170results about "Biomass drying" patented technology

A system for dehydration of organic material comprises a housing structure having an interior chamber, a supply duct, a dual trunk structure, a dry air intake, a central recirculation duct, and a plurality of side recirculation ducts. The side recirculation ducts each have a return plenum extending downward from a top recirculation duct and are configured to recirculate interior air contained in the chamber. The interior air enters the side recirculation ducts through the return plenums and is pushed upward and outward through the top recirculation ducts and back into the interior chamber. The interior chamber has a plurality of exhaust vents positioned in the upper region of its walls. A plurality of portable platforms positioned inside the interior chamber are configured to hold the organic material. The floor of the housing structure can include a plurality of tracks for loading, unloading and positioning the portable platforms.

A surround hot air slow drying device and a three-stage baking method for pet food processing are provided. The surround hot air slow drying device for pet food processing includes a drying box. A hot air drying unit is provided at an inner bottom of the drying box, a circulating conveying unit is provided inside the drying box, a plurality of drying frames are evenly distributed on the circulating conveying unit, a material turning mechanism is provided inside the drying frames, and a positioning component is provided inside the drying box. The material turning mechanism cooperates with the positioning component to turn the raw materials in the drying frames.

The partial or full dehydration of organic or inorganic matter containing water by induction of matter into a vacuum and processing matter through a specially designed acceleration channel is disclosed. The inducted matter accelerates in air from zero speed to sub-sonic speed to reach supersonic speed. As the material transitions the sound barrier, it is subject to acoustic shock waves and an instant negative pressure drop occurs. The sound waves disintegrate, disinfect the material and extract part or all moisture from any organic or inorganic material.

The invention relates to the field of ginsenoside RG2 processing, in particular to a ginsenoside RG2 processing and drying device which comprises a drying box and a drying frame installed in an inner cavity of the drying box, supporting blocks are installed at the bottom of the inner cavity of the drying box in a bilateral symmetry mode, and a plurality of trays are installed on the drying frame at equal intervals up and down. A plurality of ventilation holes distributed in a matrix mode are formed in the bottom of the tray, and a plurality of grooves distributed left and right at intervals are formed in the inner walls of the front end and the rear end of the tray. Ginseng is stirred and dried through cooperation of a stirring mechanism and an air blowing mechanism, a front-back moving assembly is used for driving a mounting column to move front and back, the dried ginseng on a tray is stirred front and back through a rotating rod, the ginseng can be turned over continuously in the drying process, the ginseng is heated more evenly, and the drying quality of the ginseng is improved; the rotating rod moves to drive the air distributing pipe to move synchronously, the air distributing pipe blows hot air from the upper side and the lower side of the tray at the same time, the rotating rod is matched for stirring the ginseng, and then the ginseng drying efficiency is improved.

Certain exemplary embodiments can provide systems and / or methods for producing dried biomass materials, such as from bales of biomass. Biomass materials can be converted into, e.g., pellets, briquettes, cubes, and / or other products with dried and / or densified states. These dried, densified products can be used for, e.g., bioenergy and / or animal feed applications.

The invention relates to the technical field of pet food processing, and discloses surrounding hot air slow drying equipment for pet food processing and a three-section type baking method.The surrounding hot air slow drying equipment for pet food processing comprises a drying box, a hot air drying unit is installed at the bottom in the drying box, and a circulating conveying unit is installed in the drying box; a plurality of drying frames are evenly distributed on the circulating conveying unit, material overturning mechanisms are arranged in the drying frames, positioning assemblies are installed in the drying box, and the material overturning mechanisms and the positioning assemblies are matched to be used for overturning raw materials in the drying frames. Food particles on the drying frame are turned over by moving a turning plate in the drying frame, meanwhile, an arc-shaped plate and a second fixing plate are matched to enable the food particles to be scattered in an S shape, damage to the food particles is avoided, meanwhile, the contact face of the food particles and hot air is replaced, and the drying effect is improved while the pet food yield is increased; through the three-stage baking process, the gelatinization degree of the baked grain starch of the pet food can be increased to 90% or above, and digestion and absorption are facilitated.

A drying apparatus, particularly suitable for disposing water-containing organic waste. The drying apparatus includes a drying chamber with a circular cross-section, where waste enters the drying chamber through a waste inlet and undergoes rotational movement within the drying chamber due to a negative pressure generated by an air pump. The air pump draws out airflow from the drying chamber through an air duct connected to the flow outlet, ensuring that the waste continues to rotate during the drying process. Additionally, the apparatus is equipped with a microwave generating device, which directs microwaves into the drying chamber either directly or via a microwave conduit to efficiently dry the waste. This design combines the cyclonic motion with microwave heating, significantly enhancing drying efficiency and ensuring that the waste is fully dried in a short time, making it particularly suitable for disposing organic residue that requires rapid drying.

Food waste disposers include a housing, a grinding apparatus mounted inside the housing and configured to grind food waste, and a storage device arranged to store ground food waste. The grinding apparatus includes a grinding case including a discharge hole to allow ground food waste to be transferred to the storage device, a stationary grinder including a plurality of stationary blades coupled to a side wall of the grinding case, a rotary body rotatably coupled to a bottom surface of the grinding case, a first blade extending from the rotary body, the first blade having a first member on a front side and a second member on a rear side with a different shape from each other, and a second blade extending from the rotary body, the second blade having a shape different from a shape of the first blade.

Process for production of an infill material (200) for a synthetic turf surface (400), wherein the infill material (200) comprises a plurality of granules (201), the process comprising: —providing particles (2) made of a plant material; —tumble-drying the particles (2) for obtaining the granules (201).

The invention relates to the technical field of strawberry tea freeze-dried powder processing, and discloses a strawberry tea freeze-dried powder continuous processing production line and method.The strawberry tea freeze-dried powder continuous processing production line comprises a vacuum drying tank, a filter cylinder, an elastic assembly and a driving assembly; the filter cartridge is arranged in the vacuum drying tank, and the elastic assembly is mounted on the filter cartridge; a filter disc is installed in the filter cylinder, the filter disc divides the interior of the filter cylinder into a first cavity and a second cavity, a plurality of first steel balls are arranged in the first cavity, a plurality of second steel balls are arranged in the second cavity, and the diameter of the first steel balls is larger than that of the second steel balls. According to the invention, the filter cylinder in the vacuum drying tank rotates and shakes, steel balls with different diameters are used for performing double crushing and grinding on the raspberry tea, and meanwhile, the steel balls transfer heat during impact and accelerate diffusion and evaporation of moisture in the raspberry tea, so that integration of drying, crushing, screening and grinding is realized, the drying time is effectively shortened, the drying efficiency is improved, and the equipment cost is reduced.

According to embodiments, a modified freeze-drying apparatus and methods of use are provided herein for providing variable power heating for precise control of material temperatures during freeze-drying. The apparatus may provide a vacuum pump and variable current heater trays for receiving the material, freezing the material, creating a vacuum, progressively increasing the heater tray temperature without causing temperature cycling, deactivating the tray heater, repressurizing the apparatus, and removing the freeze-dried material.

The invention discloses a capacity expansion method of a household kitchen waste processor, which comprises the following steps: after a processing program is started, through a detection step, a control unit continuously detects and records the temperature and relative humidity of a temperature and humidity detection point through a detection element arranged at the temperature and humidity detection point of the kitchen waste processor; through the judging and reminding step, the control unit calculates and judges that the temperature rising speed of the detected temperature is not higher than a set threshold value, when the temperature rising speed is not higher than the threshold value, the user is reminded to open the cover again and add garbage into the treatment barrel in an acousto-optic reminding mode, and the treatment program continues to be operated through the cover closing control unit. According to the invention, the garbage disposal capacity of the household kitchen garbage disposer is expanded to more than three times of the actual physical capacity, so that the household kitchen garbage disposer with small capacity has the capacity of disposing large-capacity garbage.

The present disclosure provides, among other things, methods of drying porcine thyroid gland material and manufacturing DTE comprising vacuum drying porcine thyroid gland material in a way such that the temperature of the porcine thyroid gland material is maintained above a threshold temperature. Since applying vacuum, or reducing pressure, has a cooling effect on the porcine thyroid gland material, maintaining the porcine thyroid gland material above a threshold temperature can be achieved by gradually reducing pressure while simultaneously increasing the heat applied to the porcine thyroid gland material during the period of gradual pressure change. Such methods are advantageous in reducing bioburden (killing and impeding the growth of microorganisms) while maintaining therapeutic levels of thyroid hormones, as compared to certain methods of drying porcine thyroid gland material and / or manufacturing DTE known in the art.

A system for holding food waste includes a first housing forming a chamber to hold the food waste, the chamber comprising at least a first port, and a second housing comprising at least a second port configured to couple with at least the first port, and a fan to provide airflow into the chamber through at least the second port, the first housing removably coupled with the second housing such that removal of the first housing from the second housing decouples at least the first port from at least the second port.

Disclosed herein is a system and method for producing syngas from the gasification of biomass that uses heat generated during gas compression and recycles this heat to other process streams within the system, such as drying of the biomass. TIFF2025513369000003.tif76161

The disclosure relates to a self-contained mobile power generator entity (100) comprising: a biomass fuel inlet (103) configured to allow passage of biomass fuel feedstock (105) into the power generator unit; a chopper unit (107) connected to the biomass fuel inlet and configured to receive the biomass fuel feedstock and produce ignitable pieces of biomass fuel; a fuel dryer unit (109) arranged to receive the produced ignitable pieces (105a) of the biomass fuel and configured to remove excess moisture from the ignitable biomass fuel pieces in order to produce dried ignitable pieces of biomass fuel; at least one energy converter unit (113,113a,113b) configured to convert an input thermal energy, provided by a heat source and a heat sink, to an output kinetic energy; a combustion unit (111), arranged in thermal communication with the at least one energy converter unit, to provide the heat source to the at least one energy converter unit; the combustion unit being configured to receive the dried ignitable pieces of biomass fuel and configured to generate heat energy by combusting the dried ignitable pieces of biomass fuel; a heat sink unit (115), arranged in thermal communication with the at least one energy converter, to provide the heat sink to the at least one energy converter unit and dissipate heat from the at least one energy converter unit; a power generator unit (117,117a,117b) in operational communication with the at least one energy converter unit, and configured to convert the output kinetic energy received from the at least one energy converter unit to an output electrical power. The disclosure further relates to a method, a computer-implemented method for commencing and controlling an operation of a self-contained mobile power generator entity, a control system (200), a computer program product and a computer program carrier.

The invention relates to an apparatus (1) and a method for preparing organic tissue, such as a deceased human, a deceased animal, a plant or a part of the same, for enabling and optimizing an aerobic decomposition of the product, i.e. fragmented organic tissue.

According to embodiments, a modified freeze-drying apparatus and methods of use are provided herein for providing variable power heating for precise control of material temperatures during freeze-drying. The apparatus may provide a vacuum pump and variable current heater trays for receiving the material, freezing the material, creating a vacuum, progressively increasing the heater tray temperature without causing temperature cycling, deactivating the tray heater, repressurizing the apparatus, and removing the freeze-dried material.

Disclosed in the present invention is an intelligent hot-air drying apparatus free from sieve tray exchanging for an agricultural product. The apparatus comprises a drying box, a frame, a heating system, a heat exchange system, an exchange-free sieve device and an intelligent control system, wherein the exchange-free sieve device comprises an electric motor, sieve trays, a hollow pin shaft chain, chain wheels a, chain wheels b, a double chain wheel, a chain a, a driving chain wheel, a chain b, a driven chain wheel and a long shaft; the intelligent control system comprises a control center and infrared temperature measurement cameras, the infrared temperature measurement cameras each being used for collecting a temperature distribution graph of an agricultural product in each layer of sieve tray and feeding same back to the control center, and the control center performing temperature and water content analysis on the basis of the temperature distribution graph; and when the difference between the water content or temperature of the agricultural product in a sieve tray at the top and the water content or temperature of the agricultural product in a sieve tray at the bottom of the exchange-free sieve device is greater than a preset value, the control center controls the electric motor to start, so as to exchange the positions of the sieve tray at the top and the sieve tray at the bottom. The present invention has a high degree of automation, effectively reduces the labor intensity, labor costs and the energy consumption for drying, and enhances the drying efficiency and the drying quality.

The present invention relates generally to devices and methods for reducing the water content of inorganic and / or organic products or compounds of plant or animal origin, in particular to devices and methods for removing a majority of water present in products or compounds of plant or animal origin, the present invention relates to a method for preparing inorganic compounds or products to be used in other processes or to obtain finished products, such that it can be preserved (even over a long period of time) without undesirable fermentation and significant modifications in nutritional and organoleptic properties of organic compounds, and to prepare inorganic compounds or products to be used in other processes or to obtain finished products.

The invention discloses an intelligent multi-fuel supply device based on thermal power generation equipment, and relates to the technical field of fuel supply devices of the thermal power generation equipment, the intelligent multi-fuel supply device comprises a bottom plate, a coal crushing box is arranged above the bottom plate, an L-shaped supporting plate is arranged at the front end of the coal crushing box, and a first servo motor is arranged at the front end of the L-shaped supporting plate; a first rotating rod is arranged at the output end of the first servo motor, a first gear is arranged on the outer surface of the first rotating rod, a second gear is arranged on the left side of the first gear, a second rotating rod is arranged in the second gear, and crushing rollers are arranged on the outer surfaces of the first rotating rod and the second rotating rod. According to the intelligent multi-fuel supply device based on the thermal power generation equipment, fuel can be crushed and dried in the fuel supply process, fuel supply is more stable and smoother, the crushed and dried fuel can be combusted more sufficiently, and then the power generation stability and the power generation efficiency are improved.

Disclosed in the present application are a surrounding hot air slow-drying apparatus for pet food processing and a three-stage baking method. The surrounding hot air slow-drying apparatus for pet food processing comprises a drying oven (1), wherein a hot air drying unit is mounted at the inner bottom of the drying oven (1), a circulating conveying unit (2) is mounted in the drying oven (1), a plurality of drying frames (3) are uniformly distributed on the circulating conveying unit (2), material turning mechanisms are respectively provided in the drying frames (3), a positioning assembly (7) is mounted in the drying oven (1), and the material turning mechanisms cooperate with the positioning assembly (7) to turn over raw materials in the drying frames (3). By means of material turning plates (501) moving in the drying frames (3), food particles on the drying frames (3) are turned over; at the same time, arc-shaped plates (503) cooperate with second fixing plates (504) to scatter the food particles in an S-shaped path, avoiding damage to the food particles and realizing the replacement of the surfaces of the food particles in contact with hot air, and thus improving the yield of qualified pet food and improving a drying effect. By means of a three-stage baking process, the starch gelatinization degree of baked pet food can be increased to 90% or more, which is conducive to digestion and absorption.

Machines, processes, and methods in relation to processing of waste, in particular food or organic waste, are provided. Some embodiments described herein include: a drum to receive waste; mixing blades to break down waste; a heated air supply subsystem including an air heater, a fan, and a first air supply line to supply a first heated air stream into the drum; an ion generator to receive an inlet air stream and generate an ionised air stream at an outlet of the ion generator; a coupling conduit coupled at one end to the outlet of the ion generator and coupled at an opposite end to an ionised air inlet into the drum to supply the ionised air stream to the drum; wherein the first air supply line and the coupling conduit are configured so that mixing of the ionised air stream and the first heated air stream occurs downstream of each of the ion generator and the air heater.

A plant for treating organic material, having a reactor configured to dry organic material and a closure device (9) operating on a loading channel (6) for feeding material into the reactor. The closure device is designed to interact with material located at the outlet mouths (7) of the loading channel using separation elements (11). According to further aspects, the system may include an active filter (34) on a gas exhaust duct (30) that directs moisture-rich gases outside the reactor. In addition, the plant may be equipped with one or more suspension systems (57) that connect a frame (56) supporting the reactor to an angular position sensor (59), enabling translational movement of the sensor (59) relative to the frame. In other aspects, a process for treating organic material is provided, which involves loading the material into the reactor in a differentiated manner across two or more zones (3a) within the reactor (2).

The invention discloses pretreatment equipment for extracting pectin from straw, and belongs to the technical field of pectin extraction.The pretreatment equipment specifically comprises first-stage dehydration equipment, first-stage crushing equipment, second-stage dehydration equipment and second-stage crushing equipment, the discharging end of the first-stage dehydration equipment is connected with the feeding end of the first-stage crushing equipment, and the discharging end of the second-stage crushing equipment is connected with the discharging end of the second-stage crushing equipment; the discharging end of the first-stage crushing equipment is connected with the feeding end of the second-stage dehydration equipment, and the discharging end of the second-stage dehydration equipment is connected with the discharging end of the second-stage crushing equipment; compared with the prior art, the mode that straw is pretreated through first-stage dehydration, first-stage crushing, second-stage dehydration and second-stage crushing is adopted, a traditional manual natural airing mode is replaced, the crushing efficiency and the crushing effect of the straw are improved, the pectin extraction efficiency is improved, and manual physical labor is saved.

In order to capture and divert a significantly larger percentage of SCG generated on a daily basis, the present system, method and apparatus processes SCG right at the source of a bulk of SCG generation, namely the many tens of thousands of coffee shops around the world. In an aspect, there is provided a system, method, and apparatus for promptly dewatering collected SCG, and efficiently drying the SCG to a sufficiently low level of moisture content to stabilize the SCG for further processing. In an embodiment, the dewatered and dried SCG is collected within a predetermined number of hours for processing at a central processing facility, where the SCG is further processed into one or more high quality food grade ingredients for potential human consumption.

The invention relates to a process and apparatus for ultrasonic assisted drying of materials, in particular, but not exclusively, for the low temperature drying of materials that are heat sensitive. In particular, there is provided an apparatus for dehydration of water containing material comprising: an ultrasound emitter; an ultrasound transmission platform that directly or indirectly supports said material; a fluid retained between said emitter and said platform, through which ultrasound energy is transferred; and a gas stream device that directs drying gas to said material. There is also provided a method of dehydration of water containing material comprising locating the material either directly or indirectly on an ultrasound transmission platform of a dehydration apparatus that comprises: an ultrasound emitter; a fluid retained between said emitter and said platform, through which ultrasound energy is transferred; and a gas stream device that directs drying gas to said material; and exposing said material to ultrasound energy and drying gas flow for a time and under conditions suitable to achieve desired extent of dehydration of said material. In another aspect there is provided a material that has been dehydrated using the method or apparatus described above.

The present invention relates to the technical field of processing freeze-dried powder of berry tea, and discloses a continuous processing production line and method for freeze-dried powder of berry tea, the continuous processing production line for freeze-dried powder of berry tea comprising a vacuum drying tank, a filter cartridge, an elastic component and a driving component; the filter cartridge is arranged in the vacuum drying tank, and the elastic component is installed on the filter cartridge; a filter disc is installed in the filter cartridge, and the filter disc divides the filter cartridge into a first cavity and a second cavity, a plurality of first steel balls are arranged in the first cavity, and a plurality of second steel balls are arranged in the second cavity, and the diameter of the first steel ball is greater than the diameter of the second steel ball. The present invention rotates and shakes the filter cartridge in the vacuum drying tank, and utilizes steel balls of different diameters to perform double crushing and grinding on the berry tea. At the same time, the steel balls transfer heat when colliding, accelerating the diffusion and evaporation of water inside the berry tea, realizing the integration of drying, crushing, screening and grinding, effectively shortening the drying time, improving the drying efficiency and reducing the equipment cost.

Methods for drying cannabis in continuous throughput-type and batch-type microwave vacuum drying apparatus. One method uses a vacuum chamber having a plurality of adjacent drying zones. The cannabis is conveyed through each of the zones while exposing it to microwave radiation. Each of the drying zones has a microwave power level different from that of an adjacent drying zone, the microwave power levels of zones varying from each other in a non-linear arrangement from the first zone to the last zone. In a batch method, cannabis is loaded into a vacuum chamber, the pressure is reduced, and the cannabis is irradiated with microwave radiation at a first power level. The surface temperature of the cannabis is measured and when the temperature exceeds a specified temperature for a time period greater than a first time period, the power level is reduced to a lower power level for a second time period. The methods of drying maximize the retention of terpenes in the cannabis.

A gasification system for receiving biomass feedstock and gasifying the biomass feedstock to produce char can include a reaction zone for receiving biomass fuel and a cooling zone for receiving char from the reaction zone. Together, the reaction zone and the cooling zone include a reaction chamber and a cooling chamber defining a live floor and a gas recovery volume above the live floor. The reaction zone and the cooling zone also include augers arranged side-by-side on the live floor, where each auger has helical flighting. The helical flighting of each auger can be turned in an opposing direction to each adjacent auger. Each auger can also include paddles intermittently interrupting the helical flighting for turning over the biomass fuel. The augers can be driven to pull the biomass fuel from a first end to a second end of the reaction chamber and the cooling chamber