CN217459365U

CN217459365U - Fermentation cylinder hops adds device

Info

Publication number: CN217459365U
Application number: CN202221505609.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李伟; 刘冰
Original assignee: Shandong Beerlink Biotechnology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shandong Beerlink Biotechnology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-06-16
Filing date: 2022-06-16
Publication date: 2022-09-20
Anticipated expiration: 2032-06-16

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of fermentation tanks, in particular to a fermentation tank hops adding device, which comprises a hops adding tank, wherein a hops adding port is formed in one side of the top of the hops adding tank, the bottom center of the hops adding tank is communicated with a discharging pipe, a return pipe is communicated with the side wall of the hops adding tank, one end of the return pipe, which is far away from the hops adding tank, is communicated with the discharging pipe, a rotor pump is arranged at one end, which is close to the return pipe, of the discharging pipe, and a return valve is arranged at one end, which is close to the discharging pipe, of the return pipe; and a liquid level pipe is arranged on the side wall of the hop adding tank, and two ends of the liquid level pipe are communicated with the inner cavity of the hop adding tank. The utility model provides a pair of fermentation cylinder hops adds device solves the difficult problem that hops added in the large-scale beer fermentation cylinder, lets hops and beer intensive mixing under anaerobic condition squeeze into the fermentation cylinder, soaks through certain time, provides the beneficial component in the hops.

Description

Fermentation cylinder hops adds device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a fermentation cylinder technical field, concretely relates to fermentation cylinder hops adds device.

Background

The refined beer hops are added by two modes, namely directly adding the hops from the top of a tank or adding the hops by a hanging bag, and are feasible for fermentation tanks with the size of less than ten tons, but for the fermentation tanks with the size of more than ten tons, the addition amount of the hops needs to be more than thirty kilograms, so that the hops are difficult to dry and add by the two modes.

At present, the hop is added in a yeast recovery tank generally in China, but the effect is not ideal, and the hop adding tank is mainly a horizontal tank generally and adopts sterile wind adding, so that the hop adding is not clean and the oxygen avoiding effect is not good. There are hop recycling leaching equipment abroad, and the effect is not good because the leaching is insufficient and the hop utilization rate is low. With the increase of the addition amount of the domestic IPA beer to the hops, the demand of hop adding equipment is increased.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the technical problem, the utility model provides a fermentation cylinder hops adds device solves the difficult problem that hops added in the large-scale beer fermentation cylinder, lets hops and beer intensive mixing under anaerobic condition squeeze into the fermentation cylinder, soaks through certain time, provides the beneficial component in the hops.

The utility model provides a technical scheme that its technical problem adopted is:

a hop adding device of a fermentation tank comprises a hop adding tank, wherein a hop adding port is formed in one side of the top of the hop adding tank, a discharging pipe is communicated with the center of the bottom of the hop adding tank, a return pipe is communicated with the side wall of the hop adding tank, one end, far away from the hop adding tank, of the return pipe is communicated with the discharging pipe, a rotor pump is arranged at one end, close to the return pipe, of the discharging pipe, and a return valve is arranged at one end, close to the discharging pipe, of the return pipe;

and a liquid level pipe is arranged on the side wall of the hop adding tank, and two ends of the liquid level pipe are communicated with the inner cavity of the hop adding tank.

Preferably, the top center of the hop adding tank is provided with a CIP inlet, the interior of the hop adding tank is provided with a washing ball, and the washing ball is communicated with the CIP inlet through a CIP pipeline;

one end of the CIP pipeline, which is far away from the hops adding tank, is provided with a first butterfly valve.

Preferably, a first through hole is formed in one side of the top of the hops adding tank, the first through hole is connected with a carbon dioxide pipeline, and a ball valve is arranged at one end, far away from the hops adding tank, of the carbon dioxide pipeline.

Preferably, a second through hole is formed in the other side of the top of the hops adding tank, the second through hole is connected with a deoxygenation water pipeline, and a second butterfly valve is arranged at one end, far away from the hops adding tank, of the deoxygenation water pipeline.

Preferably, a third butterfly valve is arranged at one end, close to the hop adding tank, of the discharge pipe;

the discharging pipe is provided with a branch pipeline, the branch pipeline is connected with a sewage discharging pipe, and the sewage discharging pipe is provided with a sewage discharging valve.

Preferably, the middle part of the hop adding tank is a cylinder, and the upper part and the lower part of the hop adding tank are cones.

Preferably, the discharge pipe is connected with the bottom of the fermentation tank through a hose, and a tank bottom valve is arranged at one end, close to the fermentation tank, of the hose.

Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:

1. the utility model provides a pair of fermentation cylinder hops adds device conveniently solves the difficult problem that hops added in the large-scale beer fermentation cylinder, lets hops and beer mix under the abundant anaerobic state, then squeezes into the fermentation cylinder, soaks the beneficial component who proposes in the hops through the certain time.

2. The utility model provides a pair of fermentation cylinder hops adds device adopts the rotor pump can add softly to be difficult to cause the refluence, convenient to use, the cost is low, has certain spreading value.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a hop adding device of a fermentation tank according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a hop adding device of a fermentation tank according to embodiment 2 of the present invention;

description of reference numerals: 1. a hop addition tank; 2. a hop addition port; 3. a discharge pipe; 4. a return pipe; 5. a rotor pump; 6. a reflux valve; 7. a liquid level tube; 8. washing the balls; 9. CIP pipelines; 10. a carbon dioxide pipeline; 11. a deoxygenated water pipeline; 12. a blow-off pipe; 13. a blowoff valve; 14. a first butterfly valve; 15. a second butterfly valve; 16. a hose; 17. a fermentation tank; 18. a tank bottom valve; 19. a ball valve; 20. and a third butterfly valve.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments.

Example 1

Referring to fig. 1, a fermentation cylinder hops adds device, add jar 1 including the hops, the hops has been seted up on top one side of jar 1 to the hops and has been added mouthful 2, add the hops from hops add mouthful 2 to the hops add jar 1 in, the hops adds jar 1 bottom center department intercommunication discharging pipe 3, intercommunication back flow 4 on the lateral wall of jar 1 is added to the hops, back flow 4 keeps away from the hops and adds jar 1 one end and discharging pipe 3 intercommunication, discharging pipe 3 and back flow 4 are communicating, cut off the backward flow and just the ejection of compact, cut off the ejection of compact and just flow back. The rotor pump 5 is arranged at one end of the discharge pipe 3 close to the return pipe 4, the rotor pump 5 can effectively solve the problems of beer delivery pressure and backflow, the shearing force is small, the disturbance on beer is small, and the return valve 6 is arranged at one end of the return pipe 4 close to the discharge pipe 3 and can be opened or closed at any time to control backflow; the side wall of the hop adding tank 1 is provided with a liquid level pipe 7, and the two ends of the liquid level pipe 7 are communicated with the inner cavity of the hop adding tank 1. By observing the liquid level tube 7, it is possible to clearly see how much wine is in the hop addition tank 1.

A CIP inlet is formed in the center of the top of the hop adding tank 1, a washing ball 8 is arranged inside the hop adding tank 1 and used for washing the hop adding tank 1, and the washing ball 8 is communicated with the CIP inlet through a CIP pipeline 9; the end of the CIP pipe 9 remote from the hop addition tank 1 is provided with a first butterfly valve 14. Wash the disinfection to hops interpolation jar 1 through CIP pipeline 9, do not need artificial operation in the cleaning process, make the washing more thorough, the cleaning performance is better.

First opening has been seted up to the top one side of hops interpolation jar 1, and carbon dioxide pipeline 10 is connected to first opening department, lets in carbon dioxide in adding jar 1 to the hops through carbon dioxide pipeline 10, can discharge the air among the hops interpolation device, and carbon dioxide pipeline 10 keeps away from the one end that the hops interpolation jar 1 sets up ball valve 19, can open or close at any time.

The second opening has been seted up to the top opposite side of hops interpolation jar 1, and deoxidation water pipeline 11 is connected to second opening department, lets in the deoxidization water through deoxidization water pipeline 11, can prevent that the hops from adding the oxygen corrosion of jar 1. The end of the deoxygenation water pipeline 11 far away from the hop adding tank 1 is provided with a second butterfly valve 15 which can be opened or closed at any time. The end of the discharge pipe 3 close to the hop adding tank 1 is provided with a third butterfly valve 20 which can be opened or closed at any time. The butterfly valve is also called a flap valve, is a regulating valve with simple structure, and can be used for the switch control of low-pressure pipeline media.

The discharging pipe 3 is provided with a branch pipeline, the branch pipeline is connected with a sewage discharging pipe 12 and used for discharging the hop mud deposited after filtering, and the sewage discharging pipe 12 is provided with a sewage discharging valve 13 and can be opened and closed.

The middle part of the hop adding tank 1 is a cylinder, and the upper part and the lower part of the hop adding tank 1 are both cones. The design of middle part cylinder makes the hops add can hold more hops material in jar 1, and the design of lower part cone makes things convenient for the wheat juice hops mixed liquid to discharge.

Example 2

Referring to fig. 2, the same technical features of embodiment 2 as those of embodiment 1 are not described again, and the different technical features are as follows: the discharge pipe 3 is connected with the bottom of the fermentation tank 17 through a hose 16, and one end of the hose 16 close to the fermentation tank 17 is provided with a tank bottom valve 18 which can be opened or closed at any time. The top of the fermentation tank is provided with a liquid inlet which is connected with a liquid inlet pipeline.

The working principle and the process are as follows:

adding hops into the hop adding tank 1 from the hop adding port 2, introducing carbon dioxide through a carbon dioxide pipeline 10, and discharging air in the hop adding tank 1; opening the tank bottom valve 18, introducing beer into the hop adding tank 1 after back pressure, introducing the beer into the hop adding tank 1 along the tangential direction of the return pipe 4, and scattering hops to be uniformly distributed in the beer liquid; the measurement is carried out through the liquid level pipe 7, the rotor pump 5 is started when the liquid level reaches the proper liquid level, then the liquid is pumped into the fermentation tank 17, the deoxygenated water is introduced through the deoxygenated water pipeline 11, and the rest part is pumped by a small amount of deoxygenated water, so that the hop loss is avoided, and the circulation is repeated.

When the purpose of adding the hops is achieved, the hop adding circulation is stopped, the tank bottom valve 18 is closed, the hop mixed liquid in the hop adding tank 1 completely enters the fermentation tank 17, the rotor pump 5 is closed, and the hop adding is finished. After the addition of the hops is finished, closing the third butterfly valve 20, opening the blow-down valve 13, and discharging the deposited hop mud; finally, the first butterfly valve 14 is opened, and the hop adding tank 1 is washed and disinfected through the CIP pipeline 9 and the washing ball 8, so that sanitation and asepsis are ensured, and the pollution to beer is avoided.

The above, only be the concrete implementation of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art is in the technical scope of the present invention, according to the technical solution of the present invention and the utility model, the concept of which is equivalent to replace or change, should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a fermentation cylinder hops adds device which characterized in that: the device comprises a hop adding tank (1), wherein a hop adding port (2) is formed in one side of the top of the hop adding tank (1), a discharging pipe (3) is communicated with the center of the bottom of the hop adding tank (1), a return pipe (4) is communicated with the side wall of the hop adding tank (1), one end, far away from the hop adding tank (1), of the return pipe (4) is communicated with the discharging pipe (3), a rotor pump (5) is arranged at one end, close to the return pipe (4), of the discharging pipe (3), and a return valve (6) is arranged at one end, close to the discharging pipe (3), of the return pipe (4);

the side wall of the hop adding tank (1) is provided with a liquid level pipe (7), and the two ends of the liquid level pipe (7) are communicated with the inner cavity of the hop adding tank (1).

2. The fermenter hops adding device according to claim 1, further comprising: a CIP inlet is formed in the center of the top of the hops adding tank (1), washing balls (8) are arranged inside the hops adding tank (1), and the washing balls (8) are communicated with the CIP inlet through a CIP pipeline (9);

one end, far away from the hop adding tank (1), of the CIP pipeline (9) is provided with a first butterfly valve (14).

3. The fermenter hops adding device according to claim 2, further comprising: a first through opening is formed in one side of the top of the hops adding tank (1), the first through opening is connected with a carbon dioxide pipeline (10), and a ball valve (19) is arranged at one end, far away from the hops adding tank (1), of the carbon dioxide pipeline (10).

4. A fermenter hops adding device according to claim 3, characterized in that: the second opening has been seted up to the top opposite side of hops interpolation jar (1), deoxidation water pipeline (11) is connected to second opening department, deoxidation water pipeline (11) are kept away from the one end of hops interpolation jar (1) sets up second butterfly valve (15).

5. The fermenter hops adding device according to claim 4, further comprising: a third butterfly valve (20) is arranged at one end, close to the hop adding tank (1), of the discharge pipe (3);

the device is characterized in that a branch pipeline is arranged on the discharge pipe (3), a sewage discharge pipe (12) is connected to the branch pipeline, and a sewage discharge valve (13) is arranged on the sewage discharge pipe (12).

6. The fermenter hops adding device according to claim 5, further comprising: the middle part of the hop adding tank (1) is a cylinder, and the upper part and the lower part of the hop adding tank (1) are cones.

7. The fermenter hops adding device according to claim 6, further comprising: the discharge pipe (3) is connected with the bottom of the fermentation tank (17) through a hose (16), and a tank bottom valve (18) is arranged at one end, close to the fermentation tank (17), of the hose (16).