EP2786811A1 - Dispositif d'alimentation des récepteurs en liquide de nettoyage et/ou de désinfection - Google Patents

Dispositif d'alimentation des récepteurs en liquide de nettoyage et/ou de désinfection Download PDF

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EP2786811A1
EP2786811A1 EP13162424.9A EP13162424A EP2786811A1 EP 2786811 A1 EP2786811 A1 EP 2786811A1 EP 13162424 A EP13162424 A EP 13162424A EP 2786811 A1 EP2786811 A1 EP 2786811A1
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Olaf Schottdorf
Christian Vogelsang
Udo Donhauser
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    • 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
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67B—APPLYING CLOSURE MEMBERS TO BOTTLES JARS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; OPENING CLOSED CONTAINERS
    • B67B3/00—Closing bottles, jars or similar containers by applying caps
    • B67B3/003—Pretreatment of caps, e.g. cleaning, steaming, heating or sterilizing
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B67—OPENING, CLOSING OR CLEANING BOTTLES, JARS OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS; LIQUID HANDLING
    • B67C—CLEANING, FILLING WITH LIQUIDS OR SEMILIQUIDS, OR EMPTYING, OF BOTTLES, JARS, CANS, CASKS, BARRELS, OR SIMILAR CONTAINERS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FUNNELS
    • B67C3/00—Bottling liquids or semiliquids; Filling jars or cans with liquids or semiliquids using bottling or like apparatus; Filling casks or barrels with liquids or semiliquids
    • B67C3/001—Cleaning of filling devices

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  • the present invention relates to a device for supplying consumers with a cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid, preferably in a beverage filling plant.
  • cleaning and / or disinfecting fluids in beverage filling plants are also consumed by other consumers, for example in a rinser, a water lock for gas-tight sealing of an insulator, an outlet bath and an injector cooling system, and is also used for internal disinfection of an isolator or clean room, for maintenance disinfection and lubrication used by a capper.
  • the cleaning and / or disinfecting fluids used by the individual consumers are in this case brought in via separate feed lines each starting from corresponding separate reservoirs, so that, for example, in the area of the closure disinfection an independent circulation within the closure disinfection module is provided. Accordingly, separate supply lines with the corresponding peripherals in combination with the necessary signaling integration for each consumer are provided separately.
  • a device for supplying consumers with a cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid preferably in a beverage filling plant, proposed, comprising a reservoir for receiving a supply of cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid.
  • a reservoir for receiving a supply of cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid.
  • at least two consumers are connected to the reservoir via a loop.
  • a ring line is understood here a line that allows a flow of the disinfecting fluid in a circuit.
  • cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid is removed from the reservoir, passed through the loop and then fed back to the reservoir not removed in the loop residual fluid.
  • the disinfectant fluid in the loop it is possible for the disinfectant fluid in the loop to always circulate in order to provide a disinfectant fluid with defined properties at each removal point and in particular for each of the connected consumers.
  • the disinfecting fluid starting from the reservoir, for example, provided to a first consumer, then possibly consumed by that consumer Disinfection fluid returned to the loop, and then led to the next consumer.
  • an individual flow and return for the individual connected to the ring line consumer does not take place, but the ring line is used in the lying upstream of the respective consumer areas of the loop as feed and lying in the downstream of the respective consumer areas of the loop as return.
  • the connected via the loop with the reservoir consumers are, for example, a water lock for gas-tight sealing of an insulator, a Versch Zweifelerschmtechnik, an outlet bath, Injektorkühlrange, a maintenance disinfection of a beverage bottling plant, a surface cleaning in a beverage bottling plant, a rinser, an external treatment of an insulator and other consumers of Cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid.
  • a bath for a closure disinfection is integrated into the loop, particularly preferably as a separation between a pressurized flow and a non-return flow.
  • the bath for the closure disinfection particularly preferably has an overflow for holding the liquid level in the bath in such a way that a constant flow of disinfecting fluid flows through the bath, from the pressurized inlet to the return line which is essentially depressurized via the overflow.
  • the inclusion of a bath for the disinfection disinfection allows in addition to the separation between pressurized flow and unpressurized return further an additional buffer volume of disinfecting fluid, since the bath itself provides another reservoir or volume.
  • a central treatment for the cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid which in particular includes a check of the disinfectant concentration in the disinfecting fluid, as well as a filtering and temperature control of the disinfecting fluid, allows a sparing use of the cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid.
  • a return of cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid used for the disinfection into the reservoir efficiently utilizes the volume of disinfecting fluid in the device.
  • the ring line comprises a heat exchanger for controlling the temperature of the disinfecting fluid.
  • the loop further comprises a filter device for filtering the disinfecting fluid used.
  • the liquid level in the reservoir is preferably held via a distribution valve, by means of which a certain proportion of disinfecting fluid is fed into the loop, and a further portion is discharged and / or passed to a cleaning system. In a complete discharge is worked accordingly with lost disinfecting fluid.
  • the device is integrated in an automated cleaning concept of an entire beverage bottling plant, wherein the integration into the automatic cleaning concept preferably via the supply or recovery of the example in a surface cleaning on the recovery in the reservoir fed cleaning medium.
  • the cleaning medium can also be supplied to the reservoir in a separate feed. Accordingly, it can be achieved by the introduction of cleaning medium into the reservoir both a cleaning of the reservoir itself, as well as a cleaning of the loop and the consumer with the cleaning medium. The cleaning medium can then be discarded again after completion of the cleaning process and the template tank can be refilled with disinfectant.
  • the level position in the reservoir can also be achieved via a second pump during the cleaning process.
  • the cleaning fluid can be introduced.
  • the cleaning fluid can either pass through a recovery in the reservoir and the loop, or can be introduced via a cleaning device directly into the reservoir and / or the loop. Then, the cleaning of the reservoir, the loop and the consumer is performed by passing the cleaning fluid. After completion of the cleaning, the cleaning fluid can then be discarded or discharged and new disinfectant fluid initiated in order to resume production operation can.
  • the device By integrating the device into a cleaning concept, for example by feeding the respective cleaning fluid into the reservoir, a problem-free cleaning can be achieved reach all participating consumers, the loop, the reservoir and all other components on the overall cleaning concept.
  • the treatment devices which serve for the preparation of the disinfectant, so for example a filter device or a heat exchanger to achieve a treatment of the cleaning medium.
  • the device can also be used accordingly for the treatment of the cleaning medium in a beverage bottling plant.
  • a method for supplying consumers with a cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid in a beverage filling plant comprising providing a cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid in a reservoir and pumping the cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid to a consumer.
  • the cleaning and / or disinfecting fluid is pumped via a loop from the reservoir to at least two consumers.
  • a cleaning fluid is introduced into the reservoir for cleaning the device, preferably a cleaning fluid of a cleaning process collected via a collecting device, and the cleaning fluid is supplied to the reservoir.
  • FIG. 1 a device 1 for supplying consumers 6 is shown with a disinfecting fluid in a beverage filling plant.
  • a reservoir 2 is provided, which is provided for receiving a supply of disinfecting fluid.
  • a pump 3 serves to pump the disinfecting fluid from the reservoir 2 into a ring line 4.
  • the ring line 4 is formed in the embodiment shown so that the disinfecting fluid is supplied from the reservoir 2 via the pump 3 and a distribution valve 5 a portion 40 of the loop 4, on which a plurality of consumers 6 are provided or from this section 40th branch.
  • the consumers 6 are, for example, a water lock for the gas-tight sealing of an insulator space, a capper lubrication, a discharge bath, an injector cooling line, a rinser, an external treatment or external disinfection of a part of the beverage filling plant, an insulator cleaning or other consumers of disinfecting fluid.
  • the respective consumers 6 are indicated only schematically in the figures, here every possible consumer 6, which disinfectant fluid is to be supplied, may be provided.
  • the heat exchanger 7 is operated in the embodiment shown with heat energy transported by steam, but can also be operated in any other way.
  • further consumers 6 are provided on the heat exchanger 7 in a further section 42 of the ring line 4.
  • a bath 8 is provided for a closure disinfection, wherein the disinfecting fluid is introduced via a feed line 80 from the ring line 4 into the bath 8. Via a return 82, the disinfecting fluid drains out of the bath 8, in order then to be guided back to the reservoir 2 via a further section 44 of the ring line 4.
  • the bath 8 for the closure disinfection is correspondingly integrated in the ring line 4, to the effect that disinfecting fluid can flow from a section 42 of the loop 4 into the bath 8, then flows through the bath 8, and then through the return 82 into the further section 44 the ring line 4 passes.
  • the ring line 4 with its different sections 40, 42, 44 provides a circulation, which starting from the reservoir 2, a circular flow of the disinfecting fluid, in the FIG. 1 clockwise, allows.
  • the disinfecting fluid which is supplied to the individual consumers 6 or the bath 8 for the closure disinfection, is always fresh, has a predetermined concentration and is tempered via the heat exchanger 7. Accordingly, only a single treatment is required to supply a plurality of consumers 6, so that the complexity of the system can be reduced.
  • the fluid can be further processed, so that the disinfecting fluid circulating in the loop 4 always has predetermined properties, for example, a predetermined concentration of disinfectant in the disinfecting fluid, or a predetermined disinfecting fluid temperature.
  • the consumers 6 can be provided with a predetermined disinfectant fluid at each sampling point. This improves the overall efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the respective disinfection processes. Furthermore, it can be avoided in this way that each individual consumer 6 must be connected to its own supply for the disinfecting fluid. Rather, a state is reached via the ring line, at which the upstream of the respective consumer 6, 8 lying portion of the ring line 4 for the respective consumer 6, 8 is regarded as a flow, and lying after the consumer 6, 8 section of the loop 4 acts as a return.
  • this bath 8 is considered a consumer, although it also forms a part of the loop 4 at the same time, since the bath 8 is always traversed by disinfecting fluid.
  • the heat exchanger 7 can be heated via steam to be introduced, in such a way that the disinfecting fluid, which is conducted in the ring line 4, is heated to a predetermined temperature via the heat exchanger 7.
  • the level of the liquid in the reservoir 2 can be controlled. If the liquid level in the reservoir 2 threatens to exceed a predetermined level, a portion of the liquid stream can be discharged via the branch 50 by means of the controllable distribution valve 5. This is particularly important in the cleaning method described below.
  • the apparatus shown can be incorporated into a conventional cleaning concept, since a cleaning fluid which is emitted via cleaning nozzles 9, for example, for a CIP cleaning (cleaning-in-place) or a surface disinfection (SIP sterilization-in-place) of another component the beverage bottling plant are provided, preferably collected via collecting means 90 and then supplied to the reservoir 2. Accordingly, in a process state in which a cleaning of the beverage filling plant is carried out, the cleaning liquid used can be collected via the collecting means 90 and then supplied to the reservoir 2. From the reservoir 2 is then on the ring line 4 make available the corresponding cleaning fluid to the respective consumers 6, 8 possible.
  • a cleaning fluid which is emitted via cleaning nozzles 9, for example, for a CIP cleaning (cleaning-in-place) or a surface disinfection (SIP sterilization-in-place) of another component the beverage bottling plant are provided, preferably collected via collecting means 90 and then supplied to the reservoir 2. Accordingly, in a process state in which a cleaning of the beverage filling
  • a certain proportion of the cleaning fluid used can then be returned via the branch 50 of the cleaning system, so that this cleaning fluid can then continue to be used in the cleaning process, for example for re-applying an outer surface of the beverage filling plant and a subsequent collection by means of the collecting device 90th
  • FIG. 2 In an alternative, which in FIG. 2 is shown, in turn, a device is shown in which by means of a ring line 4 in different sections 40, 42, 44, a disinfecting fluid is circulated via a pump 3 in a circle and is made available to the respective transfer points the consumers 6 available.
  • a heating of the disinfecting fluid can be achieved via a heat exchanger 7 and a bath 8 for the disinfection of the closure is integrated in the ring line 4.
  • a second controllable pump 52 For dispensing a part or all of the liquid in the loop 4 and the reservoir 2 is not the controllable distribution valve 5 in the embodiment shown FIG. 1 provided, but a second controllable pump 52, by means of which corresponding fluid can be pumped into the branch 50.
  • a predetermined fluid level in the reservoir 2 is exceeded, the level can be lowered by actuating the pump 52.
  • the device can continue to be operated by entering the cleaning fluid. Accordingly, via the pump 52, the ring line 4 can be completely emptied and prepared for the cleaning operation. After completion of the cleaning process, the ring line 4 can be emptied again via the pump 52 so that subsequently a disinfectant fluid can be taken up again.
  • the heat exchanger 7 and the cleaning fluid can be heated.
  • the return 82 of the bath 8 for closure disinfection may preferably be provided as an overflow, so that a constant inflow of disinfecting fluid via the flow 80 leads to a constant flow through the bath 8, and by means of the return 82 a predetermined fluid level in the bath 8 is maintained.

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