Modular Water Purification Device with Variable Grid Impeller
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing water distribution systems face challenges such as high investment and energy consumption due to long-distance and large-diameter pipes, pipeline leakage, safety hazards, and secondary pollution, making it difficult to provide reliable drinking water without a vast water pipe network.
Innovation Solution
A modular integrated water-purifying device with a compact structure, shallow tanks, low costs, and efficient processes including a variable grid impeller for coagulation, oblique boards for sedimentation, and blanket-like wedge filters for filtration, which reduces energy consumption and material usage while meeting national drinking water quality standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a vast water pipe network system is built to provide drinking water, then water supply reliability is improved, but investment cost and energy consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The water supply system is segmented into distributed modular purification units that can operate independently, eliminating the need for a vast interconnected pipe network. Each module processes water locally, reducing transmission distances and associated energy consumption while maintaining supply reliability through distribution of functional capacity across multiple units.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from a horizontal expansion approach (building vast pipe networks) to a vertical integration approach (stacking purification modules). The three-dimensional stacking of reaction tanks, sedimentation tanks, and filtration tanks within compact footprints reduces the need for extensive horizontal piping while maintaining processing capacity.
2Productivity
If long-distance and large-diameter pipes are used for water distribution, then water supply capacity is improved, but investment cost and pipeline head loss increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the purification function from the distribution system, placing self-contained purification modules at or near water sources. This eliminates the need for long-distance transmission of large volumes through extensive pipe networks, as water is purified and distributed in smaller, more efficient quantities over shorter distances.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular purification units act as intermediaries between water sources and distribution points, processing water locally before distribution. This intermediary function eliminates the need for long-distance transport of raw or partially treated water, reducing pipeline head losses and associated energy consumption.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional water distribution system is built, then water supply coverage is improved, but maintenance workload and safety hazards increase
Solution Approach 1:
The water supply coverage is achieved through distributed modular units rather than a single centralized system. Each module is independent and can be maintained or replaced without affecting other units, significantly reducing maintenance workload and eliminating safety hazards associated with large-scale pipeline failures.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular design enables easy replacement of individual units that require maintenance or repair. Rather than maintaining a vast interconnected pipe network where failures can propagate, individual modules can be isolated, replaced, or recovered independently, reducing overall maintenance complexity and improving system reliability.
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
The device achieves efficient water purification with reduced energy consumption, lower material costs, and simplified maintenance, providing high-quality drinking water while minimizing the need for extensive pipe networks.
Implementation Method 1
the reaction tank (3), wherein: the inlet pump (1) is connected to an upper side of the reaction tank (3)
Implementation Method 2
the variable grid impeller (4) is equipped within the reaction tank (3)
Implementation Method 3
the sedimentation tank (7), wherein: the same-flow oblique boards (8) are sit in a middle of the sedimentation tank (7)
Implementation Method 4
the filtration tank (11), wherein: the blanket-like wedge filters (16) are fixed inside the filtration tank (11)
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AI summary
In a kind of modular integrated water purifying device, including reaction tank, sedimentation tank and filter pool, a pump is connected to the top side of the reaction tank through pipes and valves. There are variable grid hole mixing paddles in the reaction tank, forced outlet pipe at the bottom of sedimentation tank and the same-flow ramp board in the middle. The sedimentation water collector is set up below the board, with the purified water outlet tube connected. The traveling sludge sucker sits on the top of filter tank and move back and forth. Blanket-shape filters is vertically fixed in the filteration tank, the mud-suction pump below to the raveling mud-suction machine connects to the mud-suction pipe another side to the blanket-like wedge filters. At the bottom of the filteration tanker lie the water-collecting main pipe and clean water outlet, the effluent weir is fixed inside of the filteration tank.