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    • 专利摘要:
    Keksintö koskee pölynäytteiden keräämiseen tarkoitettua laitetta (100). Laite käsittää männän (102) ja männän pitelemiseen tarkoitetun sylinterin (110), jolla on runko sekä rungon läpi ulottuva reikä (108). Sylinterissä (110) on ensimmäinen pää (112), joka on avonainen, ja sylinterin ensimmäinen pää on kalteva siten, että sylinterin alapuoli (130) ulottuu kauemmas kuin yläpuoli (132). Mekanismi 114) liikuttaa mäntää sisä- ja ulkoasentojen välillä. Laite kerää männän ohi virtaavaa pölyä männän reikään, kun mäntä on ulkoasennossa, ja siirtää kerättyä pölyä liikuttamalla männän sisäasentoon. Tulosyöttö (116) on järjestetty levittämään fluidia pölyllä täytetyn reiän läpi pölyn huuhtomiseksi lähtösyöttöön (118).
    公开号:FI20205505A1
    申请号:FI20205505
    申请日:2020-05-19
    公开日:2021-06-15
    发明作者:Petri Janhunen；Ilkka Pyykkönen；Pasi Kärki；Timo Sirviö
    申请人:Valmet Automation Oy；
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    专利说明:

    APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING DUST SAMPLES Technical Field The exemplary and non-limiting embodiments of the invention relate generally to collecting dust samples. Background Automation systems are widely used in measuring and controlling various industrial processes such as paper and pulp or chemical factories. In many processes dust is produced in some form and analysing the amount and properties of the dust is important when monitoring and controlling the process. An example = of such process is pulp processing in recovery boilers. Recovery boilers may comprise electric filters that may gather dust or ash from boilers. Analysing the dust at the output of electric filters is technically difficult to realise in a reliable manner. In many cases the dust is conveyed in pipes where there is a negative pressure. Prior art solutions of collecting dust samples have typically a screw-type — structure or utilise pressured air to blow dust into a container. They process dry dust and need constant monitoring and cleaning as the dust get cloddy and blocks the dust collectors, especially when the dust is lime based. Similar applications can be found, for example, in food processing, where milk powder, coffee powder, and flour manufacturing processes need similar monitoring and controlling.
    Brief description An object of the invention is to provide an improved method and an apparatus implementing the method to reduce or avoid the above-mentioned ES problems. N 25 The objects of the invention are achieved by an apparatus as claimed in ro claim 1 and by method as claimed in claim 8. Some embodiments of the invention o are disclosed in the dependent claims. x One or more examples of implementations are set forth in more detail E in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features will be 3 30 apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims. 2 The embodiments and features described in this specification that do O not fall under the scope of the independent claims are to be interpreted as examples useful for understanding various embodiments of the invention.
    Brief description of the drawings In the following the invention will be described in greater detail by means of preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1A, 1B and 2 illustrate examples of an apparatus; Figures 3A and 3B illustrate examples of the apparatus when installed on a conduit or pipe where dust is flowing; Figure 4 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an embodiment.
    Detailed description of some embodiments
    The solution according to the invention is suitable for sampling any kind of flowing dust.
    In an embodiment, the dust is flowing in a pipe or conduit where there may be a negative pressure.
    The apparatus is attachable to a conduit or pipe in a simple manner.
    In an embodiment, a simple hole may be drilled into the pipe wall and the apparatus can be installed into the hole.
    Collecting dust samples from conduits is problematic as dust has a tendency to cumulate into dust collector and block the operation of the collector.
    Figs. 1A, 1B, and 2 illustrate examples of an apparatus 100. The apparatus 100 for collecting dust samples comprises a piston 102 and a cylinder — structure or a piston chamber 110 for holding the piston.
    The piston is configured to move inside the cylinder structure between an inward position and an outward position.
    Fig. 1A illustrates the apparatus when the piston 102 is in the inward position.
    Fig. 1B illustrates an example of the cylinder structure without the piston.
    Fig. 2 illustrates the apparatus when the piston 102 is in the outward position.
    S 25 The piston 102 comprises a body having an inner end 104 and an outer N end 106, The inner end of the piston is always inside the cylinder structure.
    N In an embodiment, the piston comprises a hole 108 in the longitudinal side of the body, the hole extending through the body in a direction perpendicular > to a movement of the piston.
    In an embodiment, the cross section of the hole is E 30 circular or elliptical.
    However, the cross section may also have any other shape.
    LO In an embodiment, the cylinder structure 110 has a first end 112, which 3 is open.
    The first end of the cylinder may be slanted such that underside 130 of the N cylinder extends farther than upper side 132. The outer end 106 of the piston is N substantially level with or extending farther than the underside of the first end of the cylinder when the piston is in an inward position.
    The apparatus may comprise a mechanism 114 configured to move the piston between the inward position and an outward position.
    In an embodiment, the mechanism utilises compressed air to move the piston.
    The apparatus may comprise detectors 124, 126 for detecting when the piston isin the inward position and in the outward position.
    In an embodiment, the piston is attached to a shaft 128. The detectors may detect the movement or position of the shaft.
    In an embodiment, the cylinder structure comprises an input feed 116 at the upper side wall of the cylinder structure and an output feed 118 at the underside wall of the cylinder structure.
    The input and the output feeds may be on the opposite sides of the cylinder wall.
    In an embodiment, the feeds are at substantially the same distance from the upper end 132 of the first end 112 of the cylinder.
    In an embodiment, the cylinder structure has a larger diameter than the piston and there is an open space 138 formed around the piston inside the cylinder structure up till the first end 112 of the cylinder structure.
    In an embodiment, the difference between the diameter of the cylinder structure and the diameter of the piston is between millimetres to tens of millimetres.
    At the first end 112 of the cylinder structure, the cylinder structure has a section 140 having a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the piston.
    The section and the piston seals hermetically the open space 138 around the piston and the hole 108 inside the cylinder structure from outside.
    In an embodiment, the length of the section 140 is substantially shorter than the length of the whole structure.
    In an embodiment, the cylinder structure is made of a single piece of material.
    It may also be manufactured of multiple S components.
    N In an embodiment, the apparatus comprises a connector 134 N connecting input feed to a fluid line 136 configured to feed fluid through the hole filled with dust to the output feed. 2 30 In an embodiment, when the piston is in the inward position illustrated E in Fig.1A, the hole of the piston is between the input and output feeds of the LO cylinder structure. 3 When the piston is in the outward position as illustrated in Fig.2, the N hole of the piston is outside the upper side 132 of the first end of the cylinder and N 35 the underside of the hole is inside the underside of the cylinder structure.
    Thus, the hole and the underside of the cylinder form a space open at upper side but closed at the bottom.
    Figs. 3A and 3B illustrate examples of the apparatus 100 connected to a conduit or pipe 300 where dust or ash is flowing.
    The apparatus 100 may be installed to a wall 302 of the conduit or pipe 300 by preparing a suitable hole in the wall 302 and fixing the apparatus to the hole, for example with a flange 332. In this example, the dust is flowing downwards inside the conduit or pipe 300. In an embodiment, the conduit or pipe has a negative pressure.
    Fig. 3A illustrates a situation where the apparatus is installed and when — the piston 102 is in the inward position.
    Fig. 3B illustrates a situation where the apparatus is installed and when the piston 102 is in the outward position.
    In the examples of Fig. 3A and 3B the input feed 116 at the upper side wall of the cylinder structure is connected to fluid supplies 304, 306 via valves 308, 310 and connector 134. Further, the output feed 118 at the underside wall of the cylinder structure is connected to sample analyser cavity 314. In an embodiment, the fluid supplies 304, 306 are water and gas supplies.
    The gas may be air or some other gas.
    In an embodiment, the amount of gas and water is adjusted and regulated for constant flow.
    In an embodiment, the water pressure may be is monitored with a pressure sensor 320 to detect pressure loss and sample line blockages.
    In an embodiment, the apparatus is configured to receive one or more control signals 318 controlling the movements of the piston and valves 308, 310 feeding of fluid to input feed 116. As mentioned, in an embodiment, the piston 102 and the section 140 at the open end of the cylinder structure are configured to hermitically seal the conduit from the hole 108 and the open space 138 around the piston from each S other while the piston is in the inward position.
    N As mentioned, the outer end 106 of the piston is substantially level with N or extending farther than the underside 130 of the first end of the cylinder structure when the piston is in the inward position.
    Also this protects the cylinder 2 30 — structure from the dust flowing in the conduit.
    Thy dust may not enter the cylinder E structure and cause blockages possibly disturbing the piston movement.
    LO Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of collecting a sample of 3 dust flowing in the conduit or pipe 300 with the apparatus 100. In the beginning of N the process, the piston 102 is in the inward position as illustrated in Fig. 3A, valves N 35 308, 310 and the output valve 312 are closed.
    The outer end of the piston 102 is substantially level with the underside of the first end of the cylinder when the piston is in the inward position.
    In step 400, the piston is moved to outward position to gather dust. The situation is as illustrated in Fig. 3B. When the piston is in the outward position, the 5 hole 108 of the piston is outside the upper side of the first end of the cylinder and the underside of the hole is inside the underside of the first end of the cylinder structure. In an embodiment, the edges 120, 122 of the hole in the piston may scrape the inside surface of cylinder clean of dust when the piston moves between the inward position and the outward position. In an embodiment, edges of the — section 140 scrape the piston clean of dust when the piston moves between the inward position and the outward position.
    In step 402, dust moving in the conduit or pipe 300 gathers in the space formed by the hole and the underside of the cylinder structure.
    In an embodiment, the piston stays in the outward position for a predetermined time.
    In step 404, the piston is moved to the inward position. This way the dust gathered in the space formed by the hole in the piston and the underside of the cylinder structure is moved from the conduit or pipe 300 inside the apparatus between the input and output feeds 116, 118.
    Again, as the piston moves to the inward position, the edges 120, 122 of the hole in the piston scrape the inside surface of cylinder clean of dust when the piston moves from the inward position to the outward position.
    In step 406, the valves 308, 310 are opened. Thus, fluid coming from the fluid supplies 304, 306 via the connector 134 and the input feed 116 flush the dust from the hole 108 to the sample analyser cavity 314 via the output feed 118.
    S The fluid flushes also the open space 138 around the piston. In an embodiment, the O input feed comprises a nozzle to spray the fluid into the open space around the > piston to flush dust from the open space into the output feed. It may be noted here that the piston 102 and the section 140 at the open end of the cylinder structure 2 30 seal the open space from the conduit. Thus, fluid from the input feed does not enter E the conduit but is limited to the open space and the hole. The cavity receives thus LO the dust fluid. In an embodiment, the fluid is a mixture of water and air or some 3 other gas. After a given amount of fluid is flushed the valves 308, 310 are closed. N The amount of fluid may be a system parameter. Flushing the space 138 around the N 35 piston and the hole with the fluid effectively cleans the open space and the hole of any dust. Thus, the dust will not dust get cloddy and block the apparatus. This lengthens the time the apparatus may be used without any maintenance such as additional cleaning. In an embodiment, the three above steps are performed a given number of times. Thus, dust samples may be gathered for example three times into the sample analyser cavity 314 before sample analysis is performed. In this way, a suitable amount of dust and fluid may be gathered. In step 408, it is checked whether a given number of samples have been gathered. If not, the process continues in step 400. It may be noted that the length of the output feed 118 connecting the = apparatus to the sample analyser cavity 314 is not limited to any given length. As the fluid flushes the dust into the output feed, the fluid may travel along the feed to the sample analyser cavity several metres or tens or hundreds of meters, for example.
    In step 410, one or both of the valves 308, 310 are opened and the hole and the open space around the piston is dried. In an embodiment, the drying is performed with the same fluid as in step 406. In an embodiment, the cleaning is performed with gas only. The gas may be air, or it may also be some other gas.
    In an embodiment, where the hole and the open space around the piston are dried using air or some other gas, the air or other gas may enter the sample analyser cavity at the end of the output feed but it may leak out from the cavity and not disturbing the sample.
    The collected sample of dust and fluid may then be analysed in the sample analyser cavity 314 or the collected sample of dust and fluid may be taken elsewhere for analysis.
    S It will be obvious to a person skilled in the art that, as the technology N advances, the inventive concept can be implemented in various ways. The N invention and its embodiments are not limited to the examples described above but may vary within the scope of the claims.
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    [1] 1. An apparatus (100) for collecting dust samples, comprising a piston (102) and a cylinder structure (110) for holding the piston; the piston with a body having an inner end (104) and an outer end (106), the inner end being always inside the cylinder structure, the piston comprising a hole (108) in the longitudinal side of the body, the hole extending through the body in a direction perpendicular to a movement of the piston; the cylinder structure (110) having a first end (112), which is open, the first end of the cylinder being slanted such that underside (130) of the cylinder extends farther than upper side (132), the outer end (106) of the piston being substantially level with or extending farther than the underside of the first end of the cylinder when the piston is in an inward position; a mechanism (114) configured to move the piston between the inward position and an outward position; the cylinder comprising an input feed (116) at the upper side wall of the cylinder, and an output feed (118) at the underside wall of the cylinder, the input and the output feeds being on the opposite sides of the cylinder wall, the apparatus being configured to gather dust flowing past the piston into the hole of the piston when the piston is in the outward position, the hole (108) being outside the upper side (132) of the first end of the cylinder and the underside of the hole being inside the underside (130) of the first end of the cylinder; the apparatus being configured to move the gathered dust by moving the piston into the inward position where the hole of the piston is between the inputandoutputfeeds when the piston is in inward position; o the input feed being configured to spread fluid through the hole filled O with dust to flush the dust to the output feed.
    [2] 8 o 2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cylinder structure T 30 has a larger diameter than the piston and there is an open space (138) formed E around the piston inside the cylinder structure up till the first end (112) of the O cylinder structure, the first end of the cylinder structure having a section (140) 3 with a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the piston and hermetically ä sealing the open space around the piston inside the cylinder structure from outside.
    [3] 3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the input feed comprises a nozzle to spray the fluid into the open space around the piston to flush dust into the output feed.
    [4] 4. The apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, the hole in the piston comprising edges (120, 122) configured to scrape the inside surface of cylinder clean of dust when the piston moves between the inward position and the outward position.
    [5] 5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to move the piston to outward position to gather dust, move the piston to inward position; flush the dust from the hole to the sample analyser cavity with an amount of fluid from the input feed, perform the three above steps a given number of times.
    [6] 6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the apparatus is configured, when the piston is in the inward position, to clean the hole and open space formed around the piston inside the cylinder structure with an amount of gas or fluid from the input feed.
    [7] 7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fluid is a mixture of water and gas.
    [8] S 8. A method of collecting dust samples from a conduit in which dust is O flowing, the method comprising: > controlling movement of a piston (102) inside a cylinder structure (110) for holding the piston; the piston with a body having an inner end (104) and 2 30 an outer end (106), the inner end being always inside the cylinder structure, the E piston comprising a hole (108) in the longitudinal side of the body, the hole LO extending through the body in a direction perpendicular to a movement of the 3 piston; N the cylinder structure (110) having a first end (112), which is open, the N 35 first end of the cylinder being slanted such that underside of the cylinder extends farther than upper side, the outer end (106) of the piston being substantially level with or extending farther than with the underside of the first end of the cylinder when the piston is in an inward position, the first end (112) being inside the conduit; moving (400, 402) the piston to an outward position to gather dust flowing in the conduit into the hole of the piston, the hole being outside the upper side of the first end of the cylinder and the underside of the hole being inside the underside of the first end of the cylinder; moving (404) the piston to the inward position where the hole of the piston is between an input feed (116) at the upper side wall of the cylinder, and an output feed (118) at the underside wall of the cylinder, the feeds being on the opposite sides of the cylinder wall; flushing (406) the dust from the hole to the output feed with an amount of fluid from the input feed.
    [9] 9. The method as claimed in claim 8, further comprising: spraying the fluid into an open space around the piston inside the cylinder structure to flush dust into the output feed, the open space being formed by the cylinder structure having a larger diameter than the piston up till the first end of the cylinder structure, the first end of the cylinder structure having a section with a diameter corresponding to the diameter of the piston and hermetically sealing the open space around the piston inside the cylinder structure.
    [10] 10. The method as claimed claim 8 or 9, further comprising: receiving one or more control signals controlling the movements of the piston and the feeding of the fluid.
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    [11] 11. The method as claimed any preceding claim 8 to 10, further N comprising: scraping the surface of the piston clean of dust with edges of section (140) of the cylinder structure when the piston moves between the inward position 2 30 and the outward position.
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    [12] 12. The method as claimed claim 8, further comprising: 3 cleaning the hole and open space formed around the piston inside the N cylinder structure with an amount of gas or fluid from the input feed.
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