KR19990047924A - Fermentation Treatment System for Food Waste - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a fermentation apparatus for food waste, and more particularly, to a fermentation apparatus for food waste which maximizes the fermentation efficiency of food waste by effectively crushing the food waste put into an inner container.

That is, the main body; An inner passage provided at an upper portion of the main body and provided with an inlet; Two grinding screws installed in engagement with an inner bottom of the inner cylinder to crush food waste; A stirring blade installed in the inner cylinder and rotated by a driving means having a motor; Hot air supply means for forcibly supplying hot heat to the inner cylinder as a circulation fan and at the same time, a condenser and a heater having a cooling fan in place of the hot air supply pipe; A fluid heating tank installed in close contact with an outer surface of the inner cylinder and heated by heat to guide a hot air supply pipe; A control box installed in place of the main body and having a plurality of switches and electromagnetic means embedded therein; It is composed of such features.

Description

Fermentation Treatment System for Food Waste

The present invention relates to a fermentation apparatus for food waste, and more particularly, to a fermentation apparatus for food waste which maximizes the fermentation efficiency of food waste by effectively crushing the food waste put into an inner container.

A general food waste fermentation treatment apparatus includes a main body, a cylindrical inner cylinder installed inside the main body, a stirring blade installed in the inner cylinder and rotated by a driving means provided with a motor, and hot air is supplied to the inner cylinder. Hot air supply means, and the like.

In other words, a predetermined amount of food waste and a fermentation agent are respectively put in the inner cylinder, and then the inner waste cylinder is supplied with a high temperature heat and at the same time by rotating the stirring blade therein to organically fertilize the food waste.

However, such a conventional fermentation treatment apparatus is because the drying of food waste only by hot air, that is, hot air of the hot air supply means in the inner cylinder, the fermentation processing time of the food waste becomes long, and the purpose of shortening the fermentation processing time of the food waste When the heater means is installed in the inner tube, it takes a lot of money to manufacture the fermentation processing apparatus and at the same time a lot of power is consumed to operate the heater means.

In addition, the conventional fermentation treatment device is agitated food waste only by stirring blades in the inner cylinder and then dry the food waste only by the hot air of the hot air supply means, so that the food waste at the bottom of the inner cylinder is not properly agitated without being fixed, resulting in food waste. There was a problem in that the fermentation treatment time becomes longer.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, by installing a fluid heating tank through which the hot air supply pipe is in close contact with the inner cylinder of the fermentation treatment device to significantly reduce the fermentation processing time of food waste and at the same time open the heat supply means It is an object of the present invention to provide a fermentation treatment apparatus for food waste which minimizes the consumption of energy such as electric power by heating a fluid heating tank.

In addition, the present invention is to provide a fermentation treatment apparatus for food waste, which greatly improves the fermentation treatment efficiency of food waste by effectively crushing the food waste by installing two grinding screws interlocked at the bottom of the inner cylinder of the fermentation treatment apparatus. There is this.

1 is a block diagram of a fermentation apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a side cross-sectional view of the fermentation treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is another side cross-sectional view of the fermentation treatment apparatus according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view of the main portion of the grinding screw according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

1: body 2: inner cylinder

2a: inlet 3: stirring blade

4 driving means 4a motor

5: grinding screw 5a: wing

6: fluid heating tank 7: control box

7a: dust box 8: hot air supply means

8a: condenser 8b: condenser tube

8c: cooling fan

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a main body, an inner cylinder having an inlet provided at an upper portion thereof while being installed inside the main body, and two grinding screws installed to mesh with each other at an inner bottom of the inner cylinder to crush food waste. And a stirring blade installed in the inner cylinder and rotated by a driving means provided with a motor, a condenser and a heater having a cooling fan in place in the hot air supply pipe while forcibly supplying high temperature heat to the inner cylinder as a circulation fan. Installed heat supply means, a fluid heating tank which is installed in close contact with the outer surface of the inner cylinder to heat the hot air supply pipe, and a control installed in place of the main body of a plurality of switches and electromagnetic means Box, and so on.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a fermentation apparatus according to the present invention, Figure 2 and Figure 3 is a side cross-sectional view of the fermentation apparatus according to the present invention.

The main body 1 of the fermentation processing apparatus is formed in a rectangular cylinder shape, and the opening and closing door 1a is rotatably installed on the upper part of the main body 1 by a hinge, and the front lower part of the main body 1 has a fermentation treatment. An outlet 1b through which the organic matters are discharged is formed.

The inner cylinder 2 installed inside the main body 1 is formed of a metal cylinder having good thermal conductivity such as stainless steel, and corresponds to the opening / closing door 1a of the main body on the upper portion of the inner cylinder 2 so that food waste An inlet 2a to be introduced is formed, and an outlet 2b communicating with the outlet 1b of the main body 1 is formed at the lower portion of the inner cylinder 2.

The stirring blades 3 are rotatably installed in the nozzle tube 3a in the longitudinal direction of the inner cylinder 2, and a plurality of vanes 3b for stirring food waste are provided at several places of the nozzle tube 3a. A plurality of hot air nozzles 3c having a predetermined length are provided at several places of the nozzle pipe 3a to spray hot air supplied from the outside to the food waste to be stirred.

In addition, a large diameter gear (not shown) is coupled to one end of the nozzle tube 3a protruding to one side of the main body 1, and is connected to the motor 4a of the driving means 4 by a chain belt.

The grinding screws 5 are installed to be engaged with each other in the sea of the inner cylinder 2, but as the blades 5a formed on the outer periphery of the grinding screw 5 are interlocked with each other in a screw form, the crushing of food waste The chain belt 5d rotated by the drive gear 5c of the motor 5b is installed at one end of the grinding screw 5 protruding to one side of the inner cylinder 2. That is, when the motor 5b rotates in one direction, the drive gear 5c coupled with the shaft rotates the chain belt 5d to rotate the grinding screw 5 at a predetermined speed. The stirring blade (3) connected to the chain belt of 4) is also rotated together.

The fluid heating tank 6 is installed on the outer periphery of the inner cylinder 2, and then a predetermined amount of fluid, for example, oil, is stored in the fluid heating tank 6 to heat the hot air supply pipe of the hot air supply means described later. The temperature is raised by this, the oil is heated to dry the food waste inside the inner container (2). At this time, the fluid heating tank 6 is heated to about 250 to 300 degrees.

In addition, overflow pipes are installed at upper ends of both sides of the fluid heating tank 6 to prevent oil from boiling inside, and a heat insulating member is installed on the outer surface of the fluid heating tank 6 to heat the fluid heating tank. It is preferable that the heat of (6) is conducted only to the inner cylinder (2).

The control box 7 is installed in the housing of the main body 1, and the control box 7 includes a plurality of switches and electromagnetic means for operating the driving means 4, and the like. The lower one side is provided with a dust box (7a) is installed in the upper exhaust pipe (2c) connected to the inner cylinder (2), the filter means for filtering various foreign substances discharged from the exhaust pipe (2c) inside the dust box (7a) ( 7b) is installed, and a condensate discharge 7c through which the condensed water discharged from the exhaust pipe 2c is discharged is formed below the dust box 7a.

The hot air supply means 8 is installed on one side of the dust box (7a) is a condenser (8a) for removing the moisture contained in the hot air, the condenser (8a) is repeatedly bent uniformly as shown in Figs. Consisting of a predetermined length of the condensation tube (8b) and the cooling fan (8c) for cooling the condensation tube (8b), it is preferable to install at least one cooling fan (8c) to maximize the dehumidification efficiency of hot air The cooling fan 8c is rotated by a separate drive motor.

In addition, the hot air supply pipe 8i removes the circulating fan 8d forcibly supplying the dehumidified hot air, the heater means 8e for heating the dehumidified air to an arbitrary temperature, and the odor of the heated hot wind speed. Platinum catalyst means 8f and the like are sequentially installed.

In addition, another end of the hot air supply pipe (8i) connected to the dust box (7a) is connected to the nozzle tube (3a) of the stirring blade (3) through the fluid heating tank (6), the fluid heating tank ( A branch pipe is installed in the hot air supply pipe 8i penetrated from 6), and a control valve is installed to control the hot air temperature in the hot air supply pipe 8i. At this time, the hot air supplied to the nozzle tube (3a) is to maintain about 100 degrees.

Referring to the operation of the present invention configured as described above in detail.

First, the opening and closing door 1a of the main body 1 is opened to inject an appropriate amount of food waste and fermenting agent into the inlet 2a of the inner cylinder 2, and then the opening and closing door 1a is closed.

Then, when the switch of the control box 7 is operated, the drive means 4 is the motor (5b) to operate the two grinding screws (5) of the lower portion of the inner cylinder (2) is engaged with each other, this time, Figure 4 Since the blades 5a formed on the outer periphery of the grinding screw 5 are rotated in engagement with each other, the food waste is crushed between the two blades 5a.

In addition, the drive means 4 also rotates the stirring blade (3) connected to the motor (4a) and the chain belt to repeatedly stir the food waste in the inner cylinder (2).

On the other hand, the circulation fan 8d installed in the hot air supply pipe 8i of the hot air supply means 8 is operated and the heater means 8e operates to heat the air guiding the hot air supply pipe 8i. The heated hot air heats the oil in the fluid heating tank 6 in close contact with the inner cylinder 2 to about 250 to 300 degrees, and is supplied into the nozzle tube 3a of the stirring blade 3, and then the nozzle tube The hot air nozzle 3c of 3a is injected into the food waste being stirred.

In other words, the hot air heated by the heater means 8e of the hot air supply means 8 passes through the fluid heating tank 6 and heats the oil therein from about 250 to 300 degrees. It is delivered to the inner cylinder (2) to dry the food waste that is being stirred therein, and at the same time the hot air through the fluid heating tank (6) lowered to about 100 degrees to the nozzle tube (3a) of the stirring blade (3) ) And then, the food waste being stirred through the hot air nozzle 3c of the nozzle tube 3a is dried.

When the inner cylinder 2 is filled with hot air, it is discharged to the dust box 7a through an exhaust pipe 2c connected to the inner cylinder 2, and the hot air discharged to the dust box 7a is filtered by the filter means 7b. Moisture in the hot air is condensed due to the temperature difference between the inner cylinder (2) and the dust box (7a) at the same time as the dust is filtered out, the condensate at this time to the outside through the condensate outlet (7c) under the dust box (7a) Is released.

The hot air condensed primarily in the dust box 7a is sent to the condenser 8a by the circulation fan 8d, where the hot air is condensed into the condensed water by the cooling fan 8c in the course of guiding the condenser tube 8b. After the switch is discharged to the outside through the valve, the dried hot air is passed through the platinum catalyst means (8f) to remove the odor generated during the fermentation of food waste.

As described above, the hot air circulated in the hot air supply pipe 8i heats the fluid heating tank 6 to dry food waste, and at the same time, as the hot air having a slightly lowered temperature while penetrating the fluid heating tank 6, the stirring blade. (3) and fermentation of food waste is completed more quickly than before by directly drying the food waste being stirred by the grinding screw (5).

When the fermentation treatment of food waste is completed as described above, the organic matter in the inner cylinder 2 is discharged to the outlet 1b of the main body 1 to the outside.

As described above, the present invention provides a fluid heating tank 6 through which the hot air supply pipe 8i penetrates closely with the inner cylinder 2 of the fermentation treatment apparatus, thereby greatly reducing the fermentation processing time of food waste and simultaneously opening it. It is a very useful invention that minimizes the consumption of energy such as electric power by heating the fluid heating tank (6) using the heat of the supply means.

In addition, the present invention is a very useful invention that greatly improves the fermentation treatment efficiency of food waste by effectively crushing the food waste by installing two grinding screws (5) in the inner cylinder bottom of the fermentation treatment device.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described specific preferred embodiments, and various modifications can be made by any person having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention claimed in the claims. Of course, such changes will fall within the scope of the claims.

Claims (1)

A main body, an inner cylinder having an inlet provided at an upper portion thereof while being installed inside the main body, two grinding screws which are installed to interlock with an inner bottom of the inner cylinder to crush food waste, and a motor installed in the inner cylinder; Stirring means rotated by a drive means, hot air supply means for supplying a high temperature heat to the inner cylinder as a circulation fan and a condenser and a heater having a cooling fan in place of the hot air supply pipe, and the inner cylinder of the inner cylinder Food waste, characterized in that the fluid heating tank is installed in close contact with the outer surface is heated by the heat to guide the hot air supply engine, and a control box installed in place of the main body and a plurality of switches and electromagnetic means built-in Fermentation treatment apparatus.