Device and method for recycling building material
12420288 ยท 2025-09-23
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Inventors
Cpc classification
B03B5/00
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a device (1) for recycling building material (2), which contains a base material and a binder, with a receiving container (3, 3a, 3b) for the building material (2), wherein the building material (2) in the receiving container (3, 3a, 3b) can be acted upon by at least one nozzle (4) with a high-pressure water jet (5) for detaching the binder from the base material. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a method for recycling building material (2).
Claims
1. A device for recycling building material containing a base material and a binder, comprising: a receiving container for containing the building material; and at least one actuator is arranged on the receiving container and configured to set the building material in motion under simultaneous impact with the high-pressure water jet; wherein the building material in the receiving container is acted upon by a high-pressure water jet through at least one nozzle for detaching the binder from the base material; wherein the actuator is designed to set the receiving container in motion; wherein the motion of the receiving container in combination with the high-pressure water jet is designed to fluidize the building material received in the receiving container and to set it in a vortex-like motion.
2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the high-pressure water jet has a water pressure at the at least one nozzle of more than 1000 bar.
3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one nozzle is arranged to be moved laterally in a circulating manner with respect to a radiation direction of the high-pressure water jet.
4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the device is configured for separating detached binder and base material.
5. A method for recycling building material containing a base material and a binder using the device (1) according to claim 1, comprising: filling building material into a receiving container, detaching the binder from the base material by impacting the building material in the receiving container with a high-pressure water jet, and separating the detached binder from the base material.
6. Method according to claim 5, wherein the filling of building material, the detachment of the binder from the base material and the separation of the detached binder from the base material are carried out in several successive passes, the particle size of the base material separated from the binder being reduced with each pass.
7. A device for recycling building material containing a base material and a binder, comprising: a receiving container for containing the building material, wherein the building material in the receiving container is acted upon by a high-pressure water jet through at least one nozzle for detaching the binder from the base material; wherein the receiving container is designed as a trough-shaped throughput vibrator.
8. The device according to claim 7, further comprising at least one actuator is arranged on the receiving container, which is designed to set the building material in motion under simultaneous impact with the high-pressure water jet.
9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the high-pressure water jet of the at least one nozzle is directed in such a way that the movement of the building material is supported.
10. The device according to claim 7, wherein the trough-shaped throughput vibrator is designed to trigger a trowalizing movement of the building material in the receiving container.
11. The device according to claim 10, wherein the high-pressure water jet of at least one nozzle is oriented in such a way that the trowalizing movement of the building material is assisted by water power.
12. The device according to claim 7, wherein the at least one nozzle comprises a plurality of nozzles which are arranged along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator, which assist the trowalizing movement of the building material along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator by water power.
13. The device according to claim 7, wherein the at least one nozzle is oriented in such a way that the nozzle sprays at least one high-pressure water jet in the direction of a deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator.
14. The device according to claim 7, wherein the at least one nozzle comprises a plurality of nozzles which are arranged along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator, each of which is oriented such that the nozzles each spray at least one high-pressure water jet in the direction of a deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator.
15. A device for recycling building material containing a base material and a binder, comprising: a receiving container for containing the building material, wherein the building material in the receiving container is acted upon by a high-pressure water jet through at least one nozzle for detaching the binder from the base material; wherein the at least one nozzle generates a plurality of high-pressure water jets rotating about a nozzle rotation axis, wherein the radiation directions of the rotating high-pressure water jets are aligned parallel to the nozzle rotation axis.
16. A device for recycling building material containing a base material and a binder, comprising: a receiving container for containing the building material, wherein the building material in the receiving container is acted upon by a high-pressure water jet through at least one nozzle for detaching the binder from the base material, wherein the device is configured for separating detached binder and base material; and at least one sieve arranged at the bottom of the receiving container and adapted to let through detached binder and water and to retain building material and base material in the receiving container.
17. A device for recycling building material containing a base material and a binder, comprising: a receiving container for containing the building material; at least one cyclone for separating detached binder and base material; wherein the building material in the receiving container is acted upon by a high-pressure water jet through at least one nozzle for detaching the binder from the base material; wherein the device is configured for separating detached binder and base material.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC EMBODIMENTS
(14) The disclosure relates to a device for recycling building material, for example milled asphalt pavement or road pavement or concrete or foundry sand, which contains a base material, for example rock grains, and a binder, for example adhering bitumen or tar or cement or iron, with a receiving container for the building material, wherein the building material in the receiving container can be acted upon by a high-pressure water jet through at least one nozzle for detaching binder from the base material.
(15) The fact that the building material in the receiving container can be acted upon by at least one nozzle with a high-pressure water jet for detaching the binder from the base material enables the binder to be detached from the base material efficiently. The acting upon the building material in the receiving container with a high-pressure water jet provided via at least one nozzle of the device enables efficient recycling of the base material, since energy-saving detachment of the binder from the base material is possible via the high-pressure water jet on the building material in the receiving container. The high pressure of the water jet at the nozzle accelerates the water to a high velocity with which the water hits the building material in the receiving container. Via the impact energy the binder is very effectively separated from the base material. This allows the surfaces of the base material to be freed from even the most stubborn binder adhesions without further crushing or destroying the base material. One aspect is the impact of the water on the surface of the base material granulation. Another aspect is that the water level in the receiving container is increased with the added water quantities. The water added here with pressure creates a water vortex, which results in friction, causing the binder to be detached from the base material. In addition, holding the building material in the receiving container prevents separated base material or removed binder from contaminating the surroundings, since otherwise the impact of the high-pressure water jet on the granular building material would lead to an acceleration of the grains into the surroundings. The receiving container is for example open at the top and the at least one nozzle for example can be acted upon the building material from above with a high-pressure water jet directed into the receiving container.
(16) With the device according to the disclosure, asphalt pavement as building material in the receiving container may be acted upon by at least one nozzle with a high-pressure water jet for detaching the bitumen as binder from the rock grains as base material. This allows the bitumen to be detached from the rock grains efficiently. The impingement of the milled asphalt pavement in the receiving container with a high-pressure water jet provided via at least one nozzle of the device enables efficient recycling of the rock grains, since energy-saving detachment of the bitumen from the rock grains is possible via the high-pressure water jet on the milled asphalt pavement in the receiving container. The high pressure of the water jet at the nozzle accelerates the water to a high velocity with which the water hits the milled asphalt pavement in the receiving container. The impact energy very effectively separates the bitumen from the rock grains. This allows the surfaces of the rock grains to be freed from even the most stubborn bitumen adhesions.
(17) The device according to the disclosure may also be used for recycling milled-off road pavement containing tar. In this case, the road pavement as building material is acted upon by a high-pressure water jet in the receiving container through at least one nozzle to detach the tar as binder from the rock grains as base material. This allows the tar to be efficiently detached from the rock grains. The impingement of a high-pressure water jet provided via at least one nozzle of the device on the road pavement containing tar in the receiving container enables efficient recycling of the rock grains, since energy-saving detachment of the tar from the rock grains is possible via the high-pressure water jet on the road pavement in the receiving container. The high pressure of the water jet at the nozzle accelerates the water to a high velocity with which the water hits the road pavement in the receiving container. Via the impact energy the tar is very effectively separated from the rock grains. This allows the surfaces of the rock grains to be freed from even the most stubborn tar adhesions.
(18) The device according to the disclosure is also suitable for recycling hardened concrete or concrete rubble. This building material may be acted upon in the receiving container by at least one nozzle with a high-pressure water jet for detaching the cement as binder from the rock grains as base material. This allows the cement to be efficiently detached from the rock grains. The impingement of the concrete rubble in the receiving container with a high-pressure water jet provided via at least one nozzle of the device enables efficient recycling of the rock grains, since energy-saving detachment of the cement from the rock grains is possible via the high-pressure water jet on the concrete rubble in the receiving container. The high pressure of the water jet at the nozzle accelerates the water to a high velocity with which the water hits the concrete rubble in the receiving container. Via the impact energy the cement is separated from the rock grains very effectively. This allows the surfaces of the rock grains to be freed from even the most stubborn cement adhesions.
(19) The device according to the disclosure may also be used to recycle foundry sand. This building material in the receiving container may be acted upon by a high-pressure water jet through at least one nozzle to detach binders and adhering iron from the sand as the base material. In this way, binders and iron can be efficiently detached from the rock grains of the sand. The impingement of the foundry sand in the receiving container with a high-pressure water jet provided via at least one nozzle of the device enables efficient recycling of the rock grains, since energy-saving detachment of the binders and iron from the rock grains is possible via the high-pressure water jet on the foundry sand in the receiving container. The high pressure of the water jet at the nozzle accelerates the water to a high velocity with which the water hits the foundry sand in the receiving container. The impact energy very effectively separates the binder and iron from the rock grains of the quartz sand. As a result, the surfaces of the rock grains can be freed from even the most stubborn binder and iron adhesions. This allows the silica sand used in the foundry to be washed clean again.
(20) Embodiments and further developments result from the dependent claims. It should be noted that the features listed individually in the claims can also be combined with one another in any desired and technologically useful manner and thus reveal further embodiments of the disclosure.
(21) According to an advantageous-embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that the high-pressure water jet has a water pressure at the nozzle of more than 1000 bar, for example 1000 to 5000 bar, further for example 1000 to 3000 bar. With such a high pressure at the nozzle, the water can be sufficiently accelerated to detach adhering binder from the base material. The higher the pressure, the greater the velocity of the water exiting the nozzle. From a water pressure of 1000 bar, the water contains sufficient energy to dissolve bitumen from the rock grains, for example, but without shattering the rock grains.
(22) An embodiment is one that provides for at least one actuator to be arranged on the receiving container, which is designed to set the building material in motion while simultaneously being acted upon by the high-pressure water jet. By the movement of the building material, the high-pressure water jet may impinge on the entire material, for example milled material or debris, in the receiving container to detach binder from the base material. With the movement, the building material in the receiving container can be easily circulated so that the high-pressure water jet can act upon the entire contents of the receiving container with accelerated water to detach, for example, the bitumen from the rock grains. The movement of the building material in the receiving container provides loosening of the entire material, so that the impingement of the high-pressure water jet does not result in any centrifugal movement of the building material from the receiving container, which is open at the top. The high-pressure water jet for example generates a water vortex in the impacted area, so that the frictional energy of the water detachs the adhering binder, for example in the finest range, for example with a grain size <0.063 mm-2.00 mm.
(23) An embodiment of the disclosure relates to the high pressure water jet of the at least one nozzle being oriented to assist the movement of the building material. By arranging the nozzle in such a way that the movement of the building material is assisted, the circulation of the contents in the receiving container can be assisted by the water power of the high pressure water jet. Part of the energy of the water jet is converted into kinetic energy of the base material. The base material grains in the receiving container collide with each other in the process. Due to the abrasive interaction of the base material grains with each other, the detachment of the binder is considerably enhanced. However, this results in a high degree of grain fragmentation. Therefore, the high frictional energy of the water from the high-pressure water jet should be used primarily to detach the adhering binder.
(24) An embodiment of the disclosure provides that the actuator is designed to set the receiving container in motion by means of imbalance, wherein the movement of the receiving container in combination with the high-pressure water jet is designed to fluidize the building material received in the receiving container and to set it in a vortex-like, for example circulating, motion. The movement of the receiving container by means of imbalance is very simple if the receiving container is spring-mounted. In combination with the high-pressure water jet, the building material received in the receiving container may be moved very easily like a fluid, so that the high-pressure water jet of the nozzle may be acted upon the entire base material with accelerated water. In this way, binder adhering to the received building material can be separated from the base material, because all the received base material grains are for example acted upon with the high-pressure water jet via the circulating movement. At the same time, the detachment of the binder is accelerated by the mutual collision of the base material grains of the fluidized building material. However, this leads to high grain fragmentation, so the high frictional energy of the water from the high-pressure water jet is to be used primarily to dissolve the binder. The building material received in the receiving container is for example fluidized and set into a vortex-like, for example circulating, motion. The base material grains are thus moved through a forming water vortex and cleaned by means of water friction.
(25) An embodiment of the disclosure provides that the receiving container is designed as a trough-shaped throughput vibrator. The design of the receiving container as a trough-shaped throughput vibrator offers the possibility to recycle building material in passes through the receiving container. Depending on the proportion of binder adhering to the base material, one or more passes through the receiving container may be necessary, for example, to process the milled asphalt pavement and to separate the adhering bitumen as completely as possible from the rock grains.
(26) An embodiment is one in which the trough-shaped throughput vibrator is designed to trigger a trowalizing movement of the building material in the receiving container. The trowalizing movement of the building material makes it easy to apply the high-pressure water jet to the entire material in the receiving container as it passes through. The high-pressure water jet may thus very easily act upon the entire material contained in the receiving container with accelerated water. The trowalizing movement is well suited to produce abrasion, i.e. an internal grinding effect in the bulk building material to detach the binder. The trowalizing movement is well suited because the bar-shaped water jet creates a water vortex in the area that occurs, which is constant, so that the moving material has to move through this vortex again and again and abrasion can thus be realized for example in the fine material.
(27) An embodiment provides that the high-pressure water jet of at least one nozzle is directed in such a way that the trowalizing movement of the building material is supported by water force. By supporting the trowalizing movement, the entire building material contained in the receiving container can be acted upon by the high-pressure water jet, whereby the water force of the high-pressure water jet additionally accelerates the trowalizing movement of the base material and the adhering binder. This results in an effective circulation of the building material contained in the receiving container. The energy of the water is optimally introduced into the bulk building material to detach the binder.
(28) According to an embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that a plurality of nozzles are arranged along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator, which support the trowalizing movement of the building material along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator by water power. By means of several nozzles along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator, several high-pressure water jets may support the trowalizing circulation movement of the building material along the entire length of the throughput vibrator. For this purpose, the spacing of the nozzles can be selected so that the combined high-pressure water jets of the nozzles form a continuous water jet wall. This allows adhering binder to be separated from the rock grains along the entire length of the throughput vibrator. The material can be recycled effectively by means of the trowalizing movement along the entire length of the trough-shaped receiving container, which is supported in this way by water power.
(29) An embodiment is one in which at least one nozzle is aligned in such a way that the nozzle sprays at least one high-pressure water jet in the direction of a deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator. With this orientation the building material in trowalizing recirculating motion may be effective be acted upon by the high-pressure water jet for detaching the binder from the base material. The orientation of the high-pressure water jet towards the deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator also ensures that the impinged building material is slowed down in the circulated building material before the acted upon building material reaches the deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator. This effectively prevents damage to the throughput vibrator by the building material accelerated by the high-pressure water jet. Also in this orientation, the trowalizing movement of the building material is supported by the water force of the high-pressure water jet.
(30) In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that a plurality of nozzles are aligned along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator, each of which is oriented such that the nozzles each spray at least one high pressure water jet toward a deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator. With this orientation, the building material set in the circulating motion along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator may be effectively impacted with the high-pressure water jet to detach the binder from the base material. By directing the nozzles towards the deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator, it can be ensured that the material to which the water jet is applied is slowed down in the remaining material fluidized in the trough before the material to which the high-pressure water jet is applied reaches the deepest point of the trough-shaped throughput vibrator. This effectively prevents damage to the throughput vibrator by the building material accelerated by the high-pressure water jet. In the selected orientation, the movement of the building material along the trough-shaped throughput vibrator is supported by the water force of the high-pressure water jet.
(31) An embodiment is one in which at least one nozzle generates a plurality of high-pressure water jets rotating about a nozzle rotation axis, the directions of radiation of the rotating high-pressure water jets being aligned parallel to the nozzle rotation axis. The rotation of the high-pressure water jets around the nozzle rotation axis continuously changes the point of impact of the high-pressure water jets on the building material in the receiving container. This prevents individual grains of granular building material hit by the high-pressure water jets from being accelerated by the high-pressure water jets in such a way that they emerge from the receiving container, which is open at the top. In addition, the rotation of the high-pressure water jets around the nozzle rotation axis leads to a swirl of the building material, which intensifies the detachment of the binder from the base material.
(32) According to an embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that at least one nozzle is arranged to be moved laterally in a circulating manner with respect to a radiation direction of the high-pressure water jet. The lateral circulating movement of the at least one nozzle continuously changes the point of impact of the high-pressure water jet on the building material located in the receiving container. This can prevent individual grains of granular building material hit by the high-pressure water jet from being accelerated in such a way that they emerge from the receiving container, which is open at the top. In addition, the lateral displacement of the nozzle relative to the radiation direction of the high-pressure water jet leads to more effective detachment of the binder from the base material.
(33) An embodiment of the device is one that provides a detaching device for separating the detached binder and base material. By separating the detached binder and base material, the material can be individually reused or reused further. For example, the reuse of rock grains for fresh asphalt is economically interesting. A 3-phase separator is suitable as a detaching device. This allows the binder and water to be easily separated from each other, and the base material can be reliably separated.
(34) An embodiment is one in which the detaching device comprises at least one sieve arranged at the bottom of the receiving container, which is designed to allow detached binder and water to pass through and to retain building material and base material in the receiving container. The sieve can be used to keep the filling level of the receiving container with detached binder and water low. This allows the high-pressure water jet to act effectively on the remaining building material, for example until only base material remains in the receiving container. Depending on the mesh size selected for the sieve, the particle size of the remaining material can be adjusted. With a larger mesh size of the sieve, finer base material can be separated from the receiving container with the detached binder. A smaller mesh size of the sieve, on the other hand, also leads to detachment of the binder from finer base material remaining in the receiving container. For example, a grain size of the base material in the range between 1 mm and 22 mm is retained by the sieve in the receiving container.
(35) According to an embodiment of the disclosure, it is provided that the separating device comprises at least one cyclone for separating detached binder and base material. This cyclone is for example a hydrocyclone. With such a hydrocyclone, fine components of the base material can be effectively separated from the water and binder. This also makes it possible to recycle base material particle sizes in the range between 0.063 mm and 1.00 mm.
(36) Furthermore, it is an object of the disclosure to provide a method for recycling building material, for example milled asphalt pavement or road pavement or concrete or foundry sand containing a base material, for example rock grains, and a binder, for example adhering bitumen or tar or cement or iron, for example with a device as described before and in more detail below, comprising the following steps: filling building material into a receiving container, detachment of the binder from the base material by applying a high-pressure water jet to the building material in the receiving container, and separation of the detached binder from the base material. By acting upon the building material filled into the receiving container by a high-pressure water jet, the binder can be easily detached from the base material, so that the separation of the detached binder from the granular base material enables efficient and for example also complete recycling of building material. With the method according to the disclosure, asphalt pavement as building material may be recycled by detaching the bitumen as binder from the rock grains as base material. In addition, the method according to the disclosure can be used to recycle tar-containing road pavement as a building material by detaching the tar as a binder from the rock grains as a base material. Furthermore, concrete or concrete rubble may be recycled as a building material by detaching the cement as a binder from the rock grains as a base material. Furthermore, the method according to the disclosure may also be used to recycle foundry sand as a building material by detaching binder and adhering iron from the sand as a base material.
(37) According to an embodiment of the method, it is provided that the filling of building material, the detachment of the binder from the base material and the separation of the detached binder from the base material are carried out in several successive passes, with the particle size of the base material separated from the binder being reduced with each pass. The successive passes in time allow the base material to be separated from the binder in different particle sizes. Several passes in succession provide for first roughly pre-cleaning the material before a more thorough separation of the base material and binder takes place in a subsequent pass.
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(38) Further features, details of the disclosure will be apparent from the following description and from the drawings, which show examples of embodiments of the disclosure. Corresponding objects or elements are provided with the same reference signs in all figures.
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(50) In order to recycle milled building material 2 containing granular base material and adhering binder with the device 1, the building material 2 simply has to be filled into the receiving container 3 (
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(53) The disclosure provides for an improved device which provides a more efficient way of recycling building material. Furthermore, a more efficient method for recycling building material is provided.
LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS
(54) 1 device 2 building material 3 3a 3b receiving container 4 nozzle 5 high-pressure water jet 6 actuator 7 movement, trowalization movement 8 throughput vibrator 9 detaching device 10 conveyor feed device 11 return device 12 feed hopper 13 return conveyor belt 14 protective lining 15 drive 16 drive shaft 17 imbalance weights 18 springs 19 frame 20 water jet bar 21 deepest point in the throughput vibrator 22 nozzle rotation axis 23 direction of radiation 24 sieve 25 cyclone 26 rinsing nozzle 27 discharge channel 28 nozzle holder 29 nozzle head 30 individual nozzles 31 metering belt 32 buffer 33 conveyor belt 34 first stockpile 35 oil separator 36 decanter 37 thickener 38 filter press 39 second stockpile