Abstract

Traditional ripe tea fermentation is directly stacking puer tea material on the ground of fermentation workshop relying on natural environment to ferment. The way of fermentation, which has poor degree of sanitation, makes fermentation process influenced by environmental change and difficult to ensure product quality and stability. To solve this problem, we design a ripe tea fermenter for puer tea. There is a certain distance between fermenter and the ground and the spindle of fermenter is designed, so as to achieve automatically agitation instead of manually turning process. It can monitor and control temperature and humidity of tea in the fermenter, so that in the fermentation process puer tea will be in a stable environment, improving fermentation process and the quality of temperature fermentation.

Keywords:

Fermenter, tea fermentation, temperature and humidity regulation,

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