FIG. Is.

In this embodiment, about 100,000 tons of snow mountains 3
Accumulated in the winter and stored by the method of the present invention,
In the summer, etc., the snow is effectively used as a refrigerant energy for various purposes. First, at the time of storing the snowy mountains 3, a bank 19 is provided around the ground to be stored, and water is stopped as a water-stopping material on the ground. The sheet 1 is laid, and the water blocking sheet 2 is also laid on the periphery of the water blocking sheet 1 to form a concave pool having a shallow depth. In addition, instead of the waterproof sheet,
As the water blocking material, a material having a water blocking effect such as asphalt or concrete can be used.

Next, for example, 200 m long x 100 m wide x accumulated on the concave pool composed of the water blocking sheets 1 and 2 above.
After loading the snow mountain 3 having a height of 15 m with a machine such as a dump truck, the cold insulation member 4 shown in FIGS. 2 to 6 and the cold insulation shown in the side view of FIG. The snow mountain 3 is covered by laminating two or more layers of a plurality of unit-shaped members each including the working member 5.

The cold insulating members 4 and 5 are, for example, length L = 1800 mm, width W = 900 mm × thickness T = 75 m.
m is formed in a unit shape, and when these are laminated in two or more layers, as shown in the cold insulating member 5 in FIG. , 6 so that the snow mountains 3 are covered with the two or more layers of cold insulating members 4 and 5 so that the snow mountains 3 are more effectively shielded from the outside air.

Next, the unit-shaped cold insulating member 4,
5, the outer end side 31 and the reinforcing portion 32 form a frame with, for example, an iron wire having a wire diameter of 3.2 mm, and a frame is formed by combining members to which a net-shaped sheet 8 made of plastic or the like is attached. A material 7 having a cooling effect is filled in the inside thereof, and the entire frame is covered with a net 33 such as an insect-proof net. As the cold insulating member used in the present invention, for example, rice husks, straw, fallen leaves, thinned wood, bark wood, sawdust, etc., which are easily and inexpensively obtained from nature, and foam beads etc. are used as artificial materials You can

Further, the net 33 such as an insect-proof net is provided with string-like width stop members 9 made of fibers or the like at appropriate intervals as shown in FIG. .

The mesh of the net 33 such as an insect-proof net is
The material 7 having a cooling effect to be filled inside is dimensioned so as not to go out.

In the unit-shaped cold insulating member thus constructed, a net-shaped sheet 8 made of plastic or the like is attached to the reinforcing portion 32, and a net-shaped width stop member 9 is provided on the net 33 such as an insect-proof net. Therefore, the material 7 filled inside can be prevented from shifting to one side when the cold insulating member is transported and installed, or when the cold insulating member is stacked on the sloped slope of the snow mountain 3 as shown in FIG. 7. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 10 denotes a connecting pin that connects adjacent cold insulating members 4 and 5.

Further, as the material 7 having a cold insulation effect to be filled in the cold insulation members 4 and 5 of the present invention, artificial materials such as foam beads can be used, but rice husks, straws, and fallen leaves are also usable. , Thinned wood, bark wood such as bark chips, and sawdust, as well as materials that can be easily and cheaply obtained from nature in the area where the snow mountain 3 is stored, but the installation location In the case of the rice-growing region, a large amount of rice husks can be obtained at low cost, and the rice husks are lightweight and easy to handle in the results of the experiments conducted by the present inventors. It has been confirmed that it is the most desirable natural material 7.

Next, when the snow cover 3 of the present invention is used for cold storage for a long time in winter and the snow cover 3 is used as cold energy in the next summer, the cross section of FIG. As shown in the figure, the cold water melted from inside the snow mountain 3 is collected by the water collecting pit 20 and collected by the water pipe 13 into the snow melting water tank 11 in the lower part of the underground underground pump hut 12 and pumped up by the water pipe 15. , Send cold water to facilities that make effective use of it.

On the other hand, the snow of the stored snow mountain 3 is taken out by the bulldozer 16 and the backhoe 17, and the truck 18
The snow will be transported to a facility that uses it as cold energy.

[0021]

EFFECTS OF THE INVENTION By adopting the snow mountain formation, the cold insulation method and the cold insulation member of the present invention described above, it is possible to positively accumulate snow, which was conventionally troublesome, in one place, especially in a heavy snow area. By storing in cold storage, the snowy mountains can be effectively used as a huge amount of cold energy in the summer.

That is, according to the present invention, the size is huge and 4
A snow mountain shaped with a steep slope of about 5 ° can be efficiently kept cold and stored, and the stored snow mountain can be taken out in a state where it can be effectively used. Further, the movement of cold air is prevented, the generation of fog is suppressed, and the surrounding environment is not adversely affected.

Further, since the cold insulating member used in the cold insulating method for snowy mountains of the present invention can be filled with natural material having a cold insulating effect, which can be obtained easily and inexpensively in the area,
Cooling members are low in cost, economical, and can be filled with artificial materials when natural materials are difficult or uneconomical.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view showing a state in which a created snow mountain is kept cold by a cold insulating member and a state in which cold energy is taken out from the snow mountain in one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a cold insulating member that covers the upper part of the snow mountain in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a side sectional view taken along line BB of FIG.

FIG. 5 is a side view in the CC direction of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a side view in the DD direction of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a side sectional view showing a two-layer cold insulating member that covers the peripheral portion of the entire snow mountain of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 water stop sheet 2 water stop sheet 3 snow mountains 4 Cooling material 5 Cooling material 6 Alternate 7 Natural materials 8 Net sheet material 9 width stop

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Nao Matsumoto             43-17 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran-shi, Hokkaido (72) Inventor Kiyoshi Yano             3-2-7 Asahi-cho, Numata-cho, Uryu-gun, Hokkaido (72) Inventor Masamichi Matsui             Toa Construction Industry Co., Ltd. 5 Yonbancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Inside the company F-term (reference) 2D044 CA00                 3L044 AA03 BA09 CA18 DC01 KA04

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A snow mountain in which a waterproofing material is laid on the ground surface and its surroundings, and snow mountains accumulated on the waterproofing material are loaded, and then the upper part of the entire snow mountain and its slope are covered with a cooling material. How to create and keep cool. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein a material that is easily and inexpensively obtained from nature, such as rice husks, straw, fallen leaves, thinned wood, bark wood, and sawdust, is used as the cold insulation member. 3. The method of forming and cooling a snowy mountain according to claim 1, wherein an artificial material such as expanded beads is used as a member for keeping cold. 4. The snow mountain formation and cold insulation method according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of unit-shaped cold insulation members are used. 5. The method for forming and maintaining cold of a snow mountain according to claim 4, wherein a plurality of unit-shaped cold insulating members are laminated so that their respective peripheries are alternately arranged in upper and lower two layers to cover the snow mountain. 6. A frame is formed by combining members having a net-like sheet attached to a frame, a material having a cold insulation effect is filled in the frame, and the entire frame is covered with a net. In order to maintain the above interval, a snow mountain cool keeping member provided with a string-shaped width stop material made of fibers or the like at appropriate intervals.