CN111363644B

CN111363644B - Combined fermentation container for solid state brewing and use method and application thereof

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Publication number: CN111363644B
Application number: CN202010151516.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 潘建军; 彭奎; 李国红; 刘念; 郭杰; 常少健; 周成龙
Original assignee: Sichuan Food Fermentation Industry Research and Design Institute
Current assignee: Sichuan Food Fermentation Industry Research and Design Institute
Priority date: 2020-03-06
Filing date: 2020-03-06
Publication date: 2023-07-04
Anticipated expiration: 2040-03-06
Also published as: CN111363644A

Abstract

The invention discloses a combined fermentation container for solid state brewing and a use method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of solid state brewing, wherein the combined fermentation container comprises a plurality of box bodies which are vertically arranged in sequence, the top of each box body is provided with an opening, the peripheral outer walls of the box bodies are provided with temperature control devices, and adjacent box bodies are connected through sealing fixing pieces; the bottom plate of the bottom layer box body is a sealing plate, and the bottom plates of the rest layers of box bodies are sieve trays; the top end of the uppermost layer box body is provided with a sealing cover; the invention also discloses a specific use method and application field of the combined fermentation container, and the combined fermentation container can reduce labor intensity, control temperature and improve the quality of brewed products.

Description

Combined fermentation container for solid state brewing and use method and application thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of solid state brewing, in particular to a combined fermentation container for solid state brewing, and a use method and application thereof.

Background

The traditional brewing technology belongs to labor intensive industry, and at present, the domestic brewing industry basically realizes automation in the process links of raw material cooking, spreading and cooling, retort feeding and distillation, material mixing and the like, but is limited by the characteristics of a pit and a land cylinder in the pit (cylinder) and pit (cylinder) discharging links, and the automatic operation of the pit (cylinder) and pit (cylinder) discharging process links cannot be realized.

At present, a fermentation container in domestic white spirit production is mainly in the form of an underground pit or an underground jar. The volume of the underground pit is different from a few cubes to tens of cubes, the volume of the underground cylinder is generally within 3 cubes, and manual or driving grab bucket is adopted for pit discharging and pit entering operations. But the pit is carried out by adopting an underground pit (jar), the labor intensity of pit discharging is high, and the automatic transformation is inconvenient. Meanwhile, the volume of a single pit is not easy to be too large and too deep, otherwise, the heat dissipation of fermentation is affected, the yield is affected, and the required area of unit yield is large.

Therefore, there is a need for a combined fermentation vessel for solid state brewing that can ensure product quality for automated operation and a method of using the same.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide a combined fermentation container for solid state brewing as well as a use method and application thereof, so as to reduce labor intensity, control temperature and improve the quality of brewed products.

The aim of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme: the combined fermentation container for solid brewing comprises a plurality of box bodies which are vertically arranged in sequence, wherein the top of each box body is provided with an opening, the outer walls of the periphery of each box body are provided with temperature control devices, and adjacent box bodies are connected through sealing fixing pieces; the temperature control device can be set as temperature control equipment or heat preservation equipment for adjusting temperature, and can be specifically determined according to the fermentation condition of the solid brewing product. The volume of the box body is determined according to the requirements of the front and back process links.

The bottom plate of the bottom layer box body is a sealing plate, and the bottom plates of the rest layers of box bodies are sieve trays;

the top end of the uppermost layer box body is provided with a sealing cover.

By the technical scheme, pit mud is paved on the bottom plate of the box body, so that the problem of pit mud collapse in the traditional pit is avoided; then placing the fermentation raw material into a box body; the box body with the bottom layer being a sealing plate is arranged at the bottommost layer, then the box bodies with the bottom layers being sieve plates are sequentially stacked above the box bodies, the adjacent box bodies are fixedly connected with each other through sealing fixing pieces, the sealing fixing pieces are tightly attached to each other, and a plurality of vertically arranged box bodies are prevented from sliding relatively; the sealing cover seals the whole combined fermentation container, so that the subsequent fermentation process is convenient to carry out, and the quality of the brewed product of the whole pit is improved; meanwhile, the combined fermentation container formed by combining the plurality of vertically arranged boxes is convenient for subsequent operators to directly grasp the whole combined fermentation container in a mechanical transportation mode, so that the working strength is reduced, and the working efficiency is improved; except that the bottom plate of the bottom layer box body is the closing plate, the bottom plates of other box bodies are sieve trays, and the design of sieve trays enables brewing liquid or gas generated by fermentation between adjacent box bodies to flow between adjacent box bodies, and solid state fermentation objects are kept relatively fixed, so that the quality of the brewing liquid in the whole combined fermentation container is uniform, and the quality of a brewed product is improved.

Further, the temperature control device comprises a heat insulation plate and a temperature control interlayer, and the temperature control interlayer is embedded between the heat insulation plate and the inner wall of the box body. The heat preservation plate is tightly attached to the peripheral outer wall of the box body, and heat conveyed by the temperature control interlayer is directly transmitted to the inner wall of the box body in a mode of minimum loss, so that the temperature of the box body is regulated; the temperature control interlayer can be a heat insulation material, a cooling medium or a heating medium and the like, and can be electrically connected with the control device, and the control device is arranged at the top of the combined fermentation container, so that an operator can conveniently control the fermentation temperature in real time; the type of the temperature control device can be selected correspondingly according to the requirements of users, and the temperature control device can be independently provided with a heat insulation plate or a temperature control interlayer or can be combined with the heat insulation plate or the temperature control interlayer. If the external environment temperature of the combined fermentation container meets the process requirement, a temperature control device is not required.

Further, the sealing fixing piece comprises a protruding block, a groove and a flexible sealing gasket, wherein the protruding block is arranged at the bottom of the heat insulation board, the groove and the flexible sealing gasket are arranged at the top of the heat insulation board, and the protruding block and the groove are in transition fit and are connected with adjacent boxes; the bottommost end of the box body and the bottommost end of the heat insulation plate are on the same horizontal plane. The sieve trays are arranged between the adjacent boxes, so that if the boxes are simply stacked, the brewing liquid flows out from the adjacent boxes, so that waste of the brewing product is caused, and the whole combined fermentation container is leaked, is not sealed, so that the quality of the brewing product is poor; the design of lug and recess that this scheme set up, the recess matches with the size of lug for when adjacent box fixed connection, the bottom surface of upper box and the top side of lower floor's box closely laminate each other, and then realize the seal of adjacent box, be convenient for accomplish subsequent brewing technology. The bottom of box and heated board are on same horizontal plane for whole bottom of the case convex part is the lug only, and the recessed part in box top is the recess only, and lug and recess size are unanimous, and when lug and recess closely paste, adjacent box each other laminate, and then sealing connection, flexible sealing pad are located lug and recess faying surface, improve sealed effect.

Further, the bottom of the bottommost box body is also provided with a yellow water discharge device, the yellow water discharge device consists of a yellow water collection cavity with a filter screen arranged at the bottom of the box body and a pipeline extending out of the box body from the cavity, after fermentation is finished, a valve on the pipeline is opened, so that the yellow water can be conveniently discharged, and the next procedure is facilitated.

Further, the material adopted by the box body comprises one or more of stainless steel, aluminum alloy and titanium alloy. The material of the box body is limited, oxidation reaction rust and the like of the box body are prevented, foreign matters such as rust slag and the like are prevented from being mixed into the fermentation body, so that the quality of a brewed product is influenced, and meanwhile, the material can be selected adaptively according to the property of the brewed product.

Further, the box body is also provided with sensors for detecting physical and chemical properties in the fermentation body, for example, when the scheme is used for brewing white spirit, the box body can be provided with temperature and alcohol degree sensors; when used for brewing vinegar, a pH detector or the like may be provided.

A method of using a combined fermentation vessel for solid state brewing comprising the steps of:

(1) Putting fermentation raw materials into a box body, repeating the steps, and finishing the loading of all the box bodies; when the strong aromatic white spirit is produced, pit mud needs to be smeared, and pit mud does not need to be smeared on other solid fermentation products; the pit mud is filled into the box body, the pit mud is adhered to the bottom plate of the box body, the thickness of the pit mud can be set according to the requirement, the part of the pit mud can be slightly thinner, so that liquid generated in the fermentation process can be conveniently permeated into the next layer of box body, then the fermentation raw material is placed into the box body, the steps are repeated, and all the box bodies are smeared with the pit mud and filled with the pit mud;

(2) The box body with the bottom being a sealing plate is arranged at the bottommost layer, the box bodies with the bottom being sieve trays are sequentially arranged and stacked above the bottommost layer box body, adjacent box bodies are in transition fit connection through a convex block and a concave groove which are arranged on the heat insulation plate, and finally the sealing cover is arranged at the top end of the topmost layer box body to prepare a group of fermentation containers;

(3) And (3) repeating the step (2) to prepare a plurality of groups of fermentation containers, and placing the fermentation containers in a fermentation workshop through mechanical transportation to form array arrangement until the whole fermentation workshop is fully filled. The fermentation workshop replaces a fermentation pit or a ground jar, so that the production cost is saved, the operation safety is improved, and the production efficiency is improved.

The combined fermentation container is flexible to install, a plurality of boxes can be uniformly transported to the next working section after being installed through the convex blocks and the grooves, the boxes and other devices can be directly transported to a fermentation workshop and installed one by one, and the combined fermentation container can be specifically adjusted in an adaptability mode according to the types of fermentation products or the actual conditions of the fermentation workshop.

Further, the combined fermentation vessel for solid state brewing can be used for preparing white spirit, soy sauce and vinegar.

The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:

1. the combined fermentation container is convenient for mechanically transferring the fermentation container singly or integrally to the next process, so that the high-intensity labor of manually discharging and entering a cellar at present is reduced;

2. the combination mode of vertically superposing the fermentation unit box bodies can effectively avoid the condition that fermentation is poor if the fermentation of the traditional pit is too deep, and simultaneously avoid personal injury accidents possibly caused by carbon dioxide enrichment in the pit during the traditional pit discharging operation;

3. according to the combined form of vertical superposition of the box bodies, the number of superposed layers does not influence fermentation, and the occupied area of unit fermentation volume can be reduced, so that the building cost of a factory building is reduced;

4. according to the invention, a temperature control interlayer (heat insulation material, refrigerant, heating medium and the like) can be additionally arranged in each heat insulation plate as required, and compared with the traditional non-controllable temperature fermentation of a pit (ground cylinder), the fermentation efficiency can be improved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a combined fermentation vessel according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a top view of the case of the present invention;

in the figure, the box body is 1-, the sealing fixing piece is 2-, the sealing plate is 3-, the sieve plate is 4-, the sealing cover is 5-, the heat insulation plate is 6-, the temperature control interlayer is 7-, the lug is 8-, the groove is 9-, the flexible sealing gasket is 10-and the yellow water discharging device is 11-.

Detailed Description

The technical solution of the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following description.

Example 1

The combined fermentation container for solid state brewing comprises a plurality of box bodies 1 which are vertically arranged in sequence, wherein the top of each box body 1 is provided with an opening, the outer walls of the periphery of each box body 1 are provided with temperature control devices, and adjacent box bodies 1 are connected through sealing fixing pieces 2;

the bottom plate of the bottommost box body 1 is a sealing plate 3, and the bottom plates of the rest box bodies 1 are sieve trays 4;

the top end of the uppermost layer box body 1 is provided with a sealing cover 5.

The temperature control device comprises an insulation board 6 and a temperature control interlayer 7, and the temperature control interlayer 7 is embedded between the insulation board 6 and the inner wall of the box body 1. The heat preservation plate 6 is closely attached to the peripheral outer wall of the box body 1, and the temperature of the box body 1 is controlled by controlling the temperature of cooling and heating media in the temperature control interlayer 7;

the sealing fixing piece 2 comprises a protruding block 8, a groove 9 and a flexible sealing gasket 10, wherein the protruding block 8 is arranged at the bottom of the heat insulation plate 6, the groove 9 is arranged at the top of the heat insulation plate 6, the flexible sealing gasket 10 is arranged at the bottom of the groove 9, and the protruding block 8 is in transition fit with the groove 9 and is connected with the adjacent box body 1; the bottommost end of the box body 1 and the bottommost end of the heat insulation plate 6 are on the same horizontal plane; the design of lug 8 and recess 9 that this scheme set up, recess 9 and lug 8's size matching for when adjacent box 1 fixed connection, the bottom surface of upper tank 1 and the top side of lower tank 1 closely laminate each other, and then realize adjacent box 1's seal, be convenient for accomplish subsequent brewing technology. The bottommost end of the box body 1 and the bottommost end of the heat insulation plate 6 are on the same horizontal plane, so that the protruding part of the bottom of the whole box body 1 is only a bump 8, the recessed part of the top of the box body 1 is only a groove 9, the bump 8 and the groove 9 are in clearance fit in size, and when the bump 8 and the groove 9 are tightly adhered, the adjacent box bodies 1 are adhered to each other under the action of a flexible sealing gasket 10, so that the adjacent box bodies are in sealing connection;

the bottom of the bottommost box body 1 is also provided with a yellow water discharge device 11; the yellow water discharge device 11 consists of a yellow water collection cavity with a filter screen and a pipeline extending out of the box body from the cavity, and after fermentation is finished, a valve on the pipeline is opened to conveniently discharge yellow water, so that the yellow water is beneficial to entering the next working procedure;

the box body 1 is made of stainless steel; the fermented product of this example was Luzhou-flavor liquor.

(1) The pit mud is filled into the box body 1, the pit mud is adhered to the bottom plate of the box body, the thickness of the pit mud can be set according to the requirement, the part of the pit mud can be slightly thinner, so that liquid generated in the fermentation process can conveniently permeate into the next layer of box body, then the fermentation raw material is placed into the box body, the steps are repeated, and all the box bodies 1 are smeared with the pit mud and filled with the pit mud;

(2) The box body 1 with the bottom being the sealing plate 3 is arranged at the bottommost layer, the box bodies 1 with the bottom being the sieve trays 4 are sequentially arranged and stacked above the bottommost layer box body 1, the adjacent box bodies 1 are in transition fit connection through the convex blocks 8 and the concave grooves 9 arranged on the heat preservation plate 6, and finally the sealing cover 5 is arranged at the top end of the topmost layer box body 1, so that a group of fermentation containers are prepared;

and (3) repeating the step (2) to prepare a plurality of groups of fermentation containers, and placing the fermentation containers in a fermentation workshop through mechanical transportation to form array arrangement to replace the traditional pit (ground jar) for fermentation.

Test effect

To verify the effect of the combined fermentation vessel of the present invention, a comparative test was performed. The experiments were divided into 3 experimental groups and 1 control group, and the experimental groups were experimental group 1, experimental group 2 and experimental group 3, respectively. Wherein, the combined fermentation container in the embodiment 1 of the invention is adopted for brewing the strong aromatic white spirit in the experimental group 1, the combined fermentation container in the embodiment 1 of the invention is adopted for brewing the strong aromatic white spirit in the experimental group 2, the prior art direct pit fermentation method is adopted for preparing the strong aromatic white spirit in the control group 1, and the prior art direct pit fermentation method is adopted for preparing the strong aromatic white spirit in the control group 2.

The tests are respectively carried out according to the method, and after the pit is distilled, the efficiency of manual pit discharging and the quality of the obtained brewed product are respectively carried out sensory evaluation measurement, meanwhile, the occupied area required by the unit fermentation volume is calculated, and under the condition of stacking 4 boxes, the results are shown in the following table:

the table shows that the combined fermentation container subtracts the labor intensity of manually discharging and entering the cellar at present and improves the working efficiency; the number of superimposed layers does not affect fermentation, and the occupied area of unit fermentation volume can be reduced, so that the building cost of a factory building is reduced.

The foregoing is merely a preferred embodiment of the invention, and it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the form disclosed herein but is not to be construed as excluding other embodiments, but is capable of numerous other combinations, modifications and environments and is capable of modifications within the scope of the inventive concept, either as taught or as a matter of routine skill or knowledge in the relevant art. And that modifications and variations which do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. A combination fermentation vessel for solid state brewing, characterized by: the device comprises more than three box bodies (1) which are vertically arranged in sequence, wherein the top of each box body (1) is provided with an opening, the peripheral outer walls of the box bodies (1) are provided with temperature control devices, and the adjacent box bodies (1) are connected through sealing fixing pieces (2);

the bottom plate of the bottommost box body (1) is a sealing plate (3), and the bottom plates of the rest box bodies (1) are sieve plates (4);

the top end of the uppermost layer box body (1) is provided with a sealing cover (5);

the temperature control device comprises a heat insulation plate (6) and a temperature control interlayer (7), and the temperature control interlayer (7) is embedded between the heat insulation plate (6) and the inner wall of the box body (1);

the sealing fixing piece (2) comprises a protruding block (8), a groove (9) and a flexible sealing gasket (10), wherein the protruding block (8) is arranged at the bottom of the heat insulation plate (6), the groove (9) and the flexible sealing gasket (10) are arranged at the top of the heat insulation plate (6), and the protruding block (8) and the groove (9) are in transition fit and connected with adjacent boxes (1); the bottommost end of the box body (1) and the bottommost end of the heat insulation plate (6) are on the same horizontal plane;

the combined fermentation container for solid state brewing is applied to the preparation of white spirit.

2. The combination fermentation vessel for solid state brewing according to claim 1, wherein: the bottom of the bottommost box body (1) is also provided with a yellow water discharge device (11).

3. The combination fermentation vessel for solid state brewing according to claim 1, wherein: the box body (1) is made of one or more of stainless steel, aluminum alloy and titanium alloy.

4. A method of using a combined fermentation vessel for solid state brewing according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein: the method comprises the following steps:

(1) Putting fermentation raw materials into a box body (1), repeating the steps, and finishing the loading of all the box bodies (1);

(2) The box body (1) with the bottom being the sealing plate (3) is arranged at the bottommost layer, the box bodies (1) with the bottom being the sieve trays (4) are sequentially arranged and overlapped above the bottommost layer box body (1), the adjacent box bodies (1) are in transition fit connection with the grooves (9) through the convex blocks (8) arranged on the heat insulation plates (6), and finally the sealing cover (5) is arranged at the top end of the topmost layer box body (1) to prepare a group of fermentation containers;

(3) And (3) repeating the step (2) to prepare a plurality of groups of fermentation containers, and placing the fermentation containers in a fermentation workshop through mechanical transportation to form array arrangement until the whole fermentation workshop is fully filled.