Closed full-automatic material far infrared drying equipment
By using a closed, fully automated far-infrared drying equipment, which utilizes multi-stage conveyor belts and far-infrared lamps for uniform heating, combined with a quality control system, the problems of volatile oil loss and decomposition of heat-sensitive components during the drying process of medicinal materials are solved, achieving efficient and safe drying results.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202520186412.2
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-02-06
- Publication Date
- 2026-02-06
- Estimated Expiration
- 2035-02-06
AI Technical Summary
Existing drying technologies are insufficient to achieve efficient and uniform drying while maintaining the volatile oil content in medicinal materials, and may lead to the decomposition or isomerization of heat-sensitive components, affecting the quality of medicinal materials.
The equipment adopts a closed, fully automatic far-infrared material drying system, including a trapezoidal drying chamber, multi-stage conveyor belts, and far-infrared lamps. Combined with a quality control system and an electrical control system, it achieves precise temperature and speed control, identifies and removes impurities, and uses far-infrared radiation for uniform heating.
It achieves a rapid and uniform drying process, preserves the volatile oil components in medicinal materials, improves production efficiency and safety, and reduces energy consumption and exhaust emissions. It is suitable for drying medicinal materials, processed medicinal slices, extracts, and other materials.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to a kind of closed full-automatic material far infrared drying equipment, it is applicable to the drying of medicinal materials, decoction pieces, extract, inclusion compound and other materials, belongs to the field of medicine, food equipment. BACKGROUND
[0002] Far infrared drying technology is a kind of drying method using far infrared light as energy and driving force, the far infrared emitted by far infrared radiation element is absorbed by heated substance, so that its molecule, atom produces vibration, the temperature of object rapidly rises, liquid molecules such as water are driven out from material to achieve the purpose of drying. Far infrared drying technology can make object surface quickly, accurately and cleanly dry, without affecting the physical properties of substance, and far infrared drying has sterilization effect, which is beneficial to improve the sanitary quality and safety of food. Far infrared drying technology has been applied to drying and protection treatment in food preservation, pharmaceutical preparations, textile processing, electronic devices, household goods waterproof seal and other industries.
[0003] The correct selection of drying method is crucial for the quality assurance of medicinal materials and related materials. Volatile oil is an important active ingredient with volatility, which is easily volatilized during drying, resulting in a decrease in the active ingredients of medicinal materials or materials containing volatile oil and a decrease in quality. Polysaccharide is a natural high molecular compound polymerized from monosaccharide. The medicinal materials or materials containing polysaccharide may aggregate during drying, thereby affecting their activity. In addition, the drying process may also cause the decomposition or isomerization of heat-sensitive components, thereby affecting the efficacy of medicinal materials. Traditional drying methods often cannot effectively control temperature, humidity and drying speed, which may cause damage to effective components in medicinal materials and reduce the quality of medicinal materials. How to maintain the volatile oil content in medicinal materials while achieving efficient and uniform drying is still a technical problem in the field. SUMMARY
[0004] In view of the above-mentioned deficiencies of existing materials during drying process, the technical problem to be solved by the utility model is to provide a kind of closed full-automatic material far infrared drying equipment.
[0005] The utility model material drying equipment is realized by the following technical scheme:
[0006] A kind of closed full-automatic material far infrared drying equipment, it is mainly composed of feed hopper 1, material conveying system 2, drying chamber 3, quality control system 4, material collecting system 5, electrical control system 6, its special features are:
[0007] Drying chamber 3 is trapezoidal body, material conveying system 2 is arranged in the inside of drying chamber 3, feed hopper 1 and quality control system 4 are respectively arranged at the left and right ends of drying chamber 3, and material collecting system 5 is arranged at the right side of quality control system 4.
[0008] The material conveying system 2 is composed of the secondary conveying belt 22, the tertiary conveying belt 23 and the quaternary conveying belt 24 in turn from top to bottom, and the lengths of the secondary conveying belt 22, the tertiary conveying belt 23 and the quaternary conveying belt 24 increase in turn.
[0009] The far infrared lamp group 31 is arranged above the secondary conveying belt 22, the tertiary conveying belt 23 and the quaternary conveying belt 24 respectively, and the reflection partition plate 32 is arranged above the far infrared lamp group 31.
[0010] Preferably, the material conveying system 2 further comprises the climbing conveying belt 21, and the anti-skid baffle 7 is arranged on the two sides of the climbing conveying belt 21.
[0011] In the utility model, the quality control system 4 comprises a material shaping assembly 41, a visual camera assembly 42 and an air selection assembly 43, the visual camera assembly 42 is arranged above the material shaping assembly 41, and the air selection assembly 43 is arranged on the right side of the material shaping assembly 41.
[0012] The material collecting system 5 is composed of a material collecting conveyor belt 51, a groove 52, a material collecting basket 53 and a waste collecting basket 54, the groove 52 is arranged on the two sides of the material collecting conveyor belt 51, and the material collecting basket 53 and the waste collecting basket 54 are arranged below the right side of the material collecting conveyor belt 51 and the groove 52 respectively.
[0013] In the utility model, the electrical control system 6 can be used for individually setting and independently controlling or modularly setting and cooperatively controlling parameters such as feeding speed, material conveying speed, far infrared lamp group power, high-quality material boundary and air selection pressure.
[0014] The exhaust port 8 is arranged on the left side of the top of the drying chamber 3, and the pressure fan 9 is arranged on the right side of the lower part of the drying chamber 3. The material window 11 for observing the internal material state is arranged on the bottom of the drying chamber 3.
[0015] When the closed full-automatic far infrared drying equipment is used for material drying operation, the material is first added into the feeding hopper 1, then the material is transmitted upwards to the secondary conveying belt 22 through the climbing conveying belt 21 of the material conveying system 2, the far infrared lamp group 31 is arranged above the secondary conveying belt 22, the reflection partition plate 32 is arranged above the far infrared lamp group 31, the material can be dried by far infrared, and the material moves from left to right along the secondary conveying belt 22 to complete primary drying.
[0016] The material falling from the right side of the secondary conveying belt 22 to the third conveying belt 23 is dried again, and the above process is repeated to fall on the fourth conveying belt 24.
[0017] The dried material moves from left to right along the third conveying belt 24 and is transported to the area where the quality control system 4 is located for quality monitoring. The quality control system 4 includes a material shaping component 41, a visual camera component 42, and an air selection component 43. The visual camera component 42 is arranged directly above the material shaping component 41, and the air selection component 43 is arranged to the right of the material shaping component 41. The visual camera component 42 scans and identifies the material passing below it online and takes pictures. The monitoring data and images are transmitted to the computer of the electrical control system 6, which analyzes the impurities and defective materials in the material by software and automatically activates the air selection component 43 to blow off the impurities and defective materials to the grooves 52 on both sides and finally into the waste collection basket 54. The qualified material falls into the material collection basket 53 through the tail of the material collection conveyor belt 51.
[0018] The material conveying system 2 includes the climbing conveyor belt 21, the secondary conveying belt 22, the third conveying belt 23, and the fourth conveying belt 24 arranged in sequence from top to bottom. The secondary conveying belt 22, the third conveying belt 23, and the fourth conveying belt 24 are staggered with each other, allowing the material to freely fall onto the next conveying belt and achieve the effect of material turning over. Each conveying belt is independently controlled by a different conveying belt motor 10, which adjusts the speed to evenly spread the material, facilitating drying by the far-infrared lamp group 31. The dryer is externally provided with a pressure blower 9, which can timely discharge the water vapor evaporated from the material inside the dryer to the outside of the dryer through the exhaust port 8, completing the exchange of internal and external gases. The surface of the dryer shell is provided with a material window 11 for observing the internal material state, facilitating the observation of the material distribution state and drying state.
[0019] The utility model discloses a reasonable structure, and the design is ingenious, convenient operation, and the produced technical effect is remarkable, and is suitable for the drying of medicinal materials, decoction pieces, extract, extract, inclusion compound and other materials. The utility model uses far infrared rays, which deeply penetrates the material, so that the material molecules absorb and resonate, causing the vibration and rotation of molecules and atoms, finally leading to the heating of the material. Through heat diffusion, the water in the material can be evaporated more quickly, and the purpose of drying is finally achieved.
[0020] Compared with the existing material drying equipment, the utility model has the following substantial characteristics and progress:
[0021] 1、 The utility model discloses drying speed is fast, dehydration efficiency is high, and heating is even, and energy consumption is low, can reduce waste gas emission, energy -conserving and environment -friendly.
[0022] 2、 The utility model discloses when drying material, can make the temperature of object surface and inside relatively even, prevent material deformation or quality reduction.
[0023] 3、 The utility model discloses can identify the impurity and bad material in material, and is equipped with air -selected component automatic blowing -off, and the groove of both sides of collection conveying belt is passed, and the compatible material and waste are collected respectively, saves manual cost, improves production efficiency, and improves the degree of automation of equipment.
[0024] 4、 The utility model discloses through inside air circulation design, can avoid the fire and explosion of drying process and other safety accidents, improves the safety of production process.
[0025] 5、 The equipment can give accurate temperature and time setting, can also adjust drying parameter accurately according to different material kinds, nature and drying requirement etc., is applicable to the drying of medicinal materials, decoction pieces, extract, extractive, inclusion compound and other materials, realizes flexible and changeable drying demand.
[0026] Summarized above, the utility model discloses closed full -automatic material far infrared drying equipment not only has overcome the limitation of prior art drying equipment, and has extensive universality on the scope of application, can satisfy the demand of drying equipment of different industries, has wide market prospect and application value. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0027] In order to facilitate understanding and mastering the technical scheme of the application, the following will be briefly introduced. It should be known that the following drawings should not be regarded as the limitation of the scope described in the technical scheme.
[0028] Figure Figure 1 It is a kind of closed full -automatic material far infrared drying equipment structure schematic diagram:
[0029] Figure Figure 1 Marked in the following: 1-feeding hopper, 2-material conveying system, 3-drying chamber, 4-quality control system, 5-material collection system, 6-electric control system, 7-anti -slip baffle, 8-exhaust port, 9-pressure fan, 10-conveying belt motor, 11-material sight window;
[0030] 21-material climbing conveying belt, 22-second stage conveying belt, 23-third stage conveying belt, 24-fourth stage conveying belt;
[0031] 31-far infrared lamp group, 32-reflection baffle;
[0032] 41-Material sorting component, 42-Vision camera component, 43-Air separation component;
[0033] 51-Material collection conveyor belt, 52-Groove, 53-Material collection basket, 54-Waste collection basket. Detailed Implementation
[0034] The specific embodiments of this utility model will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The detailed description of the embodiments below is not intended to limit the scope of protection claimed in this application. Equivalent substitutions or modifications made by those skilled in the art without inventive effort should be included within the scope of protection of this utility model.
[0035] Example 1: Structure and operation mode of a closed-type fully automatic far-infrared drying equipment
[0036] As attached Figure 1 As shown, the high-efficiency and multifunctional volatile oil extraction equipment of this utility model mainly consists of a feeding hopper 1, a material conveying system 2, a drying chamber 3, a quality control system 4, a material collection system 5, and an electrical control system 6. The drying chamber 3 is trapezoidal in shape, the material conveying system 2 is placed inside the drying chamber 3, the feeding hopper 1 and the quality control system 4 are respectively set at the left and right ends of the drying chamber 3, and the material collection system 5 is set on the right side of the quality control system 4.
[0037] The material conveying system 2 is composed of a secondary conveyor belt 22, a tertiary conveyor belt 23, and a quaternary conveyor belt 24 stacked sequentially from top to bottom, with the lengths of the secondary conveyor belt 22, tertiary conveyor belt 23, and quaternary conveyor belt 24 increasing sequentially. Far-infrared lamp groups 31 are respectively installed directly above the secondary conveyor belt 22, tertiary conveyor belt 23, and quaternary conveyor belt 24, and reflective partitions 32 are installed directly above the far-infrared lamp groups 31.
[0038] The quality control system 4 includes a material straightening component 41, a vision camera component 42, and a gas separation component 43. The vision camera component 42 is located directly above the material straightening component 41, and the gas separation component 43 is located to the right of the material straightening component 41.
[0039] Specifically, during material drying, the material to be dried is first added to the feed hopper 1, and then the material is conveyed upward to the secondary conveyor belt 22 via the climbing conveyor belt 21 of the material conveying system 2. Far-infrared lamp groups 31 are respectively installed directly above the secondary conveyor belt 22, and reflective baffles 32 are installed directly above the far-infrared lamp groups 31, which can perform far-infrared drying on the material. The material moves from left to right along the secondary conveyor belt 22 to complete the initial drying.
[0040] The material after the first drying falls from the right side of the second conveying belt 22 onto the third conveying belt 23, the second conveying belt 22, the third conveying belt 23 and the fourth conveying belt 24 are stacked in turn from top to bottom, and the lengths of the second conveying belt 22, the third conveying belt 23 and the fourth conveying belt 24 increase in turn. The material falling onto the third conveying belt 23 is dried again, and the above process is repeated to fall onto the fourth conveying belt 24. The material is gradually dried through the third material conveying belt, and the drying process is completed.
[0041] The dried material moves from left to right along the fourth conveying belt 24 and is transported to the area where the quality control system 4 is located for quality monitoring. The quality control system 4 includes a material shaping assembly 41, a visual camera assembly 42 and an air selection assembly 43. The visual camera assembly 42 is arranged directly above the material shaping assembly 41, and the air selection assembly 43 is arranged on the right side of the material shaping assembly 41. The visual camera assembly 42 scans and identifies the material passing below it online and takes pictures. The monitoring data and images are transmitted to the computer of the electrical control system 6, which analyzes the impurities and defective materials in the material by software and automatically activates the air selection assembly 43 to blow off the impurities and defective materials to the grooves 52 on both sides and finally into the waste collection basket 54. The qualified material falls into the material collection basket 53 through the tail of the material collection conveyor belt 51, thereby completing the entire material drying process.
[0042] Example 2: Study on the retention rate of volatile oil in the drying process of honeysuckle medicinal materials
[0043] 1. Materials and instruments
[0044] 1.1 Materials
[0045] 20 kg of honeysuckle was provided by Lunan Houpu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. and met the requirements of the 2015 edition of Chinese Pharmacopoeia after testing.
[0046] 1.2 Instruments
[0047] TCS-30 electronic platform scale (Mettler-Toledo), GZX-9240MBE electric heating constant temperature air drying oven (Shanghai Boxun Industry Co., Ltd. Medical Equipment Factory), and the utility model discloses a closed full-automatic material far infrared drying equipment.
[0048] 2. Methods
[0049] 2.1 Preparation of dried honeysuckle products
[0050] Take 2 parts of 10 kg of fresh honeysuckle flower buds that have not opened, sample (one) is dried using a conventional hot air drying method, the temperature is set to 65 DEG C, and the drying time is 12 h, to obtain medicinal material 1; sample (two) is dried using the closed full-automatic material far infrared drying equipment, the horizontal moving speed of each conveying belt is set to 3 m / h, and the power is 2.5 kw, to obtain medicinal material 2.
[0051] 2.2 Drying effect research
[0052] A small amount of medicinal material 1 and medicinal material 2 after drying is taken, crushed, and fine powder is obtained, and the moisture value (%) is determined according to the reduced pressure drying method under the item of water determination method in the 2020 edition of Chinese Pharmacopoeia (fourth volume) general rule 0832. The above dried medicinal material 1 and medicinal material 2 are taken, and water vapor distillation method is used to extract volatile oil, the extraction time is 6 h, the volume of water-containing volatile oil is recorded, and the volatile oil extraction rate (%) is calculated.
[0053] 3. Results and analysis
[0054] Compared with the medicinal material obtained by drying treatment of the hot air drying oven, the moisture value of the medicinal material obtained by using the closed full-automatic material far infrared drying equipment is low, and the volatile oil yield is high, which shows that the far infrared drying method is beneficial to the retention of volatile oil in the medicinal material drying process. The results are shown in Table 1.
[0055] Table 1 Moisture value, volatile oil volume and volatile oil extraction rate of honeysuckle medicinal material obtained by different drying methods (x ± s)
[0056]
[0057] From the above research results, the utility model can make the medicinal material dry at room temperature by far infrared radiation to drive out water and other liquid molecules. The honeysuckle medicinal material pieces prepared by the utility model have lower moisture content and higher volatile oil retention rate, and the loss of heat-sensitive components can be reduced as much as possible during the drying process, so that the quality of the processed pieces is better.
Claims
1. A closed-type fully automatic far-infrared drying equipment for materials, mainly composed of a feeding hopper (1), a material conveying system (2), a drying chamber (3), a quality control system (4), a material collection system (5), and an electrical control system (6), characterized in that: The drying chamber (3) is trapezoidal in shape. The material conveying system (2) is located inside the drying chamber (3). The feed hopper (1) and the quality control system (4) are located at the left and right ends of the drying chamber (3), respectively. The material collection system (5) is located on the right side of the quality control system (4).
2. The device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The material conveying system (2) is composed of a secondary conveyor belt (22), a tertiary conveyor belt (23), and a quaternary conveyor belt (24) stacked in a top-to-bottom order, with the lengths of the secondary conveyor belt (22), the tertiary conveyor belt (23), and the quaternary conveyor belt (24) increasing sequentially.
3. The device as described in claim 2, characterized in that, Far-infrared lamp groups (31) are respectively installed directly above the secondary conveyor belt (22), the tertiary conveyor belt (23) and the quaternary conveyor belt (24), and a reflective partition (32) is installed directly above the far-infrared lamp groups (31).
4. The device as described in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that, The material conveying system (2) also includes a climbing conveyor belt (21), and anti-slip baffles (7) are set on both sides of the climbing conveyor belt (21).
5. The device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The quality control system (4) includes a material straightening component (41), a vision camera component (42), and a gas separation component (43). The vision camera component (42) is located directly above the material straightening component (41), and the gas separation component (43) is located to the right of the material straightening component (41).
6. The device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The material collection system (5) consists of a material collection conveyor belt (51), a groove (52), a material collection basket (53), and a waste collection basket (54). The groove (52) is distributed on both sides of the material collection conveyor belt (51), and the material collection basket (53) and the waste collection basket (54) are respectively placed on the lower right side of the material collection conveyor belt (51) and the groove (52).
7. The device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, An exhaust port (8) is provided on the top left side of the drying chamber (3), and a pressure fan (9) is provided on the lower right side of the drying chamber (3).
8. The device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The bottom of the drying chamber (3) is provided with a material viewing window (11) for observing the state of the internal materials.