RU2411323C2 - Floating facility to collect insoluble liquids and garbage from water surface - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: ecology.

SUBSTANCE: floating facility to collect insoluble liquids and garbage from water surface comprises continuous meshy tape, mechanism to clean tape and reservoir to collect contaminants. At the same time body of floating facility is arranged in the form of catamaran. Mechanism for cleaning of tape is arranged in the form of socket and is connected to vacuum system. Tape is arranged as detachable and is equipped with mesh baskets to grip garbage. At the same time tape-cleaning mechanism is installed under its upper branch, along its whole width, at the distance of 0.6-0.8 m above water reservoir water level. Mesh baskets for gripping and movement of garbage are arranged along whole length of tape along its perimetre at the distance of 0.8-1.0 m from each other. Nose part of floating facility is equipped with sliding folds, providing for wider strip of contaminants gripping in working position.

EFFECT: improved efficiency of collection of floating insoluble liquids and floating garbage.

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Description

The invention relates to environmental protection and can be used in the collection of water-insoluble liquids, such as petroleum products, and floating debris from a water surface.

A device for trapping particles floating on the surface of the water (see AS USSR No. 1712533, 1992), containing an endless tape with through holes in which are fixed cup-shaped cells that capture solid particles floating on the surface of the water.

The disadvantages of this invention are the design complexity and the ability to collect solid particles of small sizes corresponding to the size of the cup-shaped cells.

The invention is also known: a device for collecting insoluble liquids from a water surface (see AS USSR No. 371303, 1973), comprising a conveyor belt with mesh partitions, the space between which is covered with crushed sorbent, squeezing rollers, a container for collecting pressed liquid .

The disadvantages of this invention include the need to use a sorbent and a mechanism for its extraction.

Closest to the claimed object is a device for collecting insoluble liquids from the surface of the water (see AS USSR No. 651083, 1979), containing an endless mesh tape and a mechanism for cleaning the tape in the form of a perforated pipe to which compressed air is supplied and container for collecting liquid.

The disadvantage of this invention is the location of the mesh tape, which does not exclude the natural loss of liquid from the mesh cells even before the zone of blowing them with compressed air and the inability to collect floating debris.

The technical task is to create a device that allows for the complete cleaning of the water surface from insoluble liquids and floating debris.

EFFECT: increased collection efficiency of floating insoluble liquids and floating debris. It is achieved by the fact that the mechanism for cleaning the tape is located under the upper branch of the tape along its entire width at a distance of 0.6-0.8 m above the water level of the reservoir (to avoid water ingress), mesh baskets for trapping and moving debris are located across the entire width the tape along its perimeter at a distance of 0.8-1.0 m relative to each other, the bow of the floating means is equipped with sliding flaps, in the working position, providing a wider capture band of the contaminated water surface.

Figure 1-3 shows the proposed floating tool (top view) and in section.

The floating means for collecting insoluble liquids and debris from the surface of the water comprises a housing 1 made in the form of a catamaran, a rotating tape from a removable mesh cloth 2, a bell 3 for cleaning the tape, a hose 4 of the vacuum system, mesh baskets 5, sliding wings of the housing 6, a container for trash 7.

Floating tool works as follows.

When the mesh web 1 moves, oil, oil products, oil located on the surface of the water are captured by its cells, since they have a surface tension greater than that of water, they move to the cleaning mechanism — a bell 3 through which they are sucked through a hose 4 of the vacuum system. At the same time, mesh baskets 5 pick up debris floating on the water and move it to the garbage container 7. Sliding sashes 6 provide a wider grip band of the contaminated water surface during operation of the floating facility. When the floating means moves, the sliding flaps 6 are in the folded position (shown in dashed in the drawing).

The mesh fabric to increase the efficiency of collecting insoluble liquids is removable in several versions, differing in different cell sizes, and is set depending on the magnitude of the surface tension of the collected liquid. With fine mesh - for light grades of petroleum products, with a larger mesh - for heavy grades of petroleum products and crude oil.

The use of this floating facility will allow the collection of insoluble liquids without impurities of water.

Claims (1)

A floating means for collecting insoluble liquids and debris from the surface of the water, containing an endless mesh tape, a mechanism for cleaning the tape and a container for collecting contaminants, characterized in that the body of the floating means is made in the form of a catamaran, the mechanism for cleaning the tape is made in the form of a bell and connected to a vacuum system, and the tape is removable and equipped with mesh baskets for trapping garbage, while the mechanism for cleaning the tape is located under its upper branch along its entire width at a distance of 0.6-0.8 m above the water level clothes, mesh baskets for trapping and moving debris are located along the entire width of the tape around its perimeter at a distance of 0.8-1.0 m from each other, the bow of the floating means is equipped with sliding sashes, providing in the working position a wider strip of dirt.

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