Distillation device for fatty acid methyl ester processing
The mechanized sampling device utilizes components such as electric control valves and grippers to automate the sampling of fatty acid methyl ester distillation equipment, solving the problems of cumbersome sampling and burns in existing technologies, and improving sampling efficiency and safety.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2025-04-21
- Publication Date
- 2026-03-24
AI Technical Summary
The current process of distilling fatty acid methyl esters involves cumbersome sampling, poses a risk of burns, and has low sampling efficiency.
Mechanized sampling is achieved by using components such as electric control valves, electric push rods, housings, limit telescopic rods, and electric parallel grippers, replacing manual sampling. This includes electric rotating components and bracket design, which automate the sampling process.
This makes the sampling process convenient and efficient, avoids the risk of burns, and improves the safety and efficiency of sampling.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to distillation technical field especially relates to a distillation device for fatty acid methyl ester processing. BACKGROUND
[0002] The main role of fatty acid methyl ester processing distillation is to remove impurities and unreacted substances in the raw material, purify fatty acid methyl ester, and separate it into different fractions according to the different carbon chain lengths to meet the needs of different applications through heating and separation process. This process not only improves the purity and quality of the product, but also ensures that it meets specific industrial standards, making it have better performance and application effect in the fields of biodiesel, chemical raw materials, etc.
[0003] At present, during the distillation process of fatty acid methyl ester, the bottom residue of the distillation column needs to be sampled to understand the composition of the bottom residue in real time and adjust the operating parameters (such as temperature, pressure) in time to optimize the separation effect.
[0004] The existing sampling method still mainly relies on manual sampling. When sampling, first, the sampling valve or sampling port reserved at the bottom of the column (usually located near the bottom of the bottom) needs to be found, then the sampling valve is opened, a small amount of residual gas or condensate is discharged in priority (to ensure that the sampling pipeline is clean), then a high-temperature-resistant sampling container is used to receive the bottom residue, and after a certain amount is taken out, the sampling valve is immediately closed.
[0005] The whole sampling process is relatively complicated, which makes the sampling efficiency not high, and there is also the risk of scalding. Therefore, an improved distillation device for fatty acid methyl ester processing is proposed. UTILITY MODEL CONTENT
[0006] The utility model discloses in order to solve the shortcoming in the prior art, and a kind of distillation device for fatty acid methyl ester processing is proposed.
[0007] In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical scheme: a kind of distillation device for fatty acid methyl ester processing, including distillation column and the sampling port of fixed installation at the bottom of distillation column, the bottom of the sampling port is fixedly penetrated with electric control valve;
[0008] The bottom side of the distillation column is fixedly installed with electric push rod, the movable end of the electric push rod is fixedly installed with shell, the shell is installed with electric rotating assembly, and the movable end of the electric rotating assembly is fixedly connected with limit telescopic rod;
[0009] The movable end of the limit telescopic rod is fixedly connected with first electric parallel jaw, and the bottle cap is fixedly clamped in the first electric parallel jaw;
[0010] The bottom of the distillation column is fixedly provided with a fixed plate, the bottom of the fixed plate is fixedly provided with a first motor, the driving shaft of the first motor is provided through the fixed plate and is fixedly connected with a bracket, the top of the bracket is symmetrically provided with a sampling bottle and a waste bottle, and the top of the bracket is fixedly provided with a second electric parallel clamp on one side.
[0011] Further, the electric rotating assembly comprises a second motor, and the second motor is fixedly installed at the bottom of the shell, the driving shaft of the second motor is provided through the shell and is fixedly connected with a driving gear, and the outer surface of the driving gear is meshedly connected with a driven gear, so that the driving of the limiting telescopic rod is facilitated.
[0012] Further, the limiting telescopic rod comprises a spline sleeve, and the driven gear is fixedly sleeved on the outer surface of the spline sleeve, and the spline sleeve is provided through the shell and is rotatably connected with the shell, the bottom of the spline sleeve is slidably inserted with a spline shaft, and the spline shaft is fixedly connected with the mounting end of the first electric parallel clamp, no matter how the spline shaft moves, when the spline sleeve rotates, the spline shaft can be driven to rotate.
[0013] Further, the fixed plate is fixedly installed on two adjacent supporting legs of the distillation column, and the supporting legs support the fixed plate, facilitating the installation of the fixed plate.
[0014] Further, the bottle cap is matched with the sampling bottle, and the bottle cap has a sealing effect on the sampling bottle.
[0015] Further, the top of the bracket is symmetrically provided with two limiting grooves, and the two limiting grooves are matched with adjacent sampling bottles and waste bottles, and the limiting grooves facilitate the limiting placement of the sampling bottles and the waste bottles.
[0016] The beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows:
[0017] When the utility model is used, the distillation device for fatty acid methyl ester processing is provided with an electric control valve, an electric push rod, a shell, a limiting telescopic rod, a first electric parallel clamp, a fixed plate, a first motor, a bracket and a second electric parallel clamp, the original manual sampling is replaced by mechanical auxiliary sampling, the sampling process is more convenient and fast, and the risk of scalding is avoided. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0018] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical scheme of the utility model, the following will briefly introduce the drawings needed to be used in the specific implementation manner, and obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the utility model, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative labor.
[0019] Fig. 1 : the perspective view of the utility model;
[0020] Fig. 2 : the partial front view of the utility model;
[0021] Fig. 3 : the partial sectional view of the utility model.
[0022] The signs are as follows:
[0023] 1, distillation column;2, electric push rod;3, sampling port;4, spline shaft;5, electric control valve;6, bottle cap;7, waste bottle;8, fixed plate;9, first electric parallel clamp jaw;10, sampling bottle;11, second electric parallel clamp jaw;12, bracket;13, first motor;14, shell;15, driving gear;16, driven gear;17, second motor;18, spline sleeve. Specific implementation
[0024] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the utility model will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the utility model. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the utility model, not all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the utility model, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the utility model.
[0025] As shown in Figs. 1 to 3 , it relates to a kind of distillation device for fatty acid methyl ester processing, including distillation column 1 and the sampling port 3 of fixed installation at the bottom of distillation column 1, the bottom of sampling port 3 is fixed and has electric control valve 5, electric control valve 5 can control the opening and closure of sampling port 3.
[0026] The bottom side of distillation column 1 is fixedly installed with electric push rod 2, the movable end of electric push rod 2 is fixedly installed with shell 14, shell 14 is installed with electric rotating assembly, electric rotating assembly includes second motor 17, and second motor 17 is fixedly installed at the bottom of shell 14, the drive shaft of second motor 17 is arranged and fixedly connected with driving gear 15 by penetrating shell 14, the outer surface of driving gear 15 is engagedly connected with driven gear 16, and electric push rod 2 can drive shell 14 and electric rotating assembly to lift.
[0027] The movable end of the electric rotating assembly is fixedly connected with a limiting telescopic rod, the limiting telescopic rod comprises a spline sleeve 18, the driven gear 16 is fixedly sleeved on the outer surface of the spline sleeve 18, the spline sleeve 18 is arranged through the shell 14 and is rotatably connected with the shell 14, the bottom of the spline sleeve 18 is slidingly sleeved with a spline shaft 4, the spline shaft 4 is fixedly connected with the mounting end of the first electric parallel clamp jaw 9, a limiting plate is arranged on the top of the spline shaft 4, the limiting plate is located on the inner side of the spline sleeve 18, so as to avoid the spline shaft 4 from being separated from the spline sleeve 18.
[0028] The movable end of the limiting telescopic rod is fixedly connected with the first electric parallel clamp jaw 9, the first electric parallel clamp jaw 9 fixedly clamps the bottle cap 6, the two movable ends of the first electric parallel clamp jaw 9 are fixedly connected with arc-shaped plates, the arc-shaped plates are used for clamping and fixing the bottle cap 6, and the positioning effect is achieved.
[0029] The bottom of the distillation column 1 is fixedly installed with a fixed plate 8, the fixed plate 8 is fixedly installed on the adjacent two supporting legs of the distillation column 1, the supporting legs support the fixed plate 8, and the installation of the fixed plate 8 is facilitated, the bottom of the fixed plate 8 is fixedly installed with a first motor 13, the driving shaft of the first motor 13 is arranged through the fixed plate 8 and is fixedly connected with a bracket 12, the first motor 13 can drive the bracket 12 to rotate, the top of the bracket 12 is symmetrically and limitingly placed with a sampling bottle 10 and a waste bottle 7, the top of the bracket 12 is symmetrically and limitingly provided with two limiting grooves, the two limiting grooves are matched with the adjacent sampling bottle 10 and waste bottle 7, the top of the bracket 12 is fixedly installed on one side with a second electric parallel clamp jaw 11, the second electric parallel clamp jaw 11 is matched with the sampling bottle 10, the two movable ends of the second electric parallel clamp jaw 11 are fixedly connected with arc-shaped claws, the arc-shaped claws are used for clamping and fixing the sampling bottle 10, the positioning and clamping effect is achieved, the bottle cap 6 is matched with the sampling bottle 10, the inner surface of the bottle cap 6 is provided with an internal thread, the outer surface of the sampling bottle 10 is provided with an external thread, the internal thread and the external thread are matched, and the bottle cap 6 is screw-connected with the sampling bottle 10.
[0030] Working principle: first, the sampling bottle 10 and waste bottle 7 are placed in the corresponding limiting groove on the top of the bracket 12, then the electric push rod 2 drives the shell 14 to descend, and the shell 14 drives the first electric parallel jaw 9 to descend through the limiting telescopic rod, when the bottom of the first electric parallel jaw 9 contacts with the bottle cap 6, it continues to descend for a distance, which is the preset height, then the first electric parallel jaw 9 clamps and fixes the bottle cap 6, then the second electric parallel jaw 11 fixes the sampling bottle 10, then the second motor 17 operates, the second motor 17 drives the driving gear 15 to rotate, the driving gear 15 drives the spline sleeve 18 to rotate through the driven gear 16, the spline sleeve 18 drives the first electric parallel jaw 9 to rotate through the spline shaft 4, so as to drive the bottle cap 6 to rotate, because the spline sleeve 18 and the spline shaft 4 have telescopic property, so in the rotating process, the bottle cap 6 rises with the thread of the sampling bottle 10, and the opening of the bottle cap 6 is completed, then the electric push rod 2 drives the bottle cap 6 to rise to the preset height under the action of various components, then the electric control valve 5 is opened, the tower bottom residues are discharged through the electric control valve 5 and fall into the waste bottle 7, after a set time, the electric control valve 5 is closed, the first motor 13 operates, the first motor 13 controls the bracket 12 to rotate 180 degrees, and the sampling bottle 10 is transferred to the position directly below the electric control valve 5, then the electric control valve 5 is opened again, the tower bottom residues fall into the sampling bottle 10, after a set time, the electric control valve 5 is closed, and the sampling bottle 10 is reset under the action of various components, then the bottle cap 6 abuts against the sampling bottle 10 under the action of various components, then the second motor 17 drives the bottle cap 6 to reverse through various components, and the bottle cap 6 is screwed on the sampling bottle 10, then all components are reset, and the user can take away the sampling bottle 10, and the waste bottle 7 can also be cleaned.
[0031] It should be noted that, in actual use, a prior art PLC controller can be additionally arranged, and the PLC controller is electrically connected with the electric control valve 5, the first electric parallel jaw 9, the second electric parallel jaw 11, the first motor 13 and the second motor 17, so as to control the overall operation, and the specific data analysis and processing related to the control function are methods that can be realized by those skilled in the art based on common knowledge, which are not within the scope of the present application, and the above description only illustrates the beneficial effects that can be realized by improving the hardware structure based on common knowledge.
[0032] The preferred embodiments disclosed above are only used to help explain the present application. The preferred embodiments do not describe all the details, and the present application is not limited to the specific implementation. Obviously, according to the content of the present application, many modifications and changes can be made. The present application selects and specifically describes these embodiments in order to better explain the principles and practical applications of the present application, so that those skilled in the art can well understand and use the present application. The present application is limited by the claims and the entire scope and equivalents thereof.
Claims
1. A distillation apparatus for processing fatty acid methyl esters, comprising a distillation column (1) and a sampling port (3) fixedly installed at the bottom of the distillation column (1), characterized in that: An electric control valve (5) is fixedly connected to the bottom of the sampling port (3); An electric push rod (2) is fixedly installed on one side of the bottom of the distillation column (1). A housing (14) is fixedly installed on the movable end of the electric push rod (2). An electric rotating assembly is installed on the housing (14). A limit telescopic rod is fixedly connected to the movable end of the electric rotating assembly. The movable end of the limiting telescopic rod is fixedly connected to a first electric parallel gripper (9), which holds the bottle cap (6). A fixing plate (8) is fixedly installed at the bottom of the distillation column (1). A first motor (13) is fixedly installed at the bottom of the fixing plate (8). The drive shaft of the first motor (13) passes through the fixing plate (8) and is fixedly connected to a bracket (12). A sampling bottle (10) and a waste bottle (7) are symmetrically positioned at the top of the bracket (12). A second electric parallel gripper (11) is fixedly installed on one side of the top of the bracket (12). The second electric parallel gripper (11) matches the sampling bottle (10).
2. The distillation apparatus for processing fatty acid methyl esters according to claim 1, characterized in that: The electric rotating assembly includes a second motor (17), which is fixedly installed at the bottom of the housing (14). The drive shaft of the second motor (17) passes through the housing (14) and is fixedly connected to a drive gear (15). The outer surface of the drive gear (15) is meshed with a driven gear (16).
3. The distillation apparatus for processing fatty acid methyl esters according to claim 1, characterized in that: The limiting telescopic rod includes a spline sleeve (18), and the driven gear (16) is fixedly sleeved on the outer surface of the spline sleeve (18). The spline sleeve (18) passes through the housing (14) and is rotatably connected to the housing (14). A spline shaft (4) is slidably inserted into the bottom of the spline sleeve (18), and the spline shaft (4) is fixedly connected to the mounting end of the first electric parallel gripper (9).
4. The distillation apparatus for processing fatty acid methyl esters according to claim 1, characterized in that: The fixing plate (8) is fixedly installed on two adjacent support legs of the distillation column (1).
5. The distillation apparatus for processing fatty acid methyl esters according to claim 1, characterized in that: The bottle cap (6) is matched with the sampling bottle (10).
6. The distillation apparatus for processing fatty acid methyl esters according to claim 1, characterized in that: The bracket (12) has two symmetrically arranged limiting grooves on its top, and the two limiting grooves match the adjacent sampling bottle (10) and waste bottle (7).