Large-scale and high-efficiency fly maggot culturing equipment and process
10542736 ยท 2020-01-28
Assignee
Inventors
- Yanlai Yao (Hangzhou, CN)
- Fengxiang Zhu (Hangzhou, CN)
- Weiping WANG (Hangzhou, CN)
- Chunlai Hong (Hangzhou, CN)
- Xiaoyang Chen (Hangzhou, CN)
- Hongquan Yang (Hangzhou, CN)
- Zhiyong Xue (Hangzhou, CN)
Cpc classification
C05F17/05
CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
Y02P20/145
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
Y02W30/40
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
International classification
Abstract
The present invention provides a set of large-scale and high-efficiency fly maggot culture equipment and a large-scale and high-efficiency fly maggot culture process and pertains to fly maggot culture. The equipment comprises at least one culturing workshop with a multi-functional ceiling. At least one feeder traveling along double-row burden distributing rails is arranged in the culturing workshop. A pair of main rails is perpendicularly arranged on the front of one ends of the burden distributing rails. A rail car used for transferring the feeder among different burden distributing rails is arranged on the main rails. Transferring rails horizontally perpendicular to the main rails are arranged on the rails car. The height of the transferring rails is consistent with the height of the distributing rails. The workshop ground between the two rails of the distributing rails form a culturing bed for fly maggot culture. The equipment also includes a central control apparatus connected with an alarm and a fly maggot separator. The equipment and the process provided in this present invention can realize incessant fly maggot flow line culture, without being affected by temperature, and is much highly automatic to realize fly maggot production in large scale and with high effectiveness.
Claims
1. A fly maggot culture system comprising: a plurality of distributing rails, wherein each of the distributing rails comprises two rails parallel to each other and is configured to accommodate a culturing bed for fly maggots between the two rails; a pair of main rails perpendicular to the distributing rails; a rail car configured to travel along the pair of main rails, wherein the rail car comprises transferring rails configured to respectively connect with the plurality of distributing rails as the rail car travels along the pair of main rails; and a feeder configured to travel along the transferring rails and along the plurality of distributing rails by the rail car.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a temperature regulator under the culturing bed and configured to regulate temperatures in the culturing bed.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a ceiling over the culturing bed; wherein the ceiling comprises a movable awning controlled by an air temperature control device; wherein the ceiling comprises transparent ceiling panels under the movable awning; wherein the system further comprises spouting water cooling pipes between the transparent ceiling panels and the movable awning, and water collecting troughs between any two of the transparent ceiling panels and configured to collect rain water and water from the spouting water pipes.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the feeder comprises a feeder cart; wherein the feeder cart comprises a movable platform configured to move perpendicularly to a moving direction of the feeder cart; wherein the feeder comprises a feeder control apparatus mounted on the feeder cart; wherein the feeder comprises a dismountable hopper on the movable platform; wherein the feeder comprises a sub-hopper connected to the dismountable hopper; wherein the feeder comprises injection nozzles connected to the sub-hopper and a feeding mechanism arranged coaxially with the injection nozzles; wherein the feeder comprises two horizontal slides connected with the rail car and respectively on both ends of the movable platform.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the feeding mechanism comprises at least one screw conveyor.
6. The system of claim 4, wherein the injection nozzles comprises a first nozzle and a second nozzle; wherein the first nozzle comprises a gate with a push rod connected thereto; wherein the second nozzle comprises a rotatable hose connected thereto.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein the injection nozzles further comprises a third nozzle; wherein the third nozzle comprises a horizontal T shaped hollow cylinder comprising a connecting cylinder and a discharging cylinder joined together; wherein the connecting cylinder comprises a screw conveyor therein; and wherein the discharging cylinder comprises at least three discharging outlets thereon and Tainter valves at the discharging outlets.
8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a fly maggot separator and a hopper; wherein the fly maggot separator is configured to separate fly maggots in the culturing bed from compost residue in the culturing bed; wherein the hopper is configured to transport the fly maggots and the compost residue.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the fly maggot separator comprises a feeding apparatus configured to move the compost residue into the hopper.
10. The system of claim 8, wherein the hopper comprises a bottom door.
11. A method of using the system of claim 1, comprising: spreading a layer of culture medium into the culturing bed by using the feeder; introducing fly maggots into the layer of culture medium, wherein the fly maggots are selected from the group consisting of housefly maggots, Musca sorbens maggots, Lucilia cuprina maggots, Chrysomya megacephala maggots, Phaenicia cuprina maggots, Calliphora erythrocephala maggots, Muscina stabulans maggots, sarcophaga peregrinaperegrine maggots, soldier fly maggots, and any combinations thereof; replenishing the culture medium into the culturing bed; harvesting the fly maggots from the culturing bed; and washing and drying the fly maggots.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the layer of culture medium has a thickness of 1 to 5 cm and a water ratio of 45%-75%.
Description
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(16) The present invention will be better understood by way of various specific details set forth in the following description. But the present invention may be embodied in various other ways different from the embodiments described herein, and those skilled in the art can make similar extensions without the breach of the content of the present invention. Accordingly, the embodiments of the present invention are not limited by the following disclosed specific embodiments.
(17) Detailed description of various embodiments of the present invention will now be further illustrated by reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments.
(18) Embodiment 1
(19) The structure of the present invention will be described in detail by reference to the accompanying drawings in this embodiment.
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(21) Large-scale production can be realized in the culturing workshop. Once any anomaly of the temperature or humidity or any other fault signals are detected by the central control device 8, an alarm would be sounded to inform the workshop supervisors to handle in time to prevent the rapid pupation of fly maggots due to the excess culturing temperature. Additionally, the method of transferring the feeder 3 on to different rails by the transferring car adopted in the present invention realizes an integration of feeding process and the culturing bed and completes the feeding and culturing of the whole culture equipment process in a large-scale and high-efficiency way, thus overcoming the defects of the existing box-type culturing, cage-type culturing, frame-type culturing and pool-type culturing that are unable to realize high-efficiency and large-scale production or practical industrialized application due to the relatively low production efficiency, great labor intensity and tough working conditions.
(22) A temperature controllable insulating layer is arranged on the bottom of the culturing bed 7, consisting successively of a contact layer 71 and a thermally conductive layer 72. The heat-conducting medium 75 containing water or oil is arranged in thermally conductive layer, wherein the electromagnetic heating tubes 73 arranged and connected with the temperature controlling device of the culturing bed 74 through the electrical circuit. The temperature controlling device of the culturing bed 74 has electric connection with the central control device 8, the temperature sensor of the culturing bed evenly arranged at intervals in the contact layer 71 and medium temperature sensor arranged in thermal-conducting medium 75. With the setting of insulating layer, the temperature of the culture medium can be maintained within a range fittest for the growing of fly maggot, avoiding the influence of the temperature variation during the four different seasons and ensuring the large-scale and high-efficiency production all year round.
(23) The multi-functional ceiling 1 comprises a movable awning 12 opened and closed by the air temperature controlling device 11, which has electric connection with the central control device 8. A number of transparent plastic ceilings 13 are arranged below the movable awnings 12. The spouting water cooling pipes 14 are arranged between transparent plastic ceiling 13 and movable awnings 12. Between any two plastic ceilings 13 the water collecting troughs 15 are arranged for collecting rain and water sprayed from the spraying pipe. The setting of the air temperature controlling device 11 effectively keeps the humidity and temperature in the air under control, avoiding the temperature extremes. In the meantime, the temperature and humidity in the culturing workshop can be maintained within a range fittest for the growing of fly maggots.
(24) The water collecting troughs 15 are connected on the bottom with the water curtain inlet pipes 16 arranged on the lower bottom of the plastic ceiling 13. The water curtain inlet pipes 16 are further provided with water pump thereon and are connected with the water curtain machines arranged on the sidewalls of the multi-functional ceiling. The air temperature controlling device 11 has electric connection with the water pump, the water curtain machines and the central control device 8 through the circuit. The water collecting trough 15 is used for collecting the cooling or humidifying water that can be recycled for the cooling water curtain, avoiding the waste of water resources and economizing the production cost.
(25) Air temperature sensors and humidity sensors are arranged on top of and on the lower bottom of the plastic ceiling 13, wherein motorized roller shades 17 are arranged on the sidewalls. The air temperature controlling device 11 has electric connection with the air temperature sensor, humidity sensor and the motorized roller shades. The motorized roller shades are opened on time everyday for ventilation to prevent the deterioration of the fly maggots growing environment.
(26) The central control device 8 is also connected with a data input device and a data output device. The data output device comprises the printers and the computers. The data input device may be digital touch screen type or the touch-tone type. A touch screen type is preferred in this embodiment. The data output device comprises printers and computers, which are used for collecting the dynamic data during the whole culturing process.
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(29) The dismountable hopper is connected to a feed nozzle 3-403, wherein a feeding mechanism is coaxially arranged. According to different installation methods of the feed nozzles 3-403, the connecting and installing locations of the feeding mechanism and the rail car may differ too. For details, please refer to embodiment 2 and embodiment 3.
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(33) The wireless signal receiver 3-9 has electric connection with the feeder control apparatus 3-6. The feeding spacing of the feeder rail car, the traveling speed and distance of the movable platform can be controlled by utilizing the manual signal input device. By way of the wireless signal device, the feeder rail car can be remotely controlled with the wireless signal device to feed in different traveling speed and directions, which keeps the staff away from the bad environment of the production front line and makes labor-intensive work easier and simpler, greatly improving staffs production efficiency and working environment.
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(50) Once there are only fly maggots left in the hopper, the limit switch 9-606 is just actuated by the gate 9-402 and emits the electrical signal to the electromagnetic lock 9-602 arranged on the maggot collecting box. Then the electromagnetic switch of the electromagnetic lock is turned on and separated from the lock portion 9-604 (the steel-made lock portion attracted by electromagnetic lock through magnetic force generated by the current).
(51) Through the torsional spring on pivoted end of a first cover plate 9-603, a first cover plate 9-603 is rotated to the other side to cover the residue collecting box 9-601 and then closely locked by another electromagnetic lock 9-605 with the same structure arranged thereon. At the same time when the limit switch 9-606 emits the electrical signal to the lock portion 9-604 arranged on the fly maggots box 9-602, an electrical signal is also emitted by the limit switch 9-604 to the control device, which after a certain pause controls the cleaning device to sweep all the fly maggots into the maggot collecting box 9-602 on both ends of the fly maggot separator.
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(55) The processing steps of the present invention are described in detail in this embodiment by reference to the accompanying drawings and the embodiment 1 to embodiment 6.
(56) The present invention provides a culture equipment process with the utilization of said culture equipment, comprising the following steps:
(57) 1, Material preparation, preparing the biomass waste in the hopper and adding the auxiliary materials therein, then adjusting the water ratio of the biomass waste with the material mixer, which serves as the compost or culturing base.
(58) 2, preparation and incubation of the fly-blows.
(59) 3, adjustment and preparation of the culture equipment. Adjusting and controlling the temperature of contact layer 71 of the culturing bed 7 between 25-27 C. and adjusting the environment temperature below 37 C. The preferred temperature of the contact layer 71 is 32 C. and the preferred air temperature is 35 C. in this embodiment.
(60) 4, at first feeding of the day 1. The feeder as claimed in claim 1 is utilized to evenly and smoothly put a layer of culture medium as adjusted in step 1 on the culturing bed 7. The thickness of the culture medium should be 1-5 centimeter and the water ratio should be 45%-75%. Then scatter maggots as cultured in Step 2 into the culture medium, ensuring each gram of compost contains 2200-7000 fly maggots. The preferred quantity of the maggots is 5500 in this embodiment.
(61) 5, at second feeding of the day 1, adding culture medium of 45%-95% water ratio, 1-20 kg/m.sup.2, ensuring the interval between a first and a second feeding within 4-16 hours.
(62) 6, on the day 2, continuing to add culture medium of 45%-95% water ratio and repeating step 3 and step 5, ensuring that the amount of culture medium within 1-20 kg/m.sup.2, the interval and steps of feeding the same as requested in step 3 and step 5, and ventilation at 1-2 times a day.
(63) 7, on the day 3 to day n, continuing to add culture medium of 45%-95% water ratio and keeping the interval, steps, times and amount of culture medium adding and the ventilation frequency all the same as requested in step 5.
(64) 8, on the day n+1, stopping culture medium adding, separating fly maggots on several culturing beds from compost manually or by the fly maggot separator.
(65) 9, washing the fly maggots as separated in the step 8 in the washing machine and conveying them to the warm air dryer to obtain the dried maggots.
(66) Preferably, the above-mentioned fly maggots are larvae of the housefly, Musca sorbens, Lucilia cuprina, Cluysomya megacephala, Phaenicia cuprina, Calliphora erythrocephala, Muscina stabulans, sarcophaga peregrina or soldier fly. The housefly is preferred in this embodiment.
(67) Preferably, the biomass waste utilized in the Step 1 is the animal waste, kitchen waste or biomass processing waste. And the auxiliary materials are one or some combination of chicken or duck dung, extruded animal excrement, sawdust, rice chaff, spent mushroom compost, straw, tea residue and bran. The preferred biomass waste is the pig manure and the preferred auxiliary materials are sawdust and spent mushroom compost in this embodiment.
(68) The foregoing disclosure of the invention with reference to the preferred embodiments is not intended to limit the present invention. Any of those skilled in this art can make possible changes or amendment without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus the protection scope of the present invention is subject to the scope as defined in the claims.