Abstract: A polymer flocculant mixing and dissolving system comprising: a mixing tank (2) in which a solid polymer flocculant is mixed with water used as a solvent; a liquid feed unit (3) for feeding an aqueous solution containing the polymer flocculant from the mixing tank; a regenerative mixer (4A,4B) used to mix and dissolve the polymer flocculant by applying pressure to the aqueous solution containing the polymer flocculant fed from the liquid feed unit while forming a vortex flow; a process channel (61) through which the aqueous solution that has passed through the regenerative mixer is fed to a downstream process; a circulation channel (62) through which the aqueous solution is returned to a position on an upstream side of the liquid feed unit; and a flow rate adjusting unit (6) for adjusting a balance between a flow rate of the aqueous solution flowing through the process channel and a flow rate of the aqueous solution flowing through the circulation channel.

Abstract: A disc-type centrifuge is configured to use clean water as sealing water to be supplied at high pressure to a sealing mechanism unit. A pump is disposed on a circulation pathway connecting a sealing water tank, in which the sealing water is stored, and the sealing mechanism unit. The sealing water (clean water) is circulated between the sealing water tank and the sealing mechanism unit by the pump. The pump is connected to the drive shaft of a motor that supplies a driving force to a rotating shaft and bowl and is configured so that the pump is operated by receiving the driving force of the motor.

Abstract: A centrifugal apparatus includes: a bowl including a plurality of projection portions provided in a standing manner at an edge portion of an opening portion, the plurality of projection portions each including a curved surface portion bulging toward a rotation axis; a screw conveyer; a hub forming separate matter discharge ports between the respective circumferentially adjacent projection portions; and wear-resistant sleeves. The wear-resistant sleeves each includes a sleeve body that is formed in an arched shape along the corresponding curved surface portion and covers the curved surface portion; and a claw portion including one end connected to one end portion, in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the axis direction, of the sleeve body. The claw portion is in contact with an outer surface of the corresponding projection portion and fixed to the outer surface via a detachable tool for fixing, and an insertion opening for inserting the projection portion.

Abstract: A disc-type centrifuge is configured to use clean water as sealing water to be supplied at high pressure to a sealing mechanism unit. A pump is disposed on a circulation pathway connecting a sealing water tank, in which the sealing water is stored, and the sealing mechanism unit. The sealing water (clean water) is circulated between the sealing water tank and the sealing mechanism unit by the pump. The pump is connected to the drive shaft of a motor that supplies a driving force to a rotating shaft and bowl and is configured so that the pump is operated by receiving the driving force of the motor.

Abstract: A decanter centrifuge that carries out solid-liquid separation by centrifugal force on an object to be processed that is fed into a rotating bowl and designed from a solid and a saturated solution wherein that solid is dissolved, and discharges solid phase components from a solid discharge opening and discharges liquid phase components from a solvent discharge opening thereof by rotationally operating a screw conveyor disposed within the rotating bowl, the decanter centrifuge being provided with a dilution solvent supply unit for supplying, during centrifuging of the object to be processed, dilution solvent that reduces the concentration of the saturated solution to a discharge path, which is a discharge path for saturated solution moving within the rotating bowl, and which is designed closer to the solvent discharge opening side-than a chamber for supplying the object to be processed.

Abstract: A mixing and dissolving system includes a tank where a polymer flocculant in a solid state is mixed with water, a liquid feed unit for feeding an aqueous solution containing the mixed polymer flocculant from the tank, one regenerative mixer comprising a casing arranged at an intermediate position of a channel for the aqueous solution discharged from the liquid feed unit, and a bladed wheel where grooves are formed in a radial pattern on an outer circumference, and is used to mix and dissolve the polymer flocculant through pressure application by rotating the bladed wheel in the casing and forming a vortex flow of the aqueous solution along an inner circumferential wall of the casing, and an adjusting unit arranged at an intermediate position of a channel for the aqueous solution that has passed through the regenerative mixer, and controls pressure on a discharge side of the regenerative mixer.

Abstract: A centrifugal separator separates liquid from solid and includes a hollow bowl and a screw conveyor, the solid discharged from one end of the bowl and the liquid discharged from plural liquid discharge ports at an opposite end of the bowl, the separator further includes a separated liquid jetting device which collects separated liquid that has overflowed the top of an overflow edge of a dam disposed on each discharge port. The separated liquid jetting device has a separated liquid retention chamber that temporarily retains the collected separated liquid inside thereof, a jet nozzle that is open in the direction opposite to the rotation direction of the bowl and that jets out the liquid located inside the separated liquid retention chamber to the outside and the separated liquid jetting device also has a release port formed above the jet nozzle.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to realize standardization of products of the vertical centrifugal separators so that it is no longer necessary to change the pressure-resistant design specifications of the bearing mechanism depending on the set pressure inside the casing. The vertical centrifugal separator having the bearing mechanism that is disposed in an opening of the casing and rotatably supports the rotary shaft of the bowl passing through the opening. The shaft sealing mechanism is a contactless shaft sealing mechanism.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sludge processing system having a centrifugal separator which concentrates the sludge and a furnace which heat-treats the concentrated sludge, and allows the automatic control in which the operational condition of the centrifugal separator is set to the optimal condition in accordance with the operational state of the furnace. The control device sets a variable range of a differential speed between the bowl and the screw conveyor of the centrifugal separator, and performs a variable control of the differential speed so that the measurements concentration moisture of the concentration sludge achieves a moisture content requested by the furnace within the variable range, when the measurements concentration moisture of the concentration sludge maintains the moisture content requested by the furnace for a certain period of time being previously set, changes a control value of the centrifugal force.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sludge processing system having a centrifugal separator concentrating the sludge and a furnace heat-treating the concentrated sludge. It allows automatic control in which the operational condition of the centrifugal separator operates under optimal conditions according to the operational state of the furnace. The control device sets a variable range of a differential speed between the bowl and screw conveyor of the centrifugal separator, and variably controls the differential speed so concentrated sludge convey torque of the screw conveyor achieves a torque corresponding to a moisture content requested by the furnace within the variable range, when the differential speed varies within a certain previously set range and the concentrated sludge convey torque of the screw conveyor maintains the torque corresponding to the moisture content requested by the furnace for a certain period of time being previously set, changes a control value of the centrifugal force and the torque.

Abstract: To provide a vertical centrifugal separation apparatus which recovers a centrifuged liquid with a reduced loss and is suitable for when a target is the centrifuged liquid, and a method of recovering the centrifuged liquid. In performing centrifugation, the liquid to be processed is supplied from a lower portion of a cylindrical rotational tube which rotates about a vertical axis, and the centrifuged liquid is discharged and recovered from an upper portion of the cylindrical rotational tube. When the centrifugation is stopped for cleaning the cylindrical rotational tube, for example, the cylindrical rotational tube is set to a first overturn position to recover the remaining centrifuged liquid, and then the cylindrical rotational tube is set to a second overturn position to pull the tube out of the casing. Such a structure allows the recovery of the centrifuged liquid as the target with a reduced loss and without waste.

Abstract: A vertical centrifugal separator includes a casing, a bowl that is rotatably housed in the casing and provided to separate a solution to be processed which is supplied to an interior of the bowl into a liquid and a solid by an action of centrifugal force and discharge the liquid and the solid, and a discharge assembly that is rotatably housed in the bowl and provided to discharge the solid in the bowl. The bowl and the discharge assembly each have an engagement portion that is engaged or disengaged when the bowl and the discharge assembly are moved relative to each other in an axial direction and a position adjustment mechanism for adjusting a phase between the discharge assembly and the bowl relative to a rotation axis, for example, at a single relative position.

Abstract: Provided is a centrifugal separator equipped with a separated liquid jet nozzle, capable of reducing energy consumption on the rotational drive of a bowl, and capable of avoiding the problem of the solid contained in the raw liquid being discharged through a jet nozzle to a liquid recovery system, and the problem of the adverse effect being produced on the water content ratio in the discharged solid content when the treatment conditions are changed. A separated liquid jetting device 9, which collects the separated liquid that has overflowed the top of an overflow edge 7a of a dam 7, is attached to a front hub 8 at a position on radially outward of each of the liquid discharge ports 6.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sludge processing system having a centrifugal separator which concentrates the sludge and a furnace which heat-treats the concentrated sludge, and allows the automatic control in which the operational condition of the centrifugal separator is set to the optimal condition in accordance with the operational state of the furnace. The control device sets a variable range of a differential speed between the bowl and the screw conveyor of the centrifugal separator, and performs a variable control of the differential speed so that the measurements concentration moisture of the concentration sludge achieves a moisture content requested by the furnace within the variable range, when the measurements concentration moisture of the concentration sludge maintains the moisture content requested by the furnace for a certain period of time being previously set, changes a control value of the centrifugal force.

Abstract: A decanter-type centrifugal separator equipped with a continuous lubricant supply device capable of preventing leakage of lubricating oil along supply pathways, and supplying and discharging lubricating oil. The continuous lubricant supply device has a lubricating oil supply channel formed inside a bowl hub, an annular introduction channel that introduces lubricating oil into the lubricating oil supply channel, a lubricating oil infusion channel formed inside a holder, and an oil collector installed on an outer surface of an outer shaft. The annular introduction channel has a first annular groove formed inside the holder such that the groove is occluded on the inside by the outer surface of the outer shaft. The oil collector can orbitally revolve in a predetermined direction inside the annular introduction channel, thereby moving lubricating oil radially inward in the annular introduction channel so as to flow into the lubricating oil supply channel.

Abstract: A horizontal centrifugal separator is configured such that a groove formed along a joint surface between an upper casing and a lower casing constituting the casing is outwardly bent near an opening of the casing, and that an elastic sealing member is disposed in the groove and an end portion thereof abuts against a sealing surface provided on a ring member which is provided so as to surround the outer circumference of the opening of the casing and is pressed against the casing. In this case, surface sealing is constituted by the end portion of the elastic sealing member and the sealing surface of the ring member. In this manner, the hermeticity can be improved without using a sealing member having a complicated structure.

Abstract: A decanter type centrifugal separator includes a torque transmission mechanism with enhanced effect of absorbing a torsional vibration. The decanter type centrifugal separator (10) includes a bowl (20); a screw conveyor (40) disposed in the bowl (20); a processed liquid feed portion (15); a separated liquid discharge port (81); a solid discharge port (82); a drive portion (71); and a differential gear unit (50) for generating a difference in speeds between the bowl (20) and the screw conveyor (40). A torque transmission mechanism (60, 61) includes an elastic damping member (67) for absorbing the torsional vibration of the screw conveyor (40).

Abstract: A screen bowl type centrifugal separator which can not only eliminate the problem of the productivity being lowered resulting from the occurrence of clogging with the crystals in the screen part, but also minimize the amount of leakage of the object to be treated in the screen part. Inside of the hub (41) of the screw conveyor (40), a cleaning liquid receiving part (43) which receives the cleaning liquid for the cleaning nozzle (45) is provided, and further, in the cleaning liquid receiving part (43), a residual layer crystal cleaning liquid receiving part (46) which receives the cleaning liquid for cleaning the residual layer object to be treated in the screen part (30) is provided, being partitioned independently of the inside of the cleaning liquid receiving part (43).

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a process of producing a compound for forming a slurry under pressure and/or heating, which is quite economical on an industrial scale such that a drying machine is not necessary and that it is possible to reduce energy to be used for drying.