RU2033047C1 - Insect growing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has chamber with cassettes. Chamber is provided with conditioner and humidifier with operating parameter control system. EFFECT: increased efficiency and capacity of growing apparatus by maintaining optimum conditions is chamber for growing insects. 2 cl, 4 dwg

Description

 The device relates to agriculture, in particular to the biological protection of plants from pests, such as cotton, alfalfa, corn, vegetable and melon crops, kenaf with the resettlement of the parasite of Habrobracon.

 A device for growing insects is known, comprising a series of interconnected containers, on each of which a groove is made on one side and a spike on the other, the containers are mounted on top of one another, an insert is placed in the junction of adjacent containers made in the form of relatively one another in the vertical plane of the mesh partitions, while their outer edges are fixed in the thorn groove connection made along the periphery of the containers (see ed. St. USSR N 1510808, class A 01 K 67/00, 1988).

 The disadvantage of this device is the lack of an automatic system for regulating the life environment of insects.

 A device for growing insects is known, including a chamber with cassettes, having side and rear walls, doors, top and bottom, equipped with a thermostat (see Guidelines for mass cultivation and use of habrobracon. Tashkent, Ministry of Agriculture of the Uzbek SSR, 1976, p. 9-14) .

 The disadvantages of this device are low productivity and a low percentage of insect yield, which is due to the design and the lack of automation of the process.

 The proposed installation for growing insects, including a chamber with cassettes and a thermocouple, is equipped with ventilation and humidification systems, including an air conditioner, connected via a collector with discharge and suction ducts with a chamber capacity, an air humidifier, the outlet end of the pipe connected to the discharge part of the collector, next to which there is a thermocouple .

 The fan, humidifier and thermocouple are equipped with an automatic control system for operating parameters, including contact starters that control humidity and temperature sensors connected to the network in parallel.

 In FIG. 1 shows a plant for growing insects, front view; in FIG. 2 same, top view; figure 3 is the same side view; figure 4 diagram of an electrical system for automatic control of the main parameters of the life support system.

 The installation consists of a cabinet chamber 1 with cassettes 2, an air conditioner 3 operating in a closed ventilation cycle, connected through a collector 4 to a discharge 5 and suction 6 air ducts with a chamber capacity 1 with perforated tubes 7 and 8 integrated into the latter, an air humidifier 9, and an outlet pipe 10, connected to the collector 4, of the heating thermocouple 11 installed in the latter.

 Air conditioning 3, humidifier 9 and thermocouple 11 are equipped with an automatic control system 12 (see figure 4) of operating parameters, including contact starters 13 and 14, control humidity sensors 15 and temperature 16 and 17, connected to the main network 18 in parallel through relay blocks.

 The camera cabinet 1 is divided into compartments and includes side 19, 20 and rear 21 walls, doors 22 with hermetic seals, the bottom 23 and the upper ceiling part 24. All parts are wooden. In compartments there are guides for installation of block cartridges.

 The collection 4 consists of compartments 25 and 26, separated by a partition. The upper compartment 25 is connected to the discharge guide of the air conditioner 3 and has a heating thermocouple 11 and an inlet pipe 10 of the humidifier 9 on the side wall, and an air duct 5 is connected on the opposite side of the air conditioner.

 The lower compartment 26 of the collection 4 is connected to the suction air guide of the air conditioner, and on the opposite side is connected to the suction duct 6.

 Air ducts 5 and 6 are connected to the perforated tubes 7 and 8, which are located in the upper and lower volumes of the chamber 1, respectively (see figures 1 and 2).

 The thermocouple 11 is an incandescent spiral, insulated and integrated into the housing with an increased heat transfer surface.

 Humidifier 9 is a device for saturating air with micro-scattered particles of water and supplying it to a chamber 1 with an air stream by a blower conditioner 3. Moreover, the device can be typical, for example, a Comfort electric humidifier.

 The device operates as follows.

 Prepare camera 1 for work. To do this, in the container on the racks of the rails, block cassettes 2 are installed (5: 6 cassettes in each block), filled with tracks infected with a habrobracon. Then the doors 22 of the chamber 1 are closed hermetically and turn on the life support system. At the same time, air conditioning 3, thermocouple 11 and humidifier 9 are turned on. The air flow pumped by air conditioning 3 enters compartment 25 of collector 4, washing the casing of thermocouple 11, is heated and mixed with air saturated with microdrops of water (moistened), then through duct 5 and perforated the pipe 7 enters the chamber 1.

 In the lower part of the chamber 1, the cooled air is sucked out through a perforated pipe 8 located at the bottom of the tank 1, passes through the duct 6, compartment 26 and into the suction nozzle of the air conditioner 3.

СПР-3 _→ T $\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{\text{o}}{\text{1}}$ _→ T $\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{\text{o}}{\text{2}}$ _→ МП1

_→ MП2 _→ B 2/2

→ Y

2. При достижении 30^оС аналогично циклу 1, только МП1 МПI

→

;

;
3. При достижении влажности 80% МП1

_→ Y

_→ B 1/1

→

4. При достижении температуры (понижении) 28^оС: МП2

_→

, все остальное остается в положении цикла 2.The automatic control system 12 of the air conditioner 3, the thermocouple guide 11 and the humidifier 9 provides optimal parameters, humidity 80%, temperature 28-30 ^о С and air change. In this case, the control cycles are carried out in the following sequence:
1. AMP

СПР-3 _ → T $\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{\text{o}}{\text{1}}$ _ → T $\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{\text{o}}{\text{2}}$ _ → MP1

_ → MP2 _ → B 2/2

→ Y

2. Upon reaching 30 ^{° C} similar to cycle 1, only the MPI MP1

→

;

;
3. Upon reaching a humidity of 80% MP1

_ → Y

_ → B 1/1

→

4. When the temperature (lowering) 28 ^C: MP2

_ →

, everything else remains in position of cycle 2.

 5. The process may then repeat.

2

_→ все остальное отключается

и звонит 3в

_→.6. In case of emergency, such as fire, accident

2

_ → everything else is turned off

and calls 3v

_ →.

включается;

выключается _→ затем;
Т₁ ^о, Т₂ ^о приборы регулировки температуры;
В вентилятор 1/1 малая скорость вращения;
2/2 большая скорость вращения;
У увлажнитель;
Ω нагреватель.The signs of the designation:

turns on;

turns off _ → then;
T ₁ ^about , T ₂ ^about temperature control devices;
1/1 low speed fan;
2/2 high rotation speed;
Have a humidifier;
Ω heater.

 The technical and economic advantages of the proposed device are to increase the productivity of the installation due to the continuity of the process that occurs in the installation, for example, loading and unloading the camera 1 with cassettes, maintaining the operating parameters in automatic mode, which allows the production of the habrobracon from infection of the caterpillars to obtaining adults in 10- 12 days on one installation up to 1.0 million pieces of individuals, i.e. per month to ensure biosecurity of 50,000 ha.

Claims (2)

 1. INSTALLATION FOR INSECT GROWING, including a chamber with cassettes and a thermocouple connected to an appropriate power line, characterized in that, in order to increase productivity, increase insect yield and automate the process, it is equipped with a ventilation and humidification system, which has an air conditioner, a collector, two compartments of which, respectively, by means of the discharge and suction ducts are connected to the chamber capacity, and an air humidifier, the outlet pipe of which and the air conditioner air outlet are connected Nena compartment collection related to the discharge duct, while in the same compartment placed thermocouple.  2. Installation according to claim 1, characterized in that it is equipped with an automatic control system for operating parameters, the humidity and temperature sensors of which are connected via contact starters to the corresponding power lines of the air conditioner, humidifier and thermocouple.

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