Lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11326318-B2
Application number	US-202117148584-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 14, 2021
Priority date	Aug 28, 2020
Publication date	May 10, 2022
Grant date	May 10, 2022

Abstract

Provided is a lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris, which is provided at a river bank. The lateral water intake structure includes: a diversion canal, a guiding wall structure, a shaft-shaped water intaking space, and a trash rack. The lateral water intake structure functions to prevent the floating debris from gathering at the surface of the trash rack and reduce a risk that the trash rack is damaged by water pressure and hitting of the floating debris. Meanwhile, by using a water flow in the watercourse to continuously wash the floating debris near the trash rack, maintenance costs of removing the floating debris at the trash rack manually or mechanically can be reduced.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris, which is provided at a river bank, wherein the lateral water intake structure comprises:
a diversion canal, which is provided at the river bank;
a guiding wall structure, which forms, jointly with the river bank, a shaft-shaped water intaking space at a corresponding water intake in a watercourse, wherein a bottom of the water intaking space is higher than a river bottom; and
a trash rack, which is provided at the bottom of the water intaking space in parallel with the water surface, and has a height lower than a height of a bottom of the diversion canal,
wherein the guiding wall structure comprises:
a first guiding wall, which is provided in the watercourse, in parallel with a water flow direction, and faces the water intake of the diversion canal;
a second guiding wall, which is located near an upstream side of the diversion canal, extends to the watercourse, and is connected to the first guiding wall; and
a third guiding wall, which is located near a downstream side of the diversion canal, extends to the watercourse, and is connected to the first guiding wall.

2. The lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris according to claim 1 , wherein the trash rack comprises multiple bars provided side by side, and the bars are provided in parallel with a water flow direction.

3. The lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris according to claim 1 , wherein the second guiding wall is connected to an end of the first guiding wall, wherein a surface of a side of the second guiding wall facing the water is a flow guiding surface used for guiding a water flow to a center of the watercourse, and an angle between the flow guiding surface and the river bank is an obtuse angle.

4. The lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris according to claim 3 , wherein the angle between the flow guiding surface and the river bank is larger than 145 degrees.

5. The lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris according to claim 1 , wherein edges at two sides of the trash rack are respectively fixedly connected to the bottom of the second guiding wall and the bottom of the third guiding wall.

6. The lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris according to claim 1 , wherein the lateral water intake structure is applied to a diversion project with a dam:
the first guiding wall extends downstream along the water flow direction; and the watercourse located between the first guiding wall and the river bank at which the diversion canal is provided is a water intaking flow channel, and the water intaking flow channel is provided therein downstream of the diversion canal with a flood-discharging and sediment-flushing sluice.

7. The lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris according to claim 1 , wherein the trash rack has a size the same as a size of the bottom of the water intaking space.

8. The lateral water intake structure for preventing silting of bed load and floating debris according to claim 1 , wherein the diversion canal is provided therein with a diversion sluice.

Assignees

• China Inst Water Resources & Hydropower Res
• China Yangtze Power Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Dangwei
• Deng Anjun
• Yin Ye
• Guo Qingchao
• Guo Xinlei
• Lei Tianjie
• Wang Hantao
• Chen Cuihua
• Shi Hongling
• Lu Qin

Classifications

• Y02E10/20

  Hydro energy · CPC title

• E02B9/04 Primary

  Free-flow canals or flumes; Intakes (gratings or screens therefor E02B5/08) · CPC title

• E02B5/085 Primary

  Arresting devices for waterborne materials, e.g. gratings (fish barrages E02B1/006; removing sediments E02B3/023; arresting oil or similar polluants E02B15/08; for waste water purification E02F; in sewers E03F5/14) · CPC title

• E02B8/023

  Arresting devices for waterborne materials (E02B1/003 takes precedence; in artificial watercourses E02B5/085; arresting oil or the like E02B15/08; sieving devices for waste water purification C02F; in sewers E03F5/14) · CPC title