Automatic batching

Automatic batching

Investigations should be carried out with different energy crops, which are used for methanization as a monosubstrate and in mixes. It is essential to ensure that the lab-based systems can be loaded over two days, without manual intervention.

Intelligent process control – accurate to the last gram

Substrates are inhomogeneous mixes (silage), in which demixing and variation caused by drying out or anaerobic decomposition, are to be avoided. There are similar requirements to be met in automatic feeder technology. Which is why the components of automatic TMR feeders for sheep have been modified accordingly. The base is an enclosed stainless steel hopper with a substrate conveyer and dispersal system and a precision-controlled batching auger. This conveys small quantities of the material to a scale pan, in which the weight of the batched quantity is checked down to the last gram before being loaded into the fermenter. A process control regulates the timing for batching and logs the batched quantities. Any variation from the target quantity can be automatically corrected for each subsequent batching process.