Double-spiral, continuous counter-flow extraction equipment
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of natural plants and other material effective component and leach extraction equipment.Particularly a kind of Continuous Countercurrent Extraction equipment that uses of producing that extracts on a large scale.
Technical background
In order to change the backwardness of Chinese medicine and extracted form natural plant Technical facilities in production, solve problems such as traditional extractor extracts production Chinese medicine and menstruum consumption and energy consumption is big, the technology leaching rate is low, the active ingredient differences between batches are big, emerge many Continuous Countercurrent Extraction equipment designs in recent years, as: slot type Continuous Countercurrent Extraction machine, drag chain type Continuous Countercurrent Extraction equipment, folding formula Continuous Countercurrent Extraction equipment, straight formula Continuous Countercurrent Extraction equipment, or the like.From practical situations, screw propulsion Continuous Countercurrent Extraction equipment has remarkable advantages, extracts in the production application at Chinese medicine, tea-drinking product and can improve recovery rate 10---and 30%, the fluid coefficient reduces by 40---and 60%, has remarkable energy saving effect (newpapers and periodicals title, number of the edition).Simultaneously, these novel extraction equipment all have its deficiency and limitation.Adverse current is leached the requirement of stroke or strengthen the disposal ability of single device and increase work efficiency for satisfying different extraction processes, just require to leach the cabin long enough is arranged, helical axis is if adopt single axis, the degree that deflects downwards that is produced by gravity increases along with its length and remarkable the change greatly, causes flight and leaches the serious scraped finish of storehouse wall portion of office or both excesssive gaps of major part zone.For solving this difficult problem, existing a lot of the exploration attempted, but the result is still undesirable.As: " linker device formula Continuous Countercurrent Extraction jar group " (patent No.: 97247550.8) provided the design that a kind of more piece makes up, some joint screw-pushing types are leached the cabin to be tilted to place side by side, the low side of high-end and next joint of last joint is connected with one section transfer chamber of vertically placing, raw material leaches the cabin low side from first segment and adds, be pulled to high-end after transfer chamber falls into the low end entrance of next joint, push again that it is high-end to, discharge with slagging device until final section is high-end; And solvent penetrates the flow direction of material low side by the high-end adding of final section, and it is high-end to squeeze into down prosthomere with pump again, until the first segment low side, discharges leachate.But this design needs many auxiliary equipments and mechanism to be difficult to be equipped with when making realization, and the extraction process condition is difficult to control when especially moving, thereby never practical application for many years." straight formula continuous flow upstream leach extraction element " (patent No.: 2004-20018620.X) and for example, adopt a joint to leach cabin and axis spiral scheme, utilize the overstriking diameter of axle and other reinforcing means, prolong as possible and leach cabin length, though device product at home and abroad enterprise has some successful Application, dwindle but cost is higher, leach the cabin dischargeable capacity, especially length is difficult to reach more than 10 meters.Thereby root problem does not solve all the time.Country advocates the Chinese medicine industry and utilizes the advanced technology equipment in recent years, the concentrated extraction, and energy-saving and cost-reducing, tealeaves deep processing industry is also sharply risen both at home and abroad, efficient, energy-conservation, the suitable extensive innovative Continuous Countercurrent Extraction equipment of land used that makes of producing that extracts of active demand.
Summary of the invention
The present invention discloses a kind of double-spiral, continuous counter-flow extraction equipment, high efficiency, and dischargeable capacity is big, and the counter-flow extraction effect is splendid; Be applicable to that nearly all active ingredient of natural plant such as Chinese medicine, tealeaves extracts the technological requirement of producing.Helical axis hanging brace syndeton can more piece make up, and makes the device product typing flexibly, and equipment processing, transportation, easy for installation have particularly broken through the length restriction that helical axis brings because of gravity amount of deflection factor.
The present invention is by feeder 1, leaching cabin 2, slag-discharging device 3, filter 4, condenser 5, juicer 6, and power drive mechanism forms 7.It is characterized in that: leach be provided with in the cabin two side by side, be parallel on the helical axis 8 that leaches the cabin extending direction and 9, two helical axis flight 10 and 11 around opposite to each other; Two spirals rotate relatively during work, upwards push material evenly, reposefully, with the solvent formation adverse current diacolation leaching system of downward seepage flow; Helical axis is made up of more piece, staggers mutually in the tie point position of two helical axis, and per two sections helical axis are connected by inclined-plane shaft coupling 12; On the axle suitable position with leach the cabin upper wall and link to each other by adjustable backstay 13 and form hanging brace, bottom and top are fixed with screw, the axle sleeve 14 at center can on the thronely change.
The cross section in leaching of the present invention cabin 1 is oval hollow u shape, and the extending direction merogenesis is also connected by flange; Leach the cabin and tilt to place, become 0 with the horizon---the 25 degree elevations angle.
Flight 10 on the helical axis 8 of the present invention and 9 and 11 is covered with the continuous helical of aperture above can being, also can be by curling up the staggered interrupted blade of direction.
Feeder 2 of the present invention is made of storage bin hopper 15, feed cylinder 16, feeding screw 17 leaching cabin 1 low side; The speed of feeding is by the rotating speed control of feeding screw.
Slag-discharging device 3 is connected and leaches the high-end of cabin, is made of drive sprocket, driven sprocket, chain, scraper plate and slag-discharging device housing; Juicer 6 is connected with the slag-discharging device outlet, in the juicer housing extrusion spiral is arranged; Slag-discharging device and juicer are driven separately by two cover motors.
Solvent of the present invention adds inlet 20 and is leaching the high-end of cabin, and the outlet 19 of extract is at the lowermost end that leaches the cabin; Having solid in the end in leaching cabin---liquid separates spiral 18.
The present invention connects condenser 5 at the most significant end of device, after the condensation of boil-off gas gas by in refluxing opening 21 return mechanisms.
Leaching of the present invention cabin 1 is made up of 2 to 10 joints, 1 to 3 meter at every joint, and the centre-to-centre spacing of diaxon is not waited to 680MM by 180MM.
Some groups of heating chambers 24 are arranged at 1 bottom, leaching of the present invention cabin, by steam or conduction oil solvent in the cabin and material are heated.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is an embodiment of the invention structure chart;
Fig. 2 leaches the cabin generalized section for the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 3 is embodiment of the invention helical axis inclined-plane coupler structure figure;
Fig. 4 is an embodiment of the invention feeder structure chart;
Fig. 5 is an embodiment of the invention slag-discharging device structure chart.
The specific embodiment:
Embodiment
Inclination of the present invention places to leach to design in the cabin two reverse acting spiral axles 8 and 9 arranged side by side, subsidiary aperture continuous helical sheet 10 or the interrupted blade 11 of being covered with; Helical axis is made up of more piece, and two helical axis tie points interlace, and connection bearing 12 is linked to each other by the connecting rod 13 that can regulate the location with leaching cabin upper wall framework and forms hanging brace.With a medium size installations is the embodiment of example explanation double-spiral, continuous counter-flow extraction equipment: continuous flow upstream leaches the cabin and tilts to place with the 8 degree elevations angle, leach two helical axis centre-to-centre spacing 350MM in the cabin, helical blade external diameter Ф 400MM, main shaft internal diameter Ф 89MM, pitch 215MM, length overall 12000MM.
Operation principle and beneficial effect
The operation principle of this double-spiral, continuous counter-flow infuser is as follows: raw medicinal material is added by the charging aperture of infuser low side, and the continuous helical sheet that is rotated slowly and is steadily pushed the high-end of infuser to; The high-end solvent of solvent infuser inlet adds, and is motive power with gravity, and the infiltration raw material also passes mesh on the flight, flows to the infuser low side equably.In solution and the reverse traveling process of raw material, the soluble substance of raw material inside is delivered to particle surface, further is diffused in the immersion liquid on every side again.Owing to adopt the double helix axle, the material operation is very steady, and overlapping flight has played stirring action, makes the exchange of material and solvent fully.On each cross section, solvent concentration increases gradually, and seepage flow is to next aspect immediately, and the immersion liquid seepage flow of last layer face is come simultaneously; New raw material is in advancing, and solvable composition is constantly leached, and inner concentration reduces gradually, discharges by infuser is terminal up to becoming residue.
The present invention stably realizes the continuous reverse flow leaching process, keep to greatest extent raw material inner with Outside solvable constituent concentration is poor, guaranteed effective ingredient from solid material incessantly to solvent Transmit fast. Thereby improve total leaching rate, improve treatment effeciency; Reduce the solvent consumption, subtract Low fluid coefficient. Continuous working operating mode has been eliminated unavoidable product in the intermittent mode production Difference disadvantage between batch, and improved utilization rate of equipment and installations. The employing double helix is carried, can be with infuser Contraction in length 40%-60%, and keep same working effect.