EP1851117B1 - Installation de conditionnement aseptique a zones tampon aseptiques. - Google Patents

Installation de conditionnement aseptique a zones tampon aseptiques. Download PDF

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EP1851117B1
EP1851117B1 EP06725973A EP06725973A EP1851117B1 EP 1851117 B1 EP1851117 B1 EP 1851117B1 EP 06725973 A EP06725973 A EP 06725973A EP 06725973 A EP06725973 A EP 06725973A EP 1851117 B1 EP1851117 B1 EP 1851117B1
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Delphine Raynaud
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B55/00—Preserving, protecting or purifying packages or package contents in association with packaging
    • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
    • B65B55/025—Packaging in aseptic tunnels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/02—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus
    • B67C3/22—Details
    • B67C3/26—Filling-heads; Means for engaging filling-heads with bottle necks
    • B67C2003/2688—Means for filling containers in defined atmospheric conditions

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  • the present invention relates to an aseptic packaging installation.
  • existing aseptic packaging facilities comprise a cabin providing around the machine line a conditioning zone having a high degree of asepsis, at least one side of the conditioning zone being contiguous to an operating zone maintained at a lower degree of asepsis than the zone conditioning by providing a flow of air flow from the conditioning zone to the operator zone through openings in a partition common to the conditioning zone and the operator zone.
  • the document EP 1 251 085 describes enclosures forming a conditioning zone at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, surrounded by an enclosure at atmospheric pressure forming an operator zone.
  • An object of the invention is to provide an aseptic packaging installation minimizing the risk of pollution in the packaging area while allowing interventions at different points of the installation.
  • an aseptic packaging installation comprising a floor overhung by a ceiling and a machine line mounted on the floor in a packaging zone subjected to a sterile laminar flow. flowing vertically from the ceiling of the conditioning zone and establishing in the conditioning zone a first pressure greater than a surrounding pressure, at least one side of the conditioning zone being adjacent to an intervention zone subjected to a flow of air unidirectional flow flowing vertically from the ceiling of the intervention zone at a flow adapted to establish in the area of intervention a second pressure lower than the first pressure but greater than the surrounding pressure.
  • the unidirectional air flow in the zone of intervention also avoids the formation of turbulence in the intervention zone when opening a door between the conditioning zone and the intervention zone so that the risks of pollution of the conditioning zone are minimized.
  • the conditioning zone is contiguous on at least one side to an intermediate zone subjected to a flow of unidirectional clean air flowing at a rate adapted to establish in the intermediate zone an intermediate pressure between the first pressure and the second pressure.
  • the illustrated aseptic packaging installation is intended to package a product in containers (not shown).
  • the installation comprises, in a manner known per se, a line of machines 1, such as filling machines, thermo-sealing of covers, and setting up plugs, mounted on a floor 2 below which bodies are mounted. 3 of the machines 1.
  • the walls 4 delimit a conditioning zone 5 subjected to a sterile laminar flow flowing vertically from the ceiling 6 at a flow rate adapted to establish in the conditioning zone 5 a first pressure P1 greater than the pressure P surrounding the installation. To symbolize the pressure P1 the conditioning zone 5 has been hatched in fine mixed lines.
  • first pressure P1 is the result of a balance between the feed rate of the ceiling and the leakage rate by the spaces 19 and the other openings in the side walls of the conditioning zone.
  • the installation comprises intervention zones 7 delimited by partitions 8 separating the intervention zones from the external environment.
  • the intervention zones 7 are also subjected to a clean air flow, for example a stream of sterile air flowing vertically from the ceiling of the intervention zones according to a flow rate adapted to establish in the areas of intervention 7 a second pressure P2 less than the first pressure P1 of the conditioning zone but greater than the surrounding pressure.
  • the zones at the pressure P2 have been hatched in dashed lines.
  • the partitions 8 of the zones of intervention 7 delimit a space 20 to allow a flow of the air flow towards the outside and thus to favor a vertical flow of the air in the zones d intervention 7.
  • the installation comprises an intermediate zone 9 contiguous to the conditioning zone 5 upstream thereof by reference to a movement of the containers symbolized by arrows in dashes on the figure 1 .
  • the intermediate zone 9 is subjected to a sterile unidirectional flow flowing vertically from the ceiling 6 at a rate adapted to establish in the intermediate zone 9 an intermediate pressure Pi between the first pressure P1 and the second pressure P2.
  • the zones at the pressure Pi have been hatched in dashed fine lines.
  • the intermediate zone 9 is separated from the conditioning zone 5 by a partial partition 10.
  • the intervention zones 7 also extend opposite the intermediate zone 9 so that due to the decreasing order of pressures in the different zones, a partial opening of the partition between a zone d 7 and the intermediate zone 9 causes a slight movement of air from the conditioning zone 5 to the intermediate zone 9 and from the intermediate zone 9 to the intervention zone 7, as illustrated by arrows in thick lines, this which minimizes the risks of pollution in the conditioning zone 5.
  • the intermediate zone 9 is a drying zone in which is installed a drying machine containers.
  • the drying zone 9 is contiguous to a sterilization zone 12 in which a sterilization machine 13 is installed by misting hydrogen peroxide.
  • the sterilization zone 12 is also subjected to a sterile flow flowing vertically from the ceiling of the installation at a rate adapted to establish in the sterilization zone 12 a pressure equal to the second pressure P2 of the intervention zones 7.
  • the installation preferably includes an extraction device 14 which has been illustrated on the side of the sterilization zone 12 although in practice it is preferably mounted at the upper part thereof.
  • the illustrated installation comprises an inlet zone 15, for example a dust collection zone, also subjected to a sterile flow at a flow rate adapted to establish a pressure equal to the intermediate pressure Pi.
  • the installation Downstream of the conditioning zone 5, with reference to the displacement of the containers, the installation comprises an outlet zone 16 subjected to an air flow adapted to establish in the exit zone 16 a pressure similar to the intermediate pressure Pi.
  • the walls 8 of the intervention zones are preferably equipped with traps 17.
  • the walls 4 of the conditioning zone 5 are preferably equipped with hatches 18.
  • the side walls of the packaging zone 5 can also be equipped in a manner known per se of unrepresented waterproof cuffs.
  • the invention has been illustrated with an installation in which the different zones are subjected to three different pressures, it will be possible to realize an installation with zones subjected to two different pressures only or on the contrary subjected to a greater number of different pressures arranged relative to each other so as to promote a movement of air from the areas to be subjected to a higher degree of asepsis to areas that may be subject to a lower degree of asepsis.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
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  • Ventilation (AREA)
  • Buffer Packaging (AREA)
  • Vacuum Packaging (AREA)
  • Food Preservation Except Freezing, Refrigeration, And Drying (AREA)
  • External Artificial Organs (AREA)
  • Apparatus For Disinfection Or Sterilisation (AREA)
  • Filling Of Jars Or Cans And Processes For Cleaning And Sealing Jars (AREA)
EP06725973A 2005-02-23 2006-02-15 Installation de conditionnement aseptique a zones tampon aseptiques. Not-in-force EP1851117B1 (fr)

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PL06725973T PL1851117T3 (pl) 2005-02-23 2006-02-15 Instalacja aseptycznego pakowania z aseptycznymi strefami buforowymi
SI200630857T SI1851117T1 (sl) 2005-02-23 2006-02-15 Aseptična pakirna naprava, ki obsega aseptična vmesna področja

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FR0501818A FR2882341B1 (fr) 2005-02-23 2005-02-23 Installation de conditionnement aseptique a zones tampon aseptiques
PCT/FR2006/000343 WO2006090045A1 (fr) 2005-02-23 2006-02-15 Installation de conditionnement aseptique a zones tampon aseptiques.

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JP (1) JP4700072B2 (pl)
CN (1) CN100591580C (pl)
AT (1) ATE482882T1 (pl)
BR (1) BRPI0606907A2 (pl)
CA (1) CA2601943C (pl)
DE (1) DE602006017173D1 (pl)
ES (1) ES2352039T3 (pl)
FR (1) FR2882341B1 (pl)
MX (1) MX2007009989A (pl)
PL (1) PL1851117T3 (pl)
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