High-speed, multi-functional filling equipment boosts value

[Chinese Packaging Network News] filling machines under different filling methods of different requirements for filling species, the current number, number and type of different, small quantities, poor support between companies has become a filling machine The problems in the development, the filling machine needs to be reformed in the traditional packaging process. At the same time, with the rapid growth of the beverage industry in China, new hotspots and growth points in the industry continue to emerge, and the number of emerging beverage categories continues to increase. The market for multi-functional filling machinery has great potential for development.

Increased value

In 2013, PRAN, the world's leading food producer in Bangladesh, introduced Tech-Long's 30000 BPH triple multifunctional filling equipment. The equipment can meet the needs of many types of products such as water, hot beverages, and gas-containing beverages. Pran's air-beverage drink, Sprite, has a gas-filling temperature of 10-12°C. The filling temperature of ordinary gas filling mechanical valves is 4~6°C. From an energy perspective, energy is saved to a large extent. At the same time, the improvement in the structure of the filling valve enables the liquid to flow down uniformly along the bottle wall, reducing the bubbles generated by the liquid impingement.

In addition, PRAN produces hot-filled beverage mango juice. Mango juice is prone to air bubbles during filling, and the bubble disappears for a long time (this effect is extremely unfavorable for filling). The modification of the filling valve structure of Tech-Long's filling machine makes the liquid flow down the bottle wall uniformly, which reduces the bubbles generated when the liquid is filled and hits the bottle wall. At the same time, quantitative filling can be used without backflow. The general filling machine filling return flow is generally 15%, return flow, refilling the risk, will increase the energy consumption for reprocessing. In addition, it is necessary to invest in other filtering and other operating equipment, and additional investment in additional equipment.

The multi-functional filling machine is equipped with a flow meter. The mass flow meter can meet the requirements for filling gas-containing beverages and pure water at the same time. It can also fill hot beverages such as fruit juices, and has a wide range of application. The design of the filling valve can meet the requirement of filling with medium temperature and gas, and it can also achieve good CIP effect.

Obvious advantages

Compared with the traditional mechanical valve filling machine, the flow metering filling machine has the same basic filling principle and uses the principle of equal pressure filling. However, the quantitative method of filling is different. Traditional mechanical valve filling uses the exhaust pipe to determine the liquid level of the beverage in the bottle. The quantitative filling of the flow meter uses the metering characteristics of the flow meter and directly calculates the filling rate. The volume of liquid in the bottle.

Because of the different quantitative methods, the quantitative gas filling valve and the traditional mechanical gas-containing filling valve have many differences in structure and performance, and are obviously superior to the mechanical gas filling valve. However, the cost is high (magnetic flowmeters are less expensive but cannot be used for pure water filling).

In actual production, multi-functional equipment can produce water, gas-bearing beverages, hot-filled beverages, sports drinks, and other products; customers can invest in one device to complete what the original multi-device can do, greatly reducing costs and management costs. .

Configure the device

â—† Integral base frame covers stainless steel panel, enclosed frame to ensure the cleanliness of the filler's work area; integrated base frame combined with the surrounding sink to prevent the water in the filling area from flowing to the ground.

â—† Transmission system uses integrated gear transmission, combined with the use of CNC gantry machining center precision machining of the floor frame, compared to the coupling connection, can more effectively improve the transmission accuracy.

â—† The whole machine is synchronized by the gears. Power is provided by a SEW inverter motor reducer and the transmission is accurate.

â—† Compared with the old design with the key connection, the transmission system uses the expansion sleeve design, which can effectively eliminate the machining clearance, assembly clearance and the gap caused by the long-term operation of the key wear, the circumferential position can be adjusted, the star wheel room Transmission, bottle transfer more stable.

â—† Each standard star wheel seat is equipped with a torque limiter. When the machine has abnormal conditions such as crushing bottles and clothes, it can make the star wheel automatically disengage the machine drive and stop the machine through electrical inspection to avoid machine damage and personnel. Injury, providing equipment operation safety.

â—† New electrical control system: All sites use Ethernet and device layer ring network technology (DLR).

Two-way communication, single-point network failure does not affect the system operation, and self-healing recovery time 3ms. Distributed I/O reduces wiring and failure points and is easy to maintain. Fault self-diagnosis, real-time monitoring of the operation of each site, the fault occurred in a timely manner and quickly found. The self-made height encoder can remember the working height of each bottle type for filling and capping, and automatically raises to the set height with one key. Various parameters are saved in the form of a recipe, and the replacement of the product is quick and easy.

The use of mass flowmeters and electromagnetic flowmeters for metered fills can ensure accurate filling.

Implement efficiency

â—† Filling accuracy is higher; the use of mass flow meter and electromagnetic flow meter filling for metering can ensure accurate filling volume.

â—† CIP cleaning: CIP automatic cup, stable and reliable mechanical structure.

â—† It adopts a fully automatic cleaning cup device, and the false cup passes through the cylinder guide rail to achieve the extension and retraction of the false cup sealing plate.

Automatic cleaning of the cup has two functions: First, the temperature return function. When the thermometer of the material tank shows that the filling material temperature is lower than the set value, the sealing plate automatically protrudes and seals with the filling valve. The filling material in the material tank is connected with the external pretreatment return tank through the filling valve to realize the material Temperature return function of the material in the tank. When the temperature of the material tank gradually rises to the set temperature, the sealing plate is automatically retracted and the normal filling can be performed; the second is the CIP function. When CIP is performed, the sealing plate is automatically extended to seal with the filling valve. The CIP liquid cleans and disinfects the entire interior of the filling machine. When the CIP is completed, the sealing plate is retracted by the guide rail device.

â—† Filling adjustment is flexible and convenient. It can be controlled remotely and fault diagnosis can be realized. The flow meter is used to adjust the amount of filling required, and the whole operation is controlled by the electric touch screen, and various flow level controls.

â—† Fluid loss reduction: The use of flow meter filling can control the filling volume, so that less reflux or no backflow (only one adjustment can be used to change the filling volume, only need to select the corresponding filling amount in the touch screen .

â—† When the recipe is changed, select the corresponding recipe, adjust and save once, and you need to switch the product once.

â—† Relatively high filling temperature can be achieved when gas filling, saving energy consumption.

â—† Wide range of applications. It can be used to fill almost all liquid beverages such as gas drinks, water drinks, juice drinks, etc.

With the diversification of the beverage market, customers are in the packaging industry from the promotion of water, fruit juices, gas, solid beverages containing pulp (fibers, pulps), and beverages with increasing viscosity (yogurt, jam, etc.) In terms of saving and packaging containers and materials, changes are made to save costs. Various factors urge customers to have higher and higher requirements on the technology and structure of multifunctional filling equipment. The application of one machine to all filling products is the goal of future challenges and is also the development potential of multifunctional filling equipment.