Serious environmental problems extraction process and equipment of traditional Chinese medicine need to be improved and upgraded

[industry trends of China Pharmaceutical network] data shows that at present, China's traditional Chinese medicine industry is about 900 billion yuan, accounting for about one third of the total output value of China's biomedical industry It can be seen that the scale of traditional Chinese medicine industry is huge With people's attention to health and the improvement of traditional Chinese medicine cognition, traditional Chinese medicine products will usher in good development opportunities In this context, the equipment related to the production of traditional Chinese medicine, such as the extraction tank equipment of traditional Chinese medicine, also has a good growth space According to the industry, the requirements of extraction workshop, production process and extraction equipment are more and more strict in the current Chinese medicine extraction industry Among them, the extraction tank is a commonly used extraction equipment in the pharmaceutical industry, which is suitable for the extraction of components contained in plant products It is also a multi-purpose equipment designed for the cooking and extraction process of traditional Chinese medicine factory It can extract, recover alcohol and separate volatile oil in the process The production process of the extraction workshop is called extraction process, that is to say, the solid materials that have been chopped or crushed into coarse powder in advance are put into the extraction tank of traditional Chinese medicine, quantitative solvent is added into the tank, heated and boiled to the specified time, and then filtered and concentrated to obtain the extraction concentrate (cream) It is reported that in the traditional Chinese medicine industry, ethanol process is widely used Due to its good solubility and strong penetration ability to Chinese herbal medicine cells, the water-soluble impurities dissolved are less, and the extraction effect meets the quality requirements of drug production, but the production cost is more expensive The industry reminds that ethanol has the danger of flammability and malignancy Its steam and air can form explosive mixture, which can cause combustion and explosion in case of open fire and high heat Therefore, the use of ethanol process needs strict specifications According to the regulations, traditional Chinese medicine enterprises should pass the environmental protection acceptance and the permission of the market supervision department before they can carry out the extraction and production in this respect And the extraction workshop can only use alcohol when it meets the requirements of class a fire risk setting Relevant Chinese medicine enterprises need to take preventive measures in advance, and inform the employees of the risk factors, preventive measures and emergency measures of the workplace and work posts In addition, the vent pipe of the traditional Chinese medicine extraction tank using ethanol should be set outdoors, and the exhaust device must be set to prevent the large accumulation of ethanol vapor in the extraction workshop during the venting and pressure relief process According to the relevant reports in the past two years, the explosion and fire in the extraction workshop of pharmaceutical enterprises occur repeatedly because the main responsibility of safety production is not implemented, which brings certain losses to personnel, property and environment Here also give Chinese medicine extraction enterprises a wake-up call: tens of millions of process, safety, pharmaceutical non-standard, two lines of family tears In addition, with the increasingly serious problems of energy consumption and environmental protection, traditional Chinese medicine production enterprises need to rectify and upgrade, and all production links and waste disposal links should be implemented from the preparation and production of each production line to the treatment and discharge of waste water, waste gas and waste residue Equipment enterprises related to the production of traditional Chinese medicine also need to grasp the needs of traditional Chinese medicine enterprises, constantly improve and upgrade equipment, and help the better development of traditional Chinese medicine industry
For example, extraction tank enterprises have experienced many reforms to improve and innovate the structure of equipment The new extraction equipment greatly shortens the extraction time and improves the extraction efficiency However, in terms of process upgrading, compared with the imported equipment, the domestic extraction tank equipment still needs to innovate the process and increase the R & D investment to break the monopoly situation of the imported equipment in the domestic market 。