CN114576973A

CN114576973A - Distillation and drying integrated device for spearmint

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Publication number: CN114576973A
Application number: CN202210196929.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张元成; 韩金龙; 汝医; 朱彦威
Original assignee: Shandong Changlong Agricultural Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shandong Changlong Agricultural Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-03-01
Filing date: 2022-03-01
Publication date: 2022-06-03

Abstract

The invention discloses a distillation and drying integrated device for spearmint, and relates to the technical field of herb processing. The spearmint distillation and drying integrated device comprises a combustion chamber and a steamer arranged at the top of the combustion chamber, wherein the top of the steamer is sequentially communicated with a condenser and an oil-water separator; the combustion chamber is communicated with a drying pipe with an upward air outlet; a mesh belt and a driving device for driving the mesh belt to rotate are rotatably arranged above the air outlet of the drying pipe, a storage hopper is arranged at the top of the mesh belt, and a discharging mechanism for feeding materials onto the mesh belt is arranged on the storage hopper. After the spearmint is distilled by using the combustion chamber and the steamer, the subsequent drying operation of the spearmint straws can be further carried out by adopting high-temperature gas in the combustion chamber, the secondary utilization of energy is realized, the energy input of the spearmint in the drying treatment is saved, the cost of the spearmint straws after drying and distillation is reduced, the spearmint plants are fully converted into plants capable of being comprehensively utilized, the resources are saved, and the enterprise benefit is improved.

Description

Distillation and drying integrated device for spearmint

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of herb processing, in particular to a distillation and drying integrated device for spearmint.

Background

The spearmint is a Chinese medicinal material, and the essential oil of the spearmint is not only an additive of food, cosmetics and daily necessities, but also an additive of aromatherapy and air cleaning agents. The distilled and dried straw is a feed, is a feed additive used in the feed of piglets, chickens, cattle and sheep, is a high-efficiency low-toxicity botanical insecticide and insect repellent, and is a medicinal plant with wide application.

At present, the distillation of the spearmint basically adopts a boiler steam heat exchange method or an electric heat exchange steam method for distillation, the method is fast, but has large investment, high cost, low economic benefit of enterprises and difficult mastering of temperature and distillation efficiency. In addition, the cost of the spearmint straw dried and distilled by a boiler is too high.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a spearmint distillation and drying integrated device, which integrates the distillation of spearmint and a spearmint straw drying device after distillation, saves cost, is beneficial to mastering the distillation work, reduces the cost for drying the distilled straw, fully converts spearmint plants into plants capable of being comprehensively utilized, saves resources and improves enterprise benefits.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: a distillation and drying integrated device for spearmint comprises a combustion chamber and a steamer arranged at the top of the combustion chamber, wherein the top of the steamer is sequentially communicated with a condenser and an oil-water separator; the combustion chamber is communicated with a drying pipe with an upward air outlet; the drying device is characterized in that a mesh belt and a driving device used for driving the mesh belt to rotate are rotatably arranged above the air outlet of the drying pipe, a storage hopper is arranged at the top of the mesh belt, and a discharging mechanism used for feeding materials onto the mesh belt is arranged on the storage hopper.

Preferably, the steamer includes the pot body and pot cover, the top of pot cover is provided with the gas vent, the intercommunication is provided with the air duct on the gas vent, the end of giving vent to anger of air duct with the inlet end of condenser is connected.

Preferably, the gas outlet department of stoving pipe is provided with the protection casing, the protection casing is including the plug that is tubular structure, the top of plug is provided with by the baffle of middle to both sides slant downward arrangement, be provided with a plurality of gas pocket on the baffle.

Preferably, the guipure rotates and sets up on the support, it is provided with the roller group to rotate through the axle bed on the support, the roller group includes two first rollers that the level corresponds the setting, the guipure cover is located on two first rollers that correspond.

Preferably, a plurality of groups of the roller groups are sequentially arranged from top to bottom, the driving device comprises a first driving motor and a first belt wheel coaxially fixed with one first roller in the roller group in one group, two second belt wheels are correspondingly arranged between two adjacent first belt wheels and on the bracket, and the first belt wheels and the second belt wheels which are vertically adjacent are in matched connection through a driving belt; gears are coaxially fixed on the second belt wheels, and the gears arranged on the two corresponding second belt wheels are meshed with each other; and the power output shaft of the first driving motor is coaxially matched and connected with one first belt pulley.

Preferably, the two vertically adjacent mesh belts are arranged in a staggered manner, and the tail end of the top of each mesh belt in the movement direction is provided with a guide plate.

Preferably, the bottom of the storage hopper is provided with a discharge port, and the discharge mechanism comprises a conveyor belt and a driving mechanism, wherein the conveyor belt is rotatably arranged at the bottom of the discharge port, and the driving mechanism is used for driving the conveyor belt to rotate.

Preferably, two second rollers are rotatably arranged on the two sides of the storage hopper and below the discharge port through a shaft seat, the two second rollers are sleeved with the conveyor belt, the driving mechanism is a second driving motor, and a power output shaft of the second driving motor is coaxially matched and connected with one of the second rollers.

Preferably, a plurality of deflector rods are uniformly arranged on the surface of the conveying belt.

Preferably, the drying pipe is provided with an induced draft fan.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

the distillation of the spearmint and the spearmint straw drying device after distillation are integrated, the cost is saved, the distillation work is easy to master,

1. according to the invention, after the spearmint is distilled by using the combustion chamber and the steamer, the high-temperature gas in the combustion chamber can be further adopted for subsequent drying operation of the spearmint straws, so that the secondary utilization of energy is realized, the energy input in the drying treatment of the spearmint is saved, the cost for drying the distilled spearmint straws is reduced, the spearmint plants are fully converted into plants capable of being comprehensively utilized, the resources are saved, and the enterprise benefit is improved.

2. According to the invention, the spearmint reciprocates among the multiple layers of mesh belts and is circularly dried, so that the drying efficiency of the spearmint is enhanced, the utilization rate of waste gas heat in a combustion chamber is greatly improved, the energy waste is reduced, and the drying cost of the spearmint is greatly reduced.

3. According to the invention, the drying time of the spearmint can be controlled by controlling the rotation speed of the mesh belt, so that the spearmint straws with different humidity can be dried conveniently, the drying time can be further adjusted according to the residual temperature of the combustion chamber, and the drying effect of the spearmint straws is ensured while the energy is efficiently recycled.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a first schematic structural diagram of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a second schematic structural view of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a plan view of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the arrangement of a belt of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a driving device according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the structure of the steamer and the combustion chamber of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the protective cover of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a storage hopper according to the present invention; .

In the figure:

1-steamer, 11-pot body, 12-pot cover, 121-gas guide tube,

2-a condenser, 21-a liquid guide pipe,

3-an oil-water separator, wherein,

4-combustion chamber, 41-drying tube, 42-protective cover, 421-plug, 422-baffle, 4221-air hole,

5-mesh belt, 51-first roller, 511-first pulley, 521-second pulley, 522-gear,

6-a first driving motor is arranged on the base,

7-a storage hopper, 71-a second roller, 72-a conveyor belt, 721-a deflector rod,

8-a second drive motor for driving the motor,

9-a bracket, 91-a guide plate,

10-chute.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1-8, the distillation and drying integrated device for spearmint comprises a combustion chamber 4 and a steamer 1 arranged at the top of the combustion chamber 4, wherein the top of the steamer 1 is sequentially communicated with a condenser 2 and an oil-water separator 3; the combustion chamber 4 is communicated with a drying pipe 41 with an upward air outlet; the drying device is characterized in that a mesh belt 5 and a driving device for driving the mesh belt 5 to rotate are rotatably arranged above the air outlet of the drying pipe 41, a storage hopper 7 is arranged at the top of the mesh belt 5, and a discharging mechanism for feeding materials onto the mesh belt 5 is arranged on the storage hopper 7. When the device is used, water is preset in the steamer 1, spearmint straws are added above water in the steamer 1 through the grate, the combustion chamber 4 is heated through a flame heating device such as a biomass particle burner, meanwhile, the steamer 1 above the combustion chamber 1 and the water in the steamer 1 are heated, the spearmint in the steamer starts to be steamed after the water is boiled, the heating process is gradually completed, the fiber bundle pipe of the spearmint plant is thermally expanded and opened in the heating process, essential oil contained in the plant is replaced out along with the steam and enters the condenser 2 to be condensed along with the steam, mixture liquid of the essential oil and the water is formed, the condensed liquid then enters the oil-water separator 3, the essential oil and the water are separated, and the extraction of the spearmint essential oil is completed. When drying the spearmint straw after the distillation, take out the spearmint straw after the distillation and put into storage hopper 7, discharge the spearmint straw that is arranged in storage hopper 7 to guipure 5 through arranging material mechanism on, the spearmint straw moves on the top surface of guipure 5 along with the rotation of guipure 5, simultaneously, drying tube 41 guides the inside steam of combustion chamber 1 to the below of guipure 5, under the principle that steam rises, the inside steam of combustion chamber 1 heats the spearmint straw on guipure 5 and dries. Meanwhile, the drying time of the spearmint can be controlled by controlling the rotating speed of the mesh belt 5, so that the spearmint straws with different humidity can be dried conveniently.

As a specific implementation manner, the steamer 1 includes a steamer body 11 and a steamer cover 12, an exhaust port (not shown in the figure) is arranged at the top of the steamer cover 12, an air duct 121 is arranged on the exhaust port in a communicating manner, and an air outlet end of the air duct 121 is connected with an air inlet end of the condenser 2.

In this embodiment, the liquid outlet end of the condenser 2 is connected to the liquid inlet end of the oil-water separator 3 through a liquid guiding tube 21. Preferably, a booster pump (not shown) is disposed on the liquid guide tube 21 to ensure that the oil-water mixture liquid condensed from the condenser 2 can smoothly enter the oil-water separator 3.

Preferably, the air inlet end of the drying duct 41 is communicated with the top of the combustion chamber 4. Specifically, in this embodiment, an air inducing opening (not shown) is disposed at the top of the combustion chamber 4 and at one side of the steamer 1, and an air inlet end of the drying pipe 41 is connected to the air inducing opening in a matching manner.

Further, in order to improve the air inducing effect of the drying pipe 41, an induced draft fan (not shown) is disposed on the drying pipe 41.

Further, in order to prevent the spearmint straws on the mesh belt 5 from falling into the drying pipe 41 in the moving and drying process and avoid the risk of igniting the straws and the danger to the drying pipe 41, a protective cover 42 is arranged at the air outlet of the drying pipe 41. As a specific embodiment, the protective cover 42 includes a plug 421 having a tubular structure, a baffle 422 is disposed on the top of the plug 421, and the baffle 422 is disposed obliquely downward from the middle to both sides, and a plurality of air holes 4221 are disposed on the baffle 422. The plug 421 can cup joint in the outside of drying duct 41 gas outlet, or peg graft into the inboard of drying duct 41 gas outlet, like this, under the prerequisite that does not influence drying duct 41 exhaust stoving, can avoid the interior of spearmint straw to drop to drying duct 41 through baffle 422, when the spearmint straw falls on baffle 422, under baffle 422 slant decurrent guide effect, the spearmint straw that drops directly falls to external subaerial.

Certainly, the device further comprises a pipeline fixing bracket for installing and fixing the air duct 121, the liquid guide tube 21 and the drying tube 41 respectively, and the structures are all conventional technical means and are not described in detail herein.

As a specific implementation manner, as shown in fig. 4 to 5, the mesh belt 5 is rotatably disposed on the support 9, specifically in this embodiment, a roller set is rotatably disposed on the support 9 through a shaft seat, the roller set includes two first rollers 51 horizontally disposed correspondingly, and the mesh belt 5 is sleeved on the two first rollers 51 correspondingly.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 4 to 5, the roller sets are arranged in a plurality of groups from top to bottom, and in particular, in the present embodiment, the roller sets are arranged in 3 groups. The driving device comprises a first driving motor 6 and further comprises a first belt wheel 511 coaxially fixed with one first roller 51 in the roller group in one group, two second belt wheels 521 are correspondingly arranged between two adjacent first belt wheels 511 and on the bracket 9, and the upper and lower adjacent first belt wheels 511 and second belt wheels 521 are in fit connection through a driving belt; gears 522 are coaxially fixed on the second belt pulleys 521, and the gears 522 arranged on the two corresponding second belt pulleys 521 are meshed with each other; the power output shaft of the first driving motor 6 is coaxially matched and connected with one first belt pulley 511. Preferably, the first pulleys 511 are all arranged on the same side of the plurality of roller sets. The purpose of the design is that a plurality of groups of corresponding mesh belts 5 are correspondingly arranged from top to bottom, and the rotation directions of two groups of roller sets which are adjacent up and down are opposite through the transmission action between the first belt wheel 511 and the second belt wheel 521 and the reverse transmission action between the gear 522, so that the rotation directions of two mesh belts 5 which are adjacent up and down are opposite. Thus, after the spearmint falls on the uppermost mesh belt 5 and moves to the tail end of the mesh belt 5 along with the corresponding mesh belt 5, the spearmint falls on the next mesh belt 5 for drying again, and therefore, the spearmint is dried in a reciprocating manner until the spearmint is discharged from the mesh belt 5 at the lowest time. Therefore, the drying efficiency of the spearmint is enhanced, the utilization rate of hot air is greatly improved, the energy waste is reduced, and the drying cost of the spearmint is greatly reduced.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 3, two adjacent mesh belts 5 are arranged in a staggered manner, and a guide plate 91 is arranged at the tail end of the top moving direction of the mesh belts 5 to ensure that the spearmint can stably fall on the mesh belt 5 in the next layer.

As a specific embodiment, as shown in fig. 4-5 and 8, the bottom of the storage hopper 7 is provided with a discharge port (not shown), and the discharge mechanism includes a conveyor belt 72 rotatably disposed at the bottom of the discharge port and a driving mechanism for driving the conveyor belt 72 to rotate.

Specifically, in this embodiment, as shown in fig. 4 to 5 and fig. 8, two second rollers 41 are rotatably disposed on two sides of the storage hopper 7 and below the discharge port through a shaft seat, the conveyor belt 72 is sleeved outside the two second rollers 41, the driving mechanism is a second driving motor 8, and a power output shaft of the second driving motor 8 is coaxially connected to one of the second rollers 41 in a matching manner. In this embodiment, the second driving motor 8 is fixed to the bracket 9 by bolts. Thus, under the rotation action of the conveyor belt 72, the spearmint straws in the storage hopper 7 are discharged onto the mesh belt 5.

For further improving the row's of conveyer belt 72 material effect, reduce the situation of piling up the jam of material, the surface of conveyer belt 72 evenly is provided with a plurality of driving lever 721 to increase the contact friction force between conveyer belt 72 and the material, ensure that the spearmint straw can discharge storage hopper 7 smoothly.

In the embodiment, a chute 10 is arranged below the discharge end of the mesh belt 5 at the lowest position, so as to facilitate collection of dried spearmint straws.

Of course, in the present apparatus, valves (not shown) are disposed on the air duct 121, the liquid guide tube 21 and the drying tube 41 so as to control the operation states of the respective pipelines, and the valve structures all belong to the conventional prior art and are not described herein in detail.

The working principle is as follows: the method comprises the steps of firstly presetting water in a steamer 1, then adding spearmint straws above the water in the steamer 1 through a grate, heating a combustion chamber 4 through a flame heating device such as a biomass particle burner, heating the steamer 1 above the combustion chamber 1 and the water in the steamer 1, starting to steam the spearmint in the steamer after the water is boiled, gradually completing the heating process, opening a fiber bundle pipe of the spearmint plant by thermal expansion in the heating process, replacing essential oil contained in the plant with the steam, allowing the essential oil to enter a condenser 2 along with the steam for condensation, forming mixture liquid of the essential oil and the water, allowing the condensed liquid to enter an oil-water separator 3, separating the essential oil from the water, and completing the extraction of the spearmint essential oil.

When drying the spearmint straw after the distillation, take out the spearmint straw after the distillation from steamer 1 and put into storage hopper 7 to open the valve that corresponds on drying tube 41, under the effect of draught fan, the inside high-temperature gas of combustion chamber 4 blows to guipure 5 through drying tube 41, uses second driving motor 8 to drive the conveyer belt 72 rotatory, under the rotation effect of conveyer belt 72, will be located the inside spearmint straw of storage hopper 7 and discharge to being located the guipure 5 of device top. Meanwhile, the first driving motor 6 drives the mesh belt 5 to rotate, and the rotation directions of two groups of roller sets adjacent up and down are opposite through the transmission action between the first belt wheel 511 and the second belt wheel 521 and the reverse transmission action between one group of gears 522, so that the rotation directions of two mesh belts 5 adjacent up and down are opposite. Like this, after the spearmint falls into the guipure 5 of the top, after moving to the tail end of this guipure 5 along with corresponding guipure 5, fall into the gas vent of drying duct 5 again on the guipure 5 of next floor, under the principle that steam rises, the inside steam of combustion chamber 1 heats the spearmint straw on the guipure 5 and dries, carries out reciprocal stoving from this, once until spearmint from the bottom discharge to the chute 10 in the guipure 5, the stoving operation of completion spearmint straw.

Meanwhile, the drying time of the spearmint can be controlled by controlling the rotating speed of the mesh belt 5, so that the spearmint straws with different humidity can be dried conveniently.

It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative embodiments, and that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a spearmint distillation integrative device of drying which characterized in that: the boiler comprises a combustion chamber and a steamer arranged on the top of the combustion chamber, wherein the top of the steamer is sequentially communicated with a condenser and an oil-water separator; the combustion chamber is communicated with a drying pipe with an upward air outlet; the drying device is characterized in that a mesh belt and a driving device used for driving the mesh belt to rotate are rotatably arranged above the air outlet of the drying pipe, a storage hopper is arranged at the top of the mesh belt, and a discharging mechanism used for feeding materials onto the mesh belt is arranged on the storage hopper.

2. The integrated device for distilling and drying spearmint according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: the steamer comprises a steamer body and a steamer cover, wherein an exhaust port is arranged at the top of the steamer cover, an air guide pipe is communicated with the exhaust port, and the air outlet end of the air guide pipe is connected with the air inlet end of the condenser.

3. The integrated device for distilling and drying spearmint according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: the utility model discloses a drying tube, including the plug that is tubular structure, the top of plug is provided with by the baffle of middle to both sides slant arrangement down, be provided with a plurality of gas pocket on the baffle.

4. The integrated device for distilling and drying spearmint according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: the guipure rotates to be set up on the support, it is provided with the roller group to rotate through the axle bed on the support, the roller group is including two first rollers that the level corresponds the setting, the guipure cover is located on two first rollers that correspond.

5. The integrated device for distillation and drying of spearmint according to claim 4, wherein: the roller sets are sequentially provided with a plurality of groups from top to bottom, the driving device comprises a first driving motor and a first belt wheel coaxially fixed with one first roller in the roller set in one group, two second belt wheels are correspondingly arranged between two adjacent first belt wheels and positioned on the bracket, and the upper and lower adjacent first belt wheels and second belt wheels are in matched connection through a transmission belt; gears are coaxially fixed on the second belt wheels, and the gears arranged on the two corresponding second belt wheels are meshed with each other; and the power output shaft of the first driving motor is coaxially matched and connected with one first belt pulley.

6. The integrated device for distilling and drying spearmint according to claim 5, wherein: two adjacent mesh belts are arranged in a staggered mode, and a guide plate is arranged at the tail end of the top of each mesh belt in the movement direction.

7. The integrated device for distilling and drying spearmint according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: the bottom of storage hopper is provided with the discharge gate, arrange material mechanism including rotate set up in the conveyer belt of discharge gate bottom with be used for the drive conveyer belt pivoted actuating mechanism.

8. The integrated device for distillation and drying of spearmint according to claim 7, wherein: the two sides of the storage hopper are positioned below the discharge port, two second rollers are rotatably arranged through a shaft seat, the conveying belt is sleeved on the outer sides of the two second rollers, the driving mechanism is a second driving motor, and a power output shaft of the second driving motor is coaxially matched and connected with one of the second rollers.

9. The integrated device for distilling and drying spearmint according to claim 7, wherein: and a plurality of deflector rods are uniformly arranged on the surface of the conveyor belt.

10. The integrated device for distilling and drying spearmint according to claim 1, which is characterized in that: and the drying pipe is provided with an induced draft fan.