Double-action pusher centrifuge and pusher base device

• US 10,363,500 B2
• Filed: 06/10/2015
• Issued: 07/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ferrum Process Systems AG
• Original Assignee: Ferrum AG
• Inventors: Keller, Nik
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Dung H
• Application Number:
  US14/735,634
• Publication Number:
  US 20150367260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,511 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/06 with rotary cylindrical filtering surfaces, e.g. hollow drums B01D33/044 takes precedence ; rotating drums for paper-making D21B
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/067 Construction of the filtering drums, e.g. mounting or sealing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/073 arranged for inward flow filtration
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/11 arranged for outward flow filtration
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/46 by scrapers, brushes nozzles or the like acting on the cake-side of the filtering element B01D33/503 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/48 by flushing, e.g. counter-current air-bumps
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/54 involving vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 33/72 for feeding
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 45/08 by impingement against baffle separators
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 45/16 generated by the winding course of the gas stream , the centrifugal forces being generated solely or partly by mechanical means, e.g. fixed swirl vanes
• CPC Class Codes: B04B 11/06 Arrangement of distributors or collectors in centrifuges
• CPC Class Codes: B04B 3/02 discharging solid particles from the bowl by means coaxial with the bowl axis and moving to and fro, i.e. push-type centrifuges
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 2033/0246 comprising particle separators
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 33/02 of combustion air intakes air intakes for gas-turbine plants or jet-propulsion plants per se F02C7/04; air intakes for combustion engines in general F02M35/00
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/05 having provisions for obviating the penetration of damaging objects or particles
• CPC Class Codes: F02C 7/052 with dust-separation devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

Abstract

A double-action pusher centrifuge separates a mixture into solid cake and liquid. The pusher centrifuge includes a screen drum rotatable about an axis and in which a pusher base device is arranged to be movable along the axis of rotation. The solid cake is displaced by an outer ring region of the pusher base device. A plurality of axial passage openings are disposed in the outer ring region and connect front and rear regions of the screen drum. A feed unit is arranged at an inflow disk such that the mixture can be introduced via the feed unit and the inflow disk into empty space on the screen drum on displacement of the solid cake. An inflow gap applies the mixture into the empty space, and is between an inflow edge of the inflow disk and a pusher base plate of the pusher base device with an inflow region.

Claims

1. A double-action pusher centrifuge for separating a mixture into a solid cake and a liquid, the double-action pusher centrifuge comprising:

a screen drum including a front region and a rear region, and being rotatable about an axis of rotation;

a pusher base device including an outer ring region, being disposed in the screen drum, and being movable to and fro along the axis of rotation so as to alternately displace the solid cake in the screen drum by the outer ring region in an operating state;

a plurality of axial passage openings disposed in the outer ring region of the pusher base device, and connecting the front region and the rear region of the screen drum;

an inflow disk;

a feed unit arranged at the inflow disk, and the feed unit and the inflow disk being configured to introduce the mixture via into an empty space arising on the screen drum on displacement of the solid cake; and

an inflow gap which is not interrupted in a peripheral direction, being configured to apply the mixture into the empty space on the screen drum, and being disposed between an inflow edge of the inflow disk and a pusher base plate of the pusher base device with an inflow region, the inflow edge of the inflow disk being disposed within the axial passage openings.

2. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 1, wherein the inflow gap is a peripheral inflow groove in the pusher base plate.

3. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 1, wherein the inflow gap is a spacing gap between the inflow edge and the pusher base plate.

4. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 2, wherein the inflow edge extends into the inflow groove.

5. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 1, further comprising

a preacceleration device configured to preaccelerate the mixture in the inflow region of the pusher base device.

6. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 5, further comprising

a valve ring disposed in the inflow region between the preacceleration device and the screen drum.

7. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 1, further comprising

a flushing pipe extending into the screen drum through the feed device and through the pusher base device form the front region into the rear region of the screen drum, and being configured to introduce at least one of washing liquid and flushing liquid into the screen drum.

8. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 1, wherein the pusher base device has a double-walled configuration in the outer ring region.

9. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 8, wherein the ring region includes a termination band in a direction toward the screen drum.

10. A double-action pusher centrifuge in accordance with claim 8, wherein the passage openings of the ring region are open in a direction toward the screen drum.