KR20230053365A - Apparatus for water concentration using natural energy and desalination apparatus thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for concentrating a urine concentrate using natural energy and a desalination device using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a device for concentrating fluids that require concentration, such as livestock wastewater or seawater using natural energy, and manufacturing fresh water as a by-product of the concentration. The concentrating device using natural energy according to an example includes a water tank, a water supply pipe, a water supply pump, and an evaporation panel, and allows at least some of moisture to evaporate after the urine concentrate is supplied from the water tank to the evaporation panel via the water supply pump and the water supply pipe.

Description

Urine concentrating device using natural energy and desalination device using the same

The present invention relates to a urine concentrating water concentrating device using natural energy and a desalination device using the same, and more particularly, to concentrating a fluid requiring condensation, such as livestock wastewater or seawater, using natural energy, and desalination as a by-product of the condensation. It relates to a device for producing.

There are many cases where the treatment or disposal method of wastewater or contaminated water around our living environment is a problem. Examples of wastewater or contaminated water include livestock wastewater or radioactively contaminated water. The reason why the treatment or disposal method becomes a problem is that the total volume of wastewater or contaminated water containing it is too large compared to the volume of livestock manure itself or the volume of radioactive materials. For example, consider a large amount of seawater containing trace amounts of radioactive material.

In order to more easily treat wastewater or contaminated water that needs to be treated or disposed of, a technique of concentrating the wastewater or contaminated water and then treating it has been introduced.

Once the wastewater or polluted water to be concentrated (hereinafter referred to as "concentrated urine") is concentrated, the wastewater or polluted water after treatment can be treated with a relatively small treatment facility, or a treatment facility with the same capacity can treat the wastewater or contaminated water. This is because it has the advantage of being able to treat a lot of wastewater or contaminated water.

However, in the case of the prior art introduced for the treatment of concentrated urine in the past, there were problems such as not being environmentally friendly and requiring additional costs as the treatment was possible only when a lot of power was consumed.

KR 10-0983656 B

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a urine concentrate concentrating device using natural energy and a desalination device using the same, which can efficiently and environmentally friendly concentrate the urine concentrate.

The concentrating device using natural energy according to an example includes a water tank, a water supply pipe, a water supply pump, and an evaporation panel, and at least a portion of concentrated urine is supplied from the water tank to the evaporation panel via the water pump and the water supply pipe. of water to evaporate.

In this case, the evaporation panel may further include a frame and an evaporation cloth, and the evaporation cloth may be connected to an upper rotation shaft and a lower rotation shaft formed in the frame to be rotatable.

In addition, the upper rotating shaft may further include a wind vane fixed to an end thereof, and the evaporation cloth may be interlocked and rotated as the wind vane rotates by an external force.

Furthermore, the evaporation cloth may be formed of a single layer or an overlapping of two or more cloths.

In addition, two or more evaporation panels may be connected to form a modular evaporation panel.

In addition, the modular evaporation panel may allow two or more evaporation panels to supply concentrated urine from a common water supply pipe.

In addition, two or more modular evaporation panels may be arranged horizontally in the water tank.

Alternatively, two or more of the modular evaporation panels may be arranged vertically.

In addition, it may further include a urine concentrated water preprocessing module, and allow the urine concentrated water to flow into the water tank from the urine concentrated water preprocessing module.

In addition, a urine concentrated water post-processing module may be further included, and the urine concentrated water may be discharged from the water tank to the urine concentrated water post-processing module.

The method may further include a canopy installed above the evaporation panel and a condenser connected to the canopy, and the condenser may obtain condensed water by condensing evaporated water vapor generated in the evaporation panel collected in the canopy.

According to the present invention, there is an effect of realizing a urine concentration concentrating device using natural energy capable of efficiently concentrating the urine condensation water in an environment-friendly manner and a desalination device using the same.

1 is a block diagram showing a urine concentration concentrating device using natural energy according to an example;
2 is a view showing the urine concentration concentrating device using natural energy of FIG. 1 in more detail;
3 is a view showing an example of the evaporation panel of FIG. 2 in more detail;
4 is a view showing various embodiments of the evaporation cloth of FIG. 3;
5 is a view showing an example of a modular evaporation panel;
6 is a view illustrating a case in which the modular evaporation panel of FIG. 5 is installed in a planar arrangement;
7 is a view illustrating a case where the modular evaporation panel of FIG. 5 is installed vertically;
8 is a view showing an example of a desalination device using the urine concentration concentrating device using natural energy of FIG. 1 .

Hereinafter, embodiments of a urine concentrating device using natural energy and a desalination device using the same will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing an apparatus for concentrating urine concentration using natural energy according to an example.

As shown in FIG. 1, the urine concentrated water concentrating device 1 performs a concentration process by receiving the urine concentrated water (A) and evaporating some of the moisture present in the urine concentrated water (A) using natural energy. After that, as a result of the concentration, the concentrated water (A') whose volume is partially reduced is discharged.

Before the urine concentrated water (A) is introduced into the urine concentrated water concentrating device (1), pretreatment such as filtering of impurities in the pretreatment device (2) may be performed.

Further, the concentrated water A' discharged from the concentrated urine concentrating device 1 may be additionally subjected to a subsequent water treatment procedure by various types of post-treatment devices 3 thereafter. For example, when the urine concentration water (A) is livestock wastewater, a livestock wastewater solidification procedure may be performed. Alternatively, when the urine concentrate (A) is a radioactive material, a radioactive waste disposal procedure may be performed. Alternatively, when the urine-concentrated water (A) is seawater, a procedure for obtaining salt from seawater may be performed.

The present invention is characterized by the concentrated urine concentrating device 1, and the types and functions of the pre-processing device 2 and the post-processing device 3 are not limited.

FIG. 2 is a view showing the urine concentrated water concentrating device of FIG. 1 in more detail.

As shown in FIG. 2 , the concentrated urine concentrating device 1 of FIG. 1 includes a water tank 10 , a water supply pipe 20 , a water supply pump 30 and an evaporation panel 40 .

The water tank 10 contains urine concentrate (A). The water supply port 200 of the water supply pipe 20 is immersed in the concentrated urine water A contained in the water tank 10.

The water supply pump 30 introduces the concentrated urine water (A) from the water supply port 200, moves it along the water supply pipe 20, and then discharges the concentrated urine water through the concentrated urine water outlet 210.

Since one evaporation panel 40 may be connected to the water supply pipe 20 or a plurality of evaporation panels 40 may be connected, a plurality of concentrated urine outlets 210 may also be formed.

If there is urine concentrated water (A) that remains after being discharged through the urine concentrated water outlet 210, it is drained back to the water tank 10 through the drain hole 220.

The evaporation panel 40 evaporates the concentrated urine water (A) flowing down from the outlet 210 . Concentrated urine (A) in which moisture is evaporated in the evaporation panel 40 is concentrated by the amount of evaporated moisture.

3 is a view showing an example of the evaporation panel of FIG. 2 in more detail.

As shown in FIG. 3, the evaporation panel 40 includes a frame 42, an evaporation cloth 44, a connecting member 46, an upper rotation shaft 420, a lower rotation shaft 422, and a wind vane 430. do.

The frame 42 of the evaporation panel 40 supports the evaporation cloth 44 connected by the connecting member 46 . An upper rotational shaft 420 is connected to the upper portion of the frame 42 and a lower rotational shaft 422 is connected to the lower portion of the frame 42, respectively. The extension line of the upper rotation shaft 420 and the extension line of the lower rotation shaft 422 are matched so that the evaporation panel 40 can rotate in the axial direction along with the wind when the wind blows.

The upper main frame 48 in which the upper rotary shaft 420 is accommodated and the lower main frame 49 in which the lower rotary shaft 422 is accommodated may be configured as part of the water supply pipe 20 or the water tank 10, It can also be configured as a separately constructed main frame for support.

The wind vane 430 may be added to the end of the upper rotating shaft 420 . Wind vane 430 includes blades arranged in the direction from which the wind blows. When wind blows, a torque is applied to move the upper rotating shaft 420 fixed to the wind vane 430 in the direction of the wind. As a result, the wind vane 430 makes the wide surface of the evaporation panel 40 form an angle of 0 ° and 180 ° with the direction of the wind.

When the urine-concentrated water (A) flows down along the surface of the evaporation cloth 44, moisture is gradually evaporated from the urine-concentrated water (A) stored in the evaporation cloth 44.

The longer the evaporation cloth 44 is, the longer the evaporation time is, so the evaporation amount of moisture increases. However, if the amount of evaporation is excessive, a problem of impurities sticking to the surface of the evaporation cloth 44 may occur. Therefore, it is preferable that the length of the evaporation cloth 44 is not longer than about 4-5 m.

Any kind of connecting member may be used as long as it can fix the frame 42 and the evaporation cloth 44 to each other. For example, it can be tied with a string for fixing, it can be a button and buttonhole, or it can be a pair of zippers.

4 is a view showing various embodiments of the evaporation cloth of FIG. 3 .

FIG. 4(a) shows an embodiment with a single layer of evaporation cloth, FIG. 4(b) shows an embodiment with two layers of evaporation cloth, and FIG. 4(c) shows an embodiment with three layers of evaporation cloth.

As shown in Fig. 4(a), the evaporation cloth 440 may be made of a single layer. The fiber 440a constituting the evaporation cloth 440 may be a natural fiber such as cotton. However, it is not limited to this, and any fiber that has a property of easily evaporating while holding urine concentrate (A) well and not easily decomposed due to external influences such as ultraviolet rays of sunlight is an evaporation cloth ( 440) may be utilized as the fibers 440a.

As shown in Fig. 4(b), the evaporation cloth 442 may be made of two layers. In this case, the first fiber 442a and the second fiber 442b are connected to each other by the connecting member 443 . The connecting member 443 may be a thread for sewing, but any other type of connecting means that can bond and fix the first fiber 442a and the second fiber 442b is used as the connecting member 443. It can be.

As shown in Fig. 4(c), the evaporation cloth 444 may be made of three layers. In this case, the first fiber 444a, the second fiber 444b, and the third fiber 444c are connected to each other by a connecting member 445. The connecting member 445 may be a sewing thread, but is not limited thereto as before. In addition, the connecting member 445 can be fixed at various locations on the surface of the fibers within the limit of allowing the first fibers 444a, the second fibers 444b and the third fibers 444c to be well fixed to each other. can For example, along the left and right edges and the center of the evaporation cloth 444, it may be fixed so that three lines are stitched.

5 is a view showing an example of a modular evaporation panel.

A plurality of evaporation panels 40 may be installed for evaporation efficiency. The embodiment of FIG. 5 integrates a plurality of evaporation panels 40 into one module.

As shown in FIG. 5 , the modular evaporation panel 50 includes a module frame 52 and a plurality of evaporation panels 40 having upper and lower rotation shafts supported on the module frame 52 .

Meanwhile, the plurality of evaporation panels 40 are fixed to each other by interlocking members 54 . When one evaporation panel 40 rotates, the interlocking member 54 transmits rotational force to the adjacent evaporation panel 40 . Therefore, it is possible to arrange a plurality of evaporation panels 40 in the modular evaporation panel 50 in the same direction in the direction in which the wind blows.

On the other hand, the water supply pipe 20 and the water supply pump 30 previously mentioned in FIG. 2 are in a form suitable for supplying the concentrated urine A to each evaporation panel 40 within the modular evaporation panel 50 smoothly. is placed as

6 is a view illustrating a case in which the modular evaporation panel of FIG. 5 is installed in a planar arrangement.

6 is a plan view of the water tank 10 viewed from above.

As shown in FIG. 6 , a plurality of modular evaporation panels 50 may be installed in a planar arrangement within the water tank 10 . By using the modular evaporation panel 50, it is possible to install many evaporation panels efficiently without arranging single evaporation panels 40 one by one in the water tank.

7 is a view illustrating a case where the modular evaporation panel of FIG. 5 is installed vertically.

As mentioned above, if the evaporation cloth is too long, impurities may adhere to the surface of the evaporation cloth, resulting in equipment failure or reduction in evaporation efficiency.

The embodiment of FIG. 7 shows a case in which three modular evaporation panels are vertically arranged as an example in which the vertical efficiency of the evaporation panels is increased in the same cross-sectional area.

As shown in Figure 7, the modular evaporation panels 50a, 50b and 50c may be arranged vertically. The modular evaporation panels 50a, 50b, and 50c are connected to water supply pipes 20a, 20b, and 20c, respectively.

In this case, even if the maximum height of the evaporation cloth is increased, since there are water supply pipes 20b and 20a for additional water supply of the urine concentrate A in the middle, evaporation in the modular evaporation panels 50a and 50b disposed at the bottom High-efficiency evaporation can be expected even in the dragon cloth.

Of course, the planar arrangement of FIG. 6 and the vertical arrangement of FIG. 7 may be used together.

8 is a view showing an example of a desalination device using the urine concentration concentrating device using natural energy of FIG. 1 .

As shown in FIG. 8, the evaporated water vapor (B) from the concentrated urine concentrating device 1 exists above the concentrated urine concentrating device 1.

In this case, if the canopy 62 for collecting the evaporated water vapor (B) and the condenser 60 for condensing the collected evaporated water vapor (B) are further installed on the upper part of the concentrated urine concentrating device 1, the evaporated water vapor ( Fresh water (C) in which B) is condensed can be obtained as condensed water.

1......Concentrated urine concentrating device
2.......Preprocessing unit
3......Post-processing device
10......water tank
20...... Water piping
20a.......Water supply piping
20b......Water supply piping
20c......Water piping
30...... Water pump
40......Evaporation panel
42......Frame
44...... Evaporation cloth
46...... Connection member
50......Modular evaporation panel
50a......modular evaporation panel
50b......modular evaporation panel
50c......modular evaporation panel
60...... Condenser
62......Canopy
200....... Water inlet
210......Concentrated urine outlet
220......Drain
420......Upper rotation shaft
422......Lower rotary shaft
430......Weather vane
A......Urine Concentrate
A'...... Concentrated water
B...... Evaporating water vapor
C......Condensed water (fresh water)

Claims (12)

Including a water tank, water supply piping, water pump and evaporation panel,
Concentrated urine concentrating device for evaporating at least some of the moisture after the concentrated urine is supplied from the water tank to the evaporation panel via the water supply pump and the water supply pipe.
According to claim 1,
The evaporation panel further includes a frame and an evaporation cloth,
The evaporation cloth is rotatable by being connected to the upper and lower rotary shafts formed in the frame.
According to claim 2,
The upper rotary shaft further includes a wind vane fixed to an end, and the evaporation cloth rotates in conjunction with the wind vane as the wind vane rotates by an external force.
According to claim 2,
The evaporation cloth is formed of a single layer or an overlapping of two or more cloths.
According to claim 1,
Two or more evaporation panels are connected to form a modular evaporation panel, concentrated urine concentrating device.
According to claim 5,
Wherein the modular evaporation panel allows two or more evaporation panels to supply concentrated urine from a common water supply pipe.
According to claim 5,
Two or more of the modular evaporation panels are disposed horizontally in the water tank.
According to claim 5,
Two or more of the modular evaporation panels are arranged vertically.
According to claim 1,
Concentrated urine concentrating device, further comprising a urine concentrated water pre-processing module, wherein the concentrated urine condensed water flows into the water tank from the concentrated urine condensed water pre-processing module.
According to claim 1,
Concentrated urine concentrating device, further comprising a urine concentrated water post-processing module, wherein the concentrated urine condensed water is discharged from the water tank to the concentrated urine condensed water post-processing module.
According to claim 1,
A canopy installed on top of the evaporation panel and
Further comprising a condenser connected to the canopy,
The condenser condenses the evaporated water vapor generated in the evaporation panel collected in the canopy to obtain condensed water.
Including a water tank, water supply piping, water pump and evaporation panel,
After the concentrated urine is supplied from the water tank to the evaporation panel via the water supply pump and the water supply pipe, at least some of the water is evaporated,
A canopy installed on top of the evaporation panel and
Further comprising a condenser connected to the canopy,
The condenser condenses the evaporated water vapor generated in the evaporation panel collected in the canopy to obtain condensed water.

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