Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to propose a kind of vacuum dryer and control method, can finish drying exactly, and cost reduces thing to be dried.The present invention proposes vacuum dryer and control method is applicable to any dry liquid that needs, and below the explanation supposition need dry liquid be a water.
For reaching this purpose, the present invention by the following technical solutions:
A kind of vacuum dryer, comprise hothouse, condenser, vavuum pump, pressure sensor, signal amplifier and microprocessor, wherein, hothouse, condenser is connected by air duct successively with vavuum pump, pressure sensor one end is communicated with hothouse by air duct, the other end of pressure sensor is connected with signal amplifier, signal amplifier also is connected with microprocessor, hothouse is airtight, be used to place thing to be dried, vavuum pump is used for extracting the air of hothouse and condenser, condenser is used to deposit the airborne moisture that hothouse transports, pressure sensor is used for converting the air pressure in the hothouse to the signal of telecommunication and sends to signal amplifier, signal amplifier is used for amplification signal and is transmitted to microprocessor, and microprocessor is used for the signal of telecommunication control dry run of sending according to signal amplifier and judges whether thing to be dried reaches drying regime.
Pressure sensor comprises temperature compensation means.
Also comprise heater, heater is used for heating to hothouse.
Also comprise differential pressure transducer and vacuum valve, one end of differential pressure transducer with and the air duct connection that is communicated with of pressure sensor, the other end of differential pressure transducer by vacuum valve with and the air duct connection that is communicated with of condenser, differential pressure transducer also is connected with signal amplifier.
Microprocessor comprises analog-digital commutator, and analog-digital commutator is used for converting the signal of telecommunication that signal amplifier is sent to data signal.
A kind of vacuum drying control method may further comprise the steps:
A, thing to be dried is put into airtight hothouse, and dry kiln;
The vavuum pump that B, unlatching are communicated with hothouse extracts the air in the hothouse;
C, pressure gauge continue to monitor the air pressure of hothouse, and air pressure signal is sent to microprocessor;
D, microprocessor judge according to the air pressure change of hothouse whether thing to be dried reaches drying regime.
Step C further may further comprise the steps:
At first adopts pressure sensor is monitored the air pressure of hothouse, and air pressure signal is sent to microprocessor;
When the air pressure of hothouse is not more than 40 millimetress of mercury, adopts the air pressure of differential pressure transducer monitoring hothouse, and air pressure signal is sent to microprocessor.
Step D further may further comprise the steps:
In the thing dry run to be dried, microprocessor regularly obtains the air pressure in the hothouse to the continual real-time sampling of pressure sensor.Per 0.1 second of sample frequency is (10HZ) once.After per 100 samplings, microprocessor calculates average A (i)=∑ [0.01*y (i)] to 100 force value, and y (i) is the per 0.1 second sampled value of pressure sensor.Calculate last air pressure and the difference of working as time air pressure, it is the slope that pressure changes, (original difference is only the time dependent slope of air pressure in the hothouse divided by time of timing microprocessor sampling air pressure to B (j)=A (i-1)-A (i), but the time because of the air pressure in the microprocessor samples hothouse is fixed, so can use difference to be equivalent to slope.If the time of the air pressure in the microprocessor samples hothouse is on-fixed, then need to replace difference) with slope.
And in the memory cell of microprocessor, preserve nearest five times difference.
Phase I if difference shows that greater than zero (B (j)>0) pressure descends, at this moment, even force value may be very low, can not stop dry run, and it is that water evaporates reduces because the vapour pressure of moisture reduces in the thing to be dried that pressure descends.If the amplitude of variation of nearest five times difference greater than the predetermined quantity millimetres of mercury (such as 5 millimetress of mercury, this numerical value is looked concrete thing to be dried and difference), when descending fast and reach, difference is not more than 1 millimetres of mercury, heat to hothouse, when heating, microprocessor continues to monitor four kinds of situations that pressure changes:
If the absolute value of 1 difference keeps being not more than 1 millimetres of mercury, judge that then thing to be dried has reached drying regime, stops dry run.
If 2 differences become less than zero (B (j)<0), show that pressure rises, judge that thing to be dried does not reach drying regime, moisture evaporates in the thing to be dried, and no matter force value just can not stop dry run, keep thing temperature to be dried, enter second stage.
If 3 differences are greater than zero, difference descends slowly and greater than 1 millimetres of mercury, judges that then thing to be dried does not reach drying regime, enters second stage.
If 4 differences are less than zero (B (j)<0), but the absolute value of difference is excessive, the vapour pressure that shows moisture in the thing to be dried rises very big, make water evaporates too fast, the very big temperature of thing to be dried that then shows of the vapour pressure of moisture rising raises too much in the thing to be dried, for some thermally sensitive things to be dried, destroys thing to be dried in order to prevent high temperature, should slow down the heating to thing to be dried this moment, enters second stage.
Second stage, the absolute value of difference is not more than 1 millimetres of mercury, judges that then the water evaporates of thing to be dried and vacuum pumping speed reach balance, and thing to be dried does not reach drying regime, continues dry run, enters the phase III;
Phase III, through after the second stage, if current difference and nearest five times difference continue greater than zero, and the difference amplitude of variation less than the predetermined quantity millimetres of mercury (such as 5 millimetress of mercury, this numerical value is looked concrete thing to be dried and difference), heat to hothouse,, judge that then thing to be dried has reached drying regime if difference keeps being not more than 1 millimetres of mercury greater than the absolute value of zero or difference.
When coming by dry kiln to heat up, stop vavuum pump as required to object to be dried.
Adopted technical scheme of the present invention, can finish drying exactly to thing to be dried, avoid making many objects can not reach abundant drying, or thereby overdrying destroys physics, the biological and chemical characteristic of object to be dried, and pressure sensor is of many uses, and use amount is big, produce in batches, unit price is low, and selectable model is many, can reduce cost with respect to using other sensor to control dry run.
The specific embodiment
Further specify technical scheme of the present invention below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and by the specific embodiment.
The main thought of technical scheme of the present invention is to utilize the variation of measuring the indoor pressure of vacuum drying to come perception thing drying regime to be dried, rather than one the people judge drying regime for the particular value of setting, the indoor pressure of vacuum drying is that the pressure that produced during water evaporates in the thing to be dried changes and the dynamic equilibrium of vacuum pumping speed.When thing to be dried was not finished drying as yet, the water evaporates in the thing to be dried became gaseous state, and the indoor pressure of vacuum drying is raise, and after thing drying to be dried, water no longer evaporates, and the indoor pressure of vacuum drying reduces rapidly.So, by measure pressure in the hothouse change can perception thing to be dried drying regime, thereby the control dry run.
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of vacuum dryer in the specific embodiment of the invention.As shown in Figure 1, this vacuum dryer comprises hothouse 101, heater 109, condenser 104, vavuum pump 105, pressure sensor 103, differential pressure transducer 111, vacuum valve 112, signal amplifier 110 and microprocessor 108, wherein, hothouse, condenser is connected by air duct 106 successively with vavuum pump, the air duct internal diameter is 6 millimeters, pressure sensor one end is communicated with hothouse by air duct, the other end of pressure sensor is connected with signal amplifier by lead 107, signal amplifier also is connected with microprocessor, one end of differential pressure transducer with and 106 connections of the air duct that is communicated with of pressure sensor, the other end of differential pressure transducer by vacuum valve with and the air duct that is communicated with of condenser 106 be communicated with, differential pressure transducer is also passed through lead 107 and is connected with signal amplifier.
Hothouse is airtight, is used for placing thing 102 to be dried.
Heater is selected 300 watts PULSE HEATING device for use, can heat to hothouse.
Vavuum pump power is 3/4 horsepower (560 watts), and 220 liters of gas pumping speed per minutes, end vacuum are used for extracting the air in hothouse and the condenser less than 2000Pa.
The airborne moisture that condenser deposition hothouse transports.
The pressure sensor model is MPX2100DP, and range 0-0.1MPa has demarcated and has temperature compensation means, and it converts the air pressure in the hothouse to the signal of telecommunication and sends to signal amplifier.
Signal amplifier can amplification signal and is transmitted to microprocessor.
Microprocessor adopts the PIC18F452 processor, comprise analog-digital commutator, the signal of telecommunication that analog-digital commutator can be sent signal amplifier converts data signal to, and the signal of telecommunication that microprocessor is also sent according to signal amplifier is controlled dry run and judged whether thing to be dried reaches drying regime.
High ten times of the pressure measurement accuracy specific pressure sensors of differential pressure transducer, but little ten times of the pressure range specific pressure sensors of differential pressure transducer.One end of differential pressure transducer links to each other with air duct by a vacuum valve, and the other end directly links to each other with the air duct of pressure sensor, and the output signal of telecommunication of differential pressure transducer also links to each other with microprocessor by signal amplifier.When the vacuum valve was opened, the pressure at differential pressure transducer two ends equated that the signal of differential pressure transducer is output as zero.When the measured force value of pressure sensor reaches or during less than 40 millimetress of mercury, vacuum valve is closed.Close the end that the back differential pressure transducer links to each other with vacuum valve, pressure remains on a steady state value, and the pressure of the differential pressure transducer other end is along with the change in pressure in the hothouse.Like this, just cause a pressure differential at the two ends of differential pressure transducer, it is measured by microprocessor that its pressure differential converts the signal of telecommunication to.The certainty of measurement specific pressure sensor of differential pressure transducer is wanted high ten times, can change by the interior pressure of more accurate measurement hothouse.
Evaporation capacity of moisture content depends on the pressure the when steam pressure (vapor pressure) of moisture is the thermodynamical equilibrium of steam and condensed state water (liquid state) in the thing to be dried.When reaching thermodynamic equilibrium state, aqueous water has tendency to flash to gaseous form, and vaporous water also has tendency to be condensed into liquid state from gas form.The speed that two states changes equates.In process of vacuum drying, the steam that is produced during evaporation constantly shifts out outside the drying device by vavuum pump, makes that like this moisture in the thing to be dried can only unidirectionally evaporate, and can not condense.
The boiling point of liquid is the temperature of vapour pressure and the ambient pressure of liquid when equating, when boiling temperature, makes the water in the thing to be dried become gaseous state from liquid state thereby the vapour pressure of liquid can overcome environmental pressure.The vapour pressure of moisture is directly connected to evaporation of liquid speed, and under same environmental pressure, higher steam pressure energy produces bigger evaporation rate.The vapour pressure of water is along with the relation between the variations in temperature of water can be described with the Clausius-Capeyron formula.
When with vacuum dryer drying thing to be dried, evaporation of liquid speed linear correlation in instantaneous pressure value in the hothouse and the thing to be dried.For example, when the liquid in the thing to be dried was water, the evaporation rate of moisture depended on two factors in the thing to be dried: the content of the vapour pressure of water and water in the thing to be dried.The variation of the content of water in the thing not only to be dried, the variation of the vapour pressure of water also can influence the variation of air pressure in the device in the thing to be dried.When the vapour pressure of water in the thing to be dried lowered, evaporation rate can reduce, and the pressure in the hothouse can reduce.But this does not show that thing to be dried has reached drying regime.Thing to be dried also contains moisture probably, and just evaporation rate has reduced.Iff the drying regime of indicating thing to be dried with the atmospheric pressure value in the hothouse, usually can judge by accident disconnectedly, it is too early to stop dry run, makes thing to be dried bone dry not as yet.
The vapour pressure of water changes along with the variations in temperature of thing to be dried in the thing to be dried.In the actual drying process, water is being converted in the gaseous process by liquid state, takes away a large amount of heats (2260 joule/gram), makes to cause the instantaneous reduction of thing temperature to be dried that vapour pressure lowers, thereby make evaporation rate reduce, and causes the minimizing of hothouse internal gas pressure.Along with the effect of the outer heater of hothouse, thing to be dried absorbs heat later on, thing temperature recovery to be dried, and the vapour pressure of moisture rises thereupon in the thing to be dried, thus evaporation rate rises, and the pressure in the hothouse also rises.So vapour pressure is a fast-changing process to the influence of air pressure in the device.
Otherwise moisture then is a slow procedure to the influence of hothouse internal pressure in the thing to be dried.Water evaporates in the thing to be dried needs a time course.The time of thing bone dry to be dried is depended on and multiple factor, the pumping speed of vavuum pump, the power of heater, the size of thing to be dried, what of moisture in the thing to be dried, but the pressure in the hothouse is a level and smooth relatively time course when not considering the variation of vapour pressure along with the variation of the water content of thing to be dried.
When the force value in using hothouse was controlled the dry run of thing to be dried, the variation of the vapour pressure of moisture was a noise to the influence of hothouse internal pressure in the thing to be dried, disturbs the observation to dry run.But the variation of vapour pressure is a quick process, and influence then is a process that changes at a slow speed to moisture to the hothouse internal pressure in the thing to be dried.Calculate the time dependent slope of hothouse internal pressure by microprocessor and can remove the interference of vapour pressure variation, correctly judge the drying regime of thing to be dried force value.
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of vacuum drying control in the specific embodiment of the invention.As shown in Figure 2, the flow process of vacuum drying control may further comprise the steps:
Step 201, thing to be dried is put into airtight hothouse, and dry kiln.
The vavuum pump that step 202, unlatching are communicated with hothouse extracts the air in the hothouse.
Step 203, pressure gauge continue to monitor the air pressure of hothouse, and air pressure signal sent to microprocessor, microprocessor once obtained manometric air pressure signal in per 0.1 second, after per 100 samplings, microprocessor is to 100 atmospheric pressure value calculating mean values, as the current air pressure of hothouse.
In this process, in order to take into account pressure range and accuracy, pressure gauge adopts two kinds, and a kind of is pressure sensor, and another kind is a differential pressure transducer.At first adopts pressure sensor is monitored the air pressure of hothouse, and air pressure signal is sent to microprocessor, when the air pressure of hothouse is not more than 40 millimetress of mercury, adopts the air pressure of differential pressure transducer monitoring hothouse, and air pressure signal is sent to microprocessor.
Step 204, microprocessor judge according to the air pressure change of hothouse whether thing to be dried reaches drying regime, and at first timing microprocessor obtains the air pressure in the hothouse, calculate last air pressure and difference when time air pressure.
In the thing dry run to be dried, microprocessor regularly obtains the air pressure in the hothouse to the continual real-time sampling of pressure sensor.Per 0.1 second of sample frequency is (10HZ) once.After per 100 samplings, microprocessor calculates average A (i)=∑ [0.01*y (i)] to 100 force value, and y (i) is the per 0.1 second sampled value of pressure sensor.
Calculate last air pressure and the difference of working as time air pressure, it is the slope that pressure changes, (original difference is only the time dependent slope of air pressure in the hothouse divided by time of timing microprocessor sampling air pressure to B (j)=A (i-1)-A (i), but the time because of the air pressure in the microprocessor samples hothouse is fixed, so can use difference to be equivalent to slope.If the time of the air pressure in the microprocessor samples hothouse is on-fixed, then need to replace difference) with slope.
And in the memory cell of microprocessor, preserve nearest five times difference.
Step 205, phase I, if difference is greater than zero (B (j)>0), and difference reaches greater than 1 millimetres of mercury, show that pressure descends fast, at this moment, even force value is very low, can not stop dry run, it is that water evaporates reduces because the vapour pressure of moisture reduces in the thing to be dried that pressure descends, if the amplitude of variation of nearest five times difference greater than the predetermined quantity millimetres of mercury (such as 5 millimetress of mercury, this numerical value is looked concrete thing to be dried and difference), when descending fast and reach, difference is not more than 1 millimetres of mercury, and will heat this moment to hothouse, when heating, microprocessor continues to monitor four kinds of situations that pressure changes:
If 1 difference is sometimes greater than zero, sometimes less than zero, and the absolute value of difference keeps being not more than 1 millimetres of mercury, judges that then thing to be dried has reached drying regime.
If 2 differences become less than zero (B (j)<0), show that pressure rises, judge that thing to be dried does not reach drying regime, moisture evaporates in the thing to be dried, and no matter force value just can not stop dry run, keep thing temperature to be dried, enter second stage.
If 3 differences are greater than zero (B (j)>0), difference descends slowly and greater than 1 millimetres of mercury, show that then pressure descends, but the water evaporates of thing to be dried and vacuum pumping speed does not reach balance as yet, judge that thing to be dried does not reach drying regime, enters second stage.
If 4 differences are less than zero (B (j)<0), but the absolute value of difference is excessive, the vapour pressure that shows moisture in the thing to be dried rises very big, make water evaporates too fast, the very big temperature of thing to be dried that then shows of the vapour pressure of moisture rising raises too much in the thing to be dried, for some thermally sensitive things to be dried, destroys thing to be dried in order to prevent high temperature, should slow down the heating to thing to be dried this moment, enters second stage.
Step 206, second stage, the absolute value of difference is not more than 1 millimetres of mercury, judges that then the water evaporates of thing to be dried and vacuum pumping speed reach balance, and thing to be dried does not reach drying regime, continues dry run, enters the phase III.
Step 207, phase III, through after the second stage, if current difference and nearest five times difference continue greater than zero, and the difference amplitude of variation less than the predetermined quantity millimetres of mercury (such as 5 millimetress of mercury, this numerical value is looked concrete thing to be dried and difference), heat to hothouse and to confirm, if after a period of time difference keep greater than zero or the absolute value of difference be not more than 1 millimetres of mercury, judge that then thing to be dried has reached drying regime.
When coming by the heating, vacuum hothouse to heat up to object to be dried, faster in order to heat up, can optionally stop vavuum pump.When vavuum pump stopped extracting vacuum, the indoor pressure of vacuum drying rose, and cause the vapour pressure and the poor of environmental pressure of the liquid of the needs drying in the thing to be dried to increase, thereby evaporation process was slowed down.Because evaporation process is slowed down, the heat that evaporation is taken away reduces, thereby it is faster that object to be dried is heated up.Extracting vacuum again after object to be dried heats up is carried out above four processes.
Fig. 3 is the drying curve figure of thing to be dried in the specific embodiment of the invention.As shown in Figure 3, the A section of curve is an initial stage of drying, and thing temperature to be dried is low, and the vapour pressure of moisture is less than the pressure of thing surrounding environment to be dried in the hothouse in the thing to be dried, and evaporation slows down or evaporates almost and stops.At this moment, the time dependent curve of pressure in the hothouse shows very large negative slope, and the force value in the hothouse is very little.Will think thing to be dried drying by mistake if only judge by the numerical value of pressure this moment, clearly, this and actual state are not inconsistent.
The B section of curve is that thing to be dried heater block outside hothouse absorbs that the vapour pressure of thing temperature to be dried and moisture raises gradually behind the heat, evaporation recovers or accelerates, at this moment, the indoor pressure of heating in vacuum rises, when the pumping speed of thing evaporation rate to be dried and vavuum pump reached dynamic equilibrium, the pressure in the hothouse kept value relatively stably.
The C section of curve is that thing to be dried is approaching dry, because the minimizing of moisture, evaporation capacity reduces, pressure in the hothouse begins to descend, the D section of curve is to evaporate to stop behind thing bone dry to be dried, and the pressure in the hothouse tends to be steady again, but remains on a lower force value.
So drying regime that force value in the hothouse and the time dependent slope of force value can be used for judging thing to be dried jointly.This method can avoid the influence of the vapour pressure variation of moisture in the thing to be dried, thereby it is disconnected to reduce erroneous judgement than the drying regime of only judging thing to be dried with force value.
The time dependent other feature of force value also can help to judge the degree of drying of thing to be dried.When the moist thing to be dried of drying, force value slowly descends in time; When not having thing to be dried in the hothouse, force value descends fast, keeps constant then, changes no longer in time; When dry low moisture thing to be dried, force value begins quick decline, slowly rises then.Its ascensional range depends on the water content and the evaporation rate of thing to be dried.
Use the variation of the measured pressure value that the differential pressure meter can be sensitiveer.At this moment, because differential pressure instrumentation amount is the relative pressure value, so the variation of force value is opposite with the timing of use absolute pressure.The rising of differential pressure instrumentation amount is equivalent to the decline of absolute pressure timing, and vice versa.
In addition, utilize amplitude of variation, rate of change or the change histories etc. of pressure slope, can judge the degree of drying of thing to be dried.
The above; only for the preferable specific embodiment of the present invention, but protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and anyly is familiar with the people of this technology in the disclosed technical scope of the present invention; the variation that can expect easily or replacement all should be encompassed within protection scope of the present invention.Therefore, protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with the protection domain of claim.