Headrace system
AssigneeUtsunomiya Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideo Utsunomiya, Hisao Kumazawa
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Abstract
A headrace system 1 improving a scum generation function of the headrace distributing and supplying raw water to a sedimentation basin provided in a sewage treatment plant to contribute to energy savings in the sewage treatment plant as a whole and contribute to solving environmental problems, which is provided with a buoyant imparting means 20 configured with including an ejector 22, in a side in which the raw water of a headrace body 2 to which the raw water is supplied or in the raw water flowed into the headrace 2 to impart buoyant force to solid matters contained in the raw water, and scum removing means 4, 8, 9, 10, 40a, and 40b removing scum S floating on a water surface of the headrace body 2.
Claims6
A headrace system supplying raw water to a plurality of sedimentation basin provided at a sewage-treatment plant, comprising:
- a headrace body into which the raw water flows and which has a side wall along a flow direction of the raw water,
- a buoyant imparting means provided on a bottom part of the headrace body, along a direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the raw water at a side to which raw water of the headrace body to which raw water is flowed in, to impart buoyancy to solid matters included in the raw water;
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- a scum removing means that removes scum floating on a water surface of the headrace body from the headrace body and discharges to a scum pit arranged continuously to the headrace body,
- wherein the buoyant imparting means have a perforated pipe that release air bubbles into the raw water,
- the scum removing means have a compressed-air jetting mechanism that is provided inside a side wall along a longitudinal direction of the headrace body into which the raw water flows and at a position below a scum layer generated in the headrace body along the longitudinal direction of the headrace body, and jets compressed air from a plurality of portions in the longitudinal direction of the headrace body, and a gate that opens and closes between the headrace body and the scum pit,
- wherein the plurality of sedimentation basins is disposed side by side in the longitudinal direction of the headrace body, inflow ports which communicate the headrace body and an inside of the sedimentation basins, are provided on a side wall of the headrace body, and the compressed-air jetting mechanism is disposed above the inflow ports.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.