Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the problem that the existing aniseed dryer is not economical in use, the invention provides aniseed drying and cell sap extraction equipment and process.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention provides a technical scheme as follows: an aniseed drying and cell sap extraction device comprises: the de-enzyming device is used for de-enzyming the aniseed; the first air drying device is used for air drying the aniseed; the drying device is used for drying the aniseed to obtain complete dry aniseed and cell sap; the water-removing device, the first air-drying device and the drying device are sequentially arranged.
Preferably, the drying device comprises a thermostatic chamber, a mesh belt assembly, a drying assembly and a cell sap extraction assembly, wherein an octagonal frame is placed on the mesh belt assembly; the mesh belt assembly, the drying assembly and the cell sap extracting assembly are arranged in the thermostatic chamber, the drying assembly is arranged at the bottom of the thermostatic chamber, the cell sap extracting assembly is arranged at the top of the thermostatic chamber, hot gas blown out by the drying assembly penetrates through the mesh belt assembly and is liquefied on the cell sap extracting assembly, and the cell sap extracting assembly collects liquefied cell sap; and hot air blown out by the drying component forms an airflow loop on the side surface of the conveying direction of the mesh belt component.
Preferably, the mesh belt assembly comprises a plurality of conveying belts which are arranged in a staggered mode, and the conveying belts are of mesh hollow structures; the plurality of conveyor belts are sequentially arranged in the height direction of the thermostatic chamber, and the octagon is arranged on the plurality of conveyor belts and moves downwards from the height direction of the thermostatic chamber; the octagon dropped from the end of the preceding conveyor to the beginning of the following conveyor.
Preferably, be equipped with a plurality of condensers outside the thermostatic chamber, the condenser is used for provide the cold air in the thermostatic chamber, in order to guarantee the constancy of temperature in the thermostatic chamber.
Preferably, the cell sap extracting assemblies are multiple in number, and the cell sap extracting assemblies are arranged in the constant temperature chamber at equal intervals; the cell sap extraction assembly comprises a guide plate and a liquid storage box, the guide plate extends to the top in the thermostatic chamber, and the guide plate and the thermostatic chamber are inclined at a preset angle; one end of the guide plate is connected with the thermostatic chamber, the other end of the guide plate is connected with the liquid storage box, and the liquefied cell sap on the guide plate drops into the liquid storage box.
Preferably, the processing equipment further comprises a cleaning device and a second air drying device, wherein the cleaning device is used for cleaning the aniseed, the aniseed enters the second air drying device for air drying after being cleaned, and then enters the first air drying device again after being de-enzymed in the de-enzyming device.
Preferably, the temperature of hot air blown out by the drying component is less than or equal to 60 degrees.
The invention also provides an aniseed drying and cell sap extraction process, which adopts any one of the aniseed drying and cell sap extraction equipment, and comprises the following steps: step S1: washing, namely washing the aniseed with water; step S2: air-drying for the first time, namely air-drying the cleaned star anise; step S3: de-enzyming, namely de-enzyming the aniseed which is air-dried for the first time; step S4: performing secondary air drying, namely performing secondary air drying on the de-enzymed aniseed; and step S5: and (3) drying and extracting, namely putting the star anise subjected to secondary air drying into a drying device for drying, liquefying and extracting cell sap formed by drying so as to obtain complete dried star anise and corresponding cell sap.
Compared with the prior art, the aniseed drying and cell sap extraction equipment and the process provided by the invention have the following advantages:
1. by arranging the drying device, the cell sap in the drying hot air flow is extracted while the aniseed is dried, so that the aniseed drying and cell sap extraction equipment provided by the invention can extract the aniseed cell sap while the aniseed is dried, the problems of resource waste and the like caused by directly discharging the cell sap are avoided, and the resource utilization rate and the use economy of the equipment are improved. Meanwhile, the complete dry star anise obtained by drying can avoid the work flow of extracting star anise cell sap and crushing star anises in the prior art, so that the integrity of the dry star anise is protected when the cell sap is extracted, the complete dry star anise has higher use value, and the economy of equipment use is further improved.
2. Through setting up thermostatic chamber, guipure subassembly, stoving subassembly and cell sap extraction subassembly, the stoving subassembly is located thermostatic chamber bottom for eight anises of hot air follow bottom stoving that the stoving subassembly sent, and extract the cell sap on the cell sap extraction subassembly at top, can realize simultaneously that eight anises of stoving and cell sap extract step, simple structure has further improved the economic nature of equipment use, brings higher economic benefits.
3. Through setting up a plurality of conveyer belts that stromatolite set up in proper order for a plurality of anises are put and are dried in the direction of height of thermostatic chamber, have saved the occupation space that the anise was dried, have improved space utilization, and the crisscross setting of a plurality of conveyer belts, have further utilized the stoving space, make the area of equipment littleer, the octagonal quantity greatly increased of once drying. Simultaneously, the conveyer belt that hollow out construction set up for steam is bigger with the eight horns area of contact who places, further improves eight horns drying efficiency, and the energy can be saved has also further improved the energy economy nature that eight horns were dried.
4. The thermostatic chamber surface is equipped with a plurality of condensers, the condenser be used for provide air conditioning in the thermostatic chamber, in order to guarantee the constancy of temperature in the thermostatic chamber. It can be understood that the condenser is through setting up temperature sensor to detect the temperature variation in the thermostatic chamber, when the temperature in the thermostatic chamber exceeded the setting value (for example exceeded 60 ℃), condenser automatic start refrigeration to reduce the temperature in the thermostatic chamber, and keep it in the temperature setting value, avoid the thermostatic chamber high temperature and influence the aniseed cell structure change of aniseed stoving in-process, protection aniseed's integrality.
5. Through setting up guide plate and stock solution box, the drying device of thermostatic chamber bottom blows off steam and rises to the top after, steam and guide plate contact to make the cell sap liquefy the liquid that forms the cell sap on the guide plate surface, the cell sap is based on under the guide effect of the guide plate that the slope set up, and the downward drippage is retrieved in the stock solution box, has avoided the hot gas flow that has the cell sap problem of the wasting of resources that leads to outside direct discharge, has improved the economic nature of equipment use.
6. Through setting up belt cleaning device for star anise in batches is transported to equipment and adds man-hour, can carry out surface cleaning through this belt cleaning device earlier, with the dust or other pollutants that avoid the commodity circulation to transport the in-process star anise and be infected with, prevent that the not abluent star anise from drying and the not enough problem of product quality that obtains in the cell sap extraction, improve the product yield of drying and cell sap extraction.
7. The hot air temperature that the stoving subassembly blew off is less than or equal to 60 ℃ for the temperature in the thermostatic chamber keeps doing about 60 ℃ well low temperature level, and through under suitable temperature, when guaranteeing that aniseed fragrance volatilizees efficiency higher, the protection aniseed avoids among the prior art fragrance volatilization efficiency lower, the lower problem of cell sap extraction efficiency that the higher temperature purification mode such as distillation destroys the aniseed cell structure and brings, has further improved the efficiency that aniseed was dried and cell sap extraction.
Detailed Description
The following detailed description of the present invention is provided in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, but it should be understood that the scope of the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, a first embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus 1 for drying aniseed and extracting cell sap, comprising: the device 11 completes for with the aniseed and complete, first air-dry device 12 for air-dry the aniseed, drying device 13 for dry behind the aniseed in order to obtain complete dry aniseed and cell sap. The device 11 completes first air-dry device 12 reaches drying device 13 sets gradually, and the aniseed gets into first air-dry device 12 and air-dries after the device 11 completes, and later gets into drying device 13 and dries, just drying device 13 obtains the aniseed extract of evaporation at the stoving in-process, when finally obtaining complete dry aniseed, has also extracted corresponding aniseed cell liquid.
It can be understood that conveying devices are arranged among the de-enzyming device 11, the first air drying device 12 and the drying device 13 so as to automatically convey the aniseed which is operated in the previous process device to the next process. This conveyer can set up to conveyer belt, conveying chain belt, or also can be through setting up the mode of artifical conveying, as long as can make the aniseed of accomplishing processing in the last process get into next process according to process flow can.
It can be understood that, in the de-enzyming device 11, de-enzyming is carried out on the star anise by using water with the temperature of 80-90 ℃ so as to destroy the cuticle on the surface of the star anise, so that the drying efficiency of the star anise in the subsequent procedures is improved, and the drying time of batch star anise drying is shortened.
With reference to fig. 1 and fig. 2, the drying device 13 includes a thermostatic chamber 131, a mesh belt assembly 132, a drying assembly 133, and a cell sap extraction assembly 134, wherein an octagonal belt is disposed on the mesh belt assembly 132.
The mesh belt assembly 132, the drying assembly 133 and the cell sap extraction assembly 134 are arranged in the constant temperature chamber 131, the drying assembly 133 is arranged at the bottom of the constant temperature chamber 131, the cell sap extraction assembly 134 is arranged at the top of the constant temperature chamber 131, hot air blown out by the drying assembly 133 passes through the mesh belt assembly 132 and then is liquefied on the cell sap extraction assembly 134, and the cell sap extraction assembly 134 collects liquefied cell sap.
The hot air blown out from the drying unit 133 forms an air flow loop at the side of the conveying direction of the mesh belt unit 132.
It is understood that the drying assembly 133 may employ a heat pump type drying apparatus.
During the use, drying component 133 sends the hot gas that the temperature is below 60 ℃, and this hot gas passes guipure subassembly 132 from thermostatic chamber 131 bottom to place the octagon on guipure subassembly 132 through hot gas stoving, because guipure subassembly 132 is netted hollow out construction, hot gas can be followed and placed the surface and contacted the stoving with the octagon, later hot gas upwards flows gradually in thermostatic chamber 131, when the hot gas after the octagon flows to thermostatic chamber 131 top, the hot gas that has the cell sap contacts with cell sap extraction component 134, liquefy the cell sap that forms the liquid form on cell sap extraction component 134 surface, and then collect the cell sap.
It can be understood that the drying device 13 extracts the cell sap in the drying hot air flow while drying the aniseed, so that the aniseed drying and cell sap extraction equipment 1 provided by the invention can extract the aniseed cell sap while drying the aniseed, thereby avoiding the problems of resource waste and the like caused by directly discharging the cell sap, and improving the resource utilization rate and the use economy of the equipment. Meanwhile, the complete dry star anise obtained by drying can avoid the work flow of extracting star anise cell sap and crushing star anises in the prior art, so that the integrity of the dry star anise is protected when the cell sap is extracted, the complete dry star anise has higher use value, and the economy of equipment use is further improved.
It can be understood that by arranging the constant temperature chamber 131, the mesh belt assembly 132, the drying assembly 133 and the cell sap extracting assembly 134, the drying assembly 133 is arranged at the bottom of the constant temperature chamber 131, so that the hot air emitted by the drying assembly 133 dries the aniseed upwards from the bottom, and the cell sap is extracted from the cell sap extracting assembly 134 at the top, thus the steps of drying the aniseed and extracting the cell sap can be realized simultaneously, the structure is simple, the economy of equipment use is further improved, and higher economic benefit is brought.
It can be understood that the temperature of the hot air blown out by the drying component 133 is less than or equal to 60 ℃, so that the temperature in the thermostatic chamber 131 is kept at about 60 ℃ which is a medium-low temperature level, and the aniseed is protected at a proper temperature while the volatilization efficiency of the aniseed fragrance is ensured to be higher, thereby avoiding the problems of lower volatilization efficiency of the fragrance and lower extraction efficiency of the cell sap caused by destroying the cell structure of the aniseed by higher-temperature purification methods such as distillation in the prior art, and further improving the efficiency of drying the aniseed and extracting the cell sap.
Referring to fig. 2, the belt assembly 132 includes a plurality of staggered conveyor belts 1321, and the conveyor belts 1321 are mesh-like hollow structures. The plurality of conveyor belts 1321 are sequentially arranged in the height direction of the thermostatic chamber 131, the octagon is on the plurality of conveyor belts 1321, moves downward from the height direction of the thermostatic chamber 131, and the octagon drops from the end a of the preceding conveyor belt 1321 to the start end b of the succeeding conveyor belt 1321.
In use, the star anise enters the conveyor 1321 on the first floor from the top area of the thermostatic chamber 131, the end a of the conveyor 1321 on the first floor in the conveying direction extends to form the starting end b conveyed by another conveyor 1321 adjacently arranged on the next floor, at this time, the star anise falls from the conveyor 1321 on the first floor onto the conveyor 1321 on the second floor in the conveying direction opposite to the conveyor 1321 on the first floor, and so on, the conveying track formed by the plurality of conveyor 1321 arranged in sequence in a stacked manner forms a 'bow-shaped' conveying path and is gradually conveyed towards the bottom of the thermostatic chamber 131.
It can be understood that through setting up a plurality of conveyer belts 1321 that the stromatolite set up in proper order for a plurality of anises are put and are dried in the direction of height of thermostatic chamber, have saved the occupation space that the anise was dried, have improved space utilization, and the crisscross setting of a plurality of conveyer belts 1321, have further utilized the stoving space, make the area of equipment littleer, the octagonal quantity greatly increased of once drying. Simultaneously, the conveyer belt 1321 that hollow out construction set up for steam is bigger with the eight star anise area of contact who places, further improves eight star anise drying efficiency, and the energy can be saved has also further improved the energy economy nature that eight star anise was dried.
It is understood that the outer surface of the thermostatic chamber 131 is provided with a plurality of condensers 1311, and the condensers 1311 are used for providing cold air to the thermostatic chamber 131 to ensure that the temperature in the thermostatic chamber 131 is constant. It can be understood that the condenser 1311 is provided with a temperature sensor (not shown) to detect the temperature change in the thermostatic chamber 131, and when the temperature in the thermostatic chamber 131 exceeds a set value (for example, over 60 ℃), the condenser 1311 automatically starts cooling to reduce the temperature in the thermostatic chamber 131 and keep the temperature in the set temperature value, so as to avoid the temperature in the thermostatic chamber 131 being too high to affect the change of the cell structure of the aniseed during the aniseed drying process.
Referring to fig. 3, the number of the cell sap extraction assemblies 134 is plural, and the plural cell sap extraction assemblies 134 are disposed at equal intervals in the constant temperature chamber 131.
The cellular fluid extraction assembly 134 comprises a guide plate 1341 and a fluid storage box 1342, wherein the guide plate 1341 extends to the top of the thermostatic chamber 131, and the guide plate 1341 and the thermostatic chamber 131 are inclined at a predetermined angle.
One end of the flow guide plate 1341 is connected to the thermostatic chamber 131, the other end of the flow guide plate 1341 is connected to the liquid storage box 1342, and the liquefied cellular liquid on the flow guide plate 1341 drops into the liquid storage box 1342.
It can be understood that after the drying device 133 at the bottom of the thermostatic chamber 131 blows hot air and rises to the top, the hot air contacts with the guide plate 1341, thereby the liquid of the cell sap is liquefied and formed on the surface of the guide plate 1341, the cell sap is recovered in the liquid storage box 1342 by dropping downwards under the guiding action of the guide plate 1341 which is obliquely arranged, the problem of resource waste caused by the outward direct discharge of hot air with the cell sap is avoided, and the economical efficiency of the equipment use is improved.
Optionally, referring to fig. 1 again, as an embodiment, the aniseed drying and cell sap extracting apparatus 1 further includes a cleaning device 14 and a second air drying device 15, the cleaning device 14 is used for cleaning the aniseed, the aniseed enters the second air drying device 15 for air drying after being cleaned, and then enters the water-removing device 11 for water-removing and then enters the first air drying device 12 again.
It can be understood that through setting up belt cleaning device 14 for star anise in batches is transported to equipment and is add man-hour, can carry out surface cleaning through this belt cleaning device 14 earlier, with dust or other pollutants that avoid the commodity circulation to transport the in-process star anise and be infected with, prevent the not enough problem of product quality of abluent star anise in stoving and cell sap extraction, improve the product yield of stoving and cell sap extraction.
Referring to fig. 4, a second embodiment of the present invention provides a process for drying aniseed and extracting cell sap, which uses the apparatus 1 for drying aniseed and extracting cell sap in the first embodiment, and specifically includes the following steps:
step S1: washing, namely washing the aniseed with water;
step S2: air-drying for the first time, namely air-drying the cleaned star anise;
step S3: de-enzyming, namely de-enzyming the aniseed which is air-dried for the first time;
step S4: performing secondary air drying, namely performing secondary air drying on the de-enzymed aniseed; and
step S5: and (3) drying and extracting, namely putting the star anise subjected to secondary air drying into a drying device for drying, liquefying and extracting cell sap formed by drying so as to obtain complete dried star anise and corresponding cell sap.
It is understood that, in step S5, the drying process is performed in the thermostatic chamber 131 of the thermostatic process, and the temperature is maintained below the set value of 60 ℃, and the set value can be adjusted according to the user' S needs.
It is understood that in step S5, the dried anise is obtained with a moisture content of 8% to 13%.
Compared with the prior art, the aniseed drying and cell sap extraction equipment and the process provided by the invention have the following advantages:
1. by arranging the drying device, the cell sap in the drying hot air flow is extracted while the aniseed is dried, so that the aniseed drying and cell sap extraction equipment provided by the invention can extract the aniseed cell sap while the aniseed is dried, the problems of resource waste and the like caused by directly discharging the cell sap are avoided, and the resource utilization rate and the use economy of the equipment are improved. Meanwhile, the complete dry star anise obtained by drying can avoid the work flow of extracting star anise cell sap and crushing star anises in the prior art, so that the integrity of the dry star anise is protected when the cell sap is extracted, the complete dry star anise has higher use value, and the economy of equipment use is further improved.
2. Through setting up thermostatic chamber, guipure subassembly, stoving subassembly and cell sap extraction subassembly, the stoving subassembly is located thermostatic chamber bottom for eight anises of hot air follow bottom stoving that the stoving subassembly sent, and extract the cell sap on the cell sap extraction subassembly at top, can realize simultaneously that eight anises of stoving and cell sap extract step, simple structure has further improved the economic nature of equipment use, brings higher economic benefits.
3. Through setting up a plurality of conveyer belts that stromatolite set up in proper order for a plurality of anises are put and are dried in the direction of height of thermostatic chamber, have saved the occupation space that the anise was dried, have improved space utilization, and the crisscross setting of a plurality of conveyer belts, have further utilized the stoving space, make the area of equipment littleer, the octagonal quantity greatly increased of once drying. Simultaneously, the conveyer belt that hollow out construction set up for steam is bigger with the eight horns area of contact who places, further improves eight horns drying efficiency, and the energy can be saved has also further improved the energy economy nature that eight horns were dried.
4. The thermostatic chamber surface is equipped with a plurality of condensers, the condenser be used for provide air conditioning in the thermostatic chamber, in order to guarantee the constancy of temperature in the thermostatic chamber. It can be understood that the condenser is through setting up temperature sensor to detect the temperature variation in the thermostatic chamber, when the temperature in the thermostatic chamber exceeded the setting value (for example exceeded 60 ℃), condenser automatic start refrigeration to reduce the temperature in the thermostatic chamber, and keep it in the temperature setting value, avoid the thermostatic chamber high temperature and influence the aniseed cell structure change of aniseed stoving in-process, protection aniseed's integrality.
5. Through setting up guide plate and stock solution box, the drying device of thermostatic chamber bottom blows off steam and rises to the top after, steam and guide plate contact to make the cell sap liquefy the liquid that forms the cell sap on the guide plate surface, the cell sap is based on under the guide effect of the guide plate that the slope set up, and the downward drippage is retrieved in the stock solution box, has avoided the hot gas flow that has the cell sap problem of the wasting of resources that leads to outside direct discharge, has improved the economic nature of equipment use.
6. Through setting up belt cleaning device for star anise in batches is transported to equipment and adds man-hour, can carry out surface cleaning through this belt cleaning device earlier, with the dust or other pollutants that avoid the commodity circulation to transport the in-process star anise and be infected with, prevent that the not abluent star anise from drying and the not enough problem of product quality that obtains in the cell sap extraction, improve the product yield of drying and cell sap extraction.
7. The hot air temperature that the stoving subassembly blew off is less than or equal to 60 ℃ for the temperature in the thermostatic chamber keeps doing about 60 ℃ well low temperature level, and through under suitable temperature, when guaranteeing that aniseed fragrance volatilizees efficiency higher, the protection aniseed avoids among the prior art fragrance volatilization efficiency lower, the lower problem of cell sap extraction efficiency that the higher temperature purification mode such as distillation destroys the aniseed cell structure and brings, has further improved the efficiency that aniseed was dried and cell sap extraction.
The foregoing descriptions of specific exemplary embodiments of the present invention have been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed, and obviously many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The exemplary embodiments were chosen and described in order to explain certain principles of the invention and its practical application to enable one skilled in the art to make and use various exemplary embodiments of the invention and various alternatives and modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims and their equivalents.