KR20090038074A - Drag Chain Conveyor for Waste Battery Dismantling Equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling apparatus.

The present invention relates to a drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling device that selectively separates polypropylene, a solid pulverized product constituting the waste battery pulverized by a pulverizer, and a battery liquid and paste, which is a liquid pulverized product, into a partition by filling with water. First and second tanks are partitioned and the first screen is installed on the upper side of the first tank and the battery liquid and paste is injected into the second screen is installed on the upper side of the second tank and the polypropylene and the separator and the second A storage tank having an auxiliary tank located at the lower side of the two screens and separating and containing the introduced polypropylene and the separator in the second tank; and a pulverized product installed on the partition walls of the first and second tanks to free water movement between the tanks. It is installed at the position where one end of the partition wall is disconnected to prevent the movement of suspended solids and is vertical A stop plate made of a tubular frame penetrating inwardly and a perforated plate which is detachably installed in the frame, and a perforated plate disposed along the partition wall, and one end is installed on the water surface of the auxiliary tank, and the other end is extended to the outside of the reservoir. A first discharge means having a screw shaft of a length member that is unidirectionally rotated by a drive source by forcibly conveying the polypropylene suspended on the surface, and forced to convey the separator installed on the bottom side of the auxiliary tank sunk by gravity A second discharge means having a screw shaft of a length member that rotates in one direction by the drive source, and a chain and a chain circulated by the drive source, which are installed at the bottom side of the first and second tanks and take out paste in the pulverized product to the outside; The third boat with a bucket for scraping up the sludge paste at equal intervals It is configured to include a means.

Description

Drag chain conveyor for waste battery dismantling device {SORTING SYSTEM FOR SCRAP BATTERY RECYCLING PLANT}

The present invention relates to a waste battery dismantling apparatus for pulverizing a waste battery at the end of its life, and separating and sorting the waste battery into various components. More specifically, the waste battery is classified by efficiently receiving separators, polypropylene, and paste obtained after crushing waste batteries. It relates to a drag chain conveyor for a battery dismantling device.

In general, lead-acid batteries are used as a power source for supplying power for driving electric appliances such as vehicles. Such lead-acid batteries discharge by converting chemical energy into electrical energy, and vice versa. It can be charged by supplying and changing it into chemical energy and accumulating it. Such lead acid batteries are disposed of at the end of their lifespan so as not to cause environmental pollution, and the discarded accessories are subjected to a reprocessing process to protect the environment.

In particular, as the interest in resource-recycling clean technology is increasing, the importance of disposal of storage batteries is rapidly increasing.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a conventional storage battery, and in brief, a case 200 for forming an outer body may be provided by shielding a roll 213 provided in a container form and an open top surface of the roll 213. The cover 211 is provided with a handle 215 on the upper surface, wherein the cover 211 is provided so that the electrode terminal 230 is exposed on the upper surface. The case 210 is molded of plastic.

In addition, a plurality of pole plates 250 are integrally provided through the scrap 270 in the case 210, and the pole plates 250 are formed of a substrate and an active material. In addition, the battery contains a large amount of lead and sulfuric acid.

Looking at the renewable components in the battery 200 of such a configuration, lead is used as the main raw material of the regeneration lead factory, the member such as the case 210 is used as the regeneration plastic, sulfuric acid is collected and reprocessed. In addition, the electrode terminal 230, the electrode plate 250, etc. are each subjected to a regeneration operation or disposed of separately according to the material.

However, in the conventional method of disposing of waste batteries, a method of dismantling by dismantling and separating each part by a manual worker is used. However, the work time is not only long but also the continuous work is impossible, resulting in poor workability. there was. In particular, since the waste battery contains not only harmful components that have serious adverse effects on the human body, but also have components that cause environmental pollution, there is a problem that causes serious problems when an operation mistake occurs.

On the other hand, in order to solve the above problems, the applicant has proposed an improved waste battery dismantling device through the patent application No. 2007-25484.

Applicant's prior application to the dismantled battery (r) dismantling device to remove the spent electrolyte (r) injected through the vibration injector (1) to the cutter (4) installed on one side continuously as shown in Figure 2 to remove the internal electrolyte Degassing part for removing the iron material by using the dehydrator 5 installed on one side by receiving the electrolyte removal unit (a) and the waste storage battery (r) which is located on one side of the electrolyte removal unit (a) to remove the electrolyte solution (b), a crusher 7 installed at one side of the decarburization part b and receiving a waste storage battery r from which iron materials have been removed and transferred to a pulverizer 7 installed at one side for pulverization; It is installed on one side of (7) is supplied to the pulverized product is sorted based on the size of 100 mesh and the primary vibrating screen 10 for distribution and distribution, respectively, installed on one side of the primary vibrating screen 10 is less than 100 mesh Is supplied with a paste The drag chain conveyor 11 accumulates in the form of sludge, and the polypropylene floating on the water by supplying the scrap, which is a crushed product having a size of 100 mesh or more, installed on the other side of the grinder 7, is supplied to the recovery means (c) on one side. In order to separate and supply the suspended separator and heavy plastic to the secondary vibrating screen 20 on one side while transferring air to the outlet through the first screw conveyor 16 installed in the lower side, the separator and the grid that sink to water The water separator 12 and the water separator, which are installed at one side of the hydraulic separator 12 and supplied with the separator, are supplied to the drag chain conveyor 11 and the separator is passed through the screw conveyor on one side to recover the water. It is installed on one side of the vehicle vibration screen 20 and the drag chain conveyor 11, and when a predetermined amount is filled with a paste, the soda ash is released. The rapidly stirred and desulfurized material consists of stirring means (d) for passing through a filter.

In the waste battery dismantling apparatus 500 of the present applicant, the drag chain conveyor 11 is supplied with the separator, polypropylene, and paste obtained by crushing the waste battery, and selects and separates them. Since the screening target is composed of a separator having a solid state, polypropylene, and a sludge paste, it is urgent to develop a product to improve the disadvantage due to the low selectivity.

The present invention was created in order to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, the present invention is to separate the solid and the liquid by separating the separator, polypropylene and paste of the components constituting the pulverized waste battery, The purpose of the present invention is to provide a drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling device in which the separated separator and the polypropylene are reselected using specific gravity difference and the paste settled to the bottom is sorted out by a bucket provided at equal intervals.

In order to achieve the above object, a drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a polypropylene, a separator, and a battery liquid and paste, which are solid pulverized products constituting the waste battery pulverized by a pulverizer. In the drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling device for separating and separating the water, the first and second tanks partitioned into partitions by filling with water, and a first screen installed above the first tank and into which the battery liquid and paste are injected; A storage tank provided at an upper side of the second tank and having a second screen into which polypropylene and a separator are introduced; and an auxiliary tank disposed to separate and accommodate the introduced polypropylene and separator in the second tank. Is installed on the partition walls of the first and second tanks, freely moving the water between the tanks of the crushed A stop plate formed of a tubular frame penetrated in a vertical direction and detachably installed in the frame so as to prevent a float from being moved, and a perforated plate disposed along the partition to be detachably installed in the frame; A first discharge means having a screw shaft of a length member which is installed on the water surface of the auxiliary tank and the other end extends to the outside of the reservoir to force the polypropylene suspended on the water to rotate in one direction by a driving source; A second discharge means having a screw shaft of a length member which is installed at the bottom side of the auxiliary tank and forced to the outside of the submerged separator due to specific gravity and has a length member that rotates in one direction by a driving source, and is installed at the bottom side of the first and second tanks. Chain circulated by the drive source by taking out the paste from the ground And that comprises a third discharge means are provided at regular intervals having a bucket raising rake a paste in the form of a sludge characterized in that chain.

As a preferable feature of the present invention, the auxiliary tank is formed with an inclined bottom surface, and the second discharge means has a screw shaft receiving a driving force in parallel with an engine or a motor as a driving source on the bottom surface of the auxiliary tank. have.

In another preferred aspect of the present invention, the first tank is provided with a blocking plate perpendicular to the upper surface of the first tank so as to block the floating polypropylene mixed in the charged battery liquid and the paste from flowing to the third discharge means on one side. .

In another preferred aspect of the present invention, the first discharge means is rotated in one direction by receiving a driving force from a drive source of an engine or a motor to discharge the polypropylene suspended on the surface of the auxiliary tank, one end of which is the surface of the auxiliary tank It is in the thing provided with the axis | shaft arrange | positioned in parallel with.

As another preferred feature of the present invention, the third discharge means is provided with the chain in the discharge pipe formed in the discharge port starting from a portion of the bottom of the second tank inclined to the outside.

Another desirable feature of the present invention is that it is provided on the side of the auxiliary tank is provided with a water level control sensor that informs this when the water level increases due to the accumulation of foreign matter in the foreign matter removal network.

The features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description based on the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, the terms or words used in this specification and claims are not to be interpreted in a conventional and dictionary sense, and the inventors may appropriately define the concept of terms in order to best explain their invention in the best way possible. It should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that the present invention.

The drag chain conveyor for waste battery dismantling apparatus according to the present invention selects polypropylene and separator by using specific gravity from among the elements constituting the pulverized waste battery, and the battery liquid and paste in the semi-solid state settled on the floor Since it is carried out by a plurality of buckets circulating to the outside of the reservoir along with it provides an advantage to increase the workability and efficiency through the continuous sorting operation.

Therefore, by securing clean technology for recycling waste materials, it is possible to realize environmentally-friendly and high value-added by-products.

Hereinafter, a drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 3 is a plan view for explaining the configuration of the drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling device according to the present invention, Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line "AA" of Figure 3, Figure 5 is an enlarged view of the main portion of FIG. One cross section.

6 is a cross-sectional view showing a ″ B-B ″ line in FIG. 3, FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross sectional view showing the main structure of FIG. 6, and FIG. 8 is a sectional view showing a ″ C-C ″ line in FIG. Finally, FIG. 9 is a sectional view taken along the line ″ D-D ″ of FIG. 3, and FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing the ″ E ″ section.

As shown in the present invention, the present invention is a drag chain conveyor applied to a waste battery dismantling apparatus, and the drag chain conveyor 100 is a solid crushed polypropylene (pp) and a separator ( sp) is separated and separated using specific gravity, and the battery liquid and paste (ps), which are semi-solid wastes, are separated.

The drag chain conveyor 100 of the present invention is a storage tank 110 is divided into a first tank 111 and a second tank 115 by the partition wall 112 is filled with water and the crushed product is injected, and the The stop plate 170 is installed on the partition 112 of the storage tank 110 to allow the movement of water and blocks the floating material, and the auxiliary tank 117 provided in the second tank 115 of the storage tank 110. The first discharge means 140 for discharging the polypropylene (pp) suspended on the water surface to the outside and the separator (sp) installed on the bottom side of the auxiliary tank 117 is sunk by the specific gravity is discharged to the outside The third discharge means to be disposed over the second discharge means 150 and the first tank 111 and the second tank 115 to scrape up the paste (ps) in the form of sludge on the bottom to discharge to the outside Means 160 and the bulkhead 170a and the first tank to prevent the float from flowing into the reaction tank It consists of an auxiliary tank 113 for storing the water so that it can be pumped into the water.

As shown in the drawing, the storage tank 110 has a container shape filled with a predetermined amount of water, and the storage space is divided by the partition wall 112 to form the first tank 111 and the second tank 115. to be.

Here, a first screen 118 into which the battery liquid and the paste (ps) are introduced is provided on the upper side of the first tank 111, and the first screen 118 is a flat screen having a mesh network structure. It is arranged horizontally, the screen is shaken by the driving source to drop the battery liquid and paste (ps) injected to the upper surface downwards, so as to filter out the lump-shaped solids having a larger size than the eye of the screen network It is a constitution. As such, the battery liquid and the paste (ps) that pass through the first screen 118 are injected into the water stored in the first tank 111 and sink to the bottom by specific gravity.

In addition, a second screen 119 is installed on the upper side of the second tank 115 to allow only a pulverized object of a suitable size to pass through as in the first screen 118 described above. 119 is a polypropylene (pp) and the separator (sp) having a larger size than the eye of the screen 119a as shown in Figure 9 by the vibration force of the vibration motor 119b of the screen 119a It falls to the front and falls into the assistant tank 117.

Thus, the polypropylene (pp) and the separator (sp) passed through the second screen 119, the light polypropylene (pp) is suspended on the water surface due to the specific gravity difference, and the separator (sp) sinks to the bottom.

On the other hand, the second tank 115 is provided with an auxiliary tank 117 to the lower side of the second screen 119 therein, the auxiliary tank 117 at this time is formed to be inclined bottom surface as shown in the figure The second discharge means 150 to be described later is configured to be inclined.

In addition, the water level control sensor 117a is additionally installed in the auxiliary tank 117, and when the water level inside the auxiliary tank 117 increases, it is determined that many foreign substances are caught in the foreign matter removing network 171, and the sound or lamp To inform the user. At this time, the user cleans the foreign matter removing network 171 to lower the level of the auxiliary tank 117.

The stop plate 170 is installed on the partition walls 112 of the first tank 111 and the second tank 115 to allow the water in each of these tanks to move freely, and at the same time, the specific gravity of the pulverized matter is suspended. In order to prevent the movement of the, as shown in Figure 10 is installed at a position where one end of the partition wall 112 is disconnected, and has a frame 171 having a rectangular tubular shape penetrated in the vertical direction, and the frame 171 It is composed of a perforated plate 173 is disposed along the partition 112 to be fitted to slide in the vertical direction in the interior of the. With this configuration, the water in the first tank 111 and the second tank 115 can be freely moved to each other through the lower portion of the frame 171, but by being installed at a predetermined height relative to the water surface Floating material is prevented from flowing the first tank 111 and the second tank 115.

On the other hand, the floating material may be polypropylene (pp) or foreign matter contained in a small amount in the battery solution and paste (ps) introduced into the first tank 111.

One end of the first discharge means 140 is installed on the water surface of the auxiliary tank 117 described above and the other end is extended to the outside of the reservoir 110 to forcibly transport the polypropylene (pp) floating on the water surface. And a screw shaft 141 of the length member rotating in one direction by 143.

The first discharge means 140 of this configuration is a screw shaft 141 having a predetermined length and has a directional screw is used, the drive source 143 is a motor or engine is used by a known technique Detailed description is omitted since it may be implemented.

One end of the second discharge means 150 is disposed on the inclined bottom side of the auxiliary tank 117 and the other end is disposed to extend outwardly of the storage tank 110 so as to sink to the bottom of the auxiliary tank 117. The separator sp is forced to the outside.

Like the first discharge means 140, the second discharge means 150 having such a configuration uses a screw shaft 151 having a directional screw and having a predetermined length, and the driving source 153 is a motor or an engine. Etc. may be used and the detailed description thereof will be omitted since it may be carried out by a known technique.

The third discharge means 160 is installed on each bottom side of the first tank 111 and the second tank 115 to carry out a paste (ps) having a sludge form that has sunk on the bottom of the pulverized product to the outside. The chain 161 is provided to be circulated in one direction by a driving source (not shown), and the bucket 165 having a cup shape which is provided at equal intervals on the chain 161 to scrape up the sludge paste (ps). .

That is, the chain 161 constituting the third discharge means 160 is disposed to be circulated and circulated by a plurality of sprockets 163 rotatably installed in at least two places, and at least any of the sprockets at this time. One is the structure which drives rotation by the drive source which consists of a motor and an engine. In the third discharge means 160, one end of the chain 161 is located in the bottom side of the tank as shown in the drawing and the other end is a structure that extends to the outside of the reservoir 110.

On the other hand, the third discharge means 160 is preferably started from a portion of the bottom of the second tank 115 is extended to be inclined to the outside it is preferably provided with a chain 161 in the discharge pipe 167 formed a discharge port.

On the other hand, the present invention is not limited to the described embodiments, it is obvious to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, such modifications or variations will have to belong to the claims of the present invention.

1 is a perspective view showing a typical waste storage battery,

2 is a system diagram for explaining the configuration of a typical waste battery dismantling apparatus;

3 is a plan view for explaining the configuration of the drag chain conveyor for a waste battery dismantling apparatus according to the present invention,

4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line ″ A-A ″ of FIG. 3,

FIG. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the main part of FIG. 3; FIG.

6 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line ″ B-B ″ of FIG. 3,

FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross-sectional view illustrating a main part of FIG. 6; FIG.

8 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line ″ C-C ″ of FIG. 3,

9 is a sectional view taken along the line ″ D-D ″ of FIG. 3,

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of part ″ E ″.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

110: reservoir 111: the first tank

115: second tank 117: auxiliary tank

130 flow means 140 first discharge means

141: screw shaft 143: drive source

150: second discharge means 151: screw shaft

153: drive source 160: third discharge means

161: chain 163: pulley

165: bucket 167: discharge pipe

170: stop plate 171: frame

173: perforated plate

Claims (6)

In the drag chain conveyor for waste battery dismantling apparatus, which selectively separates polypropylene, a solid crushed product, and separator, and a battery liquid and paste, which are liquid pulverized products, constituting the waste battery crushed by a crusher, Water is filled in the first and second tanks partitioned by the partition and the first tank is installed on the upper side of the first screen and the second tank and the battery liquid and paste is injected into the polypropylene and separator A storage tank having a second screen and an auxiliary tank for separating and containing the polypropylene and the separator, which are placed under the second screen, in the second tank; It is installed on the partition walls of the first and second tanks to freely move the water between the tanks and to prevent the movement of the suspended matter in the pulverized product, which is installed at the position where one end of the partitions are cut, and has a vertically penetrating tubular frame. And a stop plate made of a perforated plate disposed along the partition wall to be detachably installed in the frame. A first discharge means having a screw shaft of a length member which is installed on one surface of the auxiliary tank and the other end extends to the outside of the reservoir to force the polypropylene suspended on the surface to rotate in one direction by a drive source; Second discharging means provided on the bottom side of the auxiliary tank and having a screw shaft of a length member which is rotated in one direction by a driving source by forcibly feeding the separator sunk by gravity; A third discharge having a bucket installed at the bottom side of the first and second tanks and having an equal interval between the chain and the chain circulated by the driving source to carry out the paste out of the pulverized product and scraping up the sludge-type paste; Way; Drag chain conveyor for waste battery dismantling apparatus comprising a. According to claim 1, wherein the auxiliary tank bottom surface is inclined, the second discharge means is characterized in that the screw shaft receiving the driving force in parallel to the bottom surface of the auxiliary tank to receive the driving force Drag chain conveyor for waste battery dismantling device. The method of claim 1, wherein the first tank is characterized in that the blocking plate is installed perpendicular to the upper surface to block the floating polypropylene mixed in the battery liquid and paste injected to the third discharge means side of one side. Drag chain conveyor for waste battery dismantling device. According to claim 1, wherein the first discharge means is rotated in one direction by receiving the driving force from the drive source of the engine or motor to discharge the polypropylene suspended on the water surface of the auxiliary tank, one end thereof is parallel to the water surface of the auxiliary tank A drag chain conveyor for used battery dismantling apparatus, comprising: a shaft arranged to be disposed. The drag chain of claim 1, wherein the third discharge means includes the chain in a discharge pipe formed at a bottom of the second tank and inclined outwardly to form an outlet. Conveyor. The drag chain conveyor according to claim 1, further comprising a water level control sensor installed at a side of the auxiliary tank and indicating a level when the water level increases due to accumulation of foreign matter in the foreign matter removing network. .

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