Study and design of a poultry feed crusher-calibrator
Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Laboratory of Energetics and Applied Mechanics, polytechnic School of Abomey-Calavi, University of Abomey-Calavi, 01 BP 2009 COTONOU, Republic of Benin.
Review Article
GSC Advanced Research and Reviews, 2022, 13(03), 024–038.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscarr.2022.13.3.0338
Publication history:
Received on 20 October 2022; revised on 27 November 2022; accepted on 30 November 2022
Abstract:
This work focuses on improving the technical and economic performance of the poultry farming sub-sector in Benin. We were specifically interested in the study and design of a grinder-grader for poultry feed.
Indeed, two different technologies for controlling the particle size are combined into one to form the crusher-sizer. This is the fragmentation of food particles, carried out by the mobile hammer mill and the dimensional classification carried out by a vibrating sieve or sizer. These two technologies are well developed in industries, especially in quarries, but their applications in the field of agro-food processing in Benin are rare or practically non-existent. This technology will allow an increase in the production time and cost of poultry feed. The grinder-grader is then a new technology, a new piece of equipment designed with the aim of allowing poultry farms in general and traditional poultry farmers in particular, the self-production of poultry feed. It is then that they will be able to efficiently minimize the time and cost of poultry production to finally optimize the economic performance of farms.
Keywords:
Granulometry; Poultry feed; Agro-food processing; New technology; Poultry feed grinder-grader
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