The Three-Factor Experiment on Microwave Micronization of Grain Feed

Abstract

To obtain the most reliable information about the object of research with minimal time and financial costs, it is necessary to search for a rational sequence of data collection on the characteristics of micronization of grain feeds. (Research purpose) The research purpose is in conducting experimental studies of UHF micronization of grain feeds. (Materials and methods) The article presents a full factor experiment as the method of planning and conducting the experiment, this method serves to find the optimal conditions and rules of processes occurring during ultrahigh-frequency processing of grain feed raw materials. Micronization was carried out in the developed installation, which provides the addition of magnetron powers to reduce the cost of the installation and the operating costs of micronization. Authors conducted experiments on feed barley of the second production class. During the experiment there was used the grain moisture meter "Fauna-M", ultra-high-frequency magnetron generators 1 kW Daewoo M 218 and caliper ShTs-1. (Results and discussion) A complete three-factor experiment was performed, as a result of which the influence of design parameters and installation modes on the properties of grain feed was studied on the example of feed barley when adding the magnetron powers in the device. The article presents experimental data on the measurement of the exchange energy content in samples of feed barley grain. Its increase was revealed, which is the main physical and chemical characteristic of the process of micronization of grain feed. (Conclusions) The article presents optimal ratios of variable essential factors, compliance with which can contribute to an increase in the exchange energy content in feed barley grain samples from 12 to 13.1 megajoules per kilogram: humidity of 16.5 percent, the power level of the second device, the height of the radio-transparent end of the waveguide relative to the grain layer level of 41.7 millimeters.