KR101188653B1 - Distillate extractor plant - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A plant distillate extractor is provided to prevent pollution from being generated due to filters by removing impurities from evaporated plant extracts using a cyclone principle instead of a filter. CONSTITUTION: A plant distillate extractor includes a plant extract extractor(10), a plant extract evaporator(20), a cyclone type impurity separator(30), a liquefier(40), and a plant distillate storing tank(50). The impurity separator separates impurities from evaporated plant extracts generated from the plant extract evaporator. The plant extract evaporator includes a body(21), a plurality of evaporating pipes(22), an inlet, and an outlet. The body is composed of a lower liquid part, an evaporating part, and an upper vapor part. The evaporating pipes are installed in the evaporating part in order to connect the lower liquid part and the upper vapor part. The impurity separator includes a liquid chamber part(31), a cyclone part(32), and a vapor chamber part(33). The cyclone part rotates plant extract vapor from the upper vapor part.

Description

Distillate extractor plant

The present invention relates to a plant distillate extractor for distilling the extract extracted in the plant extract extractor to obtain a purified plant distillate.

Plants contain a large amount of plants containing components useful for the human body, such as cypress, aroma, and the like.

Patent documents for obtaining extracts from plants containing such components useful for the human body include 'Aroma distillation extraction apparatus' of (KR) Utility Model No. 20-0438307, and the number of 'KR' of (KR) Registration Utility Model No. 20-0198522. , Herbal medicine extractor using an air-cooled mixed distillation cycle, distilled water extracting device of (KR) Utility Model No. 20-0317447, and 'Medicinal Herb Extractor' of (KR) Utility Model Publication No. 1989-007518. Various techniques are provided.

Recently, many people enjoy forest bathing in search of forest baths to relieve fatigue and vitality by relieving stress, strengthening cardiopulmonary function, and enhancing human immunity.

Forest bathing is good for the body because of the mysterious substance called phytoncids. Phytoncide is a directional substance that a tree emits in the air or in the ground to protect itself from the attack of surrounding pests, microorganisms, and other plants.

Phytoncide is effective in calming the mind as well as eliminating bad germs that naturally invade the human body. The sterilization effect of phytoncide and the liberation effect of green color create synergy effect through forest bathing.

[Phytoncide Efficacy]

Phytoncide is known to provide psychological stability, strengthen peripheral blood vessels, strengthen cardiopulmonary function, treat bronchial asthma and pulmonary tuberculosis, and strengthen the heart. It is also known to have pharmacological action to disinfect skin (June 27, 2001).

Phytoncide has a strong sterilization effect. It clears the air in the forest, and drinking the air makes our flesh and blood clear by selectively sterilizing bad bacteria in human body. This means that the metabolism of our bodies is smoothed, and the head is refreshed as well as the appetite is active (Ahn, Hyun-Pil).

However, there are problems that many people cannot easily find a forest bath due to various factors such as busy daily life.

In order to solve this problem, recently, various technologies for extracting phytoncide from distillate from plants have been developed.

(KR) Utility Model Registration No. 20-0438307 (KR) Utility Model Registration No. 20-0198522 (KR) Utility Model Registration No. 20-0317447 (KR) Utility Model Publication No. 1989-007518 (KR) Utility Model Publication No. 1995-000425 (KR) Patent No. 10-0141364

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems,

The present invention provides a plant distillate extractor capable of obtaining and storing a distillate extracted from a plant, such as a phytoncide of a plant (cypress, etc.).

The plant distillate extractor of the present invention invented to achieve the above object is a plant extract extractor which obtains an extract from a plant by heating; A plant extract evaporator for heating the extract obtained from the plant extract extractor to obtain plant extract vapor; A cyclone impurity separator for separating impurities in the plant extract vapor supplied from the plant extract evaporator; A liquefier for liquefying the plant extract vapor supplied from the impurity separator to obtain a plant distillate; It includes a plant distillate storage tank for storing the plant distillate obtained from the liquefier,

The impurity separator is supplied so that the plant extract vapor supplied from the plant extract evaporator rotates to discharge the plant extract vapor upwards to remove impurities from the plant extract vapor by dropping the impurities in the plant extract vapor by gravity. It is done.

The plant extract evaporator has a lower liquid portion which is partitioned by a partition plate and communicates with the plant extract extractor so that the plant extract is introduced, an evaporator which heats and evaporates the plant extract, and an outlet formed to discharge the plant extract vapor. A body consisting of a meteorological section; A plurality of evaporation tubes installed in the evaporator to communicate with the lower liquid phase and the upper gas phase; Consists of the inlet and outlet for supplying the heating medium installed in the evaporator,

The impurity separator comprises: a liquid phase chamber portion in which a plant extract is filled in communication with the lower liquid portion; A cyclone unit positioned at an upper portion of the liquid chamber part and in communication with the upper gas phase part and supplied to rotate the plant extract liquid vapor supplied from the upper gas phase part in a cyclone form; Located in the upper portion of the cyclone portion and consists of a gas phase chamber portion in communication with the liquefier.

The cyclone portion is located in the middle of the impurity separator and is expanded to have a diameter larger than the diameter of the gas phase chamber portion.

The plant distillate extractor further includes a vacuum apparatus, wherein the vacuum is applied to at least one of the liquefier or the plant distillate storage tank by using the vacuum apparatus, and the plant extract in the plant extract extractor is separated from the plant extract evaporator or the plant extract evaporator. Allow it to enter the impurity separator.

The plant distillate extractor of the present invention made as described above is clean by heating and evaporating the plant extract obtained from the plant extract extractor, removing impurities in the vaporized plant extract by a cyclone method and liquefying to obtain phytoncide plant distillate. A plant distillate that is a phytoncide can be obtained.

In addition, it is possible to prevent contamination by the filter by removing impurities in a cyclone manner without using a filter.

In addition, by moving the plant extract and the plant extract vapor in a vacuum manner it is possible to prevent the cause of contamination caused by the means for movement.

1 is a schematic view of a plant distillate extractor showing a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the plant extract evaporator of the plant distillate extractor showing an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a partial detailed cross-sectional schematic diagram of the impurity separator of the plant distillate extractor showing one preferred embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG.
Figure 5 is a detailed schematic view of the storage tank portion of the plant distillate extractor showing a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and the inventor should appropriately interpret the concepts of the terms appropriately It should be interpreted in accordance with the meaning and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention based on the principle that it can be defined.

Therefore, the embodiments described in this specification and the configurations shown in the drawings are merely the most preferred embodiments of the present invention and do not represent all the technical ideas of the present invention. Therefore, It is to be understood that equivalents and modifications are possible.

The present invention relates to a plant distillate extractor for distilling the extract extracted in the plant extract extractor to obtain a purified plant distillate.

The plant distillate extractor of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, the plant distillate extractor of the present invention has a large plant extract extractor 10 for obtaining an extract from a plant by heating, and a plant extract vapor by heating an extract obtained from the plant extract extractor 10. Obtained plant extract evaporator 20, cyclone-type impurity separator 30 for separating impurities in the plant extract liquid vapor supplied from the plant extract liquid evaporator 20, and plant extract liquid vapor supplied from the impurity separator 30 Liquelizer 40 to liquefy to obtain a plant distillate, plant distillate storage tank 50 for storing the plant distillate obtained in the liquefier 40, the liquefier 40 and plant distillation It consists of a vacuum device 60 for applying a vacuum to the liquid storage tank 50, and a heat medium supply device 70 for supplying a heat medium to the plant extract liquid evaporator 20.

The plant extract extractor 10 is formed in a structure such as a steamer to obtain a plant extract in a high temperature / high pressure state of the plant (a), the outer container 11 having a closed lid as shown in Figure 1, and the outer container A plurality of through holes 13 accommodated in the (11) are formed and consists of an inner container 12 in which the plants a are accommodated.

The plant extract extractor 10 made in this way is put cleanly plant in the inner container 12, by closing the closed lid of the outer container 11 and heated to a high temperature, to obtain a plant extract in a high temperature / high pressure state . At this time, water may be added in addition to the washed plants, or other additives may be added.

When the plant (a) uses a cypress, the plant distillate extractor of the present invention obtains a cypress phytoncide.

1 and 2,

The plant extract evaporator 20 is configured in the form of a heat exchanger structure of the vertical tube type, by heating the plant extract obtained in the plant extract extractor 10 to obtain a plant extract vapor, the plant extract evaporator 20 is The body 21 which is partitioned by the partition plate 24 and consists of the lower liquid part 21a, the evaporator 21b, and the upper gas phase part 21c, and the internal space 21b-1 in the evaporator 21b. A plurality of evaporation tubes 22 installed to communicate the lower liquid portion 21a and the upper gas phase portion 21c with each other, and the heating medium supply device 70 in the inner space 21b-1 of the evaporator 21b. It consists of an inlet (23a) and the outlet 23b for injecting the heating medium is installed so that the heating medium is supplied from.

The lower liquid portion 21a communicates with the plant extract extractor 10 and the extract supply pipe 81 so that the plant extract flows in, and the liquid chamber 31 and the plant extract of the impurity separator 30 move to each other. Intercommunication with the communication tube 82, the drain pipe (D) is provided on the lower side. Valves are provided in the extract liquid supply pipe 81 and the drain pipe D, respectively.

The upper gas phase part 21c communicates with the steam supply pipe 83 to supply the plant extract liquid vapor to the cyclone part 32 of the impurity separator 30.

As described above, the plant extract evaporator 20 is a plant extract of the plant extract extractor 10 by the vacuum applied to the vacuum device 60, the tube 22 for evaporation of the lower liquid portion 21a and the evaporator 21b. And the plant extract liquid introduced into the evaporation pipe 22 is heated and evaporated by a heating medium supplied from the heat medium supply device 70 to change into a plant extract vapor, and the phase-changed plant extract vapor is steam. It moves to the cyclone part 32 of the impurity separator 30 through the supply pipe 83.

The liquid phase chamber portion 31 of the lower liquid portion 21a and the impurity separator 30 can increase the receiving volume of the plant extract by mutually communicating with the liquid communication tube 82, so that the lower liquid portion 21a and the evaporation portion 21b. It is possible to prevent the plant extract of the evaporation tube 22 of the evaporation rapidly decreases.

The heat medium supply device 70 usually uses a steam boiler, and uses the heating medium as steam steam.

1 and 3 and 4,

The impurity separator 30 is to remove impurities in a cyclone manner, to supply the plant extract vapor to rotate, and to move upward to discharge the impurity to separate the impurities in the plant extract vapor.

The impurity separator 30 is connected to the lower liquid portion 21a of the plant extract liquid evaporator 20 to fill the liquid chamber portion 31 filled with the plant extract liquid, and the upper portion of the liquid chamber portion 31. And a cyclone portion 32 which is in communication with the upper gas phase portion 21c and is supplied to rotate the plant extract liquid vapor supplied from the upper gas phase portion 21c, and is located above the cyclone portion 32 and 40 and a vapor phase chamber portion 33 in communication with the steam transfer pipe 84.

Transparent confirmation windows 31a and 33a are installed in the liquid phase chamber part 31 and the gas phase chamber part 33 so as to check the inside from the outside, respectively.

The drain pipe (D) provided with a valve is installed below the liquid chamber part (31).

The cyclone portion 32 has a diameter larger than that of the liquid phase chamber portion 31 and the gas phase chamber portion 33 by being expanded in a shape as shown in FIG. 3, and preferably has a diameter larger than the gas phase chamber portion 33. In order to rotate the plant extract liquid vapor supplied from the upper gas phase part 21c, the plant extract liquid vapor inlet 32a is located in a tangential direction as shown in FIG.

In the impurity separator 30 formed as described above, the plant extract vapor supplied from the upper gas phase part 21c rotates in the cyclone part 32 as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, and rotates in the cyclone part 32. The plant extract vapor is moved to the upper side of the vapor phase chamber 33 to the liquefier 40 through the steam transfer pipe 84. At this time, the foreign matter contained in the plant extract vapor is separated by the centrifugal force, and falls to the lower liquid chamber part 31 by the difference in mass.

The liquefier 40 is configured to liquefy the plant extract liquid vapor that is moved to the steam transport pipe 84 to the phase of the plant distillate, the upper side of the gas phase chamber 33 and the steam transport pipe 84 of the impurity separator 30 ) And the lower side is in communication with the plant distillate storage tank 50 for storing the plant distillate and the distillate conveying tube 85 provided with a valve 85v, and the upper side is connected with the vacuum device 60 and the valve. Are interconnected to the first vacuum pipe 86 installed.

The plant distillate storage tank 50 is composed of a plurality of storage tanks, such as the first storage tank 51 and the second storage tank 52, and each of the first storage tank 51 and the second storage tank. At 52, discharge pipes 51a and 52a are formed to discharge the stored plant distillate.

The first storage tank 51 and the second storage tank 52 is a distillate transfer pipe 85 is provided with a plurality of valves (85v) to selectively store the plant distillate supplied to the liquefier 40 And interconnected with the liquefier 40, the transfer pipe 85 is provided with a transparent confirmation tube (85a) for confirming the supply (movement) of the plant distillate.

In addition, the plant distillate storage tank 50 consisting of the first storage tank 51 and the second storage tank 52 is interconnected by the vacuum device 60 and the second vacuum pipe 86 provided with a valve.

Unexplained reference numeral 'P' is a pressure gauge.

Plant distillate such as phytoncide of wood is extracted using the plant distillate extractor of the present invention as described below.

The plant extractor 10 is used to obtain a plant extract.

A vacuum is applied to at least one of the liquefier 40 or the plant distillate storage tank 50 using the vacuum device 60.

When vacuum is applied to at least one of the liquefier 40 or the plant distillate storage tank 50 using the vacuum device 60, the plant extract liquid evaporator 20 and the impurity separator 30 are in a vacuum state. The plant extract in the plant extract extractor 10 moves along the extract supply pipe 81 to move the lower liquid portion 21a, the evaporation tube 22 of the evaporator 21b, the lower liquid portion 21a and the liquid phase. Filled in the liquid phase chamber portion 31 in communication with the communication tube (82).

The plant extract liquid filled in the lower liquid portion 21a, the evaporation tube 22 and the liquid chamber portion 31 is checked through a transparent confirmation window 31a and at the same time, the pressure is measured by a pressure gauge P to measure the vacuum degree. Adjust

The heating medium is supplied to the evaporator 21b to evaporate the plant extract in the evaporation tube 22.

The plant extract vapor evaporated in the evaporation tube 22 is supplied to the cyclone portion 32 through the steam supply pipe 83 and rotates, and the plant extract vapor rotated in the cyclone portion 32 is located in the upper phase. After being introduced into the chamber part 33, the vapor is introduced into the vapor transfer pipe 84 and supplied to the liquefier 40. The plant extract vapor supplied to the liquefier 40 is later liquefied and phase-changed into plant distillate Then it is stored in the plant distillate storage tank (50).

The plant extract liquid vapor supplied to the cyclone part 32 to rotate rotates and moves upwards (vertically), thereby separating impurities in the plant extract vapor by the difference in centrifugal force and mass so that the plant is supplied to the liquefier 40. Extraction steam is fed only purified plant extract vapor.

In addition, the plant extract liquid stored (filled) in the liquid chamber portion 31 positioned below by the plant extract liquid vapor supplied to the cyclone portion 32 and rotating may be rotated and stirred.

10: plant extract extractor
20: plant extract liquid evaporator 21: body
21a: lower liquid phase portion 21b: evaporation portion
21c: upper gas phase part 22: tube for evaporation
24: diaphragm
30 impurity separator 31 liquid phase chamber portion
32: cyclone part 33: gas phase chamber part
40: liquefier
50: plant distillate storage tank 51, 52: storage tank
60: vacuum apparatus
70: heating medium supply device
81: extract liquid supply pipe 82: liquid communication tube
83: steam supply pipe 84: steam transport pipe
85: distillate transfer pipe 86, 87: vacuum piping

Claims (4)

A plant extract extractor 10 which is heated to obtain an extract from the plant;
A plant extract evaporator 20 for heating the extract obtained from the plant extract extractor 10 to obtain plant extract vapor;
A cyclone impurity separator (30) for separating impurities in the plant extract liquid vapor supplied from the plant extract liquid evaporator (20);
A liquefier 40 for liquefying the plant extract vapor supplied from the impurity separator 30 to obtain a plant distillate;
It includes a plant distillate storage tank 50 for storing the plant distillate obtained from the liquefier 40,
The plant extract evaporator 20 is partitioned with a partition plate 24 to allow the plant extract to flow into the lower liquid portion 21a which is in communication with the plant extract extractor 10, and an evaporator for heating and evaporating the plant extract ( 21b) and a body 21 formed of an upper gas phase portion 21c having a discharge port formed therein for discharging the plant extract liquid vapor; A plurality of evaporation tubes 22 installed in the evaporator 21b to communicate the lower liquid part 21a and the upper gas phase part 21c with each other; It consists of an inlet (23a) for supplying a heating medium installed in the evaporator (21b) and the discharge port (23b) discharged,
The impurity separator 30 supplies the plant extract vapor supplied from the plant extract evaporator 20 so as to rotate, and then discharges the plant extract vapor upwards so that impurities in the plant extract vapor fall by gravity to cause impurities from the plant extract vapor. A liquid chamber part 31 in which the plant extract is filled in communication with the lower liquid part 21a; A cyclone portion 32 positioned above the liquid phase chamber portion 31 and in communication with the upper gas phase portion 21c and supplied to rotate the plant extract liquid vapor supplied from the upper gas phase portion 21c; Plant distillate extractor, characterized in that composed of a vapor phase chamber part 33 located on top of the cyclone part (32) and in communication with the liquefier (40). The method of claim 1,
The cyclone portion (32) is located in the middle of the impurity separator (30), the plant distillate extract, characterized in that it has a diameter larger than the diameter of the vapor phase chamber portion (33). 3. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 2,
The plant distillate extractor further includes a vacuum device (60),
A vacuum is applied to at least one of the liquefier 40 or the plant distillate storage tank 50 by using the vacuum device 60 to extract the plant extract in the plant extract extractor 10 and extract the plant extract evaporator 20 or the plant extract. Plant distillate extractor, characterized in that to be introduced into the evaporator 20 and the impurity separator (30).

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