ASH GRANULATION IN SEED PACKAGING USING HAZARDOUS LIVESTOCK WASTE

Abstract

In the presented work the possibility of using the granulation method in the packaging of seeds is determined, in particular, for the manufacturing of granules from fertilizers. The technology of manufacturing of packaging for seeds from biological waste has been developed, based on the method of granulation of seeds with ashes of burning biological waste of animal husbandry. After burning the ash is formed into spherical granules with seeds inside. Yet it is possible to form transport packaging with the resulting ash in the form of briquettes containing plant seeds in their thickness. To determine the protective characteristics of ash granules formed around the seeds a model of granulated seeds was developed in the SolidWORKS system using the finite element method. Using the developed model, a simulation experiment was conducted to determine the process of heating the granule under the action of open solar irradiation. As a result of the experiment it was found that in the case of short-term thermal exposure, which does not exceed 10 minutes, the temperature of the seed grain will increase only by 7⁰С, which does not go beyond the temperature storage conditions of the vast majority of types of seeds.