US 12,331,480 B2
Intelligent dredging system for high-piled wharf and control method thereof
Songgui Chen, Tianjin (CN); Jiangnan Chen, Tianjin (CN); Jielong Hu, Tianjin (CN); Zihao Duan, Tianjin (CN); Cheng Peng, Tianjin (CN); Yina Wang, Tianjin (CN); Jun Ma, Tianjin (CN); and Yingtao Zhu, Tianjin (CN)
Assigned to Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering, Ministry of Transport, Tianjin (CN)
Filed by Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering, Ministry of Transport, Tianjin (CN)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/924,030.
Application 18/924,030 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2024/076275, filed on Feb. 6, 2024.
Claims priority of application No. 202310186489.5 (CN), filed on Mar. 2, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0043535 A1, Feb. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. E02F 5/00 (2006.01); E02F 3/90 (2006.01); E02F 3/92 (2006.01)
CPC E02F 5/006 (2013.01) [E02F 3/907 (2013.01); E02F 3/9206 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intelligent dredging system for a high-piled wharf, comprising: an intelligent monitoring-decision control subsystem and a decentralized high-pressure water disturbance subsystem;
wherein the intelligent monitoring-decision control subsystem comprises a high-precision pile-foundation sediment siltation warning device, a tidal monitoring device and a control terminal;
the decentralized high-pressure water disturbance subsystem comprises a water spraying device, a cable and a multi-loop power distribution device;
the high-precision pile-foundation sediment siltation warning device comprises single-wave number monitors and a bed surface elevation data storage and processing unit;
the tidal monitoring device comprises tidal monitors and a tidal level data storage and processing unit;
the control terminal comprises a tidal sediment data comprehensive analysis unit and an instruction output unit;
the bed surface elevation data storage and processing unit, the tidal level data storage and processing unit, the tidal sediment data comprehensive analysis unit and the instruction output unit are integrated into the control terminal;
the water spraying device comprises a high-pressure submersible pump, a high-pressure water pipe, high-pressure jet spray guns, angle adjusters and annular tracks, wherein the angle adjusters are nested on the annular tracks, and each of the annular tracks surrounds a respective wharf pile foundation;
the high-pressure submersible pump is located in a water tank with a filter screen behind the wharf;
the high-pressure water pipe comprises a stainless-steel braided hose;
each of the high-pressure jet spray guns comprises a spray gun rod, a nozzle and an external protective shell, wherein each spray gun rod is connected to the respective high-pressure water pipe and the respective nozzle, and the external protective shell is sleeved on the spray gun rod and connected to each of the angle adjusters;
each of the angle adjusters comprises an annular angle adjuster and a vertical angle adjuster;
the annular angle adjuster comprises a first stepping motor, a first transmission shaft and a plurality of balls, wherein the first stepping motor is connected to the first transmission shaft, and the annular angle adjuster is installed on the annular track;
the vertical angle adjuster comprises a second stepping motor, a second transmission shaft and movable swing arms, wherein the second stepping motor is connected to the second transmission shaft, and the second transmission shaft is also connected to the movable swing arms, and the movable swing arms are connected to the high-pressure jet spray gun;
each of the single-wave number monitors and each of the tidal monitors are installed on the respective wharf pile foundation, and the single-wave number monitors and the tidal monitors transmit data to the control terminal in a wireless transmission manner;
the multi-loop power distribution device and the control terminal are installed in a control cabinet behind the wharf; and
a multi-loop control system is used in the multi-loop power distribution device, and the instruction output unit controls the multi-loop power distribution device to achieve a control of a starting power and opening-and-closing timing of the water spraying device;
wherein the intelligent dredging system for the high-piled wharf is configured to
monitor a bed surface at fixed positions through the single-wave number monitors to obtain bed surface data, and transmit the bed surface data to the bed surface elevation data storage and processing unit;
monitor a tidal flow direction through the tidal monitors to obtain tidal data, transmit the tidal data to the tidal data storage and processing unit, and comprehensively analyze using by the tidal sediment data comprehensive analysis unit to obtain a bed surface elevation and determine the tidal flow direction;
obtain bed surface elevation data by the single-wave number monitors, and obtain tidal current direction data by the tidal monitors, and control the multi-loop power distribution device to be turned on and off by combining the bed surface elevation data and the tidal current direction data;
when the bed surface elevation is higher than a warning elevation and a tidal current is an ebb current, start the multi-loop power distribution device to turn on the water spraying device by the instruction output unit, and control the angle adjuster to adjust a spraying angle of the high-pressure jet spray gun, so as to clean sediment within a 360-degree range of each respective wharf pile foundation, and taking suspended sediment away from a port area by the ebb current; and
when the tidal current is a flood current, the multi-loop power distribution device remains in an off state.