KR102467922B1 - Storaging apparatus for spilled oil on the sea - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a recovered oil storage device, and relates to a recovered oil storage device for recovering and storing spilled oil spilled due to a marine accident. To this end, a storage body that floats by its own buoyancy in the oil spill area and separates the inflowed recovered oil from oil and water, a seawater discharge unit provided in the seawater discharge area of the body to discharge the water separated from the body to the outside, and seawater Disclosed is a recovered oil storage device comprising a seawater discharge slide that is disposed to slide in a discharge area so that water separated from oil and water is discharged or not discharged to the outside according to sliding.

Description

Recovered oil storage device {Storaging apparatus for spilled oil on the sea}

The present invention relates to a recovered oil storage device, and more particularly, to a recovered oil storage device for recovering and storing spilled oil spilled due to a marine accident.

Conventional floating oil spill removal devices and spill oil recovery nets described in patent literature can confine spilled oil using a fence or net and recover spilled oil by towing of a ship. However, conventional floating oil removal devices and spilled oil recovery nets can recover spilled oil, but cannot efficiently collect spilled oil due to a very high moisture content. Therefore, conventional conventional floating oil removal devices and spilled oil recovery nets cannot efficiently store the recovered spilled oil because of their high moisture content, and thus have very low utility values.

In addition, the conventional floating oil removal device and spilled oil recovery net have a problem inconvenient to store and transport because the device cannot be conveniently folded and stored. That is, when oil spills into the ocean, it is desirable to quickly move to the spill point and collect the spilled oil. In addition, in order to move quickly to the discharge point, the recovery device should be configured to be easy to transport without being heavy. However, the conventional floating oil removal device and spilled oil recovery net cannot be folded and are bulky and heavy, so it is difficult to move the recovery device to the spill point quickly and conveniently.

On the other hand, in order to solve the problems of the prior art, Korean Application No. 10-2018-0148445, previously filed by the present applicant, discloses a recovered oil storage device, but the recovered oil storage device described in the previous application has the seawater discharge unit always open or open / It is only described that the closing can be done selectively, so an improved technique for opening/closing through any implementation means is required.

Republic of Korea Publication No. 1997-0011201 (Title of Invention: Marine Spillage Oil Removal Device) Republic of Korea Registration No. 10-1609052 (Title of Invention: Air Tube Type Spilled Oil Collection Device) Republic of Korea Registration No. 10-1690180 (Title of Invention: Floating Spilled Oil Removal Device) Republic of Korea Registration No. 10-1690680 (Name of Invention: Floating Spilled Oil Removal Device) Republic of Korea Publication No. 1999-009652 (name of invention: oil spill recovery device) Republic of Korea Registration No. 20-0374610 (Name of Invention: Spilled Oil Recovery Net) Republic of Korea Registration No. 20-0377428 (Name of Invention: Spilled Oil Recovery Net) Republic of Korea Publication No. 10-2020-0063394 (Title of Invention: Recovery oil storage device)

Therefore, the present invention was created to solve the above-described problems, and recovers a large amount of spilled oil by towing a ship while lowering the water content as much as possible when recovering spilled oil spilled into the sea, and further recovers the spilled oil. An object of the present invention is to provide a device that can be easily stored and transported by making the device foldable.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide an invention that maximizes the efficiency of oil-water separation by separating oil-water once more through a nano-mesh filter before discharging seawater while allowing the seawater discharge stored in the storage device to be selectively opened or closed. there is

However, the objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the description below.

The object of the present invention described above is to provide a storage body portion that floats by its own buoyancy in the oil spill area and separates the inflow recovered oil from oil and water, and is provided in the seawater discharge area of the body portion to discharge the water separated from the body portion to the outside. It can be achieved by providing a recovered oil storage device comprising a seawater discharge unit and a seawater discharge slide unit that is disposed to slide in the seawater discharge area so that the water separated by sliding is discharged to the outside or not discharged. can

In addition, the seawater discharge slide unit slide support disposed in the seawater discharge area,

By horizontally disposing in the first and second regions of the slide support, the first and second slide guides forming a sliding groove together with the slide support and horizontally sliding along the sliding groove allow separated water to flow to the outside. It includes a slide part that prevents discharge or discharge to the outside.

In addition, the slide support includes a water discharge groove through which oil and water separated water is discharged, and a sealing portion disposed along the circumferential direction of the water discharge groove to contact one surface of the slide portion according to the sliding movement of the slide portion to prevent water from being discharged to the outside. .

In addition, each of the first and second slide guides includes a slide guide groove formed in a horizontal direction of the guide body so that the guide body and the slide can slide.

In addition, the slide part slides in the horizontal direction along the slide guide groove by an external force, and is formed in a slide body part and a sliding body part to prevent water from being discharged to the outside by contacting one surface with the sealing part according to the sliding movement, and sliding The slide water discharge groove, which is disposed in correspondence with the water discharge groove as it moves, so that the water separated by oil is discharged to the outside, the detachable nano-mesh filter unit that is detachable from the slide body and separates the separated water secondarily, and also by external force It includes a plurality of locking parts that prevent the sliding part from moving in the horizontal direction any longer.

In addition, a plurality of slide traction parts disposed in the first region and the second region of the slide body portion to horizontally move the slide body portion by an external force are further included.

In addition, each of the plurality of slide traction parts includes a fixing part fixedly disposed on the slide body part, and a traction part connected and fixed to the fixing part to move the slide body part in a horizontal direction by an external force.

According to the present invention as described above, when recovering spilled oil spilled into the sea, a large amount of spilled oil is recovered by towing of a ship while reducing the moisture content as much as possible, and furthermore, storage and transportation are simplified by making the recovery device foldable. There is an effect of providing an easy-to-use invention.

In addition, according to the present invention, while allowing the seawater discharge stored in the storage device to be selectively opened or closed, the oil-water separation efficiency can be maximized by performing oil-water separation through a nano-mesh filter before discharging the seawater.

The following drawings attached to this specification illustrate a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the present invention serve to further understand the technical idea of the present invention, the present invention is limited to those described in the drawings. It should not be construed as limiting.
1 is a diagram showing the approximate configuration of a recovery oil storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention,
2 is a view showing a slide support according to an embodiment of the present invention,
3 is a view showing first and second slide guides according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a cross-sectional view showing a slide unit according to an embodiment of the present invention;
5 is a view showing that the nano-mesh filter unit is attached to the slide unit according to an embodiment of the present invention;
6 is a view showing that the slide body part moves to the right by the traction of the second slide traction unit according to an embodiment of the present invention;
7 is a view showing that the slide body portion is moved to the right according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the water discharge groove and the slide water discharge groove are aligned with each other to discharge water to the outside.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, the embodiment described below does not unduly limit the contents of the present invention described in the claims, and the entire configuration described in the present embodiment cannot be said to be essential as a solution to the present invention. In addition, descriptions of matters obvious to prior art and those skilled in the art may be omitted, and descriptions of these omitted components (methods) and functions may be sufficiently referred to within the scope not departing from the technical spirit of the present invention.

In the recovered oil storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention, water separated from oil and water in the oil and water separator is introduced while floating by its own buoyancy in the area where the oil was spilled. That is, the distilled oil collecting unit collects the recovered oil that has flowed out, and in the next step, the oil-water separation unit separates the recovered oil from oil and water, and the separated water flows into the recovered oil storage device of the present invention. On the other hand, the recovered oil storage device is configured to be easily coupled and separated from the oil and water separator. Therefore, when the recovered oil storage device is full of oil-separated water, the recovered oil storage device is separated and floated on the sea, and another recovered oil storage device is combined to store the separated water again, so that the recovered oil storage device can be collectively recovered. There are advantages to being able to In addition, in the recovered oil storage device of the present invention, water and oil are secondarily separated from water by specific gravity along the longitudinal direction of the body, and furthermore, as will be described later, by attaching and detaching the nano-mesh, the oil-water separated water is thirdly separated. It has the advantage of being able to separate oil and water. Hereinafter, the recovery oil storage device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, all of the contents described in Korean Application No. 10-2018-0148445 previously filed by the present applicant may be referred to within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a seawater discharge unit 150 is connected to the aft bottom portion 113a of the recovered oil storage unit 100 to discharge the separated water into the sea. A seawater discharge slide unit 200 to be described later is disposed in one area of the seawater discharge unit 150. In one embodiment of the present invention, it will be described that the seawater discharge slide unit 200 is disposed at point 'A', but the location is not limited thereto and is provided at a selected point of the seawater discharge unit 150 as needed. It can be. On the other hand, the recovery oil storage device according to an embodiment of the present invention can be used both in the oil spill area of the sea or river.

The seawater discharging slide unit 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention discharges the separated water stored in the recovery oil storage device 100 to the outside (hereinafter referred to as a discharge mode) or to the outside by moving in a sliding manner. It can be prevented from being discharged (hereinafter referred to as a closed mode). As an embodiment, when the recovered oil storage device 100 recovers spilled oil from an oil spill area, it is in a discharge mode state, and when oil recovery is completed and the recovered oil storage device 100 is collected, it is switched to a closed mode state. . Accordingly, the seawater discharge slide unit 200 includes a slide support unit 210, first and second slide guide units 220 and 230, a slide unit 240, and first and second slide pull units 250 and 260.

As shown in FIG. 2 , the slide support part 210 includes a support body part 211 , a water discharge groove 212 , and a sealing part 213 .

The support body 211 may be made of an acrylic plate as an example. A water discharge groove 212 through which water separated from oil and water can be discharged is formed in the central region of the support body 211 .

The sealing part 213 is disposed along the outer rim of the water discharge groove 212 . That is, the diameter of the sealing part 213 is wider than the diameter of the water discharge groove 212 . The sealing part 213 may be made of an O-ring. The sealing part 213 prevents water from being discharged to the outside when in contact with one surface of the slide body part 241 to be described later. On the other hand, when the sealing part 213 is aligned with the slide water discharge groove 242 formed in the slide body portion 241, the water is separated to the outside through the water discharge groove 212 and the slide water discharge groove 242. Drain the water.

The support body part 211 is supported and fixed to the inner bottom surface of the rear bottom part 113a, and the sealing part 213 is disposed outside the rear bottom part 113a, so that the slide body part 241 slides. It comes into contact with one surface of the slide body 241 .

As shown in FIG. 3 , the first slide guide 220 is horizontally arranged and fixed to the upper region of the slide support 210, and the second slide guide 230 is the lower region of the slide support 210. are fixed in the horizontal direction. Hereinafter, the first slide guide unit 220 will be described, and the description of the second slide guide unit 230 will be replaced with the description of the first slide guide unit 220 .

The first slide guide part 220 includes a first guide body part 221 and a first slide guide groove 222 . The first guide body 221 may be made of an acrylic plate. Referring to FIG. 3 , a first slide guide groove 222 is formed in a lower region of the first guide body 221 to allow a slide body 241 to be described later to slide in a horizontal direction. Accordingly, the slide body 241 can slide in a horizontal direction along the first and second slide guide grooves 222 and 232 .

The first and second slide guides 220 and 230 are spaced apart by a distance that allows the slide body 241 to slide along the first and second slide guide grooves 222 and 232 .

4 and 5, the slide part 240 includes a slide body part 241, a slide water discharge groove 242, a detachable nano-mesh filter part 243, and a plurality of hooking parts 244a, 244b, and 244c. , 244d).

The slide body 241 may be made of an acrylic plate. A slide water discharge groove 242 is formed at a point shifted to the left with respect to the center of the slide body 241, and an O-ring contact surface 241a is formed at a point shifted to the right. The diameter of the slide water discharge groove 242 is preferably formed to be approximately the same as the diameter of the water discharge groove 212 . Therefore, when the slide body part 241 moves to the right with reference to FIGS. 4 and 6, the water discharge groove 212 and the slide water discharge groove 242 are aligned with each other as shown in FIG. may be discharged. In addition, in FIG. 7 , when the slide body 241 moves to the left, the O-ring contact surface 241a comes into contact with the O-ring 213 so that water separated from oil and water is not discharged to the outside.

As shown in FIG. 5 , the detachable nano-mesh filter unit 243 is attached and disposed to cover the slide water discharge groove 242 and separates the stored oil-water separated water once more before discharging it to the outside. Therefore, the detachable nano-mesh filter unit 243 is desirably detachable because there is a need to replace the nano-mesh filter.

The plurality of hooking parts 244a, 244b, 244c, and 244d are formed at four corner regions of the slide body 241, respectively, and the slide body 241 moves in the horizontal direction along the first and second slide guide grooves 222 and 232. When moving to , you can limit the horizontal movement distance. That is, when the slide body 241 moves to the right, the first and third locking parts 244a and 244c are engaged to restrict the movement to the right, and when the slide body 241 moves to the left, the second and fourth hooks 244a and 244c are engaged. The hooking parts 244b and 244d are hooked to restrict movement to the left.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 , the first slide traction unit 250 is fixedly disposed on the left side of the slide body 241, and the second slide traction unit 260 is of the slide body 241. It is fixedly placed in the right area. In addition, the third slide traction unit 270 is fixedly disposed on the left side of the first and second slide guides 220 and 230, and the fourth slide traction unit 280 is on the right side of the first and second slide guides 220 and 230. fixed in the area.

The first slide traction part 250 includes a fixing part 251 and a traction part 252 . The fixing part 251 is arranged to fix the traction part 252 to the end area of the left area of the slide body part 241 . The second slide traction part 260 includes a fixing part 261 and a traction part 262 . The fixing part 261 is arranged to fix the traction part 262 to the end area of the right area of the slide body part 241 .

The third slide traction part 270 includes first and second fixing parts 271 and 272 and first and second traction parts 273 and 274 . The first fixing part 271 is disposed to fix the first traction part 273 to the right area of the first slide guide part 220 . The second fixing part 272 is disposed to fix the second traction part 274 to the right area of the second slide guide part 230 .

The fourth slide traction part 280 includes first and second fixing parts 281 and 282 and first and second traction parts 283 and 284 . The first fixing part 281 is disposed to fix the first traction part 283 to the left area of the first slide guide part 220 . The second fixing part 282 is disposed to fix the second traction part 284 to the left area of the second slide guide part 230 .

Therefore, when you want to move the slide body part 241 to the right side, pull the first and second pull parts 283 and 284 of the fourth slide pull part 280 and pull the second slide pull part 260 at the same time. . Conversely, when moving the slide body 241 to the left side, the first and second traction parts 273 and 274 of the third slide traction part 270 are pulled and the first slide traction part 250 is pulled at the same time. .

The traction unit 252 may be, for example, a traction rope. Therefore, when the operator pulls the traction rope, the slide body 241 slides to the left. In the same principle, when an operator pulls the traction part 262 of the second slide traction part 260, the slide body 241 slides to the right. As another example, a traction rope may be pulled by driving a motor.

On the other hand, since the above-described traction unit may be embodied as a rope of a certain length, when the recovery oil storage device recovers spilled oil, it may be contaminated by oil or obstruct the recovery operation. Accordingly, although not shown in the drawing, a detachable ring portion capable of arranging and fixing the towline by hanging each towline as a detachable ring may be further added to the upper surface of the rear part 113 of FIG. 1 . Each tow line detachably fixed to the detachable ring unit is separated from the ring when moving the slide body 241 to the left or right. Each towline is detachably hooked to the detachable ring part while being wound once or several times in the circumferential direction of the rear part 113.

In describing the present invention, descriptions of matters obvious to those skilled in the art and those skilled in the art may be omitted, and descriptions of these omitted components (methods) and functions will be sufficiently referred to within the scope that does not depart from the technical spirit of the present invention. You will be able to.

The description of the configuration and function of each part described above has been separately described for convenience of explanation, but any one configuration and function may be implemented by integrating into other components or implemented in more subdivided form, if necessary.

Although the above has been described with reference to one embodiment of the present invention, the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and applications are possible. That is, those skilled in the art will easily understand that many modifications are possible without departing from the gist of the present invention. In addition, when it is determined that the detailed description of known functions and their configurations related to the present invention or the coupling relationship of each component of the present invention may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, it should be noted that the detailed description is omitted. something to do.

A: seawater discharge slide part arrangement area
100: recovery oil storage unit
110: body part
111: inlet
112: middle part
113: rear part
113a: rear bottom
120: buoyancy body
121: first buoyancy body
122: second buoyancy body
123: third buoyancy body
124: fourth buoyancy body
130: baffle unit (or outflow oil direction conversion unit)
141: first mesh network
142: second mesh network
150: seawater discharge unit
200: seawater discharge slide
210: slide support
211: support body
212: water discharge groove
213: sealing part
220: first slide guide
221: first guide body
222: first slide guide groove
230: second slide guide
231: second guide body
232: second slide guide groove
240: slide part
241: slide body
241a: O-ring contact surface
242: slide water discharge groove
243: detachable nano mesh filter unit
244a: first hooking part
244b: second hooking part
244c: third hooking part
244d: fourth hooking part
250: first slide traction unit
251: fixed part
252: traction part
260: second slide traction unit
261: fixed part
262: traction part
270: third slide traction part
271,272: first and second fixing parts
273,274: first and second traction units
280: third slide traction part
281,282: fixed part
283,284: first and second traction units

Claims (7)

A storage body that floats by its own buoyancy in the oil spill area and separates the inflowed recovered oil from oil and water;
A seawater discharge unit provided in the seawater discharge area of the body unit to discharge the water separated from oil and water from the body unit to the outside;
And a seawater discharge slide unit disposed to slide in the seawater discharge area so that the water separated by oil or water is discharged or not discharged to the outside according to the sliding,
When the spilled oil is recovered from the oil spill area according to the sliding of the seawater discharge slide, it is in a discharge mode to discharge the separated water to the outside, and when the oil recovery is completed and the storage body is collected, the recovered oil is discharged to the outside. It switches to a closed mode state that prevents
The seawater discharge slide part,
A slide support disposed in the seawater discharge area;
First and second slide guides that are horizontally disposed in the first and second regions of the slide support to form sliding grooves together with the slide support;
And a slide part that slides in a horizontal direction along the sliding groove so that the oil-separated water is discharged to the outside or not discharged to the outside,
The slide support,
A support body portion having a water discharge groove through which oil and water separated water can be discharged and supported and fixed to an inner bottom surface of the seawater discharge area;
A water discharge groove through which the separated water is discharged;
A sealing portion disposed outside the seawater discharge area and along the circumferential direction of the water discharge groove to contact one surface of the slide portion according to the sliding movement of the slide portion to prevent water from being discharged to the outside,
The slide part,
A sliding body part that slides in a horizontal direction by an external force and prevents water from being discharged to the outside by contacting one surface with the sealing part according to the sliding movement;
A slide water discharge groove formed in a left region based on the center of the slide body and disposed corresponding to the water discharge groove according to the sliding movement so that the separated water is discharged to the outside;
An O-ring contact surface formed in the right area based on the center of the slide body,
A detachable nano-mesh filter unit that is detachably attached to the slide body part and secondarily separates the oil-water separated water;
It includes a plurality of locking parts that prevent the sliding part from moving in the horizontal direction any longer even by the external force,
When the slide body part moves to the right based on a point, the water discharge groove and the slide water discharge groove are aligned with each other to enter the discharge mode state in which oil and water separated water stored in the storage body portion is discharged to the outside,
When the slide body part moves to the left, the O-ring contact surface comes into contact with the sealing part to switch to the closed mode state in which the recovered oil stored in the storage body part is not discharged to the outside,
A plurality of slide traction parts disposed in the first region and the second region of the slide body to move the slide body in a horizontal direction by an external force,
The plurality of slide traction parts,
A first slide traction part fixed to the left area of the slide body;
A second slide traction part fixed to the right area of the slide body part;
A third slide traction unit having first and second traction units fixed to right regions of the first slide guide unit and the second slide guide unit, respectively;
And a fourth slide traction part having first and second traction parts fixed to left regions of the first slide guide part and the second slide guide part, respectively,
When moving the slide body to the right side, pull the first and second traction parts of the fourth slide traction part and simultaneously pull the second slide traction part,
When moving the slide body to the left, the recovered oil storage device, characterized in that by pulling the first and second traction parts of the third slide traction part and pulling the first slide traction part at the same time.
delete delete According to claim 1,
Each of the first and second slide guides,
guide body,
The recovered oil storage device comprising a slide guide groove formed in a horizontal direction of the guide body so that the slide portion can slide.
delete delete According to claim 1,
Each of the plurality of slide traction parts,
A fixing part fixed to the slide body part,
Recovered oil storage device characterized in that it comprises a traction unit connected to the fixing unit and moving the slide body in a horizontal direction by the external force.

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