385results about "Invertebrate treatment" patented technology

Devices and methods are disclosed for the containment and culture of worms, and the preparation of composts, vermicomposts, and castings from organic and inorganic wastes.

An organic fertilizer manufacturing process through dual processing with microbial strains and earthworms is provided. An organic fertilizer is manufactured from plant fiber, poultry manure, the microbial strains and the earthworms. The produced organic fertilizer is capable of obviously improving soil fertility and loosening soil, is simple and convenient in a production process and low in cost, and brings farmers with the earthworms, and other by-products.

The invention is a vermicomposter which is a composting device that uses earthworms or worms to accelerate the composting process. A multiple tray system is used to greatly increase compost production and for convenience of compost harvesting. The invention uses thermal siphon airflow and light-tight air permeable connections between its members to increase compost production. The vermicomposter comprises: a base with collection tray, at least one stacking tray, and a light-tight air-permeable lid. The upper surface of the base forms the collection tray which comprises: a set of sides, a bottom, a set of support ribs with notches, and is open on the top to form a liquid-tight container. Notches are sectioned out of the upper inner corner of each support rib. Each notch defines on the rib: a notch bottom surface, a notch side surface, a side vent distance, and a lower vent distance. One mode of the invention further comprises a worm ladder which comprises: a horizontal flange, at least one ramp, and large void area. A stacking tray comprises: a wide brim, a set of sides, a bottom, and is open on the top. A light-tight air-permeable lid is used to cover the upper most stacking tray and provide a light-tight air-permeable cover for the device. The lid comprises: a large dome area, a wide brim, a skirt, a set of vertical support ribs, and a set of lateral support ribs.

A composting apparatus and method utilizing a vessel for receiving organic material which is rotatably supported. In a preferred embodiment, the vessel has a two corrugated conduits of different diameters and the one of smaller diameter is axially aligned inside the larger conduit to move and agitate the material in two different lateral directions. The worm vermicompositing takes place in the inside of the smaller diameter conduit, dropped into the outlet larger conduit where it is dried and collected. In another embodiment, the vessel is fabricated from secured end-to-end at their top ends. The vessel is rotated by an electric motor with a gear reduction drive sprocket engaging a peripheral track on the exterior of the larger diameter conduit. Water can be added during the vermicompositing to make and collect worm tea.

A biodegradable wellbore fluid with an oleaginous phase including a linear paraffin having 11-18 carbon atoms, a non-oleaginous phase, an emulsifying agent and optionally a weighting agent. Use of the fluid while drilling allows bio-remediation of drill cuttings using land spreading, bioreactors, conventional composting or vermiculture composting. The resulting product, especially when vermicomposed, is potentially useful as a soil amendment or plant fertilizer material.

The invention provides a chicken manure treatment method and system based on hermetia illucens. The treatment method includes the following steps that 1, a chicken manure falling area and a hermetia illucens treatment pool are arranged at the position of a hencoop, so that chicken manure in the hencoop falls into the hermetia illucens treatment pool through the chicken manure falling area, and the hermetia illucens treatment pool contains hermetia illucens larvae; 2, at a preset temperature, chicken manure in the hermetia illucens treatment pool is ventilated; 3, when the treated chicken manure reaches the preset condition, larva and manure separation is conducted, and organic fertilizer and hermetia illucens commodity worms are obtained. By means of the chicken manure treatment method based on the hermetia illucens, the chicken manure in the hencoop can fall into the hermetia illucens treatment pool directly through the chicken manure falling area, freshness and the nutrition degree of the chicken manure can be maintained, and a good treatment effect can also be achieved. The chicken manure falling into the hermetia illucens treatment pool is directly treated by the hermetia illucens instantly, and treatment efficiency is high.

Disclosed herein is a method and composition for stimulating the growth of plant roots. This composition includes manure produced by soil-consuming worms after having exclusively consumed an aerated soil mixture and is 100% natural.

The invention discloses a preparation method of novel compost and relates to the field of preparation of agricultural fertilizer. The preparation method comprises: mixing sludge generated by sewage treatment and animal excrement; adding attapulgite and biomass charcoal; adding humic acid and waste vinasse; finally, adding auxiliary materials and spraying mixed bacterium liquid; adding mature earthworms and maturing compost; sieving; finally, detecting and packaging. According to the preparation method provided by the invention, the sludge and the animal excrement are treated by adopting a microorganism aerobic composting manner, so that harmlessness and recycling are realized; the earthworms are introduced in a treatment process, and the sludge, the animal excrement and the earthworms supplement one another; benefit maximization of fertilizer production is realized; loosening and digestion of the sludge and the animal excrement can be carried out through movement of the earthworms; a digestive treatment capability of a bacterium agent sprayed on the sludge and the animal excrement under aerobic conditions is enhanced; meanwhile, the earthworms, which are dead at a high-temperature condition, can also be used as fertilizer; the earthworms can absorb trace metals including mercury, lead, cadmium and the like in soil and the earthworms can be used for eliminating environmental pollution to a certain extent.

The invention discloses a tea residue wormcast substrate suitable for leafy vegetable seedling and a manufacturing method thereof. The substrate comprises, by volume, 20-40% of tea residue wormcast, 10-30% of perlite, 10-30% of vermiculite and 20-40% of peat. The tea residue wormcast is wormcast generated in the mode that earthworms digest tea residues and cow dung serving as an earthworm cultivation substrate. A traditional single mode that the earthworms are cultured through pure cow dung is broken through, earthworm composting reasonably combining the cow dung and the tea residues is achieved, the nutrition content of the wormcast is improved, and the role of the peat in a traditional soilless culture technology is weakened to a large extent when the wormcast serves as a leafy vegetable seedling substrate. The compound method of the leafy vegetable seedling substrate is optimized, quality of leafy vegetable seedling is improved, economic benefits are improved, and a way for recycling the tea residues is developed at the same time. A new method for breeding the earthworms through the tea residues is developed, and ways for earthworm culture and wormcast production are increased.

The invention discloses a method for treating kitchen waste by using hermetia illucens. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, kitchen waste pretreatment: filtering, sorting, crushing and stacking the kitchen waste; step 2, larva inoculation: flatly laying the pretreated kitchen waste in a waste treatment box, and then inoculating larvae hatched by hermetia illucens eggs into the kitchen waste; and step 3, material and larva separation: collecting and separating mature larvae of the hermetia illucens after breeding treatment and material residues. According to the method for treating the kitchen waste by using the hermetia illucens, the consumption capacity of the kitchen waste is high, the treatment period of the kitchen waste is shortened, breeding of the hermetia illucens larvae is facilitated, and the hermetia illucens larvae can stably and rapidly grow.

The invention discloses a method for performing pig manure resource treatment by utilizing hermetia illucens, belonging to the field of solid waste treatment. The method comprises the following technological steps: (1) mixing pig manure with oilseed meals so as to adjust the water content of pig manure; (2) performing primary fermentation to the mixture by adopting bacillus subtilis, and further fermenting with brewer yeast; (3) feeding black soldier fly Hermetia illucens for raising according to a certain proportion; and (4) after the raising period is finished, collecting the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens and ooze. The method is simple to operate, and fast for pig manure resource treatment process. After conducting the above technological treatment, pig manure and oil seed meals are converted into black soldier fly Hermetia illucens and excreta ooze thereof, the residual tetracycline antibiotics (oxytetracycline, chlorotetracycline and tetracycline) in the pig manure cannot be detected in the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens and ooze. The method not only can solve the problems of pig manure environment pollution, the antibiotics residues, human health damage and the like, but also can provide black soldier fly Hermetia illucens and ooze with rich nutrients for feed and fertilizer industries.

The invention discloses an outdoor morel high-yield cultivation method. The method comprises the following steps of 1 cultivation material formulation, 2 fermentation, 3 cultivation medium culture, 4 bagging, 5 indoor mycelium culture, 6 outdoor cultivation plot selection, 7 outdoor bag removing cultivation, 8 management after planting and 9 harvesting and preserving. According to the defects of artificial culture of morels at present, the cultivation method is the method which is capable of improving the quality and increasing the quantity and scientific in management, the morels cultivated through the method not only can achieve high yield but also can improve the quality of morel planting, the gap between artificially cultivated morels and wild morels is narrowed, and the edible and medicinal value of the morels is improved.

The invention discloses a flammulina velutipes culture medium. The flammulina velutipes culture medium comprises raw materials in parts by weight as follows: 50-60 parts of corncob, 9-19 parts of bran, 5-8 parts of rice bran, 5-15 parts of oilseed rape meal, 5-15 parts of soybean hull, 1-2 parts of gypsum powder, 1-2 parts of shell fossil and 1-2 parts of peppermint oil. A preparation method of the flammulina velutipes culture medium comprises preparation of raw materials, bottling, sterilization and cooling, wherein preparation of raw materials comprises preparation of a dry material and preparation of a wet material; preparation of the wet material is as follows: a part of materials are mixed to sufficiently suck water, citric acid or pyruvic acid are added to adjust the pH value after alcoholic fermentation, then gypsum powder, shell fossil and a nutrition liquid are added, the mixture is treated on a shaking table at a constant temperature of 25 DEG C for 10-20 minutes, and the mixture is rotationally distillated for 1-2 hours till the water content is 50%-60%; and the cooled culture medium is used for inoculating flammulina velutipes. The flammulina velutipes culture medium is rich in iron, the use amount of rice bran and the cost are reduced, the water content in the culture medium is appropriate, and nutrition components are easy to absorb by flammulina velutipes.

The present invention relates preparation of superior quality vermicompost from the distillation wastes of aromatic crops said method comprises drying of distillation waste for 24 to 72 hours, obtained after the distillation of herbage for 2-3 h. at 20-25lbs of steam pressure, chopping the waste into small pieces, transferring this material into compost pits containing about 7-10 cm layer of partially rotten cowdung and 400-450 earthworms (Perionyx excavatus)/m3, daily watering of the pits to keep the plant material moist and covering them with gunny bags to check the loss of humidity, reloading the pits (20-30 cm layer) with the chopped distilled waste after 30-35 days, restricting watering after complete degradation of the added material, harvesting of the dried material and shade drying the same for 4-5 days, and sieving the harvested compost to remove earthworms.

A process for conversion of organic wastes into biofertilizers such as soil conditioning agents of fertilizer grade, culture grade and soil grade is provided. Also provided is a process for conversion of organic wastes into material for converting waste water into reusable water. The invention provides methods for conversion of organic solid wastes to biofertilizers and reusable water in the presence of a geophagus earthworm Pheretima elongata culure to produce a variety of valuable soil conditioning products and reusable water.

A method of producing earthworm castings by feeding earthworms with feed prepared by mixing solid fuel ash with shells, crab shells and yellow earth and to an earthworm bed for producing earthworm castings, comprises the steps of: grinding solid fuel ash; washing shells and crab shells to remove salt, and then removing 80% or more of water therefrom; grinding the washed shells and crab shells; mixing 60-70 wt % of yellow earth, 20-30 wt % of the solid fuel ash and 10-20 wt % of the ground shells and crab shells; fermenting and maturing the mixture; and feeding the matured mixture to earthworms to allow the earthworms to produce earthworm castings. The earthworm bed (50) comprises: a feeding unit (52) through which feed prepared by mixing solid fuel ash with shells, crab shells and yellow earth is fed; a breeding chamber (51) in which earthworms are bred to produce earthworm castings; and a discharge unit (53) through which the earthworm castings produced in the breeding chamber (51) are discharged. According to the invention, ash from a solid fuel boiler is used as feed for earthworms to produce earthworm castings, whereby problems associated with the disposal of the solid fuel ash are solved in an environmentally friendly and economical manner. The produced earthworm castings are used as fertilizers, solid amendments and the like.

The invention provides a rapid livestock manure composting method. At present, the resource utilization of agricultural wastes such as livestock manure and straw is a difficult problem, straw incineration and disorderly manure discharge cause serious environmental pollution and resource waste, and the utilization rate is only about 20%. The method provided by the invention comprises the followingsteps: taking fresh cow dung as a composting material and crushed corn straw as a conditioning material, and adding white-rot fungi, bacilli, earthworms and biochar to compost for performing auxiliarycomposting, wherein the addition amount of the crushed corn straw is 2% of the quality of the dried cow dung, the length of the corn straw is 2-3cm, and 10 adult earthworms are added to per cubic meter of compost; adding a bacterial agent in the late stage of high temperature, and taking wheat bran as an inoculation matrix, wherein the bacterial agent is prepared from white-rot fungi, bacilli, wheat bran and water in a ratio of 1:1:10:10; and applying 50g of bacterial agent to per kg of compost, wherein the addition amount of the biochar is 5% of the quality of the dried cow dung. The methodprovided by the invention is applied to rapid livestock manure composting.

The invention discloses an automatic earthworm biological-composting sludge disposal system and an application method thereof. The system comprises a biological lixiviation pre-treatment system, a static decomposing pre-treatment system, an automatic feeding system, a modular composting system and an automatic earthworm/cocoon screening and collecting system. The biological lixiviation pre-treatment system and the static decomposing pre-treatment system are used for pre-treatment of materials for culturing earthworm, and the treated materials are delivered in the automatic feeding system for automatic feeding to an earthworm box; after feeding to the earthworm box is finished, earthworm cocoons are fed in, and the modular composting system is used for culturing the earthworm cocoons; the raw materials and auxiliary material in the earthworm culture box are screened and collected as three types of products, namely, earthworms, earthworm cocoons and wormcast through the automatic earthworm/cocoon screening and collecting system. The system has the advantages that manual work and cost are both reduced while output is increased by application of a high-automatic production mode; earthworms, earthworm cocoons and wormcast are separated thoroughly at one step and pure wormcast with good effect is obtained; the difficulty in thorough separation between the parent and the filial generation of earthworms is overcome.

An Internet of Things (IoT) BIoTower™ for recycling food wastes into nutrients and for growing organic plants is disclosed which includes a food waste disposable tower for receiving food wastes; a multi-leveled carousels connected to the food waste disposable tower, each containing soils infested with earthworms; and an Internet of Things (IoT) irrigation system designed to provide sustainability to the soils and the organic plants.