Filtering apparatus, back wash method therefor, filtering device and power plant

• US 20020139738A1
• Filed: 01/31/2002
• Published: 10/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Hideki, Yamada, Kazuya, Noda, Tetsuya, Seki, Shuji, Sakurai, Manabu, Ide, Kenichiro, Komatsubara, Masaru, Fujie, Makoto, Fukushima, Tadashi
• Application Number:
  US10/059,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20020139738A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 210/184
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2321/04 Backflushing
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2321/08 Use of hot water or water vapor
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 61/18 Apparatus therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/021 Manufacturing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/023 Encapsulating materials
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/0241 being U-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/043 with separate tube sheets
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/061 Manufacturing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 63/067 with pleated membranes
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 65/02 Membrane cleaning or sterilisation ; Membrane regeneration
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 67/0083 Thermal after-treatment
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 71/36 Polytetrafluoroethene
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/444 by ultrafiltration or microfiltration
• CPC Class Codes: F01K 21/06 Treating live steam, other than thermodynamically, e.g. for fighting deposits in engine
• CPC Class Codes: F22D 11/006 Arrangements of feedwater cleaning with a boiler
• CPC Class Codes: F28F 19/01 by using means for separating solid materials from heat-exchange fluids, e.g. filters

Abstract

A filtering apparatus having a vessel and a filter made from fluororesin and treated before filtering operation by at least one of adding thermal treatment in gas or liquid and penetrating with fluid composed of hot water or steam at a temperature of less than melting point of the fluororesin.

Claims

1. A filtering apparatus, comprising:

a vessel adapted for connecting a feed inlet line for introducing feed into the vessel and a filtrate outlet line for letting filtrate out of the vessel;

a filter contained in the vessel for filtering the feed to let filtered feed flow as the filtrate; and

the filter being made of fluororesin to which thermal treatment is added in at least one of gas and liquid beforehand.

2. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the filter is kept in a circumstance at a temperature of between 100 and 250 degrees Centigrade for not less than one hour beforehand.

3. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the filter is further permeated with permeation fluid composed of one of hot water and steam beforehand.

4. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 3, wherein:

the filter is permeated with the permeation fluid at a temperature of between 100 and 250 degrees Centigrade for not less than one hour.

5. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the filter is formed in one of hollow shape, a shape of pleats, a flat film, and a tube.

6. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

a back wash equipment for back washing the filter to remove suspended solid adhered to a surface of the filter; and

a chemical cleaning equipment for cleaning the filter with chemicals.

7. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the filter is composed of:

a plurality of hollow porosity films composed of a first one of the fluororesin; and

a support portion composed of a second one of the fluororesin with a melting point less than that of the first one of the fluororesin jointed at edges of the hollow porosity films.

8. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the filter is composed of:

a plurality of hollow porosity films composed of a first one of the fluororesin;

a support portion composed of a second one of the fluororesin jointed at edges of the hollow porosity films; and

a seal portion composed of a third one of the fluororesin with a melting point less than that of the first and second ones jointed between the hollow porosity films and the support portion.

24. A power plant, comprising:

a steam generator for generating steam from feedwater;

a turbine driven by the steam supplied from the steam generator;

a condenser for condensing the steam extracted from the turbine into condensate;

a feedwater line for supplying the condensate from the condenser to the steam generator as the feedwater;

a heater for heating the feedwater flowing in the feedwater line;

a heater drain line for supplying drain discharged from the heater to the feedwater line; and

the filtering apparatus according to one of claim 1 and 9 installed in at least one of the feedwater line and the heater drain line.

9. A filtering apparatus, comprising:

a vessel adapted for connecting a feed inlet line for introducing feed into the vessel and a filtrate outlet line for letting filtrate flow out of the vessel; and

a filter contained in the vessel for filtering the feed to let filtered feed flow as the filtrate;

the filter being made of fluororesin permeated with permeation fluid composed of at least one of hot water and steam beforehand.

10. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 9, wherein:

the filter is permeated with the permeation fluid at a temperature of between 100 and 250 degrees Centigrade for not less than one hour.

11. The filtering apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein:

the permeation fluid is hot water simulating water of a power plant concerning at least one of pH value, concentration of dissolving oxygen, and chemicals component.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein:

in the second back washing of the filter, flow of the back wash water is adjusted so that a difference between a pressure of the first compartment and a pressure of the second compartment is not less than a bubble point of the filter.

15. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising:

scrubbing the filter after the first back washing of the filter before the second back washing of the filter composed of,

supplying scrubbing air into the filtering apparatus from the first part of the filtering apparatus to shake the filter by the scribing air, and

discharging the scrubbing air out of the filtering apparatus.

17. The filtering device as recited in claim 16, further comprising:

a first leak valve installed in a first leak valve connected to the filtrate accumulation space of the filtering apparatus for discharging air out of the filtrate accumulation space; and

a second leak valve installed in a second leak line connected to the first compartment of the back wash tank for discharging air out of the first compartment of the back wash tank.

18. The filtering device as recited in claim 16, wherein:

the partition of the back wash tank is composed of one of a hydrophilic film and hydrophilic packed material.

19. The filtering device as recited in claim 16, wherein:

the partition of the back wash tank is formed in one of hollow shape, a shape of pleats, a flat film, and a cylinder.

20. The filtering device as recited in claim 16, wherein:

the filter in the filtering apparatus is made of fluororesin treated beforehand by at least one of adding thermal treatment to the filter in at least one of gas and liquid and penetrating the filter through at least one of hot water and steam.

12. A method of manufacturing a filtering apparatus, comprising:

making a filter for filtering feed from fluororesin;

adding thermal treatment to the filter by at least one of,

heating the filter in at least one of gas and liquid, and

penetrating the filter through permeation fluid composed of one of hot water and steam; and

after the adding of thermal treatment to the filter, arranging the filter in a vessel adapted for connecting a feed inlet line for introducing the feed into the vessel and a filtrate outlet line for letting filtrated feed flow as filtrate out of the vessel.

13. A back wash method for back washing a filtering apparatus composed of a vessel and a filter made from fluororesin to which thermal treatment is added by using at least one of gas and liquid beforehand, the vessel being composed of a first compartment in which the filter is contained to filter feed in a filtering operation and a second compartment positioned above the first compartment to contain filtered feed as filtrate in the filtering operation, the back wash method comprising:

first back washing the filter composed of, supplying back wash rinse fluid composed of at least one of water, air and steam into the filtering apparatus from the second compartment side of the filtering apparatus,

passing the back wash rinse fluid through the filter, and

discharging the back wash rinse fluid out of the filtering apparatus; and

second back washing the filter composed of,

supplying back wash water into the filtering apparatus from the first compartment side of the filtering apparatus,

passing the back wash water through the filter, and

discharging the back wash water out of the filtering apparatus from the second compartment side of the filtering apparatus.

16. A filtering device, comprising:

a filtering apparatus composed of a vessel with a filtrate accumulation space provided in an upper side thereof and a filter contained in the vessel;

a feed inlet line for introducing feed into the filtering apparatus;

a filtrate outlet line for letting filtrate flow out of the filtering apparatus;

the filter filtering the feed to let filtered feed flow as the filtrate;

a back wash tank for storing back wash water to be supplied into the filtering apparatus, with a partition which easily passes liquid component and hardly passes gas component to separate the back wash tank into a first compartment and a second compartment;

the first compartment being adapted for connecting a gas supply line capable of controlling gas pressure and for supplying the gas to the filtering apparatus, and a make-up water supply line for supplying the back wash water to the filtering apparatus; and

the second compartment being connected to the filtrate accumulation space of the filtering apparatus.

25. A power plant, comprising:

a steam generator for generating steam from feedwater;

a turbine driven by the steam supplied from the steam generator;

a condenser for condensing the steam extracted from the turbine into condensate;

a feedwater line for supplying the condensate from the condenser to the steam generator as the feedwater;

a heater for heating the feedwater flowing in the feedwater line;

a heater drain line for supplying drain discharged from the heater to the feedwater line; and

the filtering device according to one of claims 16 and installed in at least one of the feedwater line and the heater drain line.

21. A filtering device, comprising:

a filtering apparatus composed of a vessel with a filtrate accumulation space provided in an upper side thereof and a filter contained in the vessel;

a feed inlet line for introducing feed into the filtering apparatus;

a filtrate outlet line for letting filtrate flow out of the filtering apparatus;

the filter filtering the feed to let filtered feed flow as the filtrate;

a drain line for discharging fluid in a lower side of the filtering apparatus out of the filtering apparatus from an inlet side of the feed; and

a cooler installed in the drain line for cooing the discharging fluid.

22. The filtering device as recited in claim 21, further comprising:

a steam supply line for supplying steam into the filtering apparatus from an outlet side of the filtrate.

23. The filtering device as recited in claim 21, wherein:

the filter in the filtering apparatus is made of fluororesin treated beforehand by at least one of adding thermal treatment to the filter in at least one of gas and liquid and penetrating the filter through at least one of hot water and steam.