JPH0633482A - Dredging device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide a dredging device capable of continuous stable operation without damage due to overload on a hydraulic motor or equipment even if foreign matter such as rocks is caught. [Structure] An inlet device 5 having a vertical screw conveyor 2 and an inlet cutter 5b rotatably provided below the vertical screw conveyor 2, and a substantially semicircular mud collecting plate 11 rotatably arranged on the outer periphery of the inlet device 5. In the dredging device 1, the inlet device 5 includes a hydraulic motor 9 for driving the inlet / cutter 5b capable of rotating in the forward and reverse directions. When the output torque of the hydraulic motor 9 exceeds a preset value, the hydraulic motor 9 The control device 30 for transmitting the reverse rotation command is provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dredging device used for dredging soft mud such as sludge accumulated in a water intake, a seabed, a lake, a river, a port, etc. of a power plant.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Dredging of sludge such as sludge deposited on the seabed may cause a submersible pump to plunge into the sludge layer and suck it up.
Alternatively, it was done by scooping up the soft mud from the seabed with a grab bucket. However, this method cannot dredge a high-concentration soft mud, and because it sucks a large amount of seawater together with the soft mud, it has a poor pumping efficiency. In addition, the grab bucket method causes turbidity in seawater, There was a problem of causing secondary pollution.
Therefore, in order to solve these problems, a dredging device consisting of a vertical screw conveyor and an inlet device rotatably arranged at the lower end of this vertical screw conveyor was put into practical use, and it was placed near the upper end of the vertical screw conveyor. The soft mud discharged from the discharge port is pressurized by a pressure pump and pressure-fed to the discharge pipe via the check valve. Further, compressed air is pressure-injected from an air nozzle (ejector) provided in the middle of the discharge pipe for a long distance. The method of transportation was proposed by the applicant.

FIG. 5 shows a conventional dredging device of this type, which is a dredging device 1 provided with a rotatable semi-circular mud collecting plate 11 on the outer periphery of an inlet device 5, in which the mud collecting plate 11 is dredged. After being rotated and opposed to the rear side in the direction, the inlet cutter 5 is slowly moved forward so that the inlet cutter 5b horizontally shears, stirs, and fluidizes the solidified mud layer at the dredging point to form a vertical stream. It is guided to the inside by the suction force due to the rotation of the screw blades 3 of the mold screw conveyor 2, and is moved up by the screw blades 3. At this time, the solidified soft mud is cut into slices by the inlet / cutter 5b and becomes soft and fluidized, but the foreign matter present in the soft mud cannot pass between the inlet / cutter 5b and is eliminated. To be done. The soft mud that has been lifted and transferred by the vertical screw conveyor 2 in this way is discharged from the discharge port 2a at the upper end and is conveyed to the next step.

When the soft mud is hard or has a strong adhesiveness, the soft mud adheres to the inlet cutter 5b itself as the operation continues, and this develops to clog the space between the inlet cutter 5b. The passage of the soft mud deteriorates,
Dredging and transportation capacity will be reduced. As a countermeasure in such a case, the inner surface of the mud collector 11 is projected horizontally and the inlet
The auxiliary cutter 11a, which is present between the cutters 5b, destroys and removes these clogged solid matters.

[0005]

However, when rocks or other foreign substances larger than the gap between the inlet and the cutter are mixed in the soft mud to be dredged, these foreign substances are scraped together with the inlet and cutter, It comes into contact with the auxiliary cutter on the back side in the traveling direction, the electric motor that is the rotation driving means of the inlet device is overloaded, and the rotation of the inlet cutter of the inlet device stops,
Unnecessary force may be applied to the structural parts, resulting in damage.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, in the dredging device of the present invention, a vertical screw conveyor and an outer peripheral surface rotatably provided at the lower part of the vertical screw conveyor are provided. And an inlet device in which a plurality of stages of inlet cutters are vertically spaced from each other,
Dredging provided with a mud collecting plate having a substantially semicircular shape rotatably arranged on the outer circumference of the inlet device and having an auxiliary cutter provided on the inner peripheral surface so as to be sandwiched between the inlet and the cutter and protrude. The inlet device includes a hydraulic motor for rotary drive and a hydraulic unit, and a torque meter is provided on the output shaft of the hydraulic motor. The output torque of the hydraulic motor during operation is set to a preset value. When it exceeds, a control device for transmitting an operation command to the direction switching valve in the hydraulic unit to reverse the rotation direction of the hydraulic motor is provided.

[0007]

In the dredging device of the present invention, foreign matter such as rock is caught in the inlet / cutter of the inlet device during operation and rotated as it is, and the hydraulic motor of the inlet device is contacted with the auxiliary cutter of the mud collecting plate on the rear side. When an overload occurs, the output torque of the hydraulic motor becomes excessive and this output torque is converted into an electric signal and input to the control unit, compared with the preset value set by the comparator of the control unit, and exceeded. In this case, the directional valve in the hydraulic unit is switched and the hydraulic motor reverses from normal rotation to reverse rotation, causing the inlet cutter to start reverse rotation, and the rock that has been pinched between the inlet cutter and the auxiliary cutter will separate. Fall down.
When the output torque falls below the set value, the hydraulic motor returns to normal rotation and resumes normal operation.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 to 4 relate to an embodiment of the present invention,
1 is an overall vertical cross-sectional view of the dredging device, and FIG. 2 is I of FIG.
FIG. 3 is a plan view as viewed from I-II, FIG. 3 is a bottom side view of the dredging device, and FIG. 4 is a hydraulic circuit diagram of the hydraulic unit. In the figure, 1
Is a dredging device, 2 is a vertical screw conveyor, 2A is a casing, 3 is a screw (blades), 3a is a rotating shaft, 3b is a screw driving electric motor, 4 is an inlet device casing, 5 is an inlet device, and 5a is an inlet. Cylinder, 5b inlet cutter, 6 bearing, 7 girth gear, 8 pinion gear, 9 hydraulic motor, 9A torque meter, 10
Is a protective cover, 11 is a mud plate, 11a is an auxiliary cutter, 1
2 is a bearing, 13 and 14 are chain wheels, 15 is an electric motor, and 16 is a protective cover.

As shown in the figure, the vertical screw conveyor 2
Has a cylindrical casing 2A, a screw rotating shaft 3a housed in the casing 2A and driven to rotate by a top electric motor 3b, and a screw blade 3, and the screw blade 3 causes sludge and the like. The soft mud is lifted and discharged from the upper discharge port 2a.

On the other hand, below the casing 2A of the vertical screw conveyor 2, a casing 4 of an inlet device 5 which is concentric and has the same diameter as the casing 2A is suspended via a bearing 6, and a hydraulic motor 9, It can be rotationally driven through the pinion gear 8 and the girth gear 7. At the lower end of the casing 4, inlet-cutters 5b having a toe-shaped plan view as shown in FIG. 2 are mounted in a plurality of stages on an inlet cylinder 5a having a large side opening. As shown in FIG. 2, the inlet cutter 5b is formed in a circular saw shape so as to shear the soft mud layer located on the outer circumference by rotation.

Further, a substantially semi-circular mud collecting plate 11 is disposed on the outer circumference of the casing 4 so as to cover the outer circumference of the inlet cutter 5b and is supported by bearings 12, and the electric motor 15 is provided via chain wheels 13 and 14. It is driven to rotate by. Reference numeral 16 is a protective cover for the chain wheel. A flat plate-shaped auxiliary cutter 11a is arranged on the inner peripheral surface of the mud collecting plate 11 so as to be inserted into the gap between the inlet cutters 5b. Reference numeral 11b is a through hole for passing water.

At the discharge port 2a of the vertical screw conveyor 2, a straight pipe 20, an elbow pipe 21, an electromagnetic flow meter 22, a straight pipe 23,
Check valve 24, pressure pump 25, discharge pipe 26 are connected,
An air pipe 27 is provided at a position near the pressure pump 25 of the discharge pipe 26.
Air nozzle 2 for injecting compressed air supplied by a
7 are provided. As shown in FIG. 1, it is preferable that the pressure feed pump 25 is provided at a position lower than the discharge port 2a, and the air nozzle 27 is provided as close as possible to the discharge port of the pressure feed pump 25. Therefore, the check valve 24 is arranged not on the discharge side of the pressure pump 25 but on the suction side. The electromagnetic flow meter 22 measures the flow rate by detecting the velocity of a transported object that crosses the magnetic field applied to the flow meter.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the dredging device 1 of the present invention has an inlet cutter 5 of an inlet device 5.
There is a hydraulic motor 9 and a hydraulic unit 100 for the hydraulic motor 9 by using b as a driving means, and the hydraulic oil sucked up by the oil pump 110 from the oil tank 101 via the filter 102 is in the direction which also serves as a flow control valve with pressure compensation. Switching valve 13
When the SOLA of 0 is excited, the hydraulic motor 9 is normally rotated by passing through the Y line. In the figure, 120 is a relief valve, 150 is a brake valve, 160 is a pressure gauge, 180
Is an amplifier, 190 is a check valve, and 200 is a pressure regulating valve. The pressure signal of the hydraulic oil is sent to the control device 3 by the torque meter 9A.
Input to 0. The control device 30 has a setter, a comparator, a controller (regulator and operating device), a converter, etc. built therein, and an output signal from the control device 30 to the directional control valve 130 is transmitted. The directional control valve 130 can also adjust the flow rate, and the brake valve 150 is a kind of relief circuit.

The operation of the dredging device 1 of the present invention constructed as above will be described. The dredger equipped with the dredging device 1 of the present invention is transported to the dredging site, stopped, and then the electric motor 15 is driven and adjusted so that the mud collecting plate 11 comes to the back side in the dredging direction. After that, the vertical screw conveyor 2 is gently lowered until it reaches the bottom of the sea. After the inlet device 5 (specifically, the inlet cutter 5b) and the mud collecting plate 11 are landed and buried in the seabed soft mud layer, the electric motor 3b is driven to rotate the screw blades 3 and at the same time drive the hydraulic motor 9. When the inlet cutter 5b is rotated, the seabed soft mud layer is sheared, agitated, and fluidized, and the suction force generated by the rotation of the screw blade 3 successively passes through the opening of the inlet cylinder 5a and enters the apparatus, where it is moved by the screw blade 3. Ascending transportation reaches the upper part of the vertical screw conveyor 2, is discharged from the discharge port 2a, and is transported to the final place via the electromagnetic flow meter 22, the check valve 24, the pressure pump 25, and the discharge pipe 26.

Unlike the submersible pump, the transportation by the screw blades 3 of the vertical screw conveyor 2 mainly carries out the vertical transportation of the solid soft mud without much liquid. During this time, foreign matter mixed in the soft mud layer is blocked by the inlet cutter 5b and prevented from entering the inside.

However, even if there is no foreign matter, the hardened mud, the originally hard mud, or the strongly softened mud gradually adheres to and develops on the outer periphery of the inlet cutter 5b as the operation continues, and finally, Is the upper and lower inlet cutters 5b
It may be clogged due to close contact with each other across the space, and if this state covers the entire surface of the inlet / cutter 5b, it will be difficult for the soft mud to pass, and the amount of passage will be extremely reduced, drastically reducing the dredging capacity. To do. In order to avoid this condition, the auxiliary cutter 1 is always installed in the space between the inlets and cutters 5b.
1a enters to prevent the formation of clogging.

As described above, according to the present invention, in normal operation, only the soft mud excluding foreign matter can be transported at a high concentration and with little excess water, and the inlet cutter 5b can be clogged. Since the auxiliary cutter 11a is provided so as to prevent the occurrence of the above, continuous stable operation can be continued.

When a rock or a large amount of foreign matter larger than the vertical pitch distance of the inlet cutter 5b is taken in, a gap between the inlet cutter 5b and the stationary auxiliary cutter 11a on the back side in the traveling direction is provided. The foreign matter is caught and interferes with the smooth rotation of the inlet cutter 5b. At this time, as a matter of course, the hydraulic motor 9 for rotationally driving the inlet cutter 5b is overloaded, and the output torque becomes a value much higher than the rated output torque. Therefore, the comparator compares the actual output torque sent to the control device 30 with the set value of the output torque input in advance, and when the set value is exceeded, the SOLB of the directional control valve 130 is excited via the controller. , Reverse rotation command is sent. The controller is composed of a controller and an actuator.The controller indicates the degree of the operation command according to how the measured value exceeds the set value, and the controller controls the direction based on the instruction from the controller. The operation command is transmitted to the switching valve 130. The lines with arrows in the figure show the flow of signals. When the output torque decreases after a certain time has elapsed after the operation is changed by the timer, reverse rotation stops and normal rotation resumes. With the above operation, even if foreign matter is caught between the inlet cutter and the auxiliary cutter, the overload condition can be detected quickly and the damage to the equipment and rotary drive part can be dealt with. The set value is appropriately selected from 120 to 150% of the rated hydraulic pressure.

[0019]

As described above, in the dredging device of the present invention, even if an overload state occurs due to the intake of foreign matter such as rocks, the output cutter is detected to automatically and promptly stop the inlet cutter. Also, it reverses to remove foreign matter, thus protecting the hydraulic motor and preventing equipment damage. Therefore, continuous stable operation is achieved, and maintainability and dredging efficiency are improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall vertical cross-sectional view of a dredging device showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view taken along line II-II of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a bottom side view of the dredging device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a hydraulic circuit diagram of the hydraulic unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an overall vertical cross-sectional view of a conventional dredging device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Dredging Device 2 Vertical Screw Conveyor 2A Casing 2a Discharge Port 3 Screw Blade 3a Rotating Shaft 3b Electric Motor 4 Casing 5 Inlet Device 5a Inlet Tube 5b Inlet Cutter 6 Bearing 7 Guards Gear 8 Pinion Gear 9 Hydraulic Motor 9A Protective Torque Meter 11 Mud plate 11a Auxiliary cutter 12 Bearing 13 Chain wheel 14 Chain wheel 15 Electric motor 20 Straight pipe 21 Elbow pipe 22 Electromagnetic flow meter 23 Straight pipe 24 Check valve 25 Pressure feed pump 26 Discharge pipe 27 Air nozzle 27a Air pipe 30 Control device 100 Hydraulic pressure Unit 101 Oil tank 102 Filter 110 Oil tank 120 Relief valve 130 Direction switching valve 150 Brake valve 160 Pressure gauge 180 Amplifier 190 Check valve 200 Pressure adjustment valve

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A vertical screw conveyor, an inlet device provided rotatably at a lower portion of the vertical screw conveyor, and provided with a plurality of stages of inlet cutters on an outer peripheral surface thereof and vertically spaced apart at appropriate intervals, and the inlet. A dredging device provided with a mud collecting plate having a substantially semicircular shape rotatably arranged on the outer periphery of the device and having an auxiliary cutter provided on the inner peripheral surface so as to project in the gap between the inlet and the cutter. Therefore, the inlet device includes a hydraulic motor and a hydraulic unit for rotational driving, and a torque meter is arranged on the output shaft of the hydraulic motor, and the output torque of the hydraulic motor during operation exceeds a preset value. At this time, a dredging device comprising a control device for transmitting an operation command to a direction switching valve in the hydraulic unit to reverse the rotation direction of the hydraulic motor.