JP2014108373A - Screw press type sludge dehydrator, and operation control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To treat various sludge having different properties with a single apparatus without stopping the operation to produce a dehydrated cake of a possible lowest water content depending on each sludge property.SOLUTION: In an operation control method of a screw press type sludge dehydrator, sludge is supplied to an inlet of a screw press dehydrating machine with a constant supply pressure and conveyed to an outlet by a screw shaft 6 having a predetermined rotating speed, while a load (a current value of a motor 10) to rotate the screw shaft is monitored. If the load increases to a specified value when the outlet is closed in this situation, the outlet is opened to discharge a dehydrated cake. On the other hand, if the load remains substantially unchanged when the outlet is closed, prolongation of an interval of closing the outlet is repeated predetermined times. If the load still remains unchanged, the outlet is opened to discharge the dehydrated cake.

Description

  The present invention relates to a screw press-type sludge dewatering device and an operation control method thereof, and more particularly, to a screw press-type sludge dewatering device for dewatering sludge having properties such as organic and inorganic by pressing with a screw press and an operation control method thereof.

  In order to incinerate, dispose of, or secondary use sludge generated in sewage treatment, water purification treatment, factory wastewater treatment, etc., sludge is generally dehydrated. In addition, since the dewatered sludge (hereinafter referred to as cake) is incinerated or transported as industrial waste, it is desired to dehydrate it to a sludge with a moisture content as low as possible. An example of using a screw press dehydrator for the dehydration process is known.

  As shown in Patent Documents 1, 2, 3, etc., a screw press dehydrator is provided with a cylindrical body that is long in the front-rear direction and is made of a punching plate, and has a sludge supply port at the front of the cylindrical body. A cake discharge port at the rear, a screw shaft provided with a spiral screw blade on the outer periphery of the shaft gradually increasing in diameter from the front to the rear, and further, the discharge port A scraper that can be opened and closed is provided.

  When sludge conditioned by a flocculant is supplied from the supply port of the dehydrator to the inside of the cylinder, the sludge is sent to the rear of the cylinder by the rotation of the screw shaft. It is squeezed in the gap with the circumference. Thereby, the dewatered cake is pushed out from the discharge port while the water in the sludge is discharged from the hole of the punching plate to the outside of the cylinder.

  When sludge is dewatered with this type of screw press dehydrator, the main control items are the sludge treatment amount, the flocculant injection rate, and the moisture content of the dehydrated cake. The cake moisture content varies depending on the sludge properties. It is also greatly affected by sludge tempering with flocculants.

  For this reason, in order to control the moisture content in the dewatered cake, the opening and closing of the discharge port is controlled by a scraper, and the rotation speed of the screw shaft is adjusted.

  Patent Document 3 discloses a cake moisture content constant control device. Specifically, the moisture content of the dehydrated cake is measured at the cake discharge part of the screw press dehydrator, and when the measured moisture content is out of the preset standard moisture content range, the rotational speed or agglomeration of the screw shaft There has been proposed an apparatus for controlling the moisture content of the dehydrated cake so as to be within the range of the reference moisture content by increasing or decreasing the amount of the agent injected.

Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-30836 JP 2000-176499 A JP 2008-2221060 A

  Sludge to be dewatered is sludge with a relatively high organic ratio (80% or more) such as sewage sludge, paper sludge, activated sludge (hereinafter referred to as organic sludge), construction sludge, and water treatment plant sludge. The sludge is classified into sludge (hereinafter referred to as inorganic sludge) having a relatively low organic ratio (60% or less) such as crushed stone sludge and polished sludge. Moreover, the limit point which can reduce a water content differs with the property (especially organic matter content rate: VSS / SS) in a sludge. In general, it is known that organic sludge is more difficult to dehydrate (hard to dehydrate) than inorganic sludge. In the case of organic sludge, the volume of the dehydrated cake is reduced by pressing the screw press in the dehydration process using a screw press dehydrator, but the cake itself remains fluid even when the limit of moisture content is reached. . On the other hand, in the case of inorganic sludge, the volume of the dewatered cake is reduced by pressing the screw press, and when the limit of the moisture content reduction is reached, the dewatered cake becomes completely incompressible and the fluidity of the cake is lost. In other words, the limit point for lowering the moisture content is much higher for organic sludge than for inorganic sludge.

  However, as described in Patent Document 3, the method of measuring the moisture content in the dewatered cake discharge part and keeping the value within the range of the reference moisture content treats the sludge into a cake with a constant moisture content. I am aiming for that.

  For this reason, in the method described in Patent Document 3, when a plurality of types of sludge having different properties are irregularly supplied to the screw press dehydrator, each property of sludge that is sequentially supplied into the machine is changed to that property. In combination, it cannot be processed into a cake with the lowest possible moisture content. In other words, any type of sludge is processed into a cake with a constant moisture content.

  For example, when organic sludge is processed into a cake having a reference moisture content with the apparatus described in Patent Document 3, and then the inorganic sludge is supplied into the apparatus, the moisture content of the cake is further reduced in the case of inorganic sludge. However, it is only adjusted to the above reference moisture content range. In order to treat the inorganic sludge into a cake having a minimum moisture content in accordance with its properties, an operation for stopping the operation and resetting the reference moisture content occurs. A single dehydrator cannot automatically reduce the water content of organic sludge and inorganic sludge to the limit.

  In addition, there are other problems as follows.

  The conventional screw press dehydrator can prevent overload and obtain a cake with uniform moisture content by controlling the rotational speed of the screw for sludge with good filterability. For the sludge, the filtration surface of the punching plate is clogged at an early stage when the volume of the filtration chamber is reduced and compressed and dehydrated. Or if it squeezes rapidly, sludge will be discharged | emitted from the hole of a punching plate with a filtrate, and there exists a possibility that a filtrate may be suspended. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the pressure of raw sludge in the dehydrator constant for safe operation. In the conventional screw press dehydrator, the supply of raw sludge supplied to the dehydrator is controlled by controlling the mud pump. The flow rate is made constant.

  However, when the concentration of raw sludge and filterability change occur, the amount of solids processed changes. For example, the treatment amount increases as the concentration of sludge increases, and the treatment amount decreases as the concentration decreases. As described above, in the constant control of the sludge supply flow rate, the solid material processing amount varies depending on the sludge concentration, and therefore the press-fitting pressure of the raw sludge cannot be controlled constant.

  In view of the problems of the prior art as described above, the present invention provides a dehydrated cake having a moisture content as low as possible in accordance with each sludge property without stopping operation of various sludges having different properties. The purpose is to process.

  In the first aspect of the present invention, sludge is supplied to the inlet of the screw press dehydrator at a constant press-fitting pressure, and the screw shaft in the screw press dehydrator is rotated and the outlet of the screw press dehydrator is opened and closed. The present invention relates to an operation control method for a screw press sludge dewatering device that discharges a dewatered cake that has been squeezed from the outlet.

  In this method, the sludge supplied to the inlet of the dehydrator at a constant press-fitting pressure is sent to the outlet of the dehydrator with a screw shaft having a predetermined rotation speed, and the load for rotating the screw shaft is monitored. When the outlet of the dehydrator is closed in this state and the load increases and reaches a specified value, the outlet is opened and the dehydrated cake is discharged. On the other hand, if the load is not substantially changed when the outlet is closed, the time during which the outlet is closed is extended a predetermined number of times, and if the load does not increase, Open the outlet and drain the dehydrated cake.

  Furthermore, a 2nd aspect is an operation control method of the said screw press type sludge dehydration apparatus, Comprising: It has the following steps ae.

  a) A scraper that opens and closes an outlet of a screw press dehydrator, a motor that rotates the screw shaft, and a load receiving unit that receives a motor current value given to the motor for rotation of the screw shaft as a load of the screw shaft And the stage of preparing.

  b) Obtaining the motor current value when the sludge supplied to the dehydrator inlet at a constant press-fitting pressure is being sent to the dehydrator outlet from the load receiver to determine whether the load is high load operation or low load operation Stage.

  c) When the motor current value obtained from the load receiver is within a specified current range determined to be high load operation, the outlet is closed by a scraper for a predetermined time, thereby increasing the motor current value and causing the high load operation. When the upper limit of the specified current range is reached, it is determined that the water content of the dewatered cake is lowered and the first process of operating the scraper to open the outlet of the dewaterer is performed.

  d) When the motor current value obtained from the load receiving unit is within a specified current range determined to be low load operation, the outlet of the dehydrator is closed for a predetermined time with a scraper, thereby increasing the motor current value, A step of performing a second process of switching to high load operation when the upper limit of the specified current range of low load operation and the lower limit of the specified current range of high load operation are exceeded.

  e) Whether the motor current value obtained from the load receiver is within the specified current range determined to be high load operation or the specified current range determined to be low load operation, use a scraper to open the outlet of the dehydrator. If it is determined that the motor current value has not substantially increased in a state where it is closed for a predetermined time, the scraper closing time is extended a predetermined number of times, whereby the motor current value is reduced. If it does not increase, it is determined that the moisture content of the dewatered cake has reached the limit point, and the scraper is operated to open the outlet of the dewatering machine. If the motor current value increases again, the first or second Step to shift to the processing of 2.

  The third aspect is the above-described screw press type sludge dewatering device, wherein a scraper that opens and closes the outlet of the dehydrator, a motor that rotates the screw shaft, and a motor that is applied to the motor for rotating the screw shaft A load receiver that receives the current value as a load of the screw shaft, and a load receiver that receives the motor current value when the sludge supplied at a constant press-fitting pressure to the inlet of the dehydrator is sent to the outlet of the dehydrator And a load discriminating unit for discriminating between high load operation and low load operation.

  Then, when the motor current value obtained from the load receiving unit is within a specified current range determined to be high load operation, the load determining unit closes the outlet of the dehydrator with a scraper for a predetermined time, whereby the motor current value is When it rises and reaches the upper limit of the specified current range of the high load operation, it is determined that the moisture content of the dewatered cake is lowered, and a first process is performed to operate the scraper to open the outlet of the dewaterer.

  The load discriminating unit also closes the outlet of the dehydrator with a scraper for a predetermined time when the motor current value obtained from the load receiving unit is within a specified current range determined to be low load operation, thereby increasing the motor current value. When the upper limit of the specified current range of the low load operation and the lower limit of the specified current range of the high load operation are exceeded, a second process for switching to the high load operation is performed.

  The load discriminating unit also uses a scraper to remove the dehydrator regardless of whether the motor current value obtained from the load receiving unit is within a specified current range determined to be high load operation or a specified current range determined to be low load operation. If it is determined that the motor current value has not substantially increased with the outlet of the motor closed for a predetermined time, the scraper closing time is extended by a predetermined number of times, whereby the motor When the current value does not increase, it is determined that the decrease in the moisture content of the dewatered cake has reached the limit point, and the scraper is operated so as to open the outlet of the dewatering machine. Alternatively, the process proceeds to the second process.

  In the second and third aspects, the upper limit of the specified current range of the high load operation reaches the limit point of water content reduction by dewatering sludge having the best dewaterability assumed in the sludge dewatering device. It is preferable that the motor current value is.

  According to the present invention, sludges having different properties such as organic sludge and inorganic sludge can be dehydrated cakes with the lowest possible water content in accordance with each sludge property without stopping the operation with a single machine. Can be.

The side view which notched and showed the screw press dehydrator of the sludge dehydration apparatus by one Embodiment of this invention. The control block diagram which controls the screw press dehydrator of FIG. 1 and the incidental equipment relevant to this. The graph which shows an example of the operation (pressing pressure constant control) of the inlet side of the screw press dehydrator of FIG. The graph which shows an example of operation (cake water content control) of the exit side of the screw press dehydrator of FIG.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a side view of a sludge dewatering apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, partially cut away from a screw press dewatering machine, and FIG. 2 shows the screw press dewatering machine of FIG. 1 and its associated equipment. It is a control block diagram to control.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the screw press dehydrator used in the sludge dewatering apparatus of this embodiment includes a cylindrical body 1 formed of a cylindrical punching plate that is long in the front-rear direction. The front part 1a of the cylinder 1 on the right side of FIG. 1 is closed with a wall, and a sludge supply port (inlet) is formed on the wall. A press-fitting pipe 2 for press-fitting sludge into the cylinder 1 is connected to the supply port. The press-fitting pipe 2 is connected to the outlet of the coagulation mixing tank 3 shown in FIG. 2, and the sludge storage tank 4 and a plurality of coagulant tanks 5 </ b> A, 5 </ b> B, 5 </ b> C are connected to the inlet side of the coagulation mixing tank 3.

  A screw shaft 6 is built in the cylinder 1 made of a punching plate. The screw shaft 6 includes a spiral screw blade 6a on the outer periphery of a shaft that gradually increases in diameter from the front portion to the rear portion of the cylindrical body 1. The rear portion 1b of the cylindrical body 1 is opened as a dewatering cake discharge port (exit), and the left end portion of the screw shaft 6 in FIG. 1 extends outside the cylindrical body 1 through the cake discharge port. A sprocket 7 is provided at the left end. Further, a tapered cone-shaped scraper 8 is installed to open and close the cake discharge port in the left-right direction in FIG. The scraper 8 is driven to open and close by a double-acting hydraulic cylinder 9 (see FIG. 2). The pressure closing the cake discharge port is controlled to be constant.

  The driving force of the screw drive motor 10 (see FIG. 2) is transmitted to the sprocket 7 through a chain or a belt, and the screw shaft 6 rotates. With this rotation, the sludge that is press-fitted into the cylinder 1 is pumped to the left in FIG. 1 by the screw blades 6 a of the screw shaft 6.

  The sludge immediately after the press-fitting proceeds through the numerous holes of the punching plate mainly by its own weight. Sludge that has been dewatered to some extent by gravity filtration is further dewatered through a number of holes in the punching plate due to the frictional effect of the flocks. Next, the dewatered sludge is further dewatered through a large number of holes in the punching plate by the pressing force of the screw blade 6a and the squeezing force of the scraper 8 on the left end side of the screw shaft 6 to form a dewatered cake.

  The scraper 8 squeezes the dehydrated cake together with pressing when the cake discharge port is closed by the hydraulic cylinder 9. The dehydrated cake cut by the scraper 8 is discharged out of the system. Further, the filtrate that has flowed out of the cylindrical body 1 through the hole of the punching plate is also discharged out of the system (see FIG. 2).

  In addition, it is desirable that piping for flowing steam is provided in the shaft portion (hollow shaft) of the screw shaft 6 so that the sludge in the cylindrical body 1 can be heated.

  Moreover, as shown in FIG. 2, the sludge storage tank 4 stores sludge to be dehydrated. A mud supply pump 11 is provided in a line for supplying sludge from the sludge storage tank 4 to the coagulation mixing tank 3. Furthermore, drug injection pumps 12A, 12B, and 12C are also provided in lines that supply the coagulant from the coagulant tanks 5A, 5B, and 5C to the coagulation and mixing tank 3, respectively. The agglomeration mixing tank 3 has a stirrer that stirs the sludge and the aggregating agent supplied in the tank and promotes the generation of agglomeration floc. A drive motor 13 is used as means for rotating the blades of the stirrer.

  In this embodiment, the flocculant tank 5A contains a polymer flocculant, the flocculant tank 5B contains a polymer flocculant different from that in the flocculant tank 5A, and the flocculant tank 5C contains polyferric sulfate. Contains inorganic flocculants. As the polymer flocculant and the inorganic flocculant, those described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-176499 filed and published by the present applicant are known.

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The sludge dewatering device as described above further includes a control panel 14 for controlling each driving element such as a pump and a motor. The control panel 14 includes a pressure receiving unit 16, a pressure determining unit 17, a rotation indicator 18, a load receiving unit 19, a load determining unit 20, a rotation indicator 21, and a heating ON / OFF instruction unit 22.

A pressure sensor 15 for measuring the press-fitting pressure of the coagulation floc that is press-fitted and supplied from the coagulation mixing tank 3 into the dehydrator is disposed in the pipe 2 for constant press-fitting pressure control . The pressure sensor 15 corresponds to the measured pressure. A signal to be transmitted is transmitted to the pressure receiver 16. The pressure receiving unit 16 sends the received pressure value to the pressure determining unit 17.

  The pressure determination unit 17 can store and hold a predetermined pressure range, and determines the pressure value from the pressure receiving unit 16 in light of the specified pressure range. Based on the determination result, the rotation indicator 18 is configured to rotate the motor supply speed (supply flow rate) of each of the mud supply pump 11 and the chemical injection pumps 12A, 12B, and 12C, the rotation speed of the drive motor 13 of the agitation mixer 3 In addition, the number of rotations of the motor 10 that drives the screw shaft 6 is controlled. The motor for controlling these is preferably an inverter motor. Note that the heating ON / OFF instruction unit 22 may heat the sludge in the cylindrical body 1 by flowing steam into the shaft portion (hollow shaft) of the screw shaft 6 according to an instruction from the rotation indicator 18.

  This press-fit pressure constant control will be described in more detail. On the premise that the screw shaft 6 is operated at a predetermined rotation speed, if the press-fit pressure P1 measured by the pressure sensor 15 is larger than the specified pressure range P0, the rotation is By giving an instruction to the mud supply pump 11 from the indicator 18 to reduce the motor rotation speed (sludge supply flow rate) of the mud supply pump 11, the press-fitting pressure P1 is maintained within a specified pressure range P0. In this case, the number of rotations of the motor 10 of the drug injection pumps 12A, 12B, 12C is decreased, the number of rotations of the drive motor 10 of the screw shaft 6 is increased, or the number of rotations of the drive motor 13 of the stirrer of the agglomeration mixing tank 3 is increased. May be added or may be combined as appropriate.

  On the other hand, if the screw shaft 6 is operated at a predetermined rotation speed and the press-fitting pressure P1 measured by the pressure sensor 15 is smaller than the specified pressure range P0, the motor rotation speed (sludge) of the mud pump 11 By increasing the supply flow rate), the press-fitting pressure P1 is maintained within a specified pressure range P0. In this case, the motor rotation speed (supply flow rate) of the drug injection pumps 12A, 12B, 12C is increased, the rotation speed of the drive motor 10 of the screw shaft 6 is decreased, or the rotation speed of the stirrer drive motor 13 of the agglomeration mixing tank 3 May be added or may be combined as appropriate.

  That is, in order to increase the press-fitting pressure P1, it is only necessary to increase the amount of solid matter to be dehydrated, so an operation for increasing the sludge concentration is set. On the other hand, in order to lower the press-fitting pressure P1, it is only necessary to reduce the amount of solids to be dehydrated, so an operation for lowering the sludge concentration is set.

An example of such an inlet side operation is shown graphically in FIG. In the figure, the broken line A is the sludge supply flow rate [m ³ / H], the broken line B is the dehydrator rotational speed [Hz], the broken line C is the polymer flocculant (polymer) injection amount [L / H], and the broken line D. Represents the injection amount [L / H] of ferric sulfate (polyiron). As shown in this figure, the higher the sludge concentration on the horizontal axis of the graph (that is, the greater the amount of solid matter processed), the lower the sludge supply flow rate and the chemical supply amount to the specified amount step by step and the stepwise dehydrator rotation speed. It is operated so as to increase to the specified rotational speed. Conversely, the lower the sludge concentration (the lower the solids processing amount), the more gradually the sludge supply flow rate and chemical supply amount are increased to the specified amount, and the dehydrator rotation speed is gradually decreased to the specified rotation speed. Is done.

  The operation on the inlet side as described above is intended to feed the sludge into the cylinder 1 of the dehydrator at a constant sludge concentration (that is, a fixed amount). For this reason, even if sludges having different properties and concentrations are sequentially supplied to the dehydrator, the press-fitting pressure of the sludge into the cylinder 1 of the dehydrator can be controlled to be constant. Moreover, controlling the press-fitting pressure to be constant enables stable operation even when sludge having different properties and concentrations is supplied.

Cake moisture content control The drive motor 10 of the screw shaft 6 transmits a signal (motor current value) corresponding to the motor load to the load receiver 19. The load receiving unit 19 sends the received motor current value to the load determining unit 20.

  The load determining unit 20 can store and hold a predetermined current range, and determines the motor current value from the load receiving unit 19 in light of the specified current range. Based on the determination result, the rotation indicator 21 controls the operation time of the hydraulic cylinder 9 that drives the scraper 8 and the rotation speed of the motor 10 that drives the screw shaft 6. Further, the rotation indicator 21 adjusts the chemical addition rate with respect to the raw sludge by controlling the motor rotation speed (supply flow rate) of the chemical injection pumps 12A, 12B, 12C, or controls the heating ON / OFF instruction unit 22 to adjust the screw. Steam for heating may flow through the shaft portion (hollow shaft) of the shaft 6.

  More specifically, the scraper 8 opens and closes the cake discharge port at the rear of the cylinder 1 by the hydraulic cylinder 9 and acts to inhibit cake discharge. When the cake discharge port is closed by the scraper 8 (hereinafter referred to as “scraper fully closed”), the cake is squeezed by high pressure by not discharging the cake. When the cake discharge port is opened (hereinafter referred to as “scraper fully open”), the fully pressed cake is discharged.

  When the cake is fed by rotating the screw shaft 6 at a constant rotation speed, the moisture content of the cake decreases as the scraper fully closed time becomes longer than the scraper fully opened time. However, the moisture content that can be reduced by mechanically dewatering the sludge varies depending on the properties of the sludge, and if the moisture content of the cake reaches the limit of lowering the moisture content, the moisture content can be reduced no matter how much pressing is performed. Does not drop, or the fluidity is lost and the screw shaft drive section is overloaded. Maintaining the scraper fully closed from this point of time may cause dead time or cause a machine failure.

  Based on this fact, the load discriminator 20 determines the dewatering state of the cake based on the current value of the drive motor 10 of the screw shaft 6 and changes the set time of the scraper fully open and the scraper fully closed. The rotational speed of the drive motor 10 is also changed.

  An example of such outlet side control is shown in the graph of FIG. 4, where the curve E in the figure represents the moisture content [%], and the broken line F represents the dehydrator rotation speed (of the drive motor 10 of the screw shaft 6. The number of revolutions) [Hz], the broken line G1 is the sludge squeezing rate for low load operation, the broken line G2 is the sludge squeezing rate for high load operation, and the broken line H is the amount of polymer flocculant (polymer) injected [L / H]. The broken line I represents the injected amount of polyferric sulfate (polyiron) [L / H], and the broken line J represents the steam supply. The sludge pressing rate shown on the vertical axis of this graph is expressed as the ratio of the scraper full open time to the scraper full close time, and the scraper full open time is longer as it goes to the upper side of the vertical axis, and the scraper full time as it goes to the lower side. Intended to have a long closing time.

As can be seen from the polygonal lines G1 and G2 showing the sludge pressing rate in FIG. 4, the load of the dehydrator drive motor (that is, the current value applied to the drive motor 10 of the screw shaft 6) is relatively low and high. The dehydrator outlet is controlled separately. The former is referred to as low load operation, and the latter is referred to as high load operation. In the above-described constant press-fitting pressure control, if the press-fitting pressure at the dehydrator inlet does not become constant even if the sludge supply flow rate of the mud pump is lowered to the minimum, the dehydrator rotational speed is increased by one step (FIG. 3). This operation is also a high load operation. And the operation | movement of rotation speed relatively lower than this dehydrator rotation speed is also low load operation. (See the broken line B in FIG. 3 and the broken line F in FIG. 4)
In both operations, the smaller the current value (load) of the drive motor 10 of the dehydrator is, the more the cake is squeezed, and the time for fully closing the scraper is extended stepwise.

  Under the above-described constant press-fitting pressure control, when sludge having a certain property is being sent to the rear part of the dehydrator by the screw shaft 6 having a constant rotational speed, the current value of the drive motor 10 (if the squeezing is performed by the scraper 8 ( Load) increases, but the current value (load) of the drive motor 10 does not increase in a state where no sludge is squeezed. In particular, when the sludge property is hardly dewatering like organic sludge, the motor current value does not increase if the limit of moisture content reduction is exceeded by pressing. However, when the sludge properties are better dewatering properties such as inorganic sludge, the motor current value is considered to rapidly increase when the water content lowering limit is exceeded by pressing.

  Therefore, the load determination unit 20 monitors the motor current value from the load reception unit 19 and determines that the high load operation is performed when the motor current value is within the specified current range of the high load operation. When the scraper is fully closed for a predetermined time, when the motor current value rises in the specified current range of the high load operation and reaches the upper limit of the specified current range of the high load operation, the limit point of cake moisture content reduction is reached. The scraper 8 is opened and the cake is discharged (first process).

  For this reason, the motor load when the sludge having the best dewatering property is dehydrated by this device and reaches the limit point of the moisture content reduction is acquired in advance, and the high load with the motor current value as the upper limit is obtained. The specified current range for operation is determined. Furthermore, the lower limit of the specified current range for high load operation and the upper and lower limits of the specified current range for low load operation are also determined by experiments using sludge having a known property (VSS / SS). In consideration of the safety of the machine, the upper limit of the specified current range of the high load operation is set to a value sufficiently smaller than the maximum allowable current value (maximum allowable load of the motor) that can be applied to the drive motor 10. Therefore, when the motor current value approaches the maximum allowable current value, the scraper 8 is fully opened (OPEN process). If the motor current value still exceeds the maximum allowable current value, the dehydrator is stopped urgently.

  Further, when the motor current value from the load receiving unit 19 is smaller than the specified current range of the high load operation, the load determining unit 20 is sent with a sludge property that is hardly dewatering like organic sludge. Switch to low-load operation. In the low load operation, when the motor current value rises while the scraper is fully closed for a predetermined time and exceeds the upper limit of the specified current range of the low load operation and the lower limit of the specified current range of the high load operation, the inorganic sludge In this way, it is determined that sludge having good dewaterability has been sent, and the operation is switched to high load operation (second processing).

  On the other hand, when the load determination unit 20 determines that the motor current value from the load receiving unit 19 is not increased or hardly changed in both the high load operation and the low load operation, the sludge is compressed. It is considered that the scraper 8 is not closed, and the scraper fully closed time is extended for the scraper 8. If this increases the motor current value, the first and second processes described above may be performed again, assuming that pressing has started. However, if the motor current value still does not increase, the time for fully closing the scraper is further extended. If the motor current value does not increase even if the scraper closing time extension operation is repeated several times, the cake moisture content has reached the limit point (especially in the case of difficult-to-dehydrate organic sludge) The scraper 8 is opened and the cake is discharged.

  The stepwise extension operation of the scraper closing time can be realized by appropriately combining a plurality of timers having different scraper closing times. The set length of the scraper closing time is relatively shorter than that in the low load operation. This is because the high load operation is a control with a larger motor load (the motor current value is likely to increase) than the low load operation.

  According to the control method described above, when a plurality of types of sludges having different properties are irregularly supplied to one screw press dehydrator, the sludges having the respective properties sequentially supplied into the machine are changed to the properties. Together, it can be processed into a cake with as low a moisture content as possible. Also, the operation of the screw press dehydrator is stable and safe operation can be maintained.

  In the control of the moisture content of the cake in the above-described embodiment, if the motor current value applied to the rotation drive motor is increased when the dehydrator outlet is closed and the screw shaft is rotated, the squeezing is performed. If the motor current value hardly changed, the motor current value was monitored and the opening and closing timing and time of the cake outlet were controlled by considering that the motor current value was not squeezed. However, in the present invention, monitoring of the motor current value is not limited because it is only necessary to know the fluctuation of the load when the screw shaft is rotated.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Screw press dehydrator cylinder 1a Tube front 1b Tube rear 2 Press-in piping 3 Coagulation mixing tank 4 Sludge storage tank 5A, 5B, 5C Coagulant tank 6 Screw shaft 6a Screw blade 7 Sprocket 8 Scraper 9 Hydraulic pressure Cylinder 10 Screw drive motor 11 Mud feed pumps 12A, 12B, 12C Chemical injection pump 13 Drive motor 14 Sludge dewatering device control panel 16 Pressure receiving unit 17 Pressure determining unit 18 Rotating indicator 19 Load receiving unit 20 Load determining unit 21 Rotating instruction 22 Heating ON / OFF instruction section

Claims (5)

Sludge is supplied to the inlet of the screw press dehydrator with a constant press-fitting pressure, and the dehydrated cake that is squeezed by rotating the screw shaft in the screw press dehydrator and opening and closing the outlet of the screw press dehydrator In the operation control method of the screw press type sludge dewatering device discharged from
When the sludge supplied to the inlet with a constant press-fitting pressure is sent to the outlet with the screw shaft having a predetermined rotational speed, and the load for rotating the screw shaft is monitored, and the outlet is closed in this state When the load rises and reaches a specified value, the outlet is opened to discharge the dewatered cake, whereas when the load is not substantially changed when the outlet is closed, The operation control of the screw press type sludge dewatering device is characterized in that the time during which the outlet is closed is extended a predetermined number of times, so that if the load does not increase, the outlet is opened and the dewatered cake is discharged. Method. Sludge is supplied to the inlet of the screw press dehydrator with a constant press-fitting pressure, and the dehydrated cake that is squeezed by rotating the screw shaft in the screw press dehydrator and opening and closing the outlet of the screw press dehydrator In the operation control method of the screw press type sludge dewatering device discharged from
A scraper that opens and closes the outlet of the screw press dehydrator, a motor that rotates the screw shaft at a predetermined rotational speed, and a motor current value that is applied to the motor for rotation of the screw shaft is received as a load on the screw shaft. A load receiving unit; and
Obtaining the motor current value from the load receiver when the sludge supplied to the inlet at a constant press-fitting pressure is being sent to the outlet, and determining whether the load is high load operation or low load operation;
When the motor current value obtained from the load receiver is within a specified current range determined to be the high load operation, the outlet is closed for a predetermined time by the scraper, thereby increasing the motor current value and the high load When the upper limit of the specified current range of operation is reached, the first step of operating the scraper so as to open the outlet is determined as the limit point of the moisture content reduction of the dehydrated cake;
When the motor current value obtained from the load receiver is within a specified current range determined to be the low load operation, the outlet is closed for a predetermined time by the scraper, thereby increasing the motor current value and the low load Performing a second process of switching to the high load operation when the upper limit of the specified current range of operation and the lower limit of the specified current range of high load operation are exceeded;
Whether the motor current value obtained from the load receiving unit is within the specified current range determined as the high load operation or the specified current range determined as the low load operation, the scraper is used to determine the outlet. If it is determined that the motor current value has not substantially increased with the time closed, the scraper closing time is extended a predetermined number of times, thereby increasing the motor current value. If not, it is determined that the water content reduction of the dehydrated cake has reached the limit point, and the scraper is operated to open the outlet, but if the motor current value increases again, the first or second The transition to processing
An operation control method for a screw press type sludge dewatering device.   The upper limit of the specified current range of the high load operation is a motor current value when the sludge having the best dewaterability assumed in the sludge dewatering device is dehydrated to reach the limit point of water content reduction. The operation control method of the screw press type sludge dewatering device according to claim 2. Sludge is supplied to the inlet of the screw press dehydrator with a constant press-fitting pressure, and the dehydrated cake that is squeezed by rotating the screw shaft in the screw press dehydrator and opening and closing the outlet of the screw press dehydrator In the screw press type sludge dewatering device discharged from
A scraper that opens and closes the outlet of the screw press dehydrator, a motor that rotates the screw shaft at a predetermined rotational speed, and a motor current value that is applied to the motor for rotation of the screw shaft is received as a load on the screw shaft. The load receiving unit and the motor current value obtained when the sludge supplied to the inlet at a constant press-fitting pressure is sent to the outlet are obtained from the load receiving unit to determine whether the load is high load operation or low load operation. A load determination unit,
The load determination unit
When the motor current value obtained from the load receiver is within a specified current range determined to be the high load operation, the outlet is closed for a predetermined time by the scraper, thereby increasing the motor current value and the high load When the upper limit of the specified current range of operation is reached, it is determined that the dehydration cake has a lower limit of moisture content, and the first process of operating the scraper to open the outlet is performed,
When the motor current value obtained from the load receiver is within a specified current range determined to be the low load operation, the outlet is closed for a predetermined time by the scraper, thereby increasing the motor current value and the low load When the upper limit of the specified current range of operation and the lower limit of the specified current range of the high load operation are exceeded, a second process for switching to the high load operation is performed,
Whether the motor current value obtained from the load receiving unit is within the specified current range determined as the high load operation or the specified current range determined as the low load operation, the scraper is used to determine the outlet. If it is determined that the motor current value has not substantially increased with the time closed, the scraper closing time is extended a predetermined number of times, thereby increasing the motor current value. If not, it is determined that the water content reduction of the dehydrated cake has reached the limit point, and the scraper is operated to open the outlet, but if the motor current value increases again, the first or second The screw press type sludge dewatering device, which is shifted to the treatment of   The upper limit of the specified current range of the high load operation is a motor current value when the sludge having the best dewaterability assumed in the sludge dewatering device is dehydrated to reach the limit point of water content reduction. The screw press type sludge dewatering device according to claim 4.

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