WO1992000258A1 - Traitement de dechets d'animaux - Google Patents

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WO1992000258A1
WO1992000258A1 PCT/GB1991/001067 GB9101067W WO9200258A1 WO 1992000258 A1 WO1992000258 A1 WO 1992000258A1 GB 9101067 W GB9101067 W GB 9101067W WO 9200258 A1 WO9200258 A1 WO 9200258A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K1/00—Housing animals; Equipment therefor
    • A01K1/01—Removal of dung or urine, e.g. from stables
    • A01K1/0103—Removal of dung or urine, e.g. from stables of liquid manure
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C05—FERTILISERS; MANUFACTURE THEREOF
    • C05F—ORGANIC FERTILISERS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C05B, C05C, e.g. FERTILISERS FROM WASTE OR REFUSE
    • C05F3/00—Fertilisers from human or animal excrements, e.g. manure
    • Y—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
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02A40/00—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production
    • Y02A40/10—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production in agriculture
    • Y02A40/20—Fertilizers of biological origin, e.g. guano or fertilizers made from animal corpses
    • Y—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
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P20/00—Technologies relating to chemical industry
    • Y02P20/141—Feedstock
    • Y02P20/145—Feedstock the feedstock being materials of biological origin

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  • This invention relates to a method of treating waste animal material, for example animal carcases and parts thereof unfit for human consumption, and to a method of making a fertilizer material, and to apparatus suitable for use in such methods.
  • the present invention provides a method in which fly larvae or maggots are used to remove meat and fat from the bones, as in nature, but without the resultant production of large numbers of flies.
  • maggots for bait for anglers animal remains are spread over the floor of a vat, and young maggots are introduced and allowed to feed on the animal remains until they are of the required size, when they are removed.
  • maggot breeding there are reservations over the type of animal remains which may be used for maggot breeding. Additionally, the demand for angling bait is confined to a relatively short season.
  • a method of treating waste animal material comprises the steps of: a) introducing into a vat a layer of the animal material and a quantity of fly larvae; b) at repeated intervals sufficient for the larvae to consume substantially all of the edible matter in the animal material, introducing into the vat a fresh layer of the animal material; c) at repeated intervals less than or equal to the time taken for freshly introduced larvae to mature, adding a fresh quantity of new larvae; and d) when the vat is full, and substantially all the edible material therein has been consumed by the larvae, removing from the vat the material remaining therein.
  • the waste animal material suitably includes animal, bird and fish carcases and parts thereof. Bones, hide, scales and feathers may also be included. Bird and other eggs, shellfish and other molluscs, and insects' remains may also be included.
  • the invention also provides a method of making a fertilizer material from waste animal material, comprising the steps of: a) introducing into a vat a layer of the animal material and a quantity of fly larvae; b) at repeated intervals sufficient for the larvae to consume substantially all of the edible matter in the animal material, introducing into the vat a fresh layer of the animal material; c) at repeated intervals less than or equal to the time taken for freshly introduced larvae to mature, adding a fresh quantity of new larvae; d) when the vat is full, and substantially all the edible matter therein has been consumed by the larvae, removing from the vat the material remaining therein; and e) drying the removed material.
  • the waste animal material is first comminuted, most preferably down to a particle size of about 20mm or less.
  • Liquid for example blood
  • the material which may be in a compacted block form, may be broken up and then ground to form a material suitable, after drying and sterilisation, for fertilizer use.
  • the larvae are mature when they are ready to pupate, as indicated for example by migration to the sidewalls of the vat, or when they begin to pupate.
  • the larvae at the side walls are removed from the vat when the numbers build up, for example by application of a vacuum pipe, and can then be collected for use as angling bait or for processing for fertilizer use. This leaves the new larvae to work on the added animal remains.
  • Any flesh eating fly larvae may be used, for example those of the bluebottle (Calliphora vomitoria), the greenbottle (Lucilia Caesar), or the so-called "black fly", a fly common in continental Europe, especially southern Europe, and commonly used in the UK in the production of angling bait.
  • Another aspect of the invention provides apparatus for treating waste animal material, comprising a vat into which the animal material and fly larvae may be introduced, the vat having at least one outwardly sloping wall provided with a plurality of grooves in the surface thereof, the grooves extending from the floor of the vat to the uppermost edge of the wall, the base of each groove being inclined to the horizontal at an angle such that mature larvae are induced to ascend the grooves, and means for collecting the larvae arriving at the uppermost edge of the wall.
  • the angle is preferably less than 45°, more preferably about 35°.
  • the vat is in the form of a channel wherein two opposed channel walls are the said outwardly sloping walls.
  • a floor may extend between the two sloping walls of the channel.
  • Themeans for collecting themature larvae may comprise a collection channel extending along the length of the or each sloping wall, such that larvae arriving at the uppermost edge of the wall drop into the collection channel, the or each collection channel having at least one collection pit therein, the floor of the channel inclining upwardly towards the mouth of the pit such that the larvae dropping into the collection channel are induced to move themselves upwardly along the floor and into the pit.
  • Suction means may be provided for extractingthe larvae from the or each collection pit and for delivering the larvae to further processing means. This may be thermal sterilisation apparatus, for example a drying oven, which kills the larvae, or a packing station to pack the larvae for sale as angling bait, for example.
  • the output of larvae may be switched to the appropriate further processing according to whether or not there is a demand for bait.
  • An additional by-product of the method is nitrogenous gas containing ammonia and various amines.
  • the amines give rise to objectionable smells and the gases are suitably treated in a biological bed wherein they are passed, via buried porous pipes, upwardly through a bed including bacteria bearing soil growing plants.
  • glass-houses may be constructed over the beds, for example using the support structure of the gas distribution system as foundations for the glass-house structure.
  • materials capable of absorbing ammonia and amines can be added to the vats at intervals. These serve the dual function of reducing the gases to be removed by the biological bed and increasing the nitrogen content of the final material for fertilizer use. Examples of such materials are chopped straw, paper, cardboard, fuller's earth, particulate zeolites, comminuted brick rubble, comminuted shells, and mixtures of these.
  • bulking materials such as paper and straw may be added to the material removed from the vat in the final stages of the process, for example before drying and sterilisation treatment.
  • the larvae introduced are preferably newly emerged, since in the conditions of the vat, they will typically reach maturity within about 2 days from emergence.
  • Figure 1 is a diagrammatic plan view of apparatus suitable for use in a method according to one aspect of the invention
  • Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of one of the vats forming part of the apparatus shown in Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is a diagrammatic perspective view of a part of the apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • Figure 4 is an enlarged perspective view of a portion of the apparatus illustrated in Figure 3.
  • FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic plan view of apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the plant typically consists of a plurality of vats 1 each approximately an 8ft
  • a receiving hopper 3 into which the animal remains are tipped upon arrival at the plant, and which contains an auger (not shown) feeding the material into a breaker 4 which serves to comminute the material to produce particle sizes of about 10 - 20mm.
  • Waste liquids such as blood may be added to provide a pumpable mixture which is then distributed by a pump 5 through piping 6 between adjacent pairs of rows of the vats 1 with a pipe 7 branching off between each pair of vats to permit doses of the material to be sprayed selectively into the vats at the desired intervals.
  • a vacuum system is optionally provided to permit removal from the vats at intervals the mature larvae which have migrated to the sides of the vats.
  • the system consists of a pump 10 connected by pipework 11 to a flexible pipe 12 adjacent to each of the vats, and by pipework 13 and a valve 14 to the inlet to a drier 15 or to outlet 16 for treatment of the collected larvae for use as bait.
  • a second breaker 17 is also provided for receiving and comminuting the blocks of material from the vats 1. The material from the breaker
  • Another optional pipework system may also be provided to supply to each vat regular doses of a particulate zeolite material which has a high absorbency of ammonia and amines.
  • This system comprises, for example, an elevated hopper 18 containing a supply of the zeolite, and pipes 19 having control outlets 20 over each vat through which predetermined doses of the material can be released into the vat according to a timed sequence, or to measurements of the ammonia and/or amine content of the gases given off by the vat. The concentrations of these gases can thus be kept within predetermined limits.
  • each vat contains a steel cage 8 having a hinged bottom panel 8a and tapering inwardly towards the top to facilitate removal of material by opening of the bottom panel 8a.
  • the corners of the cage top are each provided with an eye 9 for attachment of lifting cables permitting the cage to be removed from the vat when full.
  • the optional flexible pipe 12 may be extended to reach around the edges of the vat to permit extraction of accumulated mature larvae at the edges of the vat.
  • a layer of the material approximately 15mm thick is sprayed into the bottom of the vat and two cupfuls of freshly-emerged larvae or maggots are introduced. At intervals timed to coincide with approaching exhaustion of edible matter in the vat, an additional layer of the material is sprayed in.
  • themaggots aremature, as indicated, for example, by their migration to the walls of the vat, a new charge of newly-emerged maggots is introduced and the regular spraying of material is continued.
  • the remaining maggots are either killed off by suffocation using a vinyl sheet, as hereinbefore described, or are removed for use as angling bait, and the pipe and nozzle 7 are swung clear.
  • the cage is then hoisted out and removed.
  • the bottom panel 8a is swung downwardly to allow the accumulated material to drop out of the cage, so that the cage can then be returned to the vat and the process recommenced.
  • the consolidated block of material produced con- sisting of material excreted by the larvae, together with the inedible materials such an bone and feathers, is then broken up and dried in the drier 14, with a final period at elevated temperature >121 * C of sufficient duration to kill off any residual harmful bacteria.
  • the resultant material is then ground to a fine particulate consistency for application to soil as a fertilizer. Analysis of a typical sample produced without the addition of the zeolite material is as follows:-
  • Figure 1 shows an arrangement with 16 vats, it will be appreciated that a larger or smaller number of vats may be grouped together as required. The vats may be emptied in sequence so that the minimum of plant is required for breaking and grinding the resultant material.
  • FIG. 3 to 5 Apreferred apparatus in accordance with the invention is illustrated in Figures 3 to 5. This consists of a series of elongate vats 30, which may be temporarily partitioned to form individual vats of shorter length. Each vat 30 is in the form of a channel having a generally horizontal floor
  • Each side wall 32 is provided with a series of grooves 33 extending from the floor 31 to the uppermost edge of the wall. These grooves 33 are shown in enlarged form in Figure 4 and are typically of rectangular form with a width of about 5mm and a similar depth. The grooves 33 have been found to encourage the mature larvae to ascend the side walls 32.
  • each wall 32 is provided a collection channel 34 into which mature larvae, arriving at the uppermost edge of the wall 32, drop.
  • Each channel 34 is provided with a floor 35 which ascends at an angle sufficient to induce the larvae to move upwardly along the floor, but not so steep as to make movement in that direction difficult.
  • a collection pit 36 is formed, the floor 35 sloping upwardly towards each pit from a low point mid-way between two of the pits. The larvae ascending the floor 35 fall into the pits 36, from which they can be collected, for example by a suction pipe, as described hereinafter with reference to Figure 5.
  • Figure 5 shows how a typical plant embodying the apparatus and method of this aspect of the invention might be laid out.
  • a series of, for example six vats 30 of the form shown in Figure 3, are arranged parallel to one another, with collection channels 34 between each adjacent pair of vats and alongside the outermost vats.
  • Each channel 34 is providedwith collection pits 36, as described.
  • Waste animal material is introduced via an input hopper 50 to a grinder 51, liquid such as blood being added to form a slurry which a pump 52 can distribute via a pipe network 53 to elec- tronically or manually-controlled spray nozzle outlets 54 at intervals over the vats.
  • Electronic control systems employing electrical ⁇ ly-operated valves opened in sequence are well-known to those skilled in the field of liquid and slurry handling and need not be described here in detail. Such systems would permit regular dosing of slurry into the vats in predetermined amounts and at predetermined intervals. Materials such as chopped straw and paper, as hereinbefore described, can be added with the slurry.
  • Fresh larvae are introduced into the vats manually at intervals, or by a pneumatic or other automatic dosing system.
  • the vats 30 may be sub-divided by removable transverse partitions 55.
  • the plant is suitably housed in a closed building provided with gas extraction and purification apparatus, which is not shown in the Figure, being conventional for maggot-breeding plant, for example.
  • a series of conveyor belts 56 and 57 are provided to receive material expelled from the full vats 30 at the end of the process.
  • the material may be expelled by, for example, a suitable shaped blade driven along the vat with the partitions 55 (if used) removed.
  • the conveyor belts 56 and 57 transfer the material to a grinder 58 feeding a rotary drying and sterilising oven 59.
  • the oven 59 operates to process batches of the material, for example tumbling the material in a hot gas stream, suitably produced by an oil burner, at a temperature and for a duration sufficient to reduce the moisture content and destroy harmful bacteria, such as the salmonella and staphylococcus bacteria.
  • the resulting material can be used as a fertilizer material.
  • Mature larvae are collected from the collection pits vacuum system 60 which included a selector valve 61 ver the larvae either to the oven 59 or to an outlet packing for bait.

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Un procédé de traitement de déchets provenant de carcasses d'animaux consiste à introduire ces déchets, de préférence sous forme pulvérisée, dans une cuve (30), à ajouter des larves de mouches, à réapprovisionner les déchets à mesure qu'ils sont consommés par les larves, à rajouter de nouvelles larves lorsque les larves existantes sont parvenues à maturité, et à répéter ces étapes jusqu'à ce que la cuve soit pleine. Le matériau restant, comprenant typiquement des os et des plumes, est alors enlevé de la cuve en un bloc solide qui peut être émietté, séché et broyé sous une forme particulaire pour être utilisé comme fertilisant. Une cuve (30) pourvue de parois inclinées et à rainures est utilisée de préférence, les larves matures étant ainsi amenées à grimper le long des rainures pour être ramassées, laissant les larves nouvellement introduites consommer les déchets dans la cuve.
PCT/GB1991/001067 1990-07-02 1991-07-01 Traitement de dechets d'animaux WO1992000258A1 (fr)

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WO2000074693A2 (fr) * 1999-06-09 2000-12-14 Bondco 897 Limited Induction d'une immunite
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