THE STUDY OF CENTRIFUGAL INERTIAL DEHYDRATOR OF SAPROPEL WITH NATURAL MOISTURE CONTENT
The quality of nutrition greatly affects the development of animal industry. The deficiency of biologically active and mineral components may be compensated by a local resource - lake sapropel. One of the ways to increase the efficiency of production of vitamin feed supplements based on sapropel should be a fast and high-quality way to reduce the natural moisture content of sapropel. It is important to improve the technical means for the dehydration of sapropel in order to improve its quality characteristics. It is most advisable to use centrifugation for sapropel dehydration. Centrifugation is a process of phase separation under the action of centrifugal forces which are created in a rotating drum. The analysis of known designs of devices for centrifuging was conducted. A new device of continuous operation was proposed. The emptying the dehydrator basket from the dried mass of sapropel is done by the guide ribs set at a certain angle to the drum plane. As a result, the average rate of sapropel lifting from the drum bottom during its rotation was obtained. The relative loss of sapropel moisture during the lifting was determined. The performance formula of the new dehydrator is proposed.