CN103708898A - Method for producing natural amino acid water-soluble fertilizer by utilizing tobacco liquid waste regenerated by paper-making process - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a method for producing natural amino acid water-soluble fertilizer by utilizing tobacco liquid waste regenerated by a paper-making process. The method comprises the following steps: filtering and separating the tobacco liquid waste regenerated by the paper-making process, wherein the granularity of a filtering net is 40-60 meshes; adding 0.3-0.6 percent of protease and 10-20 percent of feed grade protein powder into the liquid waste at a mass ratio, feeding the mixture into a constant temperature reactor, and performing fermentation reaction at a temperature of 33-38 DEG C for 5-20 days, thereby obtaining a fermented product, and the like. The method is simple and low in production cost, the obtained product is the natural amino acid fertilizer, and after the fertilizer is applied, the crop growth can be promoted, and the soil structure is improved. The problems that the wastewater treatment cost is high, the discharge amount is large and environmental pollution is caused in the process of producing the regenerated tobaccos by the paper-making process are solved.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to biological organic water-soluble fertilizer preparation method technical field, be specially the method for utilizing papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid to produce water-soluble fertilizer.
Background technology
Papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos also claims tobacco sheet, is a kind of a kind of like smoke product that tobacco byproduct and dead meal make after modern extraction and separation technology improves in conjunction with traditional paper-making technology as basic substance adopts of take.This type of tobacco material is except having general agriculture production resistates contained a large amount of organic matters and micro-element nutrition salt, also be rich in abundant Threonine and tryptophane, after process extraction concentration technique, this part nutritive substance is transferred to produce in extracting solution and is returned and be added on tobacco sheet substrate as fragrance matter.Yet in actual production, can not accomplish complete backfill, a part of extracting solution will enter follow-up water technology as producing waste liquid.Therefore, the extracting solution that on the one hand leaching process produces can not complete-reclaiming in reconstituted tobacco production process, cause the waste of resource; On the other hand, as producing waste liquid, to enter BOD, COD that water technology causes producing waste liquid all very high, and treatment cost of waste liquor is higher, seriously restricts the Sustainable development of Liao Ge reconstituted tobacco manufacturing enterprise.
Amino acid water-soluble fertilizer is a kind of new-type fertilizer that contains amino acids material, is also a kind of multifunctional fertilizers.Can contain one or more amino acid; also can carry out arranging raw material for need of production or Technology Need, conventional is Threonine, L-glutamic acid, glycine, phenylalanine, methionine(Met), aspartic acid, proline(Pro), Isoleucine, arginine, taurine, Gamma Amino Butyric Acid etc.Polyglutamic acid, poly-aspartic-acid etc. are class of amino acid polymkeric substance, its in solution, be hydrolyzed or Crop after can be hydrolyzed to amino acid, there is amino acid whose essential property and effect.Under standard state, be that form with amino acid salts or free acid exists.Research shows, poly aspartic acid can be strengthened the comprehensive absorption of crop to nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and middle trace element, improves utilization rate of fertilizer, promotes growth, increases output, improves crop quality, promotes root growth, strengthens resistance and improvement soil.The water-soluble fertilizer of amino acid is generally to add the liquid or solid fertilizer that one or more amino acid starting materials or stoste are made.
In papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid, containing farm crop and produce required various elements and abundant Threonine and tryptophane, is the good raw material of producing the molten fertilizer of natural amino acid sour water.It was both made full use of and can reduce the pollution to environment, can reduce again the waste of resource, also can obtain the amino acid water-soluble fertilizer of high added value.Therefore study a kind of method of utilizing papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid to produce the water-soluble fertilizer of natural amino acid, there is very positive meaning.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to produce required various elements and abundant Threonine and the characteristic of tryptophane for containing farm crop in problem that at present both at home and abroad papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos industrial enterprise production treatment cost of waste liquor is high and papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid, a kind of method of utilizing reconstituted tobacco waste liquid to produce natural amino acid fertilizer is provided.
Object of the present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions.
Utilize papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid to produce the method for the water-soluble fertilizer of natural amino acid, method steps is as follows:
A) get papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid and carry out filtering separation, filtering mesh number is 40-60 order; Described papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid can be extraction section, evaporation concentration section, coating section that reconstituted tobacco produces, the manufacture paper with pulp waste liquid of any one section of generation in profiled section or the two or more mixed waste liquors of producing section wherein;
B) in the waste liquid obtaining to step a) in mass ratio, add proteolytic enzyme, the 10%-20% feed grade protein powder of 0.3-0.6%, send in isothermal reactor, leavening temperature is at 33 ℃-38 ℃, and reaction times 5-20 days, obtains fermented product;
C) in the fermented product preparing to step b) in mass ratio, add 5%-10% water-soluble calcium, and mixing and stirring;
D) material step c) being obtained carries out filtering separation again, and filtering mesh number is 40-60 order; The liquid phase that filtering separation obtains is sent into thickening equipment, and to carry out cryogenic vacuum concentrated, and in enriched material, solid content is at 20%-35%;
E) enriched material oven drying at low temperature step d) being obtained, to moisture content 20 ± 2%, is sent into tablets press and is granulated;
F) particle diameter step e) being prepared at the particle drying of 1-4 mm to moisture content lower than 4%.
Water-soluble calcium of the present invention is one or more mixture of chelating calcium, calcium formiate, nitrocalcite.Described proteolytic enzyme is commercially available proteolytic enzyme, and described feed grade protein powder is one or more the mixture in beans Hectometer, fish meal, dried silkworm chrysalis meal.
Useful benefit of the present invention is:
1, raw material sources are extensive.Papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid turnout is large, can meet quantity-produced demand, can solve again the problem of current amino acid fertilizer raw materials for production shortage.
2, the product obtaining is natural amino acid fertilizer, after application, can promote plant growth, and improves Soil structure.
3, method is simple, and production cost is low, is easy to promote to promote the use of.
4, can solve papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos production process cost for wastewater treatment high, quantity discharged is large, the problem to environment.
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Embodiment 1
Collect the water-soluble fertilizer of waste liquid production natural amino acid that certain enterprise produces in papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos is produced, concrete steps are as follows:
A) get papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid and carry out filtering separation, filtering mesh number is 40 orders; Describedly get that papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid can be extraction section, evaporation concentration section, coating section that reconstituted tobacco produces, the manufacture paper with pulp waste liquid of any one section of generation in profiled section or the two or more mixed waste liquors of producing section wherein;
B) in the waste liquid obtaining to step a) in mass ratio, add 0.3% proteolytic enzyme, 10% feed grade protein powder, send in isothermal reactor, leavening temperature is at 33 ℃-38 ℃, reaction times 5-20 days; Described proteolytic enzyme be commercially available proteolytic enzyme as papoid, feed grade protein powder can be the mixture of beans Hectometer, fish meal, wherein one or more of dried silkworm chrysalis meal;
C) in the fermented product obtaining to step b) in mass ratio, add 10% water-soluble calcium (wherein 5% calcium formiate, 5% nitrocalcite), and mixing and stirring;
D) material step c) being obtained carries out filtering separation again, and filtering mesh number is 40 orders; The liquid phase that filtering separation obtains is sent into thickening equipment, and to carry out cryogenic vacuum concentrated, effect vacuum tightness 0.05 Mpa, and 65 ℃ of temperature, two effect vacuum tightness 0.08 Mpa, 60 ℃ of temperature, in the enriched material obtaining, solid content is being 35%(g/g);
E) enriched material oven drying at low temperature step d) being obtained, to moisture content 20 ± 2%, is sent into tablets press and is granulated;
F) particle diameter step e) being prepared at the particle drying of 1-4 mm to moisture content lower than 4%.
The water-soluble fertile performance of amino acid that the present embodiment prepares is in Table 1.
Embodiment 2
A) get papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid and carry out filtering separation, filtering mesh number is 50 orders; The described papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid of getting is the waste liquid that extraction section that reconstituted tobacco is produced produces;
B) in mass ratio to the proteolytic enzyme, the 15% feed grade protein powder that add 0.45% in waste liquid, send in isothermal reactor, leavening temperature is at 33 ℃-38 ℃, reaction times 5-20 days; Proteolytic enzyme is commercially available papoid, and feed grade protein powder is dried silkworm chrysalis meal;
C) in the fermented product obtaining to step b) in mass ratio, add 8% water-soluble calcium calcium formiate, and mixing and stirring;
D) material step c) being obtained carries out filtering separation again, and filtering mesh number is 50 orders; The liquid phase that filtering separation obtains is sent into thickening equipment, and to carry out cryogenic vacuum concentrated, effect vacuum tightness 0.05 Mpa, and 65 ℃ of temperature, two effect vacuum tightness 0.08 Mpa, 60 ℃ of temperature, in enriched material, solid content is 20%;
E) enriched material oven drying at low temperature step d) being obtained, to moisture content 20 ± 2%, is sent into tablets press and is granulated;
F) particle diameter step e) being prepared at the particle drying of 1-4 mm to moisture content lower than 4%.
The water-soluble fertile performance of amino acid that the present embodiment prepares is in Table 1.
Embodiment 3
A) get papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid and carry out filtering separation, filtering mesh number is 60 orders; The described papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid of getting can be waste liquid and the mixed waste liquor that reconstituted tobacco the coating section of producing and the profiled section of manufacturing paper with pulp produce;
B) in the mixed waste liquor obtaining to step a) in mass ratio, add the mixture of 0.6% commercially available proteolytic enzyme, 20% beans Hectometer and fish meal, send in isothermal reactor, leavening temperature is at 33 ℃-38 ℃, reaction times 5-20 days;
C) in the fermented product obtaining to step b) in mass ratio, add 5% water-soluble calcium chelating calcium, and mixing and stirring;
D) material step c) being obtained carries out filtering separation again, and filtering mesh number is 60 orders; The liquid phase that filtering separation obtains is sent into thickening equipment, and to carry out cryogenic vacuum concentrated, effect vacuum tightness 0.05 Mpa, and 65 ℃ of temperature, two effect vacuum tightness 0.08 Mpa, 60 ℃ of temperature, in enriched material, solid content is 28%;
E) enriched material oven drying at low temperature step d) being obtained, to moisture content 20 ± 2%, is sent into tablets press and is granulated;
F) particle diameter step e) being prepared at the particle drying of 1-4 mm to moisture content lower than 4%.
The amino acid fertilizer performance that the present embodiment obtains is in Table 1.
Table 1 papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid is produced the performance of the water-soluble fertilizer of natural amino acid
From table 1, can see the water-soluble fertile conformance with standard requirement of amino acid that the inventive method prepares.
Various device used and device in the inventive method, as filter plant, cryogenic vacuum thickening equipment, isothermal reaction container tablets press, drying plant etc., all can adopt prior art equipment.
The inventive method has not only solved the high problem of reconstituted tobacco manufacturing enterprise production treatment cost of waste liquor, has reduced environmental pollution, also for agriculture production provides a kind of novel amino acid water-soluble fertilizer.
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1. utilize papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid to produce the method for the water-soluble fertilizer of natural amino acid, it is characterized in that, method steps is as follows:
A) get papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid and carry out filtering separation, filtering mesh number is 40-60 order; Described papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid can be extraction section, evaporation concentration section, coating section that reconstituted tobacco produces, the manufacture paper with pulp waste liquid of any one section of generation in profiled section or the two or more mixed waste liquors of producing section wherein;
B) in the waste liquid obtaining to step a) in mass ratio, add proteolytic enzyme, the 10%-20% feed grade protein powder of 0.3-0.6%, send in isothermal reactor, leavening temperature is at 33 ℃-38 ℃, and reaction times 5-20 days, obtains fermented product;
C) in the fermented product preparing to step b) in mass ratio, add 5%-10% water-soluble calcium, and mixing and stirring;
D) material step c) being obtained carries out filtering separation again, and filtering mesh number is 40-60 order; The liquid phase that filtering separation obtains is sent into thickening equipment, and to carry out cryogenic vacuum concentrated, and in enriched material, solid content is at 20%-35%;
E) enriched material oven drying at low temperature step d) being obtained, to moisture content 20 ± 2%, is sent into tablets press and is granulated;
F) particle diameter step e) being prepared at the particle drying of 1-4 mm to moisture content lower than 4%.
2. the method for utilizing papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid to produce the water-soluble fertilizer of natural amino acid according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described water-soluble calcium is one or more mixture of chelating calcium, calcium formiate, nitrocalcite.
3. the method for utilizing papermaking-method reconstituted tobaccos waste liquid to produce the water-soluble fertilizer of natural amino acid according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described proteolytic enzyme is commercially available proteolytic enzyme, and described feed grade protein powder is one or more the mixture in beans Hectometer, fish meal, dried silkworm chrysalis meal.
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