Sludge three-dimensional electroosmosis drainage reinforcement method based on electric geotextile complex

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11619020-B2
Application number	US-202117546064-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2021
Priority date	Dec 3, 2020
Publication date	Apr 4, 2023
Grant date	Apr 4, 2023

Abstract

Disclosed is a sludge three-dimensional electroosmosis drainage reinforcing method based on a novel electric geotextile complex, and belongs to the field of soft soil foundation reinforcement. A novel electric geotextile complex is adopted, and a designed multidirectional three-dimensional continuous electroosmosis drainage method is adopted to perform rapid drainage reinforcement treatment on sludge, wherein the electric geotextile complex is prepared by combining fibers and conductive materials with a flexible drainage plate and has the effects of electric conductive, drainage, corrosion resistance and reinforcement. The proposed drainage method can realize the electroosmotic drainage in vertical and horizontal directions. Through layer by layer electroosmosis from bottom to top, the consolidation drainage effect of sludge in the lower layer can be enhanced by the increasing loading pressure from the upper sludge. After the vertical electroosmosis is completed, the method of exchange electrode is used to conduct horizontal electroosmosis in opposite direction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A sludge three-dimensional electroosmosis drainage reinforcing method based on an electric geotextile complex, comprising:
(1) constructing the electric geotextile complex, wherein the electric geotextile complex is a complex with a three-layer structure, an upper layer and a lower layer are electric geotextiles formed by fibers and conductive materials interweaved with each other, and a middle layer is a flexible drainage plate; a proportion of the conductive materials in the electric geotextiles is no less than 5% by mass; a drainage channel is arranged inside the flexible drainage plate, and a drainage hole is arranged on a surface of the flexible drainage plate, and the three layers are flexibly overlapped and fixed; the drainage hole on the surface of the flexible drainage plate is used for collecting water discharged from surrounding sludge, and an internal drainage channel is used to horizontally discharge the water in the sludge into a drainage ditch;
(2) during construction, paving a layer of the electric geotextile complex at a bottom of a site, spreading or hydraulically filling the sludge on the geotextile complex, then covering a new layer of the electric geotextile complex, arranging drainage ditches on both sides of the upper geotextile complex, and inserting vertical flexible conductive tubes on both sides of the geotextile complex to complete paving of a first layer;
(3) connecting the upper geotextile complex of the first layer to a cathode of a power supply, and connecting the lower geotextile complex to an anode of the power supply; powering on to start electroosmosis and collecting discharged water by the drainage ditches on both sides;
(4) after electroosmosis of the first layer is completed, paving another layer of sludge on the electric geotextile complex, and then covering a new layer of the electric geotextile complex on the top of the sludge; arranging drainage ditches on both sides of the upper geotextile complex, and inserting vertical flexible conductive tubes on both sides of the geotextile complex to be connected with the vertical flexible conductive tubes that is inserted into the sludge in the first layer to complete paving of a second layer; connecting the upper geotextile complex of the second layer to the cathode of the power supply, and connecting the lower geotextile complex to the anode of the power supply; powering on to start electroosmosis and collecting discharged water by the drainage ditches on both sides; repeating the above process, and paving the sludge layer by layer for electroosmosis;
(5) after loading of a plurality of layers of the sludge is completed, connecting all conductive tubes on one side to the anode of the power supply and all conductive tubes on the other side to the cathode of the power supply, so as to implement a horizontal integral electroosmosis drainage reinforcement, and collecting discharged water by the drainage ditch on a cathode side;
wherein each layer is firstly subjected to electroosmosis drainage in a vertical direction, and finally subjected to integral electroosmosis reinforcement in a horizontal direction; when electroosmosis drainage is carried out, an increasing preloading pressure on an upper part will have a consolidation drainage action on the sludge in a lower layer, and at the same time increase a constraining force on each layer of the geotextile complex, thus enhancing the reinforcement effect of the geotextile complex on the soil body;
after completing one time of horizontal electroosmotic drainage reinforcement, the cathode and the anode are exchanged, and the electroosmotic drainage reinforcement in an opposite direction is started, so that the effect of water content reduction in the sludge is balanced, and the overall drainage effect is improved.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the fibers of the electric geotextile are terylene, polyester fiber and non-woven fabric, which have good water permeability and are capable of filtering the sludge at the same time; the conductive materials are carbon fiber, carbon black, graphite powder and conductive metals.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the flexible drainage plate is made of plastic, and is prepared by mixing polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE), with both rigidity and flexibility.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the three layers of the electric geotextile complex are flexibly overlapped and fixed by terylene or polyester fibers, so that the three layers are integral without sliding.

Assignees

• Univ Zhejiang

Inventors

• Xie Xinyu
• Ge Shangqi
• Zheng Lingwei
• Zhang Xunli
• Nie Huai
• Huang Xuexin
• Zhang Kang
• Dai Puxiu
• Sun Minyang
• Liu Chunyang

Classifications

• B32B2307/726

  Permeability to liquids, absorption · CPC title

• B32B5/024

  Woven fabric · CPC title

• B01D57/02

  by electrophoresis (treatment of water, waste water, sewage or sludge by electrophoresis C02F1/469; electrophoretic production of compounds or non-metals C25B7/00; investigating or analysing materials by using electrophoresis G01N27/26) · CPC title

• B32B27/32

  comprising polyolefins {(comprising vinyl (co)polymers or acrylic (co)polymers B32B27/30)} · CPC title

• B32B2262/0276

  Polyester fibres · CPC title