EP0879089A1 - Procede et dispositif pour amener un liquide de commande a un separateur centrifuge - Google Patents

Procede et dispositif pour amener un liquide de commande a un separateur centrifuge

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EP0879089A1
EP0879089A1 EP97902780A EP97902780A EP0879089A1 EP 0879089 A1 EP0879089 A1 EP 0879089A1 EP 97902780 A EP97902780 A EP 97902780A EP 97902780 A EP97902780 A EP 97902780A EP 0879089 A1 EP0879089 A1 EP 0879089A1
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wall element
control liquid
storing chamber
flow
outlet passage
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EP0879089B1 (fr
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Per Gunnar Karlsson
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Alfa Laval AB
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B04CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS OR MACHINES FOR CARRYING-OUT PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
    • B04BCENTRIFUGES
    • B04B1/00Centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles
    • B04B1/10Centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles with discharging outlets in the plane of the maximum diameter of the bowl
    • B04B1/14Centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles with discharging outlets in the plane of the maximum diameter of the bowl with periodical discharge
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B04CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS OR MACHINES FOR CARRYING-OUT PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
    • B04BCENTRIFUGES
    • B04B1/00Centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles
    • B04B1/10Centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles with discharging outlets in the plane of the maximum diameter of the bowl
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B04CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS OR MACHINES FOR CARRYING-OUT PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
    • B04BCENTRIFUGES
    • B04B11/00Feeding, charging, or discharging bowls
    • B04B11/04Periodical feeding or discharging; Control arrangements therefor

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  • the present invention concerns a method of supplying a control liquid to a rotor of a centrifugal separator by means of a supplying device, which has a cylinder, in which an axially displaceable wall element is arranged, which axially delimits a storing chamber arranged in the cylinder, in which a predetermined volume of control liquid is stored, and out of which at least a portion of this volume of control liquid is pressed during opera ⁇ tion out of the storing chamber into the rotor upon axial displacement of the wall element.
  • the invention also concerns a device for supplying of control liquid to a rotor of a centrifugal separator.
  • a device of this kind comprises a cylinder, in which an axially displaceable wall element is arranged, which axially delimits a storing chamber arranged in the cylinder, the storing chamber being arranged to store a predetermined volume of control liquid.
  • Supplying devices of this kind also comprise means to press the wall elements in the second direction with a predetermined force, which is higher than the resulting force of a liquid pressure prevailing in the storing chamber when control liquid is supplied to the rotor.
  • the present invention concerns a centri- fugal separator, which is provided with a device to supply control liquid to its rotor.
  • US 4 510 052 shows a centrifugal separator, which is provided with a device of this kind to supply control liquid to its rotor in a manner described above to intermittently open and re-close a peripheral passage when needed or at equal time periods to empty the separator chamber of the rotor of all its contents of product or a wanted portion thereof.
  • the passage is kept closed by pressing the valve slide in a direction closing the passage by a pressure force of a control liquid, which is present in a so called closing chamber, which is provided with an outlet valve at its outermost portion.
  • This outlet valve is opened for discharge of more or less of the content of control liquid in the closing chamber by supplying a certain volume of control liquid by means of an injector driven by pressurized air at a high flow into a so called opening chamber, which is provided with a throttled outlet at its outermost portion.
  • the control liquid present in the opening chamber influences the outlet valve with a pressure force in a direction opening the outlet valve against the action of a resulting force from a number of springs.
  • the opening chamber is filled up with control liquid, which is entrained into the rotation of the rotor.
  • the free liquid surface of the control liquid is then displaced radially inwardly and reaches rapidly a certain radial level, at which the pressure force from the control liquid accumulated in the opening chamber upon lasting conditions when the control liquid is fully entrained into the rotation of the rotor would exceed the resulting spring force and open the outlet valve whereby the control liquid would flow out of the closing chamber.
  • the amount is regulated at each discharge occasion by adjusting the time, during which the high air pressure is acting on the injector and presses control liquid out of the same.
  • the whereabouts for the time in these connections is very short, which makes it very difficult to discharge a wanted volume of product at sufficient accuracy and repeatability.
  • the closing chamber and the injector are refilled with control liquid from a source of control liquid, which often consists of a tank, which is located at a limited level above the centrifugal separator or of the general water conduit system.
  • a source of control liquid which often consists of a tank, which is located at a limited level above the centrifugal separator or of the general water conduit system.
  • the refilling of the product, which is to be separated in the separation chamber after a discharge has taken place cannot be done quicker than refilling of the closing chamber without having product leaking out through the passage. Since the supply of product to the separation chamber normally is not shut off during the discharge procedure the supply flow of control liquid to the closing chamber in these cases has to be regulated and adapted to the supply flow of the product to the separation chamber.
  • the available liquid pressure of the source of control liquid is low and, furthermore, if it consists of the general water-conduit system often is heavily varying, it is very difficult to adjust a suitable supply flow.
  • the fact that the available liquid pressure is low also means that conduits and valve having large throughflow area have to be used, which makes it even more difficult to adjust a suitable supply flow.
  • the device according the invention comprises an opening and closing element connected to the wall element, which is arranged to open and to keep the first outlet passage open during the displacement of the wall element the first distance in the second direction and at least partly close the first outlet passage when the wall element has been displaced the first distance and to keep the first outlet passage at least partly closed upon the continued displacement of the wall element in the second direction.
  • control liquid is pressed out of the storing chamber during the first step with a flow, which at least is double as high as the flow at which control liquid is pressed out of the storing chamber during the second step.
  • the wall ele ⁇ ment is pressed in the second direction by means of pressurized air, the wall element also delimiting axially a pressure chamber, which is arranged to be filled up with pressurized air at an adjustable pressure during displacement of the wall element in the second direction and to be emptied of air during displacement of the wall element in the first direction.
  • figure 1 schematically shows an axial cross section through a rotor of a centrifugal separator, which is provided with a device, by means of which control liquid can be supplied to the rotor in accordance with the present invention
  • figure 2 schematically shows in more detail a longitu- dinal section through a supplying device according to one embodiment of the invention
  • figure 3 shows a longitudinal section through a supply ⁇ ing device according to an other embodiment of the invention.
  • the closing chamber 6 is provided with a central inlet 9 for the supply of control liquid and at its radially outermost portion it is provided with an outlet valve 10 for the discharge of control liquid out of it.
  • the control liquid present in the closing chamber 6 acts during operation with a pressure force on the valve slide 4 in a direction closing the passage 7 against the influence of the pressure force from the product present in the separation chamber 5.
  • a stationary inlet tube 11 opens for the supply of the product, which is to be centri- fugally treated.
  • the inlet tube 11 is surrounded by a distributor 12, which distributes the supplied product out to the separation chamber 5, in which the components in the product are separated.
  • the main separation then takes place in interspaces between separation discs 13 arranged in a stack in the separation chamber 5.
  • a stationary discharge device 14 is arranged for centrally discharging of a separated specifically light component, which is present in the supplied product.
  • the axially movable outlet valve 10 is pressed by the pressure force from a number of helically coiled springs 15 distributed around the rotational axis in a direction closing the outlet valve 10.
  • the outlet valve 10 delimits together with the lower part 2 of the rotor an opening chamber 16, which has a central inlet 17 for the supply of controlling liquid to the opening chamber 16 and a throttled outlet 18, through which control liquid present in the opening chamber 16 flows out of the same.
  • Control liquid is supplied to the inlet 17 of the ope ⁇ ning chamber 16 via conduit 19, which also supplies control liquid to the inlet 9 of the closing chamber 6, in which inlet 9 the conduit 19 opens.
  • the inlet 17 of the opening chamber 16 communicates with the inlet 9 of the closing chamber 6 via an overflow outlet 20, over which control liquid flows into the inlet 17 of the opening chamber 16 when the closing chamber 6 is filled up radially inside this overflow outlet 20.
  • Control liquid which is present in the opening chamber 16, influences the outlet valve 10 with a pressure force in opening direction against the influence of the pressure force from the helically coiled springs 15.
  • a device 21 is connected for the supply of control liquid to the rotor via the conduit 19.
  • This supplying device 21 is connected to a conduit 22 for the supply of control liquid and to a presssurized air conduit, through which air of a predetermined, preferably adjustable, pressure can be supplied or evacuated out of the supplying device 21 by turning a three-way valve 23.
  • the three-way valve is electromagnetically controlled but in installations, in which explosion security is required, it is suitable to choose a pneumatically control three-way valve.
  • the conduit 22 for the supply of control liquid is in the shown examples provided with a back flow valve 24. In many cases the conduit system for the supply of control liquid has such a high resistance against back flow that this valve can be done without.
  • FIG 2 an embodiment of a supplying device according to the invention is shown in more detail.
  • This has a cylinder 25, in which an axially movable wall element 26 is arranged.
  • the wall element 26 sealingly abuts a cylindrical inner surface in the cylinder 25 during displacement of the wall element 26 by means of two sealing rings 27 and 28, which are located at such a big axial distance from each other that an inclination of the wall element 26, which can make the axial displacement of it more difficult, is prevented.
  • the wall element 26 delimits a storing chamber 29 and on the opposite side of it a pressure chamber 30.
  • a preferably circular cylindrical element 31 is fixedly connected to the wall element 26 on the side of it facing the storing chamber 2 .
  • the longitudinal axis of the elelment 31 is parallel to, preferably coaxial to, the axis of the cylinder 25.
  • the wall element 26 is pressed towards the end wall 32 of the cylinder, which together with the wall element 26 delimits the storing chamber 29 axially in one direction each, when the three-way valve 23 is set in the posi ⁇ tion, in which the pressure chamber 30 is connected to the source of air at the high pressure.
  • the pressure chamber 29 is connected to the surrounding atmosphere for evacu- ating of the air contents of the pressure chamber 30.
  • a first outlet passage 33 is arranged, which connects the storing chamber 29 to the conduit 19 and is arranged to admit a first flow, which is higher than a predetermined minimum flow of control liquid out of the storing chamber against the influence of a first low flow resistance.
  • the minimum flow is higher than the maximum flow, at which control liquid flows out of the opening chamber through the throttled outlet 18.
  • a second outlet passage 36 which also connects the storing chamber to the conduit.
  • this second outlet passage 36 admits a second flow, which is substantially lower than the first flow, out of the storing chamber against the influence of a second flow resistance on this second flow, which is higher than the first flow resistance.
  • the embodiment of a supplying device according the invention shown in figure 3 differs from the embodiment shown in figure 2 in that the conduit 22 for the supply of control liquid from a source of control liquid in this example is connected directly to the storing chamber at the end wall 32 of the cylinder 25 and not via the conduit 19. Furthermore, the end of the second outlet passage 37 turned from the wall element 26 does not open in the axially end surface of the element 31 but in its circumferencial surface at a distance from its axial end. During its displacement axially in the second direction, which is to the right in the figure, the element 31 will close the first outlet passage 33 for a while before the second passage 37 is opened and control liquid can flow out of the storing chamber 29 through the same.
  • a third outlet passage 38 is arranged in the elelment 31.
  • This third outlet passage 38 is provided with a restriction 39 with such a high flow resistance that only a low flow can flow out of the storing chamber 29 during the displacement of the wall element 26 this short distance.
  • the wall element 26 is shown in its end position, in which the storing chamber 29 has its largest volume.
  • the three-way valve 23 Before a supply of control liquid is initiated in order to, for instance, as in the embodiments shown in the figures, open and re-close a passage 7 to let out more or less of the product contents of the separation chamber 5 when needed or at equal time periods, the three-way valve 23 has been set in the position, at which the storing chamber 29 is evacuated of its air contents, during at least such a long time, which is needed for the pressure of the control liquid in the conduit to press the wall element 26 in a first direction to its end position towards the end wall 34 of the cylinder 25 and completely refill the storing chamber 29.
  • the three-way valve 23 When a supply of control liquid has been initiated the three-way valve 23 is turned so that the pressure chamber 30 is connected to the source of air of a pressure, which is essentially higher than the pressure of the control liquid in the storing chamber 29.
  • the wall element 26 Upon displacement of the wall element 26 a first distance it presses control liquid out of the storing chamber 29 through the first outlet passage 33, which admits a high first flow through the same against the influence of a low first flow resistance, and further through the conduit 19, which opens in the annular inlet 9 of the closing chamber 6 in the rotor.
  • the control liquid rotates with a radially inwardly directed free liquid surface, which in the figure 1 is marked with a triangle.
  • the conduit 19 opens at a radial level, which is located so much radially outside the radial level of the free liquid surface that equili- brium at the opening is at hand between the pressure from the rotating liquid body and the pressure from the conduit 22 for the supply of control liquid. Since the wall element 26 presses control liquid out of the storing chamber 29 at a substantially higher pressure the free liquid surface in the inlet 9 will be displaced radially inwardly and be located radially inside the radial level of the overflow outlet 20. This results in that control liquid flows via the overflow outlet 20 into the opening chamber 16 at a flow, which is higher than the flow, which passes out through the throttled outlet 18 whereby the opening chamber 16 gradually is filled up radially inwardly.
  • Control liquid flows into the opening chamber 16 as long as the outlet valve 10 keeps the closing chamber 6 closed.
  • the supply of control liquid takes place at such a high flow that the opening chamber 16 will be filled by control liquid, which only partly has been entrained into the rotation of the rotor radially inwardly to a radial level, which is far inside the radial level, at which the pressure force from the control liquid accumulated in the opening chamber 16 during lasting conditions with fully entrained control liquid would exceed the resulting pressure force from the springs 15 and open the outlet valve 10, before the outlet vavle 10 opens and control liquid flows out of the closing chamber 6.
  • control liquid flows out of the closing chamber 6 also means that no more control liquid flows into the opening chamber 16 and control liquid in the opening chamber 16 is gradu- ally drained out through the throttled outlet 18.
  • the opening chamber is only filled up radially to a radial level, at which the pressure force from the control liquid accumulated in the opening chamber 16 even if it is fully entrained does not longer exceed the resulting pressure force of the springs 15. This results in that the outlet valve 10 closes the outlet out of the closing chamber 6.
  • the supply flow during the displacement of the wall element 26 the first distance and the supply flow during the displacement of the wall element 26 the second distance can, as described above and shown in the embodiment according to figure 3, when needed be kept apart in time.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif (21) pour amener un liquide de commande à un rotor d'un séparateur centrifuge. Ce dispositif comprend un cylindre (25) dans lequel est disposé un élément de paroi mobile (26) qui délimite axialement une chambre de réserve (29) dans le cylindre (25). Un certain volume de liquide de commande est contenu dans la chambre de réserve (29). Le liquide de commande est expulsé hors de la chambre de réserve (29) dans le rotor durant le déplacement axial de l'élément de paroi (26). En outre, l'invention concerne un séparateur centrifuge qui est équipé d'un tel dispositif (21). Une portion du liquide de commande de la chambre de réserve (28) est expulsé, par le déplacement de l'élément de paroi (26) d'une première distance, par un premier passage de sortie (33) du dispositif, avec un débit élevé. Le premier passage de sortie (33) est fermé quand l'élément de paroi (26) a été déplacé de cette distance. Une portion du volume restant de liquide de commande dans la chambre de réserve (29) est expulsée de la chambre de réserve (29), par la poursuite du déplacement de l'élément de paroi (26) d'une seconde distance, par un second passage de sortie (36) dans le dispositif d'alimentation (21), avec un débit qui est sensiblement plus bas que le premier débit.
EP97902780A 1996-01-29 1997-01-24 Procede et dispositif pour amener un liquide de commande a un separateur centrifuge Expired - Lifetime EP0879089B1 (fr)

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SE9600313 1996-01-29
SE9600313A SE9600313L (sv) 1996-01-29 1996-01-29 Sätt och anordning för tillförsel av manövervätska till en centrifugalseparator
PCT/SE1997/000114 WO1997027945A1 (fr) 1996-01-29 1997-01-24 Procede et dispositif pour amener un liquide de commande a un separateur centrifuge

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RU2196641C2 (ru) 2003-01-20
SE505099C2 (sv) 1997-06-23
WO1997027945A1 (fr) 1997-08-07
EP0879089B1 (fr) 2002-06-12
AU1678897A (en) 1997-08-22
SE9600313L (sv) 1997-06-23
KR19990082082A (ko) 1999-11-15
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