Chinese medicine concentrated solution drying process with atomizing and equipment
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of equipment that the Chinese medicine concentrated solution is carried out the technology of spray drying treatment and is used for this technology.
Background technology
Use in the more traditional Chinese medicine liquid drying means at present, adopt the drying effect of vacuum drying, lyophilization and heated-air circulation oven undesirable, not only uneven drying even, easily caking, efficient is low and drying time is long, and input and output material all needs manually-operated, vulnerable to pollution, severe operational environment.Boiling-bed drying drying efficiency height, but easily the caking and noise big.The freeze-drying that extensively adopts in pharmacy and food preparation field is to utilize liquid nitrogen to carry out dried under-20 ℃~-160 ℃ low temperature, boulton process is under the pressure of 50~400hPa, be lower than under 35 ℃ the temperature conditions and carry out dried, freeze-drying and boulton process need large-scale equipment, but also be difficult to adopt successive production stage, the production method trouble effort that seems; Simultaneously, after lyophilization or the vacuum lyophilization, necessary additional step such as grind and homogenize and make production process become more loaded down with trivial details again.Spray drying is advanced at present drying equipment; it is to utilize micro-granulating device that solution is made droplet; droplet contacts with the dry wind of relatively-high temperature more then; thereby a kind of method with water evaporates; but existing processes and equipment and technology level are low; sterilization is insufficient in for example whole technology; the dry product bacteria containing amount that causes medicinal liquid and finally make is too high; because the medicinal liquid viscosity is inhomogeneous, cause spraying unstable, have a strong impact on the quality of dry finished product; and the finished product collection rate is low; waste greatly etc., also be difficult to the higher medicinal liquid of concentration of treatment, and dry tenacity is low; returning charge is bigger.
Summary of the invention
Purpose of the present invention provide in order to overcome above-mentioned the deficiencies in the prior art just a kind of occupation of land less, energy consumption is low, dry tenacity is big, efficient is high, finished product does not lump, the sealing of recovery rate height, whole process of production carry out, can satisfy domestic and international GMP to the code requirement of pharmaceutical production, free from environmental pollution, and can be to the dry omnidistance Chinese medicine concentrated solution drying process with atomizing of control automatically and the equipment that is used for this technology carried out.
The objective of the invention is to be achieved through the following technical solutions.
Chinese medicine concentrated solution drying process with atomizing, its technological process is: 1., need be exsiccant concentrated medicament add feed tank internal heating, stirring, and circulate in the closed circuit of between by feed tank, solution feed pump and connecting pipe, forming, limit heating, the circulation of stirring limit, carrying out homogenizing and the constant pretreatment of temperature of medicinal liquid, and the follow-up flow that enters spray drying tower of stable solution feed pump; 2., with pretreated concentrated medicament quantitative with through filtration, hot-air after the heat treated sends in the spray drying tower simultaneously, concentrated medicament, fully contact with high-temperature hot air, and rapid draing is become granule by the high speed rotating atomisation by aerosol apparatus; 3., dried granule is entered separation, the collection that cyclone separator carries out final products by air conveying.
The present invention's temperature in the feed tank in spray-drying process is 60~90 ℃, and the hot air temperature that enters spray drying tower is 150~160 ℃, and the temperature in the cyclone separator is 80~100 ℃; Concentrated medicament is 50~100 μ m by the drop size after spraying; Concentrated medicament is carried out pasteurization and handles entering on the liquor charging pipeline of spray drying tower, heating-up temperature is 80~95 ℃.
The spray drying device that is used for technology of the present invention is to be provided with sterilizing unit medicinal liquid is carried out sterilization processing before spray drying tower; The connecting line of feed tank and spray drying tower is provided with solution feed pump, and is connected with the pipeline of single-revolution to feed tank behind solution feed pump, forms a closed circuit between feed tank and solution feed pump; On hot-blast pipe line, be disposed with thick effect air filter, air heater and accurate air filter; Cyclone separator adopts secondary cyclone, and second level cyclone separator adopts bispin wind knockout tower structure, described bispin wind knockout tower structure is an air intake vent, and inside is two cyclone separating tower that the wind-force rotation direction is opposite, to two products of separated outlets should be arranged.
Described sterilizing unit is to be arranged at tubular type on the connecting line or board-like pasteurization device between feed tank and the spray drying tower; Described air heater is the two-stage air heater, and its first order is steam-heated air heater, and the second level is electrically heated air heater; Compressed air line is provided with the filtration drying device; Between primary cyclone and the pipeline that is connected closed circuit and aerosol apparatus, be connected with path and electrically-controlled valve; Connecting pipe between feed tank and the quantitative liquid feeding pump is provided with control valve, and the connecting pipe between solution feed pump and the aerosol apparatus is provided with effusion meter and control valve; On feed tank, hot-blast pipe line and primary cyclone, be provided with temperature indication control meter; Tank skin at spray drying tower is provided with water cooling pipeline and water cooling chuck; Centrifugal atomizer is provided with chiller; On the pipeline of feed tank, spray drying tower and medicinal liquid process, be provided with the interface that connects rinser.
Technology of the present invention and equipment have been optimized the dry preparation process to concentrated medicament greatly, and whole process flow is clear, simple and direct understands that device structure is reasonable, the automatization level height.The present invention is provided with sterilizing unit to the medicinal liquid sterilization of heating, can effectively kill the antibacterial in the medicinal liquid, make medicinal liquid reach the hygienic requirements of pharmaceutical production, closed circuit is set to desiring to carry out the processing that homogenizes in advance of spray-dired medicinal liquid, can make that to enter spray-dired medicinal liquid viscosity, composition, temperature even, and can stablize the flow of solution feed pump to spray drying tower, be convenient to stablize follow-up atomizing effect to guarantee the dried finished products quality.Set air double-filtration and two-stage heating process make the dry air cleaning enters spray drying tower and keep sufficiently high temperature, with raising be dried finished product cleanliness factor and improve drying efficiency.Set two stage cyclone segregation apparatus and bispin wind knockout tower structure can improve the finished product recovery rate effectively.The filtration drying device that is provided with on compressed air line can filter and drying in advance to the compressed air that the feeding attachment is swept in the dropping control device, in order to avoid bring clean and the higher air of moisture into spray drying tower.Set control instrument and control system are convenient to the ruuning situation of entire equipment and work process are monitored, with the stable, smooth of assurance equipment operation and realization control automatically.Compact equipment of the present invention is reasonable, the finished product that dried obtains does not lump, be small graininess, be convenient to follow-up Cyclonic separating apparatus rewinding and recovery rate height, simultaneously short grained dry thing in follow-up processes such as compression forming because the pressure that puts on the granule is very little, be difficult for producing electrostatic interaction, be convenient to make tablet.Further set forth content of the present invention below in conjunction with Figure of description.
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Fig. 1 is a process schematic representation of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a device structure sketch map of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the A-A sectional view of Fig. 2.
The specific embodiment
As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, equipment of the present invention includes spray drying tower 7, the rotatable attachment that band compressed air spraying pipe 21 is set in spray drying tower 7 is swept dropping control device 8, attachment is swept dropping control device 8 and is connected with compressed air line 28, and filtration drying device 29 is set on compressed air line 28.On the top of spray drying tower 7 centrifugal atomizer 6 is set, aerosol apparatus 6 is connected with the hot-blast pipe line 23 that hot-air is filtered in input, the other end at hot-blast pipe line 23 is provided with two-stage air filter and two-stage air heater, promptly from air intake, order is provided with the air heater 5 of thick effect air filter 3, employing Steam Heating mode, the air heater 15 and the accurate air filter 16 of employing Electric heating.Equipment of the present invention also comprises a closed circuit 26 of being made up of feed tank 1 and quantitative liquid feeding pump 2 and connecting pipe, on its connecting pipe control valve is set, and in feed tank 1 bottom heating jacket 25 is set, and agitating device 12 is set in feed tank.Effusion meter 14, electrically-controlled valve 22 and sterilizing unit 30 are set between solution feed pump 2 and aerosol apparatus 6.Bottom at spray drying tower 7 connects discharge pipe 24, connects two stage cyclone separator 9 and 10 behind the discharge pipe, and the structure of second level cyclone separator 10 is an air intake vent as shown in Figure 3, is divided into two cyclone separating tower that the wind-force rotation direction is opposite in inside.Connecting path 27 between primary cyclone 9 and the pipeline that is connected closed circuit 26 and aerosol apparatus 6, and be connected with electrically-controlled valve 22.At hot-blast pipe line 23 front ends breeze fan 4 is set, air draft blower fan 11 is set in the secondary cyclone back.Thermoindicating controller 13,17,18 is set respectively between feed tank 1, hot-blast pipe line 23 and primary cyclone 9 and secondary cyclone 10, and these instrument are connected with control system.Tank skin at spray drying tower 7 is provided with water cooling pipeline 31 and water cooling chuck 32, is used for the drying tower tank skin is cooled, and prevents the sticking wall of hot melt of low-melting-point material.On the pipeline of feed tank 1, spray drying tower 7 and medicinal liquid process, be provided with the interface that connects rinser.
Operation technological process is as follows: confirm steam and compressed-air actuated pressure, open the chiller of aerosol apparatus 6, confirm amount (liquid level), moisture, the temperature of concentrated solution in the feed tank 1; Adjust the liquid supply rate of quantitative liquid feeding pump 2, adjust the rotating speed of centrifugal atomizer 6, below cyclone separator 9,10, lay dry products receptor 19 and 20; Set the control temperature of each temperature indication control meter 13,17,18, general setting control temperature 13 is 60~90 ℃, and 17 is 150~160 ℃, and 18 is 80~100 ℃.Start the agitating device 12 of feed tank 1, in the heating jacket 25 of feed tank 1, feed steam, concentrated medicament in the feed tank 1 is heated to the temperature of setting, the feeding amount of steam is controlled by the electric control valve that control is installed on the steam pipework by temperature indication control meter 13, running quantitative liquid feeding pump 2 circulates concentrated solution in closed circuit 26; After confirming that chiller is working properly, the attachment that starts in centrifugal atomizer 6, the spray drying tower 7 is swept dropping control device 8, and compressed air is fed compressed air spraying pipe 21; Running air draft blower fan 11 and breeze fan 4, air filters through just imitating air filter 3, enter steam-heated air heater 5, after passing through electrically heated air heater 15 again, filter the back through accurate air filter 16 and enter centrifugal atomizer 6 by pipeline, the heat that adds of controlling 15 pairs of hot-airs of electrical heating air heaters by temperature indication control meter 17 is controlled and is used for exsiccant hot air temperature therebetween.When the concentrated medicament in the feed tank 1 homogenize handle reach requirement after, when thermoindicating controller 18 reaches setting value, opens solenoid valve 22, the liquor charging of quantitative liquid feeding pump 2 changes, medicinal liquid is carried by quantitative liquid feeding pump 2 and enter centrifugal atomizer 6 behind sterilizing unit 30 and effusion meter 14, the atomizer of high speed rotating becomes medical liquid atomizing the fine droplet of 50~100 μ m, this moment, droplet fully mixed in the spray dryer tower body with the hot-air of coming from accurate air filter 16, because droplet generally all is controlled between 50~100 μ m, so the surface area that the drop of per unit weight contacts with dry-heat air is very big, and the efficient of dry run is very high.A small amount of dried particles attached to spray drying tower 7 inwalls is arranged, sweep by being installed in the compressed air spraying pipe 21 that the intravital attachment of tower sweeps on the dropping control device 8, compressed air spraying pipe 21 is close to the tower body inwall, around the exsiccant gases at high pressure of tower wall rotation ejection, guarantee the collection finished product of drying machine tower body inwall cleaning and maximum possible according to certain speed.Dried solid product is transported to primary cyclone 9 with wind-force, fall in the finished product receiving tank 19 by the product after the cyclone separator separation, receive 92%~95% finished product approximately, the wind that other is mixed with few products enters separation once more in the secondary cyclone 10 again, product after the separation falls in the finished product receiving tank 20, can receive 92%~95% in the surplus products approximately.Last gas is drained by discharge duct.When the production of last batch of medicinal liquid is finished, stop agitating device 12, when liquid level drops to pot liquid and almost do not have, add low amounts of water as the washings in the pipe arrangement.The cleaning of equipment and cleaning can be adopted to be arranged on jar intravital high-pressure wash spray-head interface or to connect rinser by pipe interface.Centrifugal atomizer 6 is detachable, detachably gets off and cleans with warm water.Centrifugal atomizer 6 is provided with cooling system, will note the cooling to aerosol apparatus 6 in the operation process, in order to avoid because of overheated and impaired.
Processes and apparatus of the present invention is not limited only to pharmaceutical industry and uses, and also can be applied to food, Nicotiana tabacum L. or its relevant its field.