Heat treatment of mucous by-products under the influence of electrophysical factors: development of the installation

Low efficiency of equipment for heat treatment, disinfection and removal of unpleasant odour of substandard mucous by-products urges the development of an installation that provides for the complex effect of ultra-high frequency electromagnetic field, ozone and bactericidal flow of ultraviolet rays. The paper presents the technology and describes the installation developed by the authors. The installation ensures electromagnetic safety and uniformity of loading according to the penetration depth of the wave. The duration of raw material treatment is matched with the specific power of the microwave generator, the power of the lamps and with the rotation frequency of the compartment disc. The electric field strength has been studied in the CST Microwave Studio program. The developed installation contains a resonator in the form of a flattened spheroid with diameters of the main axes multiple of half the wavelength. Magnetrons are placed on the upper surface of the spheroid along the perimeter. On the inner surface of the spheroid, where there are corona needles, ring electro-gas-discharge lamps powered from pulsed modeled high-frequency generators are uniformly installed along the perimeter through the gap. The source of radiation in the bactericidal lamp is an electric discharge in a mixture of mercury vapour and argon. A fluoroplastic perforated disc is installed at the level of the large diameter of the spheroid, on which mucous by-products are treated. The conducted research shows that the intrinsic factor of quality of the spheroid resonator is 9000. The heat treatment and disinfection of raw materials is most effective at the plant productivity of 50 kg/h, electric field strength of 3 to 4 kV/cm, disc rotation frequency of 0.17 to 0.2 rpm and a specific power of the microwave generator of 1.2 W/g. Power consumption amounted to 6.6 kW, while energy costs were 0.132 kW∙h/kg.

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