Resource utilization process for traditional Chinese medicine residues

By chopping, drying, and biomass gasifying the residue of traditional Chinese medicine, combustible gas is generated for power generation, and the residue is carbonized into biomass carbon. This solves the problems of low efficiency and resource waste in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine residue, and realizes the utilization of new energy and environmental protection.

CN121182525APending Publication Date: 2025-12-23XINJIANG UNIV OF SCI & TECH
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Application Number
CN202511474374.1
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Applications(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-10-15
Publication Date
2025-12-23

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Technical Problem

The treatment of Chinese medicinal herb residue is inefficient and costly, and it has not been effectively utilized as a new energy source, resulting in environmental pollution and resource waste.

Method used

After being chopped, dried, and pretreated as medicinal herb residue, the residue is then subjected to biomass gasification to generate combustible gas for power generation. The residue is then carbonized to form biomass carbon.

Benefits of technology

This has enabled the resource utilization of Chinese medicinal herb residue, generating new energy sources, reducing environmental pollution, achieving zero discharge of production waste, and lowering treatment costs.

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Abstract

The invention provides a traditional Chinese medicine residue resource utilization process which comprises the following steps: collecting traditional Chinese medicine residues, classifying and storing the traditional Chinese medicine residues, chopping and drying the traditional Chinese medicine residues, and evaporating water to complete pretreatment of the traditional Chinese medicine residues; the pretreated traditional Chinese medicine residues are subjected to biomass gasification treatment in a biomass gasification treatment mode; combustible gas generated in the biomass treatment process is completely combusted by a gas generator to generate heat and electric energy; the residues obtained after biomass gasification treatment are subjected to carbonization treatment, and the residues achieve the effect of biomass carbon. The traditional Chinese medicine residues are subjected to chopping and drying pretreatment and then subjected to biomass treatment, so that combustible mixed gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, methane and the like is generated from the traditional Chinese medicine residues, the gas can form new energy to serve as boiler production power, zero emission of production waste is achieved, pollution to the environment is reduced, the residues are subjected to carbonization treatment, and the production cost is reduced. And the residue reaches the effect of biomass carbon, so that resource recycling is realized, and the method is economical and practical.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The application belongs to the technical field of resource utilization of traditional Chinese medicine residues, and particularly relates to a resource utilization process of traditional Chinese medicine residues. BACKGROUND

[0002] The traditional Chinese medicine industry is in a development period, and the annual income of the traditional Chinese medicine manufacturing industry is continuously increasing. The rapid expansion of the traditional Chinese medicine industry also brings the problem of how to deal with traditional Chinese medicine residues. The traditional Chinese medicine residues are wet materials with a high water content, mainly including roots, stems and leaves of plants, and contain a large amount of small-molecule organic compounds with high nutritional components, and are easy to volatilize and have high heat. Under the traditional concept, the traditional Chinese medicine residues are mostly used for incineration and landfill, which not only causes a large amount of land waste, but also causes a certain degree of environmental pollution, and has the following disadvantages. High waste treatment cost; the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine residues needs washing, drying and other procedures, which need a large amount of manpower and material resources, and the cost is relatively high.

[0003] Low processing efficiency of existing machine equipment; for the existing traditional Chinese medicine residue treatment technology, the efficiency of the existing equipment in processing is relatively low, and the cost is relatively high.

[0004] The existing machine equipment only dries or gasifies, and is not used for biomass power generation or new energy equipment research, which restricts the use of traditional Chinese medicine residues in new energy Therefore, the resource utilization process of traditional Chinese medicine residues is provided. SUMMARY

[0005] The technical problem to be solved by the application is to provide the resource utilization process of traditional Chinese medicine residues to solve the problems in the background.

[0006] To solve the above technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the application is as follows: a resource utilization process of traditional Chinese medicine residues, comprising the following steps: S1, collecting and classifying the traditional Chinese medicine residues for storage, and then cutting and drying the traditional Chinese medicine residues to evaporate the water in the traditional Chinese medicine residues and complete the pretreatment of the traditional Chinese medicine residues; S2, using a biomass gasification treatment method to treat the pretreated traditional Chinese medicine residues; S3, the combustible gas generated in the biomass gasification treatment process is completely combusted by a gas generator to generate heat and electric energy; S4, the residue after the biomass gasification treatment is carbonized to achieve the effect of biomass carbon.

[0007] As a further description in the present application, the chopping of the traditional Chinese medicine residue in S1 is performed by using a chopper.

[0008] As a further description in the present application, the drying treatment in S1 is performed by using a chain drying machine.

[0009] As a further description in the present application, the biomass gasification treatment in S2 is performed in a gasification furnace, and the combustible gas generated is hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane.

[0010] As a further description in the present application, the carbonization treatment is a secondary treatment of the residue by using a biomass carbon furnace, which is divided into three stages of evaporation and water reduction, high-temperature decomposition and carbonization reaction.

[0011] As a further description in the present application, the evaporation and water reduction stage is an evaporation treatment of the residue by increasing the temperature in a closed environment, the high-temperature decomposition stage is a decomposition of the organic matter in the residue to form fuel gas and solid carbon, and the carbonization reaction stage is a conversion of the generated solid carbon into high-carbon by further heating.

[0012] Compared with the prior art, the present application has the following advantages: The present application has the following advantages: DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0013] In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and beneficial effects of the present application more clear, the present application will be further described in detail. It should be understood that the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present application, not all embodiments. The specific embodiments described herein are only used to explain the present application, and are not used to limit the present application. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor are within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0014] The present application provides a technical solution: a traditional Chinese medicine residue resource utilization process, characterized by comprising the following steps: S1, collecting the traditional Chinese medicine residue and then classifying and storing, and then chopping and drying, evaporating the water in the traditional Chinese medicine residue, and completing the pretreatment of the traditional Chinese medicine residue; The chopping of the traditional Chinese medicine residue is performed by using a chopper, and the particle size of the chopped traditional Chinese medicine residue is less than 2mm. The drying treatment is performed using a chain dryer, which is a full-closed 3-layer reciprocating structure. The chain dryer can prolong the residence time of the traditional Chinese medicine residues with high water content in the chain dryer, improve the drying efficiency, and prolong the residence time of the traditional Chinese medicine residues with high water content in the chain dryer to 16 minutes during normal operation.

[0015] During the drying process, chemical substances such as nitric acid are generated due to the chemical gas contained in the boiler flue gas, and a large amount of water vapor is also generated during the drying of the traditional Chinese medicine residues. This is easy to cause corrosion of the dryer. Therefore, the chain dryer framework is made of stainless steel, and the inner wall is integrally packaged with a stainless steel plate. On the one hand, the corrosion resistance is ensured, and on the other hand, the overall weight is also reduced as much as possible.

[0016] In addition, a layer of thickened heat preservation type color steel plate is integrally installed on the outer side of the stainless steel inner wall of the chain dryer as a heat preservation material. This can reduce the heat loss of the dryer, facilitate disassembly and replacement, and facilitate maintenance and maintenance during later use.

[0017] S2, the pretreated traditional Chinese medicine residues are subjected to biomass gasification treatment by using a biomass gasification treatment method; The biomass gasification treatment is performed in a gasification furnace, and the generated combustible gas is hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane; S3, the combustible gas generated during the biomass gasification treatment is completely combusted by a gas generator to generate heat and electric energy. The temperature and oxygen content and other parameters during the gasification and combustion processes are controlled during the power generation process to ensure that the expected power generation effect can be achieved and the pollution to the environment is reduced as much as possible. At the same time, it can adapt to the physical and chemical properties of the traditional Chinese medicine residues, and improve the efficiency and reliability of the biomass power generation; S4, the residues after the biomass gasification treatment are subjected to carbonization treatment to achieve the effect of biomass carbon.

[0018] The carbonization treatment is a secondary treatment of the residues by a biomass carbon furnace, which includes three stages of evaporation and water reduction, high-temperature decomposition and carbonization reaction.

[0019] The evaporation and water reduction stage is an evaporation treatment of the residues by increasing the temperature in a closed environment. The high-temperature decomposition stage is a decomposition of the organic matter in the residues to form fuel gas and solid carbon. The carbonization reaction stage is a conversion of the generated solid carbon into high-carbon by further heating.

[0020] In this embodiment, the traditional Chinese medicine residues are subjected to shredding and drying pretreatment until the water content of the traditional Chinese medicine residues is reduced to below 10%. Then, the traditional Chinese medicine residues are subjected to biomass gasification treatment to generate combustible mixed gas containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methane. The gas can form a new energy source as a boiler production power, realize zero waste discharge of production waste, reduce pollution to the environment, and achieve resource recycling and economic practicability.

[0021] When an element is referred to as being "on" or "connected to" another element, it can be directly on or connected to the other element or indirectly on or connected to the other element by intervening elements.

[0022] The positional words "inner, outer" refer to the inner and outer relative to the contour of each component itself, and the positional relationship or position indicated by the terms "length", "width", "upper", "lower", "front", "back", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner" or "outer" are the indicated positional relationship or position, which is only for the convenience of describing the present application and simplifying the description, and does not indicate or imply that the device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation on the present application.

[0023] For the convenience of description, spatial relative terms such as "over", "above", "upper surface", "upper", etc. can be used herein to describe the spatial positional relationship of one device or feature with respect to other devices or features. It should be understood that the spatial relative terms are intended to include different orientations in use or operation in addition to the orientation described by the device. Thus, the exemplary term "above" can include both "above" and "below" orientations. The device can also be positioned in other different ways, and the spatial relative description used herein is interpreted accordingly.

[0024] The terms "first", "second", etc. are only used for descriptive purposes and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of the indicated technical features. Therefore, the features defined with "first", "second" can explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features. In the description of the present application, the meaning of "multiple" is two or more, and the meaning of "several" is one or more, unless otherwise specifically limited.

[0025] It should be noted that in this text, relational terms such as first and second are only used to distinguish one entity or operation from another entity or operation, and do not necessarily require or imply any such actual relationship or order between the entities or operations. Moreover, the terms "include", "contain" or any other variant thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that the process, method, article or device including a series of elements not only includes those elements, but also includes other elements not explicitly listed or inherent to such process, method, article or device.

[0026] While embodiments of the application have been shown and described, it is to be understood that the embodiments described are merely exemplary of the principles and application of the present application. Numerous modifications and adaptions can be effected without departing from the spirit and scope of the present application, which is not limited to the exact construction and arrangement described. It is intended, therefore, to cover all modifications and adaptions that fall within the scope of the claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A process for the resource utilization of traditional Chinese medicine residue, characterized in that: Includes the following steps: S1. After collecting the Chinese herbal medicine residue, classify and store it, then chop and dry it to evaporate the moisture in the residue, thus completing the pretreatment of the Chinese herbal medicine residue. S2. Biomass gasification is used to treat the pretreated Chinese medicinal residue. S3. The combustible gas generated during the biomass treatment process is completely burned by a gas generator to produce heat and electricity. S4. The residue after biomass treatment is carbonized to achieve the effect of biomass carbon.

2. The process for resource utilization of traditional Chinese medicine residue according to claim 1, characterized in that, The Chinese herbal medicine residue in S1 is chopped using a chopper, and the chopped residue has a particle size of less than 2mm.

3. The process for resource utilization of traditional Chinese medicine residue according to claim 1, characterized in that, S1 uses a chain dryer for drying.

4. The process for resource utilization of traditional Chinese medicine residue according to claim 1, characterized in that, The biomass gasification process in S2 is carried out in a gasifier, and the combustible gases produced are hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane.

5. The process for resource utilization of traditional Chinese medicine residue according to claim 1, characterized in that, The carbonization process involves secondary treatment of the residue using a biomass carbon furnace, and consists of three stages: evaporation and water reduction, high-temperature decomposition, and carbonization reaction.

6. The process for resource utilization of traditional Chinese medicine residue according to claim 5, characterized in that, The evaporation and water reduction stage involves evaporating the residue by increasing the temperature in a closed environment. The high-temperature decomposition stage involves decomposing the organic matter in the residue to form fuel gas and solid carbon. The carbonization reaction stage involves further heating the solid carbon produced to convert it into high carbon.