Emulsifiers with Vegetable Oleins in Animal Feed
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Solution Overview
Problem
Animal feed manufacturers face challenges in increasing production output while maintaining high-quality feed characteristics and reducing production costs, particularly due to high electricity consumption and equipment downtime caused by temperature increases during mixing and pelletting processes.
Innovation Solution
The use of ethoxylated castor oil and polyethylene glycol esters of fatty acids from soybean oil, in association with vegetable oleins, as technological additives in animal feed production to enhance output, durability, and reduce dust and electricity consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If production output is increased by intensifying mixing and compression processes, then hourly output (tons/hour) improves, but temperature increases due to friction causing equipment downtime and safety system activation
Solution Approach 1:
A liquid binding agent comprising vegetable oleins (such as palm olein, sunflower olein, or rapeseed olein) is introduced as an intermediary substance during the mixing process. This binding agent facilitates the binding of feed ingredients without generating excessive friction heat, thereby maintaining lower temperatures during intensive mixing and compression operations while still achieving high hourly output
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical and chemical parameters of the feed mixture by incorporating specific vegetable oleins as liquid binding agents. These oleins modify the friction characteristics and thermal properties of the mixture, allowing intensive processing without the temperature increases that would otherwise trigger safety systems and cause downtime
2Productivity
If production output is increased, then hourly output (tons/hour) improves, but electricity consumption increases due to higher energy demand from motors
Solution Approach 1:
The liquid binding agent acts as a mediator that reduces the energy required for mixing and compression. By facilitating ingredient binding through the properties of vegetable oleins, the process requires less mechanical work from motors, thereby reducing electricity consumption while maintaining or increasing hourly output
Solution Approach 2:
The introduction of vegetable oleins changes the rheological parameters of the feed mixture, making it more workable and easier to compress. This parameter change reduces the energy demand of motors during processing, allowing higher output with lower electricity consumption
3Productivity
If production output is increased, then hourly output (tons/hour) improves, but equipment wear increases due to intensified processing
Solution Approach 1:
The liquid binding agent serves as a protective intermediary that reduces direct friction and mechanical stress between feed ingredients and equipment surfaces. This mediation allows intensive processing at high hourly output while minimizing wear on mixers, compressors, and pelletizing equipment, thereby reducing downtime and maintaining reliability
4Productivity
If production output is increased, then hourly output (tons/hour) improves, but dust production increases in the workplace
Solution Approach 1:
The liquid binding agent acts as a dust-suppressing intermediary by binding fine feed particles together during mixing and transport. This reduces the generation of airborne dust while allowing intensive processing at high hourly output, thereby improving workplace conditions without sacrificing productivity
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
These additives increase hourly output, improve pellet durability, decrease electricity usage, and reduce dust production, while maintaining high feed quality and controlling equipment wear.
Implementation Method 1
the use of emulsifiers E484 and/or E487 (Community Register of Feed Additives—EU Reg. No. 1831/2003), in association with vegetable oleins, as a technological additive to increase hourly output (tons/hour) in an animal feed production plant
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AI summary
A method of using emulsifiers in association with vegetable oleins in an animal feed. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of using emulsifiers E484 and/or E487 (Community Register of Feed Additives—EU Reg. No. 1831/2003) in association with vegetable oleins as a technological additive for increasing the hourly output (tons/hour) in a plant for preparing an animal feed and/or to improve the characteristics of an animal feed, preferably in the form of pellets, and/or to reduce the dustiness of the same. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an animal feed and a process for preparing the same wherein said emulsifiers are used in association with said vegetable oleins with the function of a technological additive.