Mobile Water Treatment Facility with Pivoted Support Arms
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for removing materials and polluting substances from watercourses are not adaptable to varying flow rates and water levels, and lack mobility, making maintenance and equipment replacement challenging, especially in large urban centers where resources are scarce.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a facility with pivoted and rotative mechanical arms along the watercourse banks to support equipment, allowing partial or total clearance of the watercourse for maintenance and vessel passage, combined with a floating garbage fence and suspended metallic structure with selective injection curtains and microaeration, enabling efficient removal and adaptation to changing conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If fixed equipment is installed across the watercourse for pollution removal, then treatment efficiency is improved, but adaptability to varying flow rates and water levels deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the equipment support structure mobile rather than fixed. The mechanical arms can be repositioned along the watercourse banks, and the equipment can be temporarily cleared from the watercourse when needed. This dynamic configuration allows the system to adapt to varying flow rates and water levels while maintaining treatment efficiency during operation.
2Reliability
If equipment is permanently installed across the watercourse, then treatment continuity is improved, but maintenance accessibility and equipment replacement difficulty worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile support structure allows equipment to be temporarily removed or repositioned from the watercourse for maintenance activities. The mechanical arms can be retracted or moved to clear the watercourse, providing easy access to equipment without compromising treatment continuity, as the system can be quickly reconfigured once maintenance is complete.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure is divided into separate mechanical arm components that can be independently manipulated. This segmentation allows specific equipment sections to be accessed, maintained, or replaced without affecting the entire system, thereby maintaining treatment continuity while facilitating easy maintenance.
3Stability of the object's composition
If equipment is fixed in position to ensure stable operation, then operational stability is improved, but mobility for maintenance and vessel passage deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs movable mechanical arms supported on wheels that can be positioned at different locations along the watercourse banks. During operation, the arms are positioned to provide stable support for treatment equipment. When maintenance is needed or vessels need to pass, the arms can be moved to clear the watercourse, thus providing both operational stability and mobility when required.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution allows for efficient removal of polluting substances while accommodating varying water flow and levels, facilitating quick and safe maintenance without operational risks, and enabling the reuse of water resources, thus improving sanitation and environmental conservation.
Implementation Method 1
a line of air diffusers arranged in the bottom and across the watercourse, promoting aeration and stirring of the watercourse and flotation of thick material
Implementation Method 2
the second curtain is responsible for injection of polymers in the watercourse to be treated, allowing a stretch of flocculation in this watercourse, so that downwatercourse will occur an aggregation of particles in suspension, defining larger flakes
Implementation Method 3
the third curtain of injection responsible for microaeration, where these aggregate and larger particles are subject to at least one stage of supersaturated dissolution of water/air, which depressurized releases micro air bubbles, causing a flotation of these aggregated particles
Implementation Method 4
flotation of thick material that is collected downwatercourse by a floating fence, the garbage fence
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AI summary
"IMPROVEMENT ON FACILITY FOR REMOVAL OF MATERIALS AND / OR POLLUTING SUBSTANCES CONTAINED IN WATERCOURSES", applied to facility comprising : the implementation of a sandbox arranged at the bottom and in a stretch of the watercourse, followed by a floating garbage fence arranged substantially transversely to the watercourse; whereas downstream and at a certain distance from this garbage fence is provided a suspended and transverse metallic structure to the watercourse, in which curtains for selective injection and automatically set in motion are mounted, arranged spaced and interspersed by homogenization diffusers, these curtains are responsible for the injection of coagulants; by the injection of polymers into the watercourse to be treated, and ahead there is a phase for release of microbubbles of air, causing a flotation of these aggregate particles; allowing that from this flotation stretch arises, along the watercourse, a superficial agglomeration of the floated material, and the conduction by flexible and longitudinal barriers formed by synthetic membranes of this floated material to a transverse alignment of dredging modules, that extend through the entire watercourse's width promoting the concentration of floated material and its removal. This improvement consisting of all equipment (3, 4,7) originally installed transversally the watercourse, which are subject to partial or total removal from this transverse condition, allowing the clearance of part and/or entire bed of the watercourse.