FR2713321A1 - Refrigerating appts. for cooling large mass of liquid or paste in chemical and food industry - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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Description
La présente invention est relative à un appareillage pour refroidir une masse de matière liquide, ou éventuellement pulvérulente. The present invention relates to an apparatus for cooling a mass of liquid, or possibly pulverulent, material.
Dans les industries alimentaires ou chimiques, on éprouve souvent le besoin de refroidir rapidement des masses liquides ou pâteuses relativement importantes, de l'ordre de 20 à 500 litres. Par exemple, certaines normes imposent qu'une sauce, ou un aliment pour bébés, soit refroidie du voisinage de + 100"C jusqu'au dessous + 10 C en moins de deux heures. In the food or chemical industries, there is often the need to rapidly cool relatively large liquid or pasty masses, of the order of 20 to 500 liters. For example, some standards require that a sauce, or baby food, be cooled from around + 100 "C to below + 10 C in less than two hours.
La technique traditionnelle consiste à mettre le produit à refroidir, sous faible épaisseur, en contact avec les parois d'un échangeur traversé par un fluide réfrigérant. Cette technique impose des investissements coûteux et présente un rendement médiocre. The traditional technique consists in bringing the product to be cooled, with a small thickness, in contact with the walls of an exchanger through which a refrigerant fluid passes. This technique requires expensive investments and has a poor return.
On peut aussi placer le produit à refroidir dans un récipient et injecter dans sa masse un fluide réfrigérant neutre, en particulier de l'azote liquide, à l'aide de cannes plongeant dans la masse. I1 est difficile, dans ce cas, d'obtenir une bonne homogénéité de températures, d'autant plus qu'il se forme, autour des cannes, de la glace dans le cas d'un produit aqueux, ou une couche stagnante solide ou à forte viscosité, qui perturbe le fonctionnement de l'appareillage. One can also place the product to be cooled in a container and inject into its mass a neutral refrigerant, in particular liquid nitrogen, using rods immersed in the mass. It is difficult, in this case, to obtain good temperature uniformity, all the more so since ice forms, around the canes in the case of an aqueous product, or a solid or stagnant layer at high viscosity, which disrupts the functioning of the apparatus.
La présente invention a pour but de fournir un appareillage simple et économique qui permette un refroidissement rapide et homogène de masses relativement importantes. The object of the present invention is to provide simple and economical apparatus which allows rapid and uniform cooling of relatively large masses.
Pour obtenir ce résultat, l'invention fournit un appareil pour refroidir une masse de matière liquide ou pulvérulente par injection directe d'un fluide cryogénique dans la masse, comprenant un récipient destiné à recevoir ladite masse, et des conduits reliant au moins un point d'injection situé dans ledit récipient à une source de fluide cryogénique, cet appareil ayant pour particularité qu'il est prévu plusieurs points d'injection associés chacun à une vanne séparée, les vannes étant toutes reliées à un organe de commande qui les ouvre et ferme suivant un mode séquencé de façon à relier le point d'injection correspondant à la source de fluide cryogénique ou à l'en isoler,
et qu'il est prévu en outre une agitation apte à brasser en continu la masse à refroidir.To obtain this result, the invention provides an apparatus for cooling a mass of liquid or pulverulent material by direct injection of a cryogenic fluid into the mass, comprising a container intended to receive said mass, and conduits connecting at least one point of injection located in said container at a cryogenic fluid source, this device having the particularity that there are provided several injection points each associated with a separate valve, the valves all being connected to a control member which opens and closes them according to a sequenced mode so as to connect the injection point corresponding to the source of cryogenic fluid or to isolate it,
and that there is further provided stirring capable of continuously stirring the mass to be cooled.
Par "mode séquencé", on entend que les vannes s'ouvrent et se ferment selon un programme qui prévoit que certaines vannes sont ouvertes pendant que d'autres sont fermées. De préférence, il y a toujours un meme nombre de vannes ouvertes, si bien que la quantité de fluide cryogénique demandée à la source est sensiblement constante. By "sequenced mode" we mean that the valves open and close according to a program which foresees that some valves are open while others are closed. Preferably, there are always the same number of open valves, so that the quantity of cryogenic fluid requested from the source is substantially constant.
Avantageusement, le fluide cryogénique est de l'azote liquide. Un tel fluide, en plus de ses avantages connus de bon marché relatif et de facilité d'emplois, est ici intéressant par le fait que l'azote gazeux qui se forme, et qui traverse la matière à refroidir, en chasse progressivement l'air, d'où une amélioration de la résistance à l'oxydation, et une meilleure conservation. Advantageously, the cryogenic fluid is liquid nitrogen. Such a fluid, in addition to its known advantages of relative cheapness and ease of use, is advantageous here in that the gaseous nitrogen which forms, and which passes through the material to be cooled, gradually expels the air therefrom. , hence an improvement in oxidation resistance, and better conservation.
Suivant une réalisation préférée, le récipient est une cuve cylindrique à axe vertical, et les points d'injection sont situés dans la partie basse de la paroi verticale de la cuve. According to a preferred embodiment, the container is a cylindrical tank with a vertical axis, and the injection points are located in the lower part of the vertical wall of the tank.
Avantageusement, dans ce cas, les points d'injection sont des passages ne comportant pas de saillie à l'intérieur de la cuve, et les moyens d'agitation comprennent un racleur qui frotte la paroi au niveau des points d'injection. Advantageously, in this case, the injection points are passages not having a projection inside the tank, and the stirring means comprise a scraper which rubs the wall at the injection points.
On notera que, pour que l'appareil ait une efficacité optimale, il est préférable que le récipient qui reçoit la masse à refroidir soit un récipient à double paroi, avec échangeur périphérique. It will be noted that, for the apparatus to have an optimal efficiency, it is preferable that the container which receives the mass to be cooled is a double-walled container, with peripheral exchanger.
L'invention va maintenant être décrite de façon plus précise à l'aide d'un exemple pratique illustré avec les dessins, parmi lesquels
Figure 1 est une vue schématique en coupe et en élévation d'un appareil conforme à l'invention, et
Figure 2 est une vue de dessus du même appareil, le moto-réducteur étant supposé enlevé.The invention will now be described more precisely with the aid of a practical example illustrated with the drawings, among which
FIG. 1 is a schematic view in section and in elevation of an apparatus according to the invention, and
Figure 2 is a top view of the same device, the gear motor being assumed removed.
Le dispositif décrit à titre d'exemple est destiné à refroidir un liquide tel qu'une sauce destinée à la confection de plats cuisinés. Un appareil sensiblement identique a été essayé avec succès dans l'industrie de la charcuterie pour maintenir de l'eau aux environs de + 1"C. The device described by way of example is intended to cool a liquid such as a sauce intended for making ready meals. A substantially identical device has been successfully tried in the delicatessen industry to maintain water at around + 1 "C.
Cette eau était destinée à refroidir des jambons dans une enceinte séparée.This water was intended to cool hams in a separate enclosure.
Le dispositif comprend une cuve 1, cylindrique, du type à double paroi, à échangeur périphérique, avec un fond 2 et une paroi cylindrique verticale 3. Vers la partie inférieure de la paroi 3, elle est traversée par des passages 4. Chaque passage 4 est relié par un court conduit 5 à une électrovanne 6. Celle-ci est elle-même reliée à un collecteur 7, de forme annulaire, qui entoure la paroi 3 à une certaine distance de celle-ci. Le collecteur 7 est relié par un conduit 8 à une source d'alimentation en azote liquide. Dans l'exemple décrit, qui a servi pour les essais, la source d'azote liquide était un réservoir 9. The device comprises a tank 1, cylindrical, of the double wall type, with peripheral exchanger, with a bottom 2 and a vertical cylindrical wall 3. Towards the lower part of the wall 3, it is crossed by passages 4. Each passage 4 is connected by a short conduit 5 to a solenoid valve 6. The latter is itself connected to a manifold 7, of annular shape, which surrounds the wall 3 at a certain distance from the latter. The collector 7 is connected by a conduit 8 to a source of liquid nitrogen supply. In the example described, which was used for the tests, the source of liquid nitrogen was a reservoir 9.
La figure 2 montre quatre passages 4, désignés par les références 4A à 4D. Chacun de ces passages est associé à l'une des électrovannes 6, celles-ci portant la référence 6A à 6D. Figure 2 shows four passages 4, designated by the references 4A to 4D. Each of these passages is associated with one of the solenoid valves 6, these bearing the reference 6A to 6D.
Chacune des électrovannes est reliée à un organe de commande 10, capable de commander leur ouverture ou leur fermeture. Each of the solenoid valves is connected to a control member 10, capable of controlling their opening or closing.
On observera que les conduits 5 ne font pas saillie à l'intérieur de la cuve 1. It will be observed that the conduits 5 do not protrude inside the tank 1.
A l'intérieur de la cuve 1 est disposé un ensemble d'agitation, désignée dans son ensemble par la référence 11, et qui comprend un moto-réducteur 12, qui entraîne un arbre vertical 13 sur lequel sont montés des racleurs 14A, 14B, formés de pièces métalliques en U portant à leur périphérie radiale une lame flexible 15 qui frotte la paroi 3. L'un de ces racleurs 14A est au niveau du débouché des passages 4, si bien que, lors de son déplacement, il peut enlever la glace qui se forme autour de ces passages 4. Des ailettes 16 complètent l'agitation. Inside the tank 1 is arranged a stirring assembly, designated as a whole by the reference 11, and which comprises a gear motor 12, which drives a vertical shaft 13 on which are scrapers 14A, 14B, formed of metal U-shaped parts carrying at their radial periphery a flexible blade 15 which rubs the wall 3. One of these scrapers 14A is at the outlet of the passages 4, so that, during its movement, it can remove the ice which forms around these passages 4. Fins 16 complete the agitation.
En fonctionnement, l'organe de commande 10 déclenche successivement l'ouverture puis la fermeture des électrovannes 6A à 6D successivement, de telle façon qu'il y ait toujours une de ces électrovannes en position d'ouverture. En variante, deux électrovannes opposées, par exemple 4A et 4C, sont ouvertes, pendant que les deux autres, 4B et 4D, sont fermées, et réciproquement. In operation, the control member 10 successively triggers the opening and then the closing of the solenoid valves 6A to 6D successively, so that there is always one of these solenoid valves in the open position. As a variant, two opposite solenoid valves, for example 4A and 4C, are open, while the other two, 4B and 4D, are closed, and vice versa.
L'azote liquide injecté dans le liquide se vaporise instantanément, et l'azote gazeux produit contribue, pour une part non négligeable, à l'agitation du liquide. The liquid nitrogen injected into the liquid vaporizes instantaneously, and the nitrogen gas produced contributes, to a non-negligible part, to the agitation of the liquid.
Il a été constaté, au cours d'un essai fait avec de l'eau, qu'on pouvait maintenir la température de l'eau entre + 0,8"C et + 1,3"C, pendant des périodes dépassant 8 heures, sans qu'apparaissent de bouchage et sans formation de bloc de glace important. It was found, during a test done with water, that the water temperature could be maintained between + 0.8 "C and + 1.3" C, for periods exceeding 8 hours , without any blockage appearing and without significant ice block formation.
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