Design and Fabrication of Gravity Separator of Stone from Cattle Manure and Determining Maximum Efficiency | ||
| تحقیقات سامانهها و مکانیزاسیون کشاورزی | ||
| Article 4, Volume 20, Issue 73, March 2020, Pages 35-52 PDF (1.39 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.22092/erams.2018.121863.1258 | ||
| Authors | ||
| R. Rahimi; M. H. Kianmehr* ; S. Reza Hassan-Beigi; Payam Zarafshan | ||
| University of Tehran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| One of the methods of using livestock exhaust is compressing and pelletting it, which causes facilitation of transportation, reduction of odor and gradual release of nitrogen. For manure pelleting, extruder and disk pelleting are used. Since the stones existing materials in the stored manure cause damage to the pelletting apparatus, so the removal of the stone from the manure before the processing is necessary. In this research, with the aim of separation the rock from the manure, a gravity separator was designed and fabricated. The performance of the device was evaluated by changing the three slope parameters of the material separator plates, manure moisture content and the size of the stone and manure dimensions The changed level was for 10, 15 and 20 ° slopes of separators, 10, 30 and 50% of the moisture content of manure, and for the particle size of less than 10, 10 to 20 and 20 to 50 mm. The maximum device separation efficiency of the stone from the manure was 76.81% at 10 ° slope, 50% moisture content and a particle size less than 10 mm. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Biomass; Cascade; Pellet; Slope plates; Vibration | ||
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