Glass fiber reinforced plastic products in the industry of fermented
In recent years, with the continuous progress of science and
technology, as the people's livelihood, the fermentation industry has achieved
rapid development, fermentation equipment, from traditional to modern updates.
FRP equipment because of its good corrosion resistance, light weight
high-strength, green environmental protection characteristics of the
fermentation equipment, ideal replacements. 1, fermentation industry equipment
requirements 1) The corrosion resistance of the corrosive medium fermentation
industry mainly in three ways: First, its products or production processes in
the corrosion intermediates and the product itself, such as: citric acid, acetic
acid, salt soy sauce class, etc.; second is necessary for the process used in a
variety of accessories and cleaning supplies eliminate bacteria, such as: all
kinds of salts, inorganic salts (hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, sulfurous
acid, etc.), alkali (sodium hydroxide, ammonia, etc.) ; third is a mixture of
the above two, as well as environmental protection should be treated exhaust
gas, waste water and so on. 2) material non-toxic, can access food equipment
must meet the dress requirements of health food store products. 3) facilitate
the process of pollution prevention and control fermentation bacteria or phage
contamination is the enemy of fermentation industry, Bacterial contamination is
not only impede the production of bacteria growth and product synthesis,
disrupted the normal order of production management, but also under the
influence of working procedure of the product quality can cause serious inverted
tank (to be fermented liquid into the sewer), so production has sustained a
great loss, so equipment requirements done no dead, no leakage, and its material
non-dirt, not easy to breed, stay negative bacteria and so on. 4) has a certain
strength and stiffness. Fermentation industry in addition to finished products
and raw materials storage tanks, some of the equipment are temperature,
pressure, with mixers and other requirements, such as all kinds of fermentation
tanks, monosodium glutamate industry and in cans, ion-exchange column, and the
system of citric acid used in the vacuum Concentrator and so on. Therefore, the
material for the manufacturing equipment have a certain strength and stiffness
requirements. 5) to control costs, to meet the economic requirements. Second,
there is the current status of equipment, materials for the fermentation
industry, most of the equipment, materials generally divided into three types.
The first category is the carbon composite, that is lined with rubber, glass,
steel, stainless steel, plastic and acid-resistant tiles, etc.; the second
category as a whole stainless steel; the third category as a whole plastic (PVC,
PP, etc.). Carbon composite and plastic types of equipment, cost is moderate,
generally satisfy the usual corrosion-resistant requirements. However, carbon
composite materials and steel equipment lining very different before the
performance, construction and maintenance to bring a lot of difficulties, and
the lining easy to fall off, causing equipment corrosion and internal media
pollution, In addition, the maintenance cost increases, once the resistance of
the container corrosion lining penetration will lead to serious corrosion of
carbon steel shell, or even scrap the whole device. For the pressure tank, there
is still a serious accident such as an explosion may occur. Plastic device has a
more excellent corrosion resistance can be used for a variety of media. But the
plastic device is basically belong to the thermoplastic engineering
plastic-temperature nature of crisp, easy to crack (eg, PP, etc.), low
intensity, easy to aging, so applied to the limit. Overall stainless steel
equipment, the overall good corrosion resistance, processing, easy maintenance,
high strength, temperature resistance is good, commonly used in some of the key
and the more harsh conditions of use of equipment. However, in actual use, there
are some problems, such as corrosion, Bacterial contamination and so on, if not
properly solved, not only unable to play its advantages, but also may result in
greater losses. Third, the characteristics of a glassfiber reinforced plastic
material) to meet food hygiene requirements. Can meet the food hygiene
requirements, this is the most fundamental requirement for fermentation
equipment. Glass, steel products can meet the health requirements, the key lies
in the choice of resin lining on the need to use food-grade resin. 2)
lightweight high-strength. The proportion of glassfiber reinforced plastic is
only 1.4-2.0, while the filament winding FRP tensile strength of up to
300-500Mpa, the ultimate strength of more than ordinary steel, such as the
strength calculation here, but also has reached or exceeded some special alloy
steel, it can be used as corrosion equipment, the main structural material, and
have transportation, installation and maintenance advantages of convenience.
Excellent corrosion resistance. One of the greatest characteristics of
fiberglass is a good corrosion resistance. Through the resin types and brands of
choice, using suitable molding process, can produce a variety resistant to acid,
alkali, salt, oils and organic solvents, glass steel products. A good surface
performance and easy to clean, sterile performance. Because FRP is the overall
shape, with no seams, wall smooth, and chemical media access angle, the surface
corrosion products and scaling few phenomena, but do not breed bacteria and
microorganisms. Therefore not contaminated media, easy to clean, after the Food
and Drug Administration specialized testing, glassfiber reinforced plastic has
reached the food brewing, pharmaceutical industry requirements. Can be planned
better. FRP is a kind of species can change its original quantity and enhance
the proportion of the material-arranged manner to meet different performance
requirements of the composite material. 6) Good construction technique. Uncured
resin and the reinforcing material has the ability to change shape, therefore,
can be through different molding methods and mold easily processed into the
required shape. This feature most suitable for large-scale, integrated and
structurally complex equipment and construction requirements applicable to
on-site construction and assembly. 7) anti-aging, fire-retardant. FRP is
reinforced plastic products category, the base material of the existence of
natural aging and burning issues. But in the world after 60 years, China after
30 years of research, has been lined-step solution to enhance material plus
coupling agent treatment, the use of 50 years, the bending strength can be
maintained at 64-46%, the tensile strength retention rate at 71.2% if matched
with added antioxidant, anti-aging performance, better; glass steel substrate by
adding flame retardants and flame-retardant resin re-join the use of flame
retardants, oxygen index of up to 34-36, fully meet the requirements
fermentation equipment, fire-retardant fire . 8) 4, design and production of
issues one should pay attention to the design (1) safety factor: the safety
factor for ultimate strength and the allowable stress ratio, due to the lack of
standard glassfiber reinforced plastic strength values, but in fact the value
of dispersion measured with greater Therefore, in determining the safety factor,
we should carefully analyze and stress analysis. And accurate calculation of
stress state when at a lower factor of safety (2) made by different process
methods of FRP products, should use a different safety factor (3) The use of
higher temperatures should be chosen depending on the thermal resin deformation
temperature, choose a reasonable safety factor (4) If the impact load, fatigue
load, should increase the safety factor (5) For treatment after the curing
process, it may opt for a lower security system (6) If possible personal injury
or death, or critical equipment, should be appropriate to improve the safety
factor. In general, the overall safety factor can not be less than 6, but do not
take too high a safety factor, to avoid wastage of materials. 2) Resin Type: To
address the media in contact with the type and temperature requirements, a
reasonable choice of resin type, in the absence of reliable data, the simulation
should be used to ensure that the choice of resin in use still has the required
temperature, corrosion resistance and strength. (3) structure design. The
structural design of equipment must meet to use, easy installation requirements.
Equipment requirements, if any, to facilitate internal and external cleaning, we
should import and export, interface, nozzle, and support the Department to do
special consideration. In addition, the elastic modulus of FRP low and
reasonable structure design should be adopted to meet the stiffness
requirements. 2, the production should be strictly carried out according to
process order. In particular, corrosion-resistant layer of processing, should be
an absolute guarantee of quality, for some special requirements of the
situation, should be targeted to strict control and management. For example, to
have food hygiene requirements of strict control over the container the
following sections: (1) and media exposure necessary to select the part of the
resin, food grade and in accordance with GB13115 standards, and there is a
formal test report, the curing agent, accelerator, inhibitor agent and solvent
for the above additives must also meet the GB13225 standard requirements (2) in
the container processing has been completed, should be carried out after the
curing. Usually dealt with under the 80 degrees Celsius for more than 3h, or
room temperature curing of not less than 14d; (3) application of the contact
surface with the medium vapor temperature (temperature of 80-120 degrees
Celsius) or 80 degrees Celsius water, washed twice, and after treatment and the
use of the former in a sealed condition. 3, installation, transportation, use of glassfiber reinforced plastic is a new material, it has its own
characteristics, during the installation. Transport and use of materials with
the original system, the equipment is different, we should follow the
installation drawings and manufacturers, transport and user manual requirements
and instructions to ensure product quality. In recent years, glass-steel
fermentation equipment has been widely used Jizhou City, Hebei Province, China
and Italy as the first domestic steel glass FRP winding equipment manufacturer,
in this respect a great deal of research, development, and have achieved some
experience. Jane has been very in Shijiazhuang, Guangzhou, Lee Kum Kee and other
domestic popularization and application of a number of large breweries. With the
development of biotechnology, new techniques, technology applications will
require higher quality of products, we will keep pace with technology trends and
constantly improve the quality of glassfiber reinforced plastic equipment in
order to meet the user's requirements, in order to promote more contributions to
the development of fermentation industry.
