EP1624979B1 - Installation de nettoyage des bouteilles - Google Patents

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EP1624979B1
EP1624979B1 EP04730207A EP04730207A EP1624979B1 EP 1624979 B1 EP1624979 B1 EP 1624979B1 EP 04730207 A EP04730207 A EP 04730207A EP 04730207 A EP04730207 A EP 04730207A EP 1624979 B1 EP1624979 B1 EP 1624979B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto
    • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
    • B08B9/20—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
    • B08B9/28—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus cleaning by splash, spray, or jet application, with or without soaking
    • B08B9/34—Arrangements of conduits or nozzles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/02—Cleaning by the force of jets or sprays
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B3/00—Cleaning by methods involving the use or presence of liquid or steam
    • B08B3/04—Cleaning involving contact with liquid
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B9/00—Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto
    • B08B9/08—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
    • B08B9/20—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought
    • B08B9/22—Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks by using apparatus into or on to which containers, e.g. bottles, jars, cans are brought the apparatus cleaning by soaking alone

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  • the invention relates to a bottle cleaning system explained in the preamble of claim 1 Art.
  • Articles cleaning and / or sanitizing equipment especially for refillable bottles and / or other vessels, usually operate with multiple treatment stages in which the bottles are treated with a caustic or other liquid at different temperatures to reduce, for example, thermoelectric voltages or save energy if different cleaning processes at optimal temperatures run optimally.
  • a separate heating was provided for each treatment stage, preferably steam-heated heat exchangers were used for this purpose.
  • a predetermined amount of liquid of the respective treatment stage was withdrawn continuously or at intervals from the treatment stage and reheated via the heat exchanger, if necessary.
  • the known device is thus constructed relatively expensive device.
  • the US 5,133,041 relates to a method and a device for transporting goods, in particular liquids, which have to be heated in order to prevent flocculation or solidification.
  • the liquids are stored in a tank and remain in this tank.
  • the heating takes place with the aid of the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine or, if these are not available, via an auxiliary electric heater. Both the exhaust gases and the electric heater contain heat exchangers for heating a heating oil, which is used for heating the liquids in the tank.
  • the US 4 083 398 concerns a waste heat recovery plant in chemical plants or the like.
  • the waste heat of a burner plant is used to preheat the air for the burner.
  • a device for continuous pasteurization of bottles or the like which comprises a plurality of treatment stages operated at different temperatures.
  • the water required for pasteurization for all treatment stages is heated in a common, steam-heated heat exchanger and mixed with cold water depending on the required temperature.
  • the excess water and wastewater is then returned from all treatment stages to a common storage tank, and is then reheated to the temperature of the hottest processing stage. This too is relatively expensive.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to provide a bottle cleaning system, which is structurally simple and energy-saving works.
  • the present invention is based on the finding that it is sufficient to heat only one of the treatment stages by a structurally complex, eg steam-heated heat exchanger, while the other treatment stages, if they work at the same or at a lower temperature than the first treatment stage the liquid from the first treatment stage are heated.
  • the necessary heat exchanger thus operates at a temperature below 100 ° C, so that it is structurally less expensive.
  • FIG. 1 shows the device according to the invention for treating objects with liquid by means of a bottle cleaning system in a highly schematic representation.
  • Fig. 1 shows a device 1 for treating objects with liquid, which is formed in the illustrated embodiment as a bottle cleaning system.
  • the device 1 includes a first treatment stage 2, a second treatment stage 3 and a third treatment stage 4, which are formed in the illustrated embodiment as a container for receiving a respective lye bath.
  • a first treatment stage 2 a second treatment stage 3 and a third treatment stage 4, which are formed in the illustrated embodiment as a container for receiving a respective lye bath.
  • conveyors for the objects to be treated in this case bottles that move the objects, preferably in vertical loops and preferably continuously through the respective treatment stages 2, 3, 4, that for an optimal treatment or cleaning necessary residence time in the respective treatment stages 2, 3, 4 is achieved.
  • the liquor is heated in all three treatment stages.
  • the first treatment stage 2 is connected to a main circuit 2.1 of the liquor of the first treatment stage 2.
  • the main circuit 2.1 contains a pipeline 5, which opens out of the container of the first treatment stage 2 and leads via a pump 6 into a steam-heated heat exchanger 7, which is supplied via a line 8 with steam and contains the usual condensate drainage 9, which preferably has a condensate flow control, wherein the heat exchanger is more or less accumulated depending on power requirements via a control valve.
  • the heat exchanger 7 is preferably designed a plate heat exchanger and sufficiently powerful so that it can heat the liquor from the first treatment stage 2 over the operating temperature.
  • the emerging from the heat exchanger 7 line 5 leads to a second heat exchanger 10, which in turn is designed as a plate heat exchanger, and then passes through a shut-off valve 5a, back into the first treatment stage 2.
  • a bypass line 11 is still provided, which steam-heated, first heat exchanger 7 bridged.
  • the bypass line 11 is connected to a bypass valve 12 and a differential pressure gauge 13, via which the heating power can be adjusted.
  • a second differential pressure gauge 14 is provided, via which the pressure loss of the steam-heated heat exchanger 7 can be measured.
  • the first treatment stage 2 also contains a secondary circuit 2.2, which contains a line 15 which branches off the pump 6 from the main circuit 2.1 and leads back into the first treatment stage 2.
  • This secondary circuit 2.2 is used to supply spray nozzles, not shown, the outside and optionally splash inside and on the objects or bottles and thus mechanically support the cleaning.
  • the second treatment stage 3 contains a main and a secondary circuit 3.1 and 3.2 for the liquor.
  • the main circuit 3.1 leads out with a line 16 from the second treatment stage 3, which leads via a pump 17 and a shut-off valve 18 in the second heat exchanger 10 and from there via a further shut-off valve 19 returns to the second treatment stage 3.
  • the main circuit 3.1 is further provided with a bypass line 20, in which a valve 21 is located, wherein the bypass line 20 bridges the heat exchanger 10.
  • the secondary circuit 3.2 is formed analogously to the main circuit 2.2 of the first treatment stage 2 and contains a line 22, the downstream of the pump 17 but before the heat exchanger 10 and the shut-off valve 18 branches off the line 16 and back into the second treatment stage 3 for supplying an injection device leads.
  • the third treatment stage 4 also has a main circuit 4.1 and a secondary circuit 4.2.
  • the main circuit 4.1 has a line which opens out with a first line section 23a from the third treatment stage 4 and via a pump 24 and a valve 25 into the main circuit 3.1 of the second treatment stage 3 opens at a position between the valve 18 and the heat exchanger 10 lies.
  • Another line section 23b opens out of the main circuit 3.1 of the second treatment stage 3 at a point between the outlet of the heat exchanger 10 and the valve 19, again via a valve 26 and returns to the third treatment stage 4.
  • a bypass line 27 with a Valve 28 for bridging the heat exchanger 10th provided, the line 27 connects the wiring harness 23a between the pump 24 and the valve 25 with the wiring harness 23b downstream of the valve 26.
  • temperature sensors for monitoring the temperature and controlling the device 1 are provided at appropriate locations.
  • the main circuit 2.1 of the first treatment stage 2 and the performance of the steam-heated, first heat exchanger 7 is adjusted so that the temperature of the alkali bath in the first treatment stage 2 to the required temperature, for example 81 ° C, brought and kept.
  • the temperature in the main circuit 2.1 over the operating temperature of the first treatment stage 2, for example to 95 ° C.
  • This temperature is then maintained, for example via a control of the pump power of the pump 6 and / or the opening and closing of the bypass line 11.
  • a continuous volume flow is preferably maintained, which is ensured via the bypass valve 12, depending on the interpretation / Power requirement between 30 - 50% of the circulation volume of the first treatment stage 2 passed over the first heat exchanger 7 and is mixed behind the heat exchanger 7 with the liquor from the bypass line 11, so that a temperature of 95 ° C can be maintained.
  • the liquor of the treatment stage 3 and the liquor of the treatment stage 4 are heated by the liquor of the treatment stage 2 in the heat exchanger 10, wherein through the elevated temperature in the main circuit 2.1 of the first treatment stage, the liquor in the subsequent treatment stages 3, 4 can also be set to 81 or 80 ° C or any temperature below it.
  • This is again done via the power of the pumps 17 and 24, the feed control via the bypass lines 20, 27 and / or the complete decoupling of the main circuits 3.1 and 4.1 from the heat exchanger 10 via the valves 18, 19, 25 and 26.
  • only two or more than three treatment stages may be provided.
  • the secondary circuits can be omitted at all or at selected stages of treatment, if a mechanical cleaning is no longer required.
  • the plate heat exchangers preferably used, other heat exchangers can be used.
  • the first heat exchanger can also be replaced by other suitable media, such as steam. Hot water or thermal oil to be heated.

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  1. Installation de lavage de bouteilles (1) comprenant au moins un premier et un deuxième étage de traitement (2, 3), chaque étage de traitement (2, 3) contenant un récipient pour la réception de respectivement un bain de liquide, et comprenant un agencement d'échangeur de chaleur (7, 10) pour chauffer le liquide, caractérisé en ce que l'agencement d'échangeur de chaleur présente un premier échangeur de chaleur (7) pour le premier étage de traitement (2) et un deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10) pour le deuxième étage de traitement (3), en ce que le premier étage de traitement (2) présente un circuit principal (2.1) pour le liquide de premier étage de traitement qui est guidé à partir du premier récipient par-dessus le premier et le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (7, 10) en retour dans le premier récipient, et en ce que le deuxième étage de traitement (3) présente un circuit principal (3.1) pour le liquide du deuxième étage de traitement qui est guidé à partir du deuxième récipient par-dessus le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10) et en retour dans le deuxième récipient, le liquide du premier étage de traitement (2) pouvant être chauffé dans un premier échangeur de chaleur (7) via un milieu de chauffage amené de l'extérieur et le liquide du deuxième étage de traitement (3) pouvant être chauffé dans le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10) via le liquide du premier étage de traitement (2) chauffé dans le premier échangeur de chaleur (7).
  2. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par un troisième étage de traitement (4), le liquide du troisième étage de traitement (4) pouvant également être chauffé via le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10).
  3. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que l'échangeur de chaleur (7, 10) est un échangeur de chaleur à plaques.
  4. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le liquide dans le premier échangeur de chaleur (7) peut être chauffé au-delà de la température de mise en service du premier étage de traitement (2).
  5. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que le premier étage de traitement (2) présente un circuit secondaire (2.2) pour le liquide, qui contourne les échangeurs de chaleur (7, 10).
  6. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon la revendication 4 ou 5, caractérisé en ce qu'on prévoit une pompe (6) dans le circuit principal (2.1) avant le premier et le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (7, 10), le circuit secondaire (3.3) se ramifiant après la pompe (6) et avant les échangeurs de chaleur (7, 10).
  7. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que le deuxième étage de traitement (3) présente un circuit secondaire (3.2) qui contourne le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10).
  8. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce qu'on prévoit une pompe (17) dans le circuit principal (3.1) avant le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10), et en ce que le circuit secondaire (3.2) se ramifie après la pompe (17) et avant le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10).
  9. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 8, caractérisé en ce que le troisième étage de traitement (4) présente un circuit principal (4.1) qui est guidé par-dessus le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10).
  10. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que le circuit principal (4.1) du troisième étage de traitement (4) est relié, avant et après le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10), au circuit principal (3.1) du deuxième étage de traitement (3).
  11. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon la revendication 9 ou 10, caractérisé en ce que le troisième étage de traitement (4) présente un circuit secondaire (4.2) qui contourne le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10).
  12. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que le circuit principal (4.1) du troisième étage de traitement (4) présente une pompe avant le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10), et en ce que le circuit secondaire (4.2) se ramifie après la pompe (24) et avant le deuxième échangeur de chaleur (10).
  13. Installation de lavage de bouteilles selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 12, caractérisé en ce qu'on prévoit un bipasse (11, 20, 27) dans le circuit principal (2.1, 3.1, 4.1) qui contourne au moins un échangeur de chaleur (7, respectivement 10).
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