DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING PULP FROM THE POND BOTTOM Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: hydraulic engineering. SUBSTANCE: device has discharge and suction pipe lines and a working chamber. To increase device efficiency, the device has suction chamber divided into two sections by filtering members. Pumping out system inlet for water purified by the filtering members is in one of the sections. The working chamber is above the water level in the pond and is connected with the suction pipe line inlet, discharge pipe line outlet and steam and gas mixture suction system inlet. The device has a slide valve on the discharging pipe line inlet located near the pond bottom and a slide valve on the suction pipe line outlet. Beside that, the device optionally has heat exchanger pipelines, one of which is inside the discharge pipe line and the other one is installed above the pond water surface. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in cleaning ponds; high performance characteristics. 2 cl, 1 dwg