The shield’s mud-water separation system is generally composed of five units: mud-water separation and treatment unit, mud mixing unit, mud transfer unit, mud preparation unit, and mud monitoring and integrated control unit.
Shield mud-water separation system
- Sludge water separation and treatment unit
The role of the mud-water treatment unit is to separate the clay and gravel mixed mud formed by the cutter head for solid-liquid separation, according to different requirements to achieve multi-level controlled separation, and finally meet the mud reuse. When selecting sludge treatment equipment, two aspects must be considered: (1) It must be able to effectively separate the sand and soil in the mud and control the mud density; ② Must have the processing capacity commensurate with the propulsion speed and match with the shield machine. The high-frequency dewatering vibrating screen is used as a secondary solid phase control separation, and the screening treatment of mud and water is based on the effective removal of the mass and block of the coarse particles, and the control of the discharge of the solid phase water content (the control is particularly important for the current environmental protection requirements reduction and non-landing transportation) double or three layers of the vibrating screen generally adopt the separation of the coarse particles.
- Mud mixing unit
The mud mixing unit consists of a new slurry tank, a new slurry pump, a new slurry agitator, a new slurry storage tank, a CMS mixing tank, a CMS agitator, a CMS pump, a distributing valve and a water adding equipment. The CMS mixing tank stores chemical paste, and the new slurry tank stores bentonite and other materials. The stirred CMS chemical paste is sent to the new slurry tank for mixing and stirring to make fresh slurry.
- Mud preparation unit
The slurry preparation unit is composed of an adjusting tank, residual tank, adjusting tank agitator, residual tank agitator, adjusting pump, residual pump, density pump, slurry pump, water-adding equipment, etc. The adjusting tank adjusts the old and new grout, and the remaining tank stores the old and new grout, which is stirred by the agitator respectively and tested by the density pump. Then the adjusted grout is sent to the shield mud tank by the slurry pump.
- Mud transfer unit
The function of the mud transfer unit is to transport the adjusted slurry to the mud tank of the shield through the mud pump and the mud pipe to participate in the mud circulation system of the shield machine. The mud synthesized from the soil and sand is cut by the cutter head and the mud water in the mud water tank is separated by the mud pump and the mud water treatment sub-system is sent to the ground by the mud drainage pipe. The mud conveying unit is mainly composed of a mud pump, valve group, mud conveying pipe and its supporting parts, etc., which is operated automatically by the mud monitoring system.
- Mud monitoring unit
The operation and operation of the slurry water separation system is realized by the slurry monitoring system. The mud monitoring system is realized by the PLC program. The application of a mud monitoring module, can provide reliable information and collect technical data on mud water systems for shield construction at any time. The mud monitoring module can monitor five different states such as bypass mode, driving mode, reverse circulation mode, isolation mode, and long-time shutdown mode control.