Research on automatic cleaning equipment with high pressure water jet for optical pipelines

Abstract

In order to solve the problems of high labor intensity, low efficiency, and unstable cleaning quality when cleaning optical pipelines with traditional manual high-pressure spray, automatic cleaning equipment with high pressure water jet for optical pipelines is designed. The working principle and the design points are introduced. The movement rule of the nozzle under self-propelled drive is analyzed by ANSYS, the results show that the self-propelled drive cannot meet the cleaning speed requirements. Therefore, the wire rope driving method is proposed to realize the control of the nozzle speed. Subsequently, the speed of the simulated water jet is analyzed by the STARCCM, it is inferred that the water jet is still in the basic section at the maximum target distance of the pipeline, which can be used for cleaning. For verifying the cleaning effect, the prototype is applied to the cleaning of the actual optical pipelines. The verification results show that the cleaning equipment can meet the requirements of 100 / class clean, and the efficiency is increased by 70% compared with the traditional manual high-pressure spray.