Modular Wheel-Washing Apparatus with Water Purification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wheel-washing machines face issues with reduced productivity and movement convenience due to their width, and they struggle to effectively purify waste/turbid water, leading to environmental pollution and inefficiencies in reusing or discharging the water.
Innovation Solution
A multipurpose wheel-washing apparatus with a vertically separable configuration, incorporating a blower fan to reduce dust scattering, a centrifugation or inclined precipitation purification unit to treat waste/turbid water, and a sludge-filtering unit to enable the reuse of purified water as wheel-washing water and safe river discharge.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the number of rollers is increased to wash more wheels per vehicle, then wheel-washing productivity is improved, but the width of the wheel-washing machine is expanded, resulting in reduced movement convenience and transportation limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The wheel-washing machine is divided into multiple independent roller units that can be arranged in parallel. Each roller unit can independently wash wheels, and the modular design allows the system to handle multi-axle vehicles effectively without requiring a single wide structure, thus improving productivity while maintaining compact dimensions for easy transportation.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If waste/turbid water is collected in a water tank for purification, then environmental pollution is reduced, but the space required for purification is increased, making it difficult to separate sludge from water within limited space and time
Solution Approach 1:
A sludge separator is integrated into the water tank system that utilizes hydraulic principles to automatically separate sludge from waste/turbid water. The separator enables efficient sludge-water separation within the limited space of the water tank, eliminating the need for additional large purification equipment while effectively reducing environmental pollution from discharged water.
3Loss of energy
If water containing suspended substances remains on wheels after washing, then water consumption is reduced, but road pollution and fine dust generation are increased, leading to civil complaints
Solution Approach 1:
A drying unit equipped with air blowers is installed in the wheel-washing machine to extract and remove water containing suspended substances from the washed wheels. The air blowers effectively blow off excess water before vehicles leave the washing area, preventing road pollution and fine dust generation while maintaining efficient water consumption, thus eliminating civil complaints from nearby residents.
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 apparatus enhances productivity, movement convenience, and significantly reduces environmental pollution by effectively purifying and reusing water, while ensuring safe discharge, thus addressing the limitations of conventional machines.
Implementation Method 1
a blowing unit disposed on an exit side of the wheel-washing unit so as to blow air and provided with spray nozzles for selectively spraying water in a particulate form
Implementation Method 2
spray nozzles for selectively spraying water in a particulate form
Implementation Method 3
a purification unit configured to receive and purify the waste/turbid water from the water tank and then send purified water to the water storage unit
Implementation Method 4
injection nozzles configured to inject high-pressure washing water onto the wheels seated on the rollers
Data Source
AI summary
A multipurpose wheel-washing apparatus includes a wheel-washing unit including an upper frame provided with a plurality of rollers on which wheels of a vehicle are to be rotatably seated, and injection nozzles configured to inject high-pressure washing water onto the wheels seated on the rollers; and a lower frame provided with a water tank located below the upper frame so as to collect falling waste/turbid water; a water storage unit configured to store washing water to be supplied to the injection nozzles; a purification unit configured to receive and purify the waste/turbid water from the water tank and then send purified water to the water storage unit; and a blowing unit disposed on an exit side of the wheel-washing unit so as to blow air and provided with spray nozzles for selectively spraying water in a particulate form. Accordingly, environmental pollution can be significantly reduced.