FEEDING DEVICE OF A BELT DRYING INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A FEEDING DEVICE
20170328635 · 2017-11-16
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
F26B1/005
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F26B5/14
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F26B13/12
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F26B2200/18
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
F26B13/14
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A feeding device is provided for a belt drying installation for dump or sewage sludge material dewatered down to a pasty consistency. In the conveying path of the sludge material, a first roller having transverse grooves that are set back relative to the outer diameter of the roller and a guide device are arranged relative to the outer diameter of the first roller such that when the roller is rotated the sludge material is drawn into the transverse grooves and is shaped to elongated extrudates. The first roller is associated with a comb which has teeth that rigidly engage the transverse grooves and which sweeps the extrudates from the transverse grooves, wherein the tips of the teeth which rigidly engage the transverse grooves define a line of engagement. The tooth tips which rigidly engage the transverse grooves are beveled towards the tooth neck.
Claims
1-15. (canceled)
16. A feeding device of a belt drying installation for dump or sewage sludge material being dewatered to a pasty consistency, the feeding device comprising; at least one first roller having transverse grooves formed therein being set back in relation to an external diameter of said first roller and being disposed in a transportation path of the sludge material a guiding device disposed in the transportation path relative to said external diameter of said first roller, said first roller and said guiding device disposed such that when said first roller is rotated the sludge material is drawn into said transverse grooves and molded into elongate extruded pressings; a comb assigned to said first roller and having teeth engaging in a rigid manner in said transverse grooves and sweeping the elongate extruded pressings from said transverse grooves, said teeth having tips engaging in a rigid manner in said transverse grooves and defining at least one line of engagement; said tips engaging in said transverse grooves being beveled toward a tooth neck and the external diameter of said first roller, said bevel running at an angle α causing a cutting effect; and said teeth of said comb being disposed at an angle β relative to a tangent that intersects the line of engagement of said first roller, the angle β causing a stripping effect.
17. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein the angle α that causes the cutting effect is between 25° and 50°.
18. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein the angle β that causes the stripping effect is between 18° and 32°.
19. The feeding device according to claim 16, further comprising a transverse support; and wherein said comb is subdivided into a plurality of segments each containing six, seven, eight, or nine of said teeth, and said segments are fitted to said transverse support in an axial direction of said first the roller so as to be displaceable.
20. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein said guiding device is a guide plate or a second roller mounted so as to be rotatable counter to said first roller.
21. The feeding device according to claim 20, wherein one of said first and second rollers has a higher rotational speed in relation to the other of said first and second rollers.
22. The feeding device according to claim 20, wherein said second roller has transverse grooves formed therein being set back in relation to an external diameter of said second roller; further comprising a further comb assigned to said second roller, said further comb having teeth engaging in a rigid manner in said transverse grooves of said second roller and which sweeps the elongate extruded pressings from said transverse grooves of said second roller; wherein said teeth of said second roller having tips that engage in a rigid manner in said transverse grooves and define at least one line of engagement; wherein said tips engage in said transverse grooves are beveled toward a tooth neck and said external diameter of said second roller, said bevel having an angle α that causes a cutting effect; and wherein said teeth of said further comb are disposed at an angle β relative to a tangent that intersects the line of engagement of said second roller, said angle β causing a stripping effect.
23. The feeding device according to claim 22, wherein said transverse grooves of said first and second rollers are configured so as to be mutually offset or so as to be mutually opposite, to which end one of said first and second rollers is mounted so as to be displaceable in relation to the other of said first and second rollers in an axial manner.
24. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein said guiding device is mounted so as to be radially displaceable in relation to said first roller.
25. The feeding device according to claim 20, wherein said first and second rollers are assembled from segment disks which are produced from hard rubber, from plastics by means of injection molding, and/or from metal by means of laser cutting.
26. The feeding device according to claim 22, wherein said transverse grooves in said first and second rollers have a rectangular shape.
27. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein the feeding device is disposed relative to a transportation belt of the belt drying installation in such a manner that the at least one line of engagement is spaced apart from the transportation belt by between 20 and 40 cm.
28. The feeding device according to claim 22, wherein said tips of said teeth engage in the rigid manner in said transverse grooves of said first and second rollers by way of alternatingly engaging at dissimilar depths and form two lines of engagement that are mutually offset in a parallel manner.
29. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein the angle α that causes the cutting effect is between 35° and 40°.
30. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein the angle β that causes the stripping effect is between 24° and 26°.
31. The feeding device according to claim 16, wherein the feeding device is disposed relative to a transportation belt of the belt drying installation in such a manner that the at least one line of engagement is spaced apart from the transportation belt by 30 cm.
32. A method for controlling a feeding device of a belt drying installation for dump or sewage sludge material that has been dewatered to a pasty consistency, which comprises the following steps of: providing the feeding device according to claim 22; detecting a shearing strength of the sludge material by means of a vane penetrometer; and controlling a rotational speed of each of the first and second rollers based on a detected shearing strength of the sludge material, by means of a frequency inverter that is assigned to a drive motor of each of the first and second rollers.
33. The method according to claim 32, wherein: in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 0.25 and 0.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 1.75 and 1.85 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 0.75 and 1.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 1.85 and 1.95 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the a detected shearing strength between 1.25 and 1.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 1.95 and 2.10 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 1.75 and 2.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 2.10 and 2.30 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 2.25 and 2.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 2.30 and 2.50 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 2.75 and 3.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 2.50 and 2.70 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 3.25 and 3.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 2.70 and 2.90 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 3.75 and 4.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 2.90 and 3.15 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 4.25 and 4.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 3.15 and 3.45 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 4.75 and 5.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 4.25 and 4.75 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 5.25 and 5.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 3.80 and 4.25 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 5.75 and 6.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 4.25 and 4.75 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 6.25 and 6.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 4.75 and 5.25 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 6.75 and 7.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 5.25 and 5.75 min.sup.−1; in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 7.25 and 7.75 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 5.75 and 6.50 min.sup.−1; and in a case of when the detected shearing strength is between 7.75 and 8.25 kN/cm.sup.2 the rotational speed of at least one of the first and second rollers is between 6.50 and 7.50 min.sup.−1.
Description
[0065] In the drawing, in a schematic manner:
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[0077] In the following description of preferred embodiments of the present invention, the same reference signs are used for same or equivalent components.
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[0080] In the design embodiment of the invention according to
[0081] The guiding means in the design embodiments of the invention according to
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[0083] The two rollers 11 and 12 can have identical rotational speeds. Alternatively thereto, a design embodiment in which the one (first) roller 11 has a higher rotational speed in relation to the other (second) roller 12 can be preferable, this having the advantage of more readily guaranteeing optional shearing of fibrous impurities on the transverse grooves 14 and/or an improved inclusion of the foreign matter in the extruded pressings 61.
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[0086] Alternatively or additionally thereto, the one roller 11 or 12 can also be mounted so as to be axially displaceable relative to the other roller 12 or 11, such that the effective groove cross section of approximately 10×20 mm, for example, that results from the two rollers 11 and 12 is advantageously configurable in a variable manner, as is illustrated and explained in
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TABLE-US-00001 Vane shear strength Rotational speed of roller Circumferential speed kN/cm.sup.2 1/min m/s 0.5 1.80 0.030 1.0 1.90 0.032 1.5 2.00 0.033 2.0 2.20 0.037 2.5 2.40 0.040 3.0 2.60 0.043 3.5 2.80 0.047 4.0 3.00 0.050 4.5 3.30 0.055 5.0 3.60 0.060 5.5 4.00 0.067 6.0 4.50 0.075 6.5 5.00 0.083 7.0 5.50 0.092 7.5 6.00 0.100 8.0 7.00 0.117
[0088] Finally, frequency inverters can be set in a relatively precise manner in terms of increased current pick up so that a rotation monitoring unit simultaneously stops the machine and triggers an malfunction signal in the case of a stoppage of the rollers 11 and 12 by virtue of malfunction or maintenance.
[0089] In one further design embodiment of the present invention it is provided that the guiding means 12 or 13 are mounted so as to be radially displaceable in relation to the first roller 11, such as is implemented in
[0090] Alternatively thereto, a device (not illustrated) for the preliminary comminution of the feed material 60, which comminutes lumps of more than 40 mm or 50 mm in size to 30 mm or 20 mm, for example, can be disposed upstream of the feeding device 10.
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[0098] The sweeping combs 70 that are illustrated in an exemplary manner in
[0099] The rollers 11 and/or 12, alongside the transverse grooves 14 formed therein, can be made as turned parts, wherein high manufacturing costs are associated therewith, however. According to the invention, rollers 11 or 12, respectively, that are assembled from two types of segment disks 16, 17 are therefore preferred, as is illustrated in
[0100] The construction of the rollers 11 and 12 from two dissimilar alternating segment disks 16 and 17 in particular ultimately enables cost-effective transverse grooves 14 having a rectangular geometry to be formed in the rollers 11 and 12.
[0101] The limitation of the end faces of cost-effective disks 16 and 17 being flat herein and thus not allowing a specific, in particular sausage-shaped shaping of the pressings, did not prove to be disadvantageous. Transverse grooves 14 having a rectangular geometry indeed comprise a plurality of advantages: [0102] The edges that are on the circumferential periphery 15 of the rollers 11 or 12, respectively, guarantee shearing of foreign matter that in particular lies transversely and/or is excessive in size and protrudes beyond the groove geometry, that is to say in particular the comminution of fibrous impurities or of deformable or shearable foreign matter, without appreciable clogging arising in the free area of the transportation path T. [0103] Moreover, rectangular cross sections 14 have an available passage area that is approximately 27% larger than that of round cross sections (perforated disks), this facilitating the inclusion of foreign matter and/or impurities in the sludge material 60. [0104] Finally, rectangular transverse grooves 14 form rectangular extruded pressings 61 which in relation to sausage-shaped moldings not only have a larger drying area but on the sides also more readily tear open in a porous manner, leading to an overall improved drying behavior. In particular, it has been demonstrated in laboratory tests that the flow loss of hot air 41 perfused rectangular pressings in relation to round pressings was not measurable higher at an air speed of 1.5 m/s.
[0105] The present invention has the advantage that impurities when placed transversely across two or more transverse grooves 14 are comminuted by shearing and moreover are entrained and are enclosed in the extruded pressing 61, as is other foreign matter. Thus, the factual risk of downtime in a belt drying installation 1 by virtue of required cyclical cleaning of the feeding device 10 if not advantageously eliminated was at least able to be drastically reduced.
LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS
[0106] 1 Belt drying installation [0107] 10 Feeding device [0108] 11 First roller [0109] 12 Guide roller [0110] 13 Guide plate [0111] 14 Transverse grooves configured in rollers 11 and 12 [0112] 15 External diameter of the rollers [0113] 16 Groove segment [0114] 17 Roller segment [0115] 18 Axle journal [0116] 19 Spring element [0117] 20 Transportation belt [0118] 30 Drying zone [0119] 31 First drying chamber [0120] 32 Second drying chamber [0121] 33 Third drying chamber [0122] 34 Fourth drying chamber [0123] 40 Ventilation system [0124] 41 Hot air [0125] 42 Exhaust air blower [0126] 50 Heat exchanger [0127] 60 Material to be dried, dump or sewage sludge, for example [0128] 61 Extruded pressings [0129] 62 Pile [0130] 63 Dried goods [0131] 70 Sweeping comb [0132] 70a, 70b, . . . Segments of sweeping comb 70 [0133] 71 Teeth of sweeping comb 70 [0134] 72 Tooth tips [0135] 73 Tooth neck [0136] 74 Transverse support [0137] 75. 75a, 75b Line(s) of engagement [0138] 80 Infeeding conveyor unit [0139] 81 Metering unit [0140] 82 Outfeeding conveyor unit [0141] T Transportation path