CN209193848U - Crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit - Google Patents
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Crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit, including crushing bin, the first feed hopper and first motor are equipped at the top of the crushing bin, the first motor axis of first motor is passed down through the setting of crushing bin top surface, the lower end of first motor axis is equipped at least two symmetrically arranged crushing compression bars, it crushes compression bar to be horizontally disposed with and be bonded with crushing bin bottom surface, crushing bin bottom surface is equipped with material path；It is equipped with enzymatic vessel below crushing bin, is equipped with extractor below enzymatic vessel, extractor is connect with extraction system；Extractor is also connect with mixing chamber, and concentration storehouse is equipped with below mixing chamber, is concentrated in storehouse and is equipped with screen pack, and absorption storehouse is equipped with below concentration storehouse；It adsorbs orlop portion and is equipped with two drain pipes, wherein a drain pipe is connect with distillation storehouse；The distillation storehouse is equipped with the second hot water inlet pipe.Using the above structure, crocin extraction efficiency and the crocin purity extracted in cape jasmine fruit can be effectively promoted, and reduces the energy consumption of entire extraction element.
Description
Technical field
The utility model relates to cape jasmine fruit processing equipment field, crocin high efficiency extraction is filled in especially a kind of cape jasmine fruit
It sets.
Background technique
Cape jasmine, alias Yellow Fructus Gardeniae, mountain Cape jasmine, white toad are the fruits of madder wort cape jasmine.Currently, the fruit of cape jasmine is to pass
System Chinese medicine belongs to the dual-purpose of drug and food resource that the Ministry of Public Health promulgates, has the effects that protect liver, cholagogue, decompression, calmness, hemostasis, detumescence.?
Tcm clinical practice is usually used in treating the diseases such as icteric hepatitis, bruise, hypertension, diabetes.Contain about 0.5% or so in cape jasmine
Crocin, crocin is in addition to it may be used as pigment, with very strong removing free radical, anti-oxidant and anticancer activity,
It has a good application prospect in health food and drug.In the prior art, cape jasmine extract crocin plant energy consumption it is big,
Low efficiency needs to improve.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to provide crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit, energy
It is enough effectively to promote crocin extraction efficiency and the crocin purity extracted in cape jasmine fruit, and reduce entire extraction dress
The energy consumption set.
Crocin in a kind of in order to solve the above technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the utility model is: cape jasmine fruit
High-efficiency device for extracting, including crushing bin, are equipped with the first feed hopper and first motor at the top of the crushing bin, and the of first motor
One motor shaft is passed down through the setting of crushing bin top surface, and the lower end of first motor axis is equipped at least two symmetrically arranged crushing pressures
Bar crushes compression bar and is horizontally disposed with and is bonded with crushing bin bottom surface, and crushing bin bottom surface is equipped with material path；
Enzymatic vessel is equipped with below the crushing bin, enzymatic hydrolysis pot sidewall is equipped with enzyme inlet pipe and the first hot water inlet pipe；
Extractor is equipped with below the enzymatic vessel, extractor is connect with extraction system；
The extractor is also connect with mixing chamber, and the second motor is equipped at the top of mixing chamber, and the motor of the second motor is axial
Under be arranged in mixing chamber at the top of the mixing chamber, the motor shaft of the second motor is equipped with stirring blade；
It is equipped with concentration storehouse below the mixing chamber, is concentrated in storehouse and is equipped with screen pack, absorption storehouse is equipped with below concentration storehouse；
Macroreticular resin is equipped in the absorption storehouse, absorption orlop portion is equipped with two drain pipes, wherein drain pipe with
Distill storehouse connection；
The distillation storehouse is equipped with hot water inlet pipe.
In preferred scheme, the first motor axis lower end is equipped with cavity, and cavity sidewalls are equipped with through-hole, set in cavity
There is sliding block, spring is equipped between slider top and cavity top surface, crushes compression bar one end and be arranged through through-hole and consolidate with slider side wall
Fixed connection.
In preferred scheme, the crushing compression bar includes fixing axle, and fixing axle one end is fixedly connected with slider side wall, Gu
Be arranged on dead axle and roll sleeve, fixing axle far from be additionally provided on one end of sliding block diameter be greater than fixing axle diameter of section positioning
Block.
In preferred scheme, the enzymatic hydrolysis pot bottom is equipped with feed opening, and feed opening is equipped with valve, the extractor
Top is equipped with the second feed hopper, and the underface of feed opening is arranged in the second feed hopper.
In preferred scheme, cladding is equipped with heating mantle on the extraction pot sidewall.
In preferred scheme, the extraction system includes condenser, cooler, oil water separator, filter, extraction
Pump；
It is connect by pipeline with condenser at the top of the extractor, condenser is connect by pipeline with cooler, cooling
Device is connect by pipeline with oil water separator, and oil water separator at the top of pipeline and extractor by connecting；
The extraction pot bottom is connected by pipe-and-filter, and filter is by pipeline and extracts pump connection, is extracted
Pump extracts pump and is also connect by pipeline with mixing chamber by connecting at the top of pipeline and extractor.
In preferred scheme, in the connecting pipe between the extraction pump and extractor top, pump and mixing chamber are extracted
Between connecting pipe on be equipped with valve.
In preferred scheme, it is connected with the first negative pressure pump on the concentration storehouse, is connected on the distillation storehouse
Second negative pressure pump.
In preferred scheme, the first hot water inlet pipe is equipped with bending segment far from the part of enzymatic vessel, and bending segment is set
It sets in distillation storehouse.
Crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit provided by the utility model, by using above structure,
It has the advantages that
(1) it is extracted using hot water, extraction environment safety, and solvent can recycle, and reduce cost input, improve
Economic benefit；
(2) water inputted during hot water used in crystallization process can mention water preheats, and reduces the energy
Consumption, at the same reached crystallization during, the cooling of plaster material lysate；
(3) in crushing process, crushing compression bar ensure that the close contact with crushing bin bottom surface, has reached and has preferably rolled powder
Broken effect.
Detailed description of the invention
The utility model is described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples:
Fig. 1 is the overall structure diagram of the utility model.
Fig. 2 is the structural schematic diagram of the first motor axis lower end of the utility model.
Fig. 3 is the schematic diagram of the section structure of the utility model Fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is the crushing compression bar the schematic diagram of the section structure of the utility model.
In figure: crushing bin 1, the first feed hopper 101, first motor 102 crush compression bar 103, material path 104, first motor
Axis 105, cavity 106, through-hole 107, sliding block 108, spring 109, fixing axle 110 roll sleeve 111, locating piece 112, enzymatic vessel
2, enzyme inlet pipe 201, the first hot water inlet pipe 202, feed opening 203, extractor 3, the second feed hopper 301, heating mantle 302, condenser
4, cooler 5, oil water separator 6, filter 7, extraction pump 8, mixing chamber 9, the second motor 901, stirring blade 902, concentration storehouse
10, screen pack 1001, the first negative pressure pump 1002 adsorbs storehouse 11, drain pipe 1101, and macroreticular resin 12 distills storehouse 13, and second is negative
Press pump 131, the second hot water inlet pipe 132.
Specific embodiment
In picture 1-4, crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit, including crushing bin 1, the crushing bin 1
Top is equipped with the first feed hopper 101 and first motor 102, and the first motor axis 105 of first motor 102 is passed down through crushing bin 1
The lower end of top surface setting, first motor axis 105 is equipped at least two symmetrically arranged crushing compression bars 103, crushes 103 water of compression bar
Flat to be arranged and be bonded with 1 bottom surface of crushing bin, 1 bottom surface of crushing bin is equipped with material path 104；
Enzymatic vessel 2 is equipped with below the crushing bin 1,2 side wall of enzymatic vessel is equipped with enzyme inlet pipe 201 and the first hot water inlet pipe
202；
Extractor 3 is equipped with below the enzymatic vessel 2, extractor 3 is connect with extraction system；
The extractor 3 is also connect with mixing chamber 9, and the second motor 901 is equipped at the top of mixing chamber 9, the second motor 901
Motor shaft, which is passed down through at the top of mixing chamber 9, to be arranged in mixing chamber 9, and the motor shaft of the second motor 901 is equipped with stirring blade
902；
It is equipped with concentration storehouse 10 below the mixing chamber 9, is concentrated in storehouse 10 and is equipped with screen pack 1001,10 lower section of concentration storehouse
Equipped with absorption storehouse 11；
Macroreticular resin 12 is equipped in the absorption storehouse 11, absorption 11 bottom of storehouse is equipped with two drain pipes 1101, wherein one
Root drain pipe 1101 is connect with distillation storehouse 13；
The distillation storehouse 13 is equipped with the second hot water inlet pipe 132.
In preferred scheme, 105 lower end of first motor axis is equipped with cavity 106, and 106 side wall of cavity is equipped with through-hole
107, it is equipped with sliding block 108 in cavity 106, is equipped with spring 109 between 108 top of sliding block and 106 top surface of cavity, crushes compression bar 103
One end is arranged through through-hole 107 and is fixedly connected with 108 side wall of sliding block.
In preferred scheme, the crushing compression bar 103 includes fixing axle 110,110 one end of fixing axle and 108 side of sliding block
Wall is fixedly connected, and is arranged in fixing axle 110 and is rolled sleeve 111, and fixing axle 110 is additionally provided with directly on one end far from sliding block 108
Diameter is greater than the locating piece 112 of 110 diameter of section of fixing axle.
In preferred scheme, 2 bottom of enzymatic vessel is equipped with feed opening 203, and feed opening 203 is equipped with valve, described
Extractor 3 at the top of be equipped with the second feed hopper 301, the underface of feed opening 203 is arranged in the second feed hopper 301.
In preferred scheme, cladding is equipped with heating mantle 302 on 3 side wall of extractor.
In preferred scheme, the extraction system includes condenser 4, cooler 5, oil water separator 6, filter 7, mentions
Take pump 8；
It being connect by pipeline with condenser 4 at the top of the extractor 3, condenser 4 is connect by pipeline with cooler 5,
Cooler 5 is connect by pipeline with oil water separator 6, and oil water separator 6 at the top of pipeline and extractor 3 by connecting；
3 bottom of extractor is connected by pipe-and-filter 7, and filter 7 is connect by pipeline with pump 8 is extracted,
Pump 8 is extracted by connecting at the top of pipeline and extractor 3, pump 8 is extracted and is also connect by pipeline with mixing chamber 9.
In preferred scheme, in the connecting pipe between 3 top of the extraction pump 8 and extractor, pump 8 and stirring are extracted
Valve is equipped in connecting pipe between storehouse 9.
In preferred scheme, it is connected with the first negative pressure pump 1002 on the concentration storehouse 10, on the distillation storehouse 13
It is connected with the second negative pressure pump 131.
In preferred scheme, the first hot water inlet pipe 202 is equipped with bending segment, bending far from the part of enzymatic vessel 2
Section setting is in distillation storehouse 13.
The principle of the present apparatus is as follows:
1) cape jasmine fruit is put into crushing bin 1, by opening first motor 102, powder is carried out to the cape jasmine fruit in crushing bin 1
It is broken；
2) smashed cape jasmine fruit powder end passes through material path 104, falls into enzymatic vessel 2, is pumped into fourth into enzymatic vessel 2 at this time
The mass ratio of alkane ethane mixed liquor, butane ethane is 1:1, obtains degreasing coarse fodder；
3) 2) hot water and enzyme will be added in degreasing coarse fodder obtained in, digest at least 1h under conditions of 50 DEG C of 5 pH,
It then heats to 90 DEG C or more and kills enzyme 0.5h, then input feed liquid into extractor 3,2-3 is carried out to feed liquid by extraction system
Secondary refluxing extraction；
4) obtained extracting solution is persistently input in mixing chamber 9, and the extracting solution repeatedly generated is mixed in mixing chamber 9
Merge addition polyamide to be stirred；
5) feed liquid is input in concentration storehouse 10 and is concentrated under reduced pressure；
6) then feed liquid is input in absorption storehouse 11, is adsorbed by macroreticular resin 12, be first added and go after absorption
Ionized water is eluted, and eluent is exported by drain pipe 1101, and ethanol solution is then added and is eluted, eluent passes through another
A piece drain pipe 1101 is input in distillation storehouse 13；
7) ethyl alcohol is recycled in vacuum distillation, then concentrate solution to paste, and after adding hot water dissolving, crystallization is precipitated in cooling and standings；
8) product is obtained after drying.
It by using above structure, is extracted using hot water, extraction environment safety, and solvent can recycle, and reduce
Cost input, improves economic benefit；The water that hot water used in crystallization process inputs during capable of mentioning to water carries out
Preheating, reduce energy consumption, while reached crystallization during, the cooling of plaster material lysate；In crushing process, crush
Compression bar ensure that the close contact with crushing bin bottom surface, has reached and has preferably rolled crushing effect.
Claims (9)
1. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit, it is characterized in that: including crushing bin (1), the crushing bin (1)
Top is equipped with the first feed hopper (101) and first motor (102), and the first motor axis (105) of first motor (102) is passed down through
The lower end of the setting of crushing bin (1) top surface, first motor axis (105) is equipped at least two symmetrically arranged crushing compression bars (103),
It crushes compression bar (103) to be horizontally disposed with and be bonded with crushing bin (1) bottom surface, crushing bin (1) bottom surface is equipped with material path (104)；
Enzymatic vessel (2) are equipped with below the crushing bin (1), enzymatic vessel (2) side wall is equipped with enzyme inlet pipe (201) and the first hot water
Inlet pipe (202)；
Extractor (3) are equipped with below the enzymatic vessel (2), extractor (3) is connect with extraction system；
The extractor (3) is also connect with mixing chamber (9), is equipped with the second motor (901) at the top of mixing chamber (9), the second motor
(901) motor shaft is passed down through setting at the top of mixing chamber (9) and sets on the motor shaft of the second motor (901) in mixing chamber (9)
There are stirring blade (902)；
It is equipped with concentration storehouse (10) below the mixing chamber (9), is equipped with screen pack (1001) in concentration storehouse (10), storehouse is concentrated
(10) lower section is equipped with absorption storehouse (11)；
Macroreticular resin (12) are equipped in the absorption storehouse (11), absorption storehouse (11) bottom is equipped with two drain pipes (1101),
In a drain pipe (1101) with distillation storehouse (13) connect；
The distillation storehouse (13) is equipped with the second hot water inlet pipe (132).
2. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described
One motor shaft (105) lower end is equipped with cavity (106), and cavity (106) side wall is equipped with through-hole (107), is equipped with and slides in cavity (106)
Block (108) is equipped with spring (109) between sliding block (108) top and cavity (106) top surface, crushes the setting of compression bar (103) one end and wears
It crosses through-hole (107) and is fixedly connected with sliding block (108) side wall.
3. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 2, it is characterised in that: the powder
Broken compression bar (103) includes fixing axle (110), and fixing axle (110) one end is fixedly connected with sliding block (108) side wall, fixing axle (110)
On be arranged with and roll sleeve (111), fixing axle (110) is far from being additionally provided with diameter greater than fixing axle on the one end of sliding block (108)
(110) locating piece (112) of diameter of section.
4. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the enzyme
It solves tank (2) bottom and is equipped with feed opening (203), feed opening (203) is equipped with valve, is equipped with second at the top of the extractor (3)
Feed hopper (301), the second feed hopper (301) are arranged in the underface of feed opening (203).
5. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described mentions
Cladding on tank (3) side wall is taken to be equipped with heating mantle (302).
6. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described mentions
System is taken to include condenser (4), cooler (5), oil water separator (6), filter (7), extract pump (8)；
It is connect by pipeline with condenser (4) at the top of the extractor (3), condenser (4) is connected by pipeline and cooler (5)
It connects, cooler (5) is connect by pipeline with oil water separator (6), and oil water separator (6) passes through pipeline and extractor (3) top
Connection；
Extractor (3) bottom is connected by pipe-and-filter (7), and filter (7) is by pipeline and extracts pump (8) even
It connects, extracts pump (8) by connecting at the top of pipeline and extractor (3), extract pump (8) and also connect by pipeline with mixing chamber (9).
7. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 6, it is characterised in that: described mentions
It takes in the connecting pipe between at the top of pump (8) and extractor (3), extract in the connecting pipe pumped between (8) and mixing chamber (9)
Equipped with valve.
8. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described is dense
It is connected on contracting storehouse (10) the first negative pressure pump (1002), is connected with the second negative pressure pump (131) on the distillation storehouse (13).
9. crocin high-efficiency device for extracting in a kind of cape jasmine fruit according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: described
One hot water inlet pipe (202) is equipped with bending segment far from the part of enzymatic vessel (2), and bending segment setting is in distillation storehouse (13).
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