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The invention provides a tobacco stalk pre-processing method and tobacco stalk pre-processing equipment which can shorten the water permeability time of the tobacco stalk, ensure consistent moisture of the soaked tobacco stalk, save the storage process of the moistening of the tobacco stalk and simplify the process flow. The method comprises the following steps of: feeding a tobacco stalk material into a screw conveyer which is filled with steam and keeps proper pressure and proper temperature; continuously feeding the tobacco stalk material into the screw conveyer through a feeding vapor lock; continuously discharging the tobacco stalk material through a discharging vapor lock; and increasing the moisture and the temperature of the tobacco stalk to meet the requirements of the stalk pressing and cutting process on the discharging temperature and the moisture. The equipment comprises a bearing screw conveyer with a steam inlet and a water drainage port; a feed port and a discharge port of the screw conveyer are provided with the feeding vapor lock and the discharging vapor lock respectively; and the feeding vapor lock is provided with a water replenishing port. The water permeability of the tobacco stalk is improved by increasing the pressure and the temperature of the moistening environment of the tobacco stalk, so that the method and the equipment shorten the water permeability time of the tobacco stalks, quickly realize the pre-processing effect of the moistening of the tobacco stalk, save the storage process of the moistening of the tobacco stalk and greatly simplify the process flow of the stalk processing.

Provided is a process for processing a filament-shaped stem and a strip-shaped stem simultaneously. The process is characterized in that the first step of tobacco stem expansion, the second step of tobacco stem storage, the third step of tobacco stem separation and the fourth step of tobacco stem classification processing are included; in the first step of tobacco stem expansion, fed tobacco stems are expanded in a stem explosion mode or a microwave mode; in the second step of tobacco stem storage, the expanded tobacco stems are stored for 5 days to two years, so that the tobacco stems are structurally solidified; in the third step of tobacco stem separation, two types of the expanded tobacco stems obviously different in size are separated through tobacco stem separation equipment, one type of tobacco stem is thin expanded tobacco stems, the width or the diameter of each tobacco stem is smaller than 5 mm, and the other type of tobacco stem is thick expanded tobacco stems, and the width or diameter of each tobacco stem is larger than 5 mm; in the fourth step of tobacco stem classification processing, according to the characteristics of the thin expanded tobacco stems and the characteristics of the thick expanded tobacco stems, classification processing is carried out in the corresponding processing process, the thin expanded tobacco stems are processed to be filament-shaped stems and the thick expanded tobacco stems are processed to be strip-shaped stems.

The invention provides a preparation process of expanded stem products and belongs to the technical field of tobaccos. The preparation process comprises the following steps of: removing impurities such as metal, hemp ropes, stem heads and stem picks in tobacco stems; expanding the tobacco stems by microwave and steam; conveying the expanded tobacco stems into a pressure container to carry out pressure treatment; carrying out moisture regaining on the tobacco stems after pressure treatment and preparing into a certain product form; adopting a soaking mode to wash the stems, then dewatering by a physical mode till the water content is below 70%, and then adding additive feed liquid extracted from the tobaccos; adopting the traditional equipment in the tobacco industry to dry the stem products added with the feed liquid till the water content is 11 to 12%, adopting a flavoring machine to carry out flavoring treatment on the dried stem products, and balancing the water content to 11 to 12%. The preparation process provided by the invention has the advantages that the whole process is simple, the energy consumption is low, the quality of the expanded stem products obtained is close to that of the shredded tobacco product, the filling value is high, and large-scale adding can be achieved, so that the expanded stem product is an excellent tobacco additive.

The invention discloses a technology for treating expanded stems, belongs to the technical field of shred making of tobacco, and in particular relates to the technical field of shred making with tobacco stems. The technology comprises the following steps of: soaking the tobacco stems, storing the stems, quantitatively feeding, heating and humidifying, slicing the stems for the first time, temporarily storing the stem slices, discharging the stem slices, cutting the stems into shreds for the second time, quantitatively feeding, adding the primary stem shreds, storing the stem shreds, quantitatively feeding, drying, and performing secondary flavoring, thus obtaining a stem shred finished product. The obtained product has the advantages of good bulkiness, low breaking rate, low production cost, pure aroma, high filling value, light wood mixed gas, comfortable mouthfeel, soft smoke, capability of reducing tar of cigarettes and good compatibility with the tobacco shreds.

The invention discloses a method for processing supercritical expansion of cigarettes dried in the air, which comprises the following steps: a. tobacco leaves are loosened and humidified to increase the water ratio and the temperature of the tobacco leaves so that the tobacco leaves are loosened and the moisture content is even, materials are added to humidify the tobacco leaves; b. the tobacco leaves are cut into leaf threads; c. the leaf threads are stored; d. the leaf threads are put into a dipping mangle to be dipped for 20 to 60 seconds; e. the loosening, storage and feeding are performed; f. the leaf threads are expanded; g. the cooling, resurgence and perfuming processes are performed; and h. the foreign matters in the expanded leaf threads are removed. The method can apparently reduce the tar content, meet the style feature of cured tobacco products, and increase the dried tobacco filing value, thereby reducing the usage amount of finished products of tobacco shreds, and reducing the formulation cost; moreover, the method sufficiently adopts the function of expanded tobacco shreds on the specific incense and the form of smoke gas; and the formulation structure has relatively high adjustability, thereby effectively adjusting indexes such as the incense, concentration, taste, comfort and the form of smoke gas, and improving the formulation usability.

A cigarette with low tar is prepared from the mixture of fennel's stem and leaf and tobacco shreds through mashing the stems and leaves of fennel, pulping, adding phosphoric acid, citric acid and sodium benzoate, heating, cooling, drying, making sheets, slitting to become shreds, proportionally mixing with tobacco shreds and perfume, and conventionally preparing cigarettes.

The invention discloses a use method of reconstituted tobacco in production of cigarettes. Firstly, the reconstituted tobacco is cut into threads of the same specification with tobacco threads to be blended for standby; then the standby threads are blended with the tobacco threads after drying process of cigarettes and before aromatic adding process; and finally cigarette making and packaging arecarried out according to normal production process flow of cigarettes. The use method effectively solves the inherent problems of the prior art such as winding, clotting and the like, improves the filling value of finished tobacco threads and reduces the thread consumption amount per carton for cigarette enterprises. The blending performance of the obtained reconstituted tobacco threads is enhanced, the mixing uniformity of the reconstituted tobacco is improved when blending cigarettes and the quality of cigarettes is stabilized and improved. By making the reconstituted tobaccos into the reconstituted tobacco threads to be provided for cigarette enterprises, the use method improves the flexibility when the enterprises develop cigarettes and enhances the controllability of reconstituted tobaccos.

The invention discloses a papermaking tobacco sheet pulp grinding process. Specifically speaking, under the light beating condition, three-stage light beating flexible pulp grinding is adopted, each stage needs at least two pulp grinding machines, pulp concentration is decreased gradually, and size circulation process is controlled. In prepared size, fibers with the length of 0.5-1.25mm reach more than 63%, bulk degrees of base tabs reach 2.8-3.0cm <3>/g, spreading rates, filling values, burning velocity of finished sheets are improved greatly, tar contents and carbon oxide contents are reduced greatly, and the bulk degrees of the finished sheets reach 2.3-2.5cm<3>/g. The number of pulp grinding machines arranged in the first stage, the second stage and the third stage in a serial connection mode is respectively 4, 3 and 2. The pulp grinding concentration in the first stage, the second stage and the third stage are respectively set to be 4.5-5.0%, 4.0-4.5% and 2.0-2.5%. Times of self-circulation of the size in the first stage, the second stage and the third stage are respectively 1-3 times, 1-2 times and 1-2 times. The times for which mixed size prepared in different components passes through the pulp grinding machines in the whole process are 9-22 times actually, and all nine pulp grinding machines allow constant power regulation independently.

The invention discloses a reconstituted tobacco leaf and a preparation method and application thereof. The reconstituted tobacco leaf is prepared by a papermaking method; a paper base formed by using pulp is perforated and then coated with a coating solution; and in the paper base, the aperture is 0.4 to 0.8 millimeter, the hole pitch is 1.0 to 3.0 millimeters, and the hole row pitch is 1.5 to 2.0 millimeters. The structure of the paper base is optimized, and perforation design is adopted, so that the contact area of the paper base and the coating solution is increased; and the coating solution is easily penetrated into the paper base, so that the absorption performance of the paper base on the coating solution is remarkably improved, the coating rate is finally remarkably improved, full bearing of soluble components and aroma components of the reconstituted tobacco leaf is ensured, the sensory quality is greatly improved, aroma quality and impurity gas are obviously improved, and the quality of the reconstituted tobacco leaf is integrally improved.

The invention relates to a treatment process for expanded tobacco stems, and belongs to the technical field of main material and auxiliary material processing in the tobacco industry. The microwave expanded tobacco stems are classified according to the thickness and/or the length, the expanded tobacco stems are placed into a pressure vessel, nitrogen with the purity being larger than 78% is connected into the pressure vessel, the tobacco stems and the nitrogen are evenly mixed, the pressure in the vessel is normal pressure to 8 MPa, the pressure is kept for 10 seconds to 40 minutes, the nitrogen in the pressure vessel is exhausted, the nitrogen can be recycled after purification and compressing treatment, the expanded tobacco stems after treatment are taken out, and the expanded tobacco stems are boxed or bagged in a classified mode for standby application; or moisture regain is conducted directly, so that products such as stem shreds, stem strip shreds and stem particles are manufactured. The microwave expanded tobacco stems treated through the process do not need to be stored any more, wooden odors and offensive odors in the tobacco stems are reduced, the tobacco stems cannot retract after moisture regain, and good elasticity and processing resistance are achieved. By means of the treatment process for the expanded tobacco stems, the requirement for the conditions such as warehouse space, manpower and logistics in the storage link is met, and therefore enterprise cost is greatly lowered.

A hammer type shearing granulator comprises a granulating cabin (2) provided with a feeding port (1) and a discharging port (11), a blade support (4) and shearing blades (3) installed on the blade support, wherein the blade support (4) is installed in the granulating cabin and can rotate around a horizontal central shaft (5). The outer end of the central shaft of the blade support is connected with a power transmission device. The blade support is of a transversely arranged cylindrical-cage-shaped structure, cylindrical-cage-shaped strips (4a) are evenly distributed on the outer circumferential face of the blade support, each blade is of a structure with a single side or double sides provided with edges, installation holes (3a) capable of being freely sleeved on the cage strips (4a) are arranged at one ends or two ends of the blades, at least two blades are evenly installed on each cage strip, the blades on two adjacent cage strips are arranged in staggered mode, and a screen net (10) is arranged at the position of the discharging port of the granulating cabin. Expansion tobacco stalk granulation is performed by means of the hammer type shearing granulator, particle shape of ternary porous particles of expansion tobacco stalk is changed, production yield is improved, a product filling value is improved, and service life of the blades is prolonged.

The invention discloses characteristic water for improving flavor quality of cigarette and an application thereof. Pure water is controlled to flow by a natural mineral filling column with the flow speed of 350 to 380 ml/min and then to flow by a magnetic field, the strength of the magnetic field is 9000 to 9500 Gs, the acting time of the water in the magnetic field is more than or equal to 15 min, so the water with the pH value of 9 to 9.5, i.e. the characteristic water is obtained. When blending the perfume of the cigarette, the characteristic water is adopted as solvent or thinner to substitute the conventional pure water, primary distilled water or the second distilled water, so on the premise that the characteristic of the fragrance is not influenced, the stimulation is reduced, the sweetness and the moisture of the smoke can be improved. The tourmaline ceramic ball which is doped with other mineral ceramic ball is innovatively utilized to process the water, and then stabilization treatment on the water is performed by the magnetic field, so a new thought for improving the smoking quality of the cigarette is provided.

The invention relates to the field of tobacco, in particular to a method for treating cut stems of tobacco leaves. The method comprises the steps of reducing the content of cell wall substances through H2O2 and ammonia, improving the reactivity of the cut stems with an enzyme, further utilizing the compound enzyme for catalytic degradation of proteins, starch, cellulose and other macromolecules, generating an aroma precursor, sugar and amino acids and further generating aroma substances by further decomposition. The adoption of the method for treating the cut stems can improve the filling value by 27.6%, improve the sugar/nicotine ratio by 49.5% and reduce the content of the cell wall substances by 42.3%, and the analysis of main aroma components shows that the total content of the aroma components is improved by 25.7%, wherein the content of Maillard reaction products is improved by 140.5%, and the content of carotenoid degradation products is improved by 115.6%. The sensory evaluation shows that the effects of reducing wood flavor, reducing irritation, increasing aroma quantity and leading the smoke to be coordinated and thicker can be realized after the treatment of the cut stems of the tobacco leaves by using the method, indicating that the method has good application prospect in the tobacco industry.

A tobacco leaves processing apparatus for removing free nicotine, odor and stimulating substance from tobacco leaves iscomposed of a cylindrical body with drum, supporting frame and spray tube in it. Said drum is supported by the rollers on said supporting frame and is rotating on the rollers under the action of external driver. The liquid additive is sprayed onto the tobacco leaves via said spray tube.

The invention relates to a method for increasing a retention rate of calcium carbonate in paper-making reconstituted tobacco. The method comprises the steps that the calcium carbonate is added into a wood pulp fiber sizing agent with a certain beating degree to enable the calcium carbonate and the wood pulp fiber sizing agent to be fully adsorbed to form a compound; the compound is wrapped by carboxymethylcellulose to form a larger flocculation body; modification and stability treatment are performed on the surface of the flocculation body by aluminum sulfate; the modified calcium carbonate and a tobacco sizing agent are mixed with the help of a multi-element composite retention and drainage system and then processed into the reconstituted tobacco through papermaking, squeezing, coating, drying and slitting. By means of the method for increasing the retention rate of the calcium carbonate in the paper-making reconstituted tobacco, the binding force of the modified calcium carbonate and the sizing agent is enhanced, the modified calcium carbonate and the sizing agent are not likely to run off, and the retention rate of the modified calcium carbonate in the reconstituted tobacco is high.

The invention discloses a processing method of a heat-not-burn cigarette with a curling structure. The method comprises the following steps of rolling and pressing a dry and wet material mixture to obtain atomized reconstituted tobacco leaves; dispersing a graphene nanometer material, a solid adhesive and an atomization agent mixture into water; uniformly spraying the solution onto one sides of the atomized reconstituted tobacco leaves; performing primary heating drying to obtain semi-dried heat-not-burn reconstituted tobacco leaves; performing shredding to obtain semi-wet heat-not-burn reconstituted tobacco leaves; performing secondary heating drying to obtain cut tobacco of the heat-not-burn reconstituted tobacco leaves; and performing rolling connection and packaging to obtain the heat-not-burn cigarette with the curling structure. The problem of great addition proportion of atomization agents is solved, so that the cut tobacco is changed from a straight shape to a naturally curlingshape; a filling value is increased; the smoke overflowing is easy; the smoke release quantity is increased; the smoking feeling is improved; the cut tobacco elasticity is improved; the holding forceis increased; the cut tobacco cannot easily fall; the tensile strength of the heat-not-burn reconstituted tobacco leaves is improved; breakage cannot easily occur; rolling packaging processing is convenient to perform; and the heat conductivity is improved, so that the carbonization of heating cigarettes is safer.