WO2019173893A1 - Bioréacteur comprenant un moteur vibratoire résonnant interne pour l'agitation de déchets biodégradables comprenant des ressorts à extension horizontaux et diagonaux - Google Patents

Bioréacteur comprenant un moteur vibratoire résonnant interne pour l'agitation de déchets biodégradables comprenant des ressorts à extension horizontaux et diagonaux Download PDF

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WO2019173893A1
WO2019173893A1 PCT/CA2018/050295 CA2018050295W WO2019173893A1 WO 2019173893 A1 WO2019173893 A1 WO 2019173893A1 CA 2018050295 W CA2018050295 W CA 2018050295W WO 2019173893 A1 WO2019173893 A1 WO 2019173893A1
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  • a bioreactor comprising an internal resonant vibratory motor for agitation of biodegradable waste comprising horizontal and diagonal extension springs
  • the present invention relates to agitating contents inside containers. More specifically, the present invention relates to agitation of biodegradable waste inside composting bioreactor apparatus that degrades biodegradable waste into liquid and fine particles transportable by circulating water.
  • the composting bioreactor apparatus disclosed in the patent US9617191 and its continuation-in-part application with application number US15/615820 and publication number US-2017-0354906 has the following advantages: (1) it is the first apparatus that integrates both photosynthesis and burning with a stove unit into the
  • composting process and therefore has extended the definition of conventional composting concept; (2) it is the first apparatus that recycles all biodegradable wastes including solid waste, waste water and exhaust gases into nutrients to grow food plants; (3) it is the first composting bioreactor that integrates composting process with the Aquaponics technology and therefore leads to the new concept of Compoponics; and (4) it focuses on degrading the wastes into gases, liquid and fine particles transportable by circulating water, and therefore realises almost completely recycling in high efficiency.
  • the present invention will provide a new and improved mechanism and method for agitating waste inside composting bioreactor containers and overcome all the aforementioned prior art limitations lt also provides improvements for the patent US9617191 and its continuation- in-part application US15/615820 with publication number US-2017-0354906. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
  • the present invention is an resonant vibratory agitation mechanism for installing inside composting bioreactor containers or other applications for agitating biodegradable waste, soil or other masses. It either comprises of a sole layer of horizontally arranged springs with at least one vibration motor installed inside each of the springs, or comprises of a central frame, at least one vibration motor fixed on the central frame and a plurality of layers of horizontally or diagonally arranged extension springs of which each spring has an outer end connecting with a connecter fixed on side walls inside a container and an inner end connecting with a connecting ring of the central frame, and wherein each lower layer has more springs than its upper layer so that fed waste are filtered by gaps between any two neighboring springs of a layer.
  • the present invention fits for containers of both cylindrical shape and square or rectangular cuboid shape. Both low voltage (DC5V or 12V) and high voltage (AC 1 10V or 220V) can be employed for driving the vibration motors. Since the vibration motors stay inside the waste in containers, all the potential energies produced by the vibration motors including sound waves, vibrations and heat are used to agitate and to degrade the waste. Since all the extension springs are connected with the vibration motor via a central frame, energy produced by the vibrations of a vibration motor are amplified by the resident energy of the springs. Coincidences of vibrations of the vibration motors and the springs create resonant vibratory frequencies that have energy to help agitating and degrading the waste.
  • DC5V or 12V low voltage
  • AC 1 10V or 220V high voltage
  • the present invention also provides the following other improvements for bioreactor apparatus related to the patent US9617191 and its continuation-in-part application US 15/615820 with publication number US-2017-0354906: (1) with the resonant vibratory agitator, the size of the bioreactor vessel can be a container with a width or sectional diameter of less than 2.5 feet, since it is not required to have a space area on the top lid for installing an agitation motor; (2) comparing with making a whole body vessel with three vertical chambers, fabricating a bioreactor container by sitting a plurality of drums on a receiving tank not only saves manufacture costs but also makes it easier to transport and to clean up; and (3) it saves a lot costs of electricity to have only the black water rather than all the circulating water sterilized by heating it to 70-100°C.
  • F1G. 1 shows a vertically sectional elevation of a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 and a sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 installed inside a bioreactor container which has an upper chamber and a lower chamber;
  • FIG. 2A shows a horizontally sectional elevation of springs of a horizontal layer of a resonant vibratory agitator inside a vertical cylindrical bioreactor container;
  • FIG.2B shows a horizontally sectional elevation of springs of a horizontal layer of a resonant vibratory agitator inside a vertical cuboid bioreactor container
  • FIG. 2C shows a vibration motor waterproof treated by sealing a vibrator, a hollow cup motor and part of its wires inside a metal tube for installing inside springs;
  • FIG. 3A shows perspective of a central frame for a vertical cylindrical bioreactor container
  • FIG. 3B shows perspective of a central frame for a vertical cuboid bioreactor container
  • FIG. 4A shows perspective of a bioreactor container comprising of two vertical drums as two upper chambers sitting on a top wall of a rectangular cuboid receiving tank as a lower chamber;
  • FIG. 4B shows a horizontally sectional elevation of a top wall of a receiving tank that has four circular holes for holding 4 drums as 4 upper chambers of a bioreactor container;
  • FIG. 4C shows a vertically sectional elevation of a bioreactor container that has two vertical drums serving as two vertically separated upper chambers of which each upper chamber has a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 installed;
  • FIG. 4D shows a vertically sectional elevation of a bioreactor container that has two vertical drums serving as two vertically separated upper chambers of which each upper chamber has a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 installed, and one of the drums is configured for receiving black water from toilets;
  • FIG. 4E shows a vertically sectional elevation of a bioreactor container that has two vertical drums serving as two vertically separated upper chambers of a larger height, of which each upper chamber is installed with a sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 and a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 with 3 connection rings and 4 vibration motors on its central frame;
  • FIG. 5A shows a vertically cross-sectional elevation of a wicking bed having a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 installed inside its top growing media;
  • FIG. 5B shows a vertically sectional elevation of a wicking bed with large length having 3 multi-layer resonant vibratory agitators 30 installed inside its top growing media;
  • FIGS. 1, 4C-E and 5A-B also shows flow charts for both gases and liquid re-circulating between an integrated wicking bed and a bioreactor container, wherein bold arrows show flowing direction of liquid while hollow arrows show flowing direction of gases.
  • a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 is installed inside a bioreactor container 10 which has a filter board 14 separating its inside volume into an upper chamber 17 and a lower chamber 18.
  • the multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 stays in the upper chamber 17.
  • a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 comprises at least one vibration motor 36 and a plurality of layers of horizontally or diagonally arranged extension springs 31 of which each of the springs 31 has an outer end connecting with a connecter 32 fixed on side walls 13 inside the upper chamber 17 and an inner end connecting with one of the connecting rings 34-35 of a central frame 33 on which the vibration motors 36 are fixed.
  • a lower layer may have more springs 31 than its upper layer so that the fed waste is filtered by gaps between any two neighboring springs of a layer. With this filtering function, larger sized waste stays in the upper layer while smaller sized waste filters into the lower layer inside the upper chamber 17.
  • a central frame 33 is a substantial metal frame. It has either circular rings 34-35 for vertical cylindrical container 10 or rectangular rings 34-35 for vertical cuboid container 10 at its top end and its bottom end for connecting the inner end of each of the extension springs 31. It also has at least one flat board 37 between the rings 34-35 for fixing vibration motors 36 on each of its two flat surfaces by use of screw bolts 333. The rings 34- 35 and the flat board 37 are substantially welded with vertical connecting rods 331-332.
  • a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 inside an upper chamber 17 has the uppermost two layers of springs 31 symmetrically balanced in same vertically opposite angles so that the central frame 33 stays in a stable and balanced position while a concaved top shape is formed along the upper surface of the springs 31 of the uppermost layer.
  • This concaved shape helps fed waste be well distributed inside the volume of the upper chamber 17.
  • a horizontal layer of extension springs 31 is positioned above and near to an upper surface of a filter board 14 so that vibrations of the springs 31 may help prevent the filter holes of the filter board 14 from blocking by silt or sticky particles.
  • This layer of extension springs 31 is either the lowest layer of a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 as shown in FIGS. 4C-D, or an independent sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 shown in FIGS. 1 and 4E.
  • the vertical gap between the lower edge of each of the spring 31 and the upper surface of the filter board 14 is less than one inch.
  • a sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 has one horizontal layer of springs 31 and stays above and near to the upper surface of the filter board 14. It is pre-assembled so that it is easy to be installed on the upper surface of the filter board 14. It has an outer frame 72 to stay along the inside surface of side walls 13 and an inner frame 71 to be fixed on the filter board 14 with a bolt/bolts 73. Each spring 3 1 has an inner end connected with the inner frame 71 and an outer end connected with a connector or a hole on the outer frame 72.
  • the height of the outer frame 72, the relative vertical position of each connector or hole on the outer frame 72 and the height of fix bolt(s) 73 for fixing the inner frame 71 are coordinated to keep the vertical gap between the lower edge of each spring 31 and the upper surface of the filter board 14 is less than one inch.
  • Inside each spring 31 at least one vibration motor 75 is installed to provide further vibrations and resonant vibratory frequencies for further agitating the waste above the filter board 14 and for speeding up degrading the waste of the space area into fine particles to filter through the filter board 14 into the lower chamber 18.
  • the vibration motor 75 is of waterproof by having a hollow cup motor 76 with a vibrator 78 and part of it wires 77 sealed inside a metal tube 74.
  • the hollow cup motor 76 is of low voltage ( ⁇ DCl2V) and small sized (with sectional diameter ⁇ l0mm and length ⁇ 25mm) so that springs with inner diameter less than l2mm can be employed for the sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70.
  • two or more vibration motors 75 are employed inside each of the springs 31 of the sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 so that the vibration motors 75 in each of the springs 31 are configured either to work together to increase vibration strength or to have half as working motor(s) and the other half as backup motor(s) to increase lifetime of the sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70.
  • the central frame 33 of a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 may have at least one more connecting ring 38 between the top ring 34 and bottom ring 35 for adding more layers of springs 31, and at least one more flat board 39 among the rings 34, 35 and 38 for fixing more vibration motors 36.
  • the two vibration motors 36 on each of the flat boards 37 and 39 may be configured either to work together to increase vibration strength or to have one set as a working motor while the other set as a back-up motor to increase lifetime of the multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30.
  • the vibration motor 36 is of waterproof by sealing its motor, vibrator and part of its wires inside a plastic shell.
  • the vibration motors 36 installed on the central frame 33 are configured with relatively higher torque and lower rotation speed (for example less than 6,000 RPM), so that each of the connected springs 31 is driven to vibrate in a relatively lower frequency with longer vibration wave length for reaching more space area around the springs 31.
  • the vibration motors 75 installed inside the springs 31 of the sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 are configured with lower torque and higher rotation speed (for example more than 40,000 RPM), so that each of the springs 31 of the sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 is driven to vibrate in higher frequency with shorter vibration wave length to reach relatively less space area around the springs 31 of the lowest layer, to speed up degrading the waste near to the upper surface of the filter board 14 into fine particles to filter into the lower chamber 18.
  • the vibration motors 36 and vibration motors 75 may be configured either for both to work together or for each to work in different time zones.
  • the horizontally positioned vibration motors 75 are at the same height level as the liquid level for introducing into an integrated wicking bed 100 from an bioreactor container 10.
  • the vibration motors 75 are submerged in the liquid so that heat from high speed rotations of the hollow cup motors 76 is quickly released through its metal tube 74 into the liquid around the vibration motors 75.
  • a bioreactor container 10 to be installed with a multi- layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 or a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 plus a sole-layer resonant vibratory agitator 70 may be of vertical cylindrical shape or of vertical cuboid shape. It may be fabricated by positioning a substantial filter board 14 inside to form an upper chamber 17 and an lower chamber 18. The size of the container 10 may be big or small depending on the waste to be treated. However, containers 10 with a width or diameter of bigger than 3 feet are too heavy for one person to transport and too big to access most backyard gates.
  • a bioreactor container 10 may be fabricated by sitting at least one drum 170 with a sectional diameter of around 2 feet on top of a receiving tank 180 with a height of less than 1 foot.
  • the drum(s) 170 and the receiving tank 180 can be transported separately and are easy to access all backyard gates.
  • the inside volume of the tank 180 serves as a lower chamber 18.
  • Each inside volume of drums 170 serves as an upper chamber 17, and each bottom wall of drums 170 having pre-drilled holes or gaps serves as a filter board 14.
  • the receiving tank 180 has a top wall 60 having a plurality of circular holes 63 and horizontally arranged rods 64 for holding bottom edges 61-62 of a drum 170 in each hole 63.
  • the bioreactor container 10 may have a plurality of relatively separated upper chambers 17. All the upper chambers 17 may be configured either for each upper chamber 17 to receive different kind waste or for each upper chamber to receive all kinds of waste at different time zone. Every a few years the unbreakable humus inside an upper chamber 17 may need to be cleaned up, when one drum 170 is preparing for cleanup, the other drum(s) 170 can still receive waste.
  • the drum 170 may be removed from the top wall 60 of the receiving tank 180 during cleaning up operation and be position back after cleaning up operation.
  • a vent pipe 44 between two drums 170 is employed to lead exhaust gases from all other drums 170 to exit from an exhaust gas outlet 40 on one of the drums 170.
  • the liquid inlet ports 15-16 may be either both on one drum 170 or each on one of the drums 170.
  • the contact areas between bottom edges 61-62 of drums 170 and top edges of holes 63 of the top wall 60 are well sealed to prevent leaks of liquid, odor and exhaust gases.
  • the bioreactor container 10 has at least one top lid 11 and one feed module 12 fixed on each top lid 11.
  • the tope lid 11 is openable for the purpose to reach inside the upper chamber 17 to clean up unbreakable humus.
  • FIG. 4A for a cylindrical drum 170, its top edge and an outer edge of the top lid 1 1 may be tightened or opened up by using a closing ring 66 with a fastening mechanism 65.
  • At least one wicking bed 100 is integrated with a bioreactor container 10 for further degrading the liquid introduced from the container 10 and for supplying water, nutrients and heat to the plants growing inside the wicking bed 100.
  • the bioreactor container 10 has at least two liquid inlet ports 15-16, the inlet port 15 is for receiving recirculating water from an integrated wicking bed 100 while the inlet port 16 is for receiving waste water from other resources such as from kitchen sinks.
  • the liquid mix filtered into the lower chamber 18 from the upper chamber 17 includes water introduced into the upper chamber 17 by way of the liquid inlet ports 15-16, water produced from degradation of the waste in the upper chamber 17, and fine particles filtered through the filter board 14 from the upper chamber 17.
  • liquid exiting a liquid outlet port 19 is introduced by way of a pipe 90 into an inlet port 1 10 of the integrated wicking bed 100 to supply water, heat and nutrients to food plants 150 growing in the wicking beds 100.
  • Liquid exiting from a liquid outlet port 130 of the wicking bed 100 is introduced into a sump tank 132 by way of water pipes 131.
  • a water pump 133 is installed inside the sump tank 132 to introduce water by pipe 134 from the sump tank 132 into the bioreactor container 10 through the liquid inlet port 15. Therefore, a closed-loop water recirculation is established between the bioreactor container 10 and the integrated wicking bed 100.
  • an aeration module 20 has air stones 21-22 installed inside the lower chamber 18 to supply oxygen to both the lower chamber 18 and the upper chamber 17 to support aerobic organisms for degrading the waste inside the bioreactor container 10.
  • an integrated system has a stove unit 50 that has a heat radiator 51 staying under the bioreactor container 10 as its support base and supplying heat to the container 10.
  • flue gas from the stove unit 50 is introduced into the lower chamber 18 by way of an exhaust gas inlet port 56.
  • Flue gas of the stove unit 50 flows through the heat radiator 51, an outlet port 52 of the heat radiator 51, a pipe 53, a U-turn pipe 54, a pipe 55 and then into the gas inlet port 56 to the lower chamber 18 of the bioreactor container 10.
  • the U-turn pipe 54 is positioned in a higher level than the liquid level inside the bioreactor container 10 to prevent the liquid refluxing into the pipe 53.
  • the flue gas from the stove unit 50 undergoes“washed” by the liquid in the lower chamber 18, filtered by the waste in the upper chamber 17, exiting the upper chamber 17 together with exhaust gases produced from degradation of the waste inside the bioreactor container 10 through the exhaust gas outlet port 40, flowing through a inline duct fan 42 and duct 41, entering into an integrated wicking bed 100 through its exhaust gas inlet port 120, further washed by liquid in an upper channel 101, further filtered by an top growing media 190 in the wicking bed 100, and lastly exiting from the top growing media 190 into atmosphere.
  • C02 of the exhaust gases exiting from the top growing media 190 serves as a nutrient for the plants 150 growing in the wicking bed 100.
  • Oxygen produced by the plants may also serves as a component for combustion inside a combustion chamber (not shown) of the stove unit 50.
  • a vent pipe (not shown) is configured to introduce air into the combustion chamber from the greenhouse in which the integrated wicking bed 100 stays, a closed-loop gas recirculation may be established among the stove unit 50, the bioreactor container 10 and plants growing in the wicking bed 100 inside the greenhouse.
  • the duct fan 42 positioned between the exhaust gas outlet port 40 of the bioreactor container 10 and the exhaust gas inlet port 120 of the wicking bed 100 plays an important role for recirculating the flue gas. It pushes air inside duct 41 into the upper channel 101 of the wicking bed 100 to cause a positive pressure inside the upper channel 101 therefore pushing the exhaust gases inside the upper channel 101 to filter through the top growing media 190 in the wicking bed 100. It also draws air from the bioreactor container 10 to cause a negative pressure inside the container 10 therefore drawing flue gas flowing from the heat radiator 51 through the lower chamber 18, the upper chamber 17, the exhaust gas outlet port 40, and the duct fan 42 itself into the duct 41.
  • one of the upper chambers 17 may be configured for receiving black water from toilets.
  • the filter board 14 is positioned upward and a middle chamber 80 and lower volume 93 having a heating sub-chamber 91 are added by fixing a concaved board 81 immediately under the filter board 14 on an inner surface of the side walls 13.
  • the heating sub-chamber is positioned between the concaved board 81 and the top wall 60 of the receiving tank 180.
  • Waste water filtered through the filter board 14 is collected in the middle chamber 80; it then flows through an outlet port 82 at the central lowest area of the middle chamber 80 and a pipe 83 into the heating sub-chamber 91 by way of an inlet port 84; and lastly, it exits an outlet port 85 of the heating sub-chamber 91 and enters into the lower chamber 18.
  • An electric heater 88 and a bimetal temperature control switch 89 are installed inside the heating sub-chamber 91 from outside of the side wall 13. Vertically, the outlet port 85 of the heating sub-chamber 91 is in a higher position than its inlet port 84, therefore, all waste water flowing through the heating sub-chamber is heated by the electric heater 88.
  • Working temperature inside the heating sub-chamber 91 is set at 70-100°C for killing pathogenic organisms and is controlled by the bimetal temperature control switch 89.
  • the heated waste water from the heating sub-chamber is to be moderated in temperature by the liquid inside the lower chamber 18, therefore, liquid introduced into the wicking bed 100 is in a right temperature fitting for the growing plants 150.
  • the heating sub-chamber 91 also has a second outlet port 86 to connect by way of a pipe 92 into an outlet port 87 on the side wall 13 positioned between the heating sub-chamber 88 and the bottom edge 61 of drum 170, so that waste water inside the middle chamber 80, heating sub-chamber 91 and the connecting pipes 83 and 91 may be emptied to prevent them from breaking by icing during winter season.
  • the aeration module 20 connects into both the air-stones 21-22 inside the lower chamber 18 and the air-stones 23-24 inside the middle chamber 80 to supply oxygen to the middle chamber 80 and the upper chamber 17 for receiving black water.
  • a vent pipe 44 connecting into the neighboring upper chamber 17 is further connecting into a pipe 45, so that exhaust gases from the upper chamber 17 for receiving black water are introduced into the lower layer of the neighboring upper chamber 17 by way of an exit 46 of the pipe 45, to be further filtered by the waste inside the neighboring upper chamber 17 before the gases exit the neighboring upper chamber 17 through the exhaust gas outlet 40.
  • a multi-layer resonant vibratory agitator 30 may be installed inside a wicking bed 100 to provide vibrations to loosen its top growing media 190 to improve aeration around roots of plants 150.
  • a plurality of resonant vibratory agitators 30 may be installed inside a wicking bed 100 with very large length.
  • a wicking bed 100 has an upper layer of 8- 12 inches filled with top growing media 190 for growing plants 150, and a lower layer of 8-12 inches having an upper channel 101, an lower channel 103 and a middle channel 102 filled with bio-filter media.
  • Both the gas duct 41 connecting with the exhaust gas outlet port 40 of a bioreactor container 10 and the liquid pipe 90 connecting with the liquid outlet port 19 of the bioreactor container 10 are introduced into the upper channel 101 through its gas inlet port 120 and its liquid inlet port 110.
  • a second aeration module 140 connects into air-stones 141 -143 in the lower channel 103.
  • the wicking bed supplies by wicking into the growing plants 150 with water, nutrients, heat and oxygen from its upper channel 101.
  • the liquid introduced into the upper channel 101 is further filtered and degraded by the bio-filter media inside the middle channel 102.
  • the liquid filtered into the lower channel 103 exits the wicking bed 100 through a liquid outlet port 130 which is directly connected into the lower channel at the other end of the wicking bed 100.
  • the liquid from the liquid outlet port 130 is introduced either into another wicking bed 100 or some hydroponic growing beds, or into a sump tank 132 and further into the liquid inlet port 15 of the bioreactor container 10 to establish a closed-loop liquid recirculation.

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La présente invention concerne un mécanisme à agitation vibratoire résonnant destiné à être installé à l'intérieur de récipients bioréacteurs pour l'agitation et la dégradation de déchets biodégradables. Il comprend soit une couche de semelle de ressorts disposés horizontalement avec au moins un moteur vibrant installé à l'intérieur de chacun des ressorts, ou comprend un châssis central, une pluralité de moteurs vibrants fixés sur le châssis central et une pluralité de couches de ressorts à extension disposées horizontalement ou en diagonale. Toutes les énergies potentielles générées par les moteurs vibrants et amplifiées par les ressorts comprenant les ondes de son, les vibrations, les fréquences vibratoires résonnantes et la chaleur sont utilisées pour agiter et pour dégrader les déchets biodégradables à l'intérieur d'un récipient de bioréacteur. La fabrication d'un récipient de bioréacteur par l'assemblage d'une pluralité de tambours cylindriques sur le dessus d'une cuve de réception non seulement réduit les coûts de fabrication mais facilite également le transport et le nettoyage.
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