Saturday, May 23, 2015

Prevent Damage By Use Of Milk Tank And Silo

By Tammie Caldwell


Large scale dairy farming is a common practice to people who have massive acres of land, it is recommended for these farmers to install cooling containers in their farms to store their cow products in them temporarily without damaging. These cooling containers can be fitted on trucks which then are used to transport the content over long distance and still remain fresh. Milk tank and silo are the perfect solutions for any dairy farmer.

Dairy products need proper storage system because they are highly perishable products. Storage containers are designed to have conical or flat bottom mounted on flexible legs. Effective and proper insulation makes storage containers suitable for storing cream, milk and many other dairy products to keep them fresh.

The process of how lacteal secretion gets from the cow to the store starts from a farmer rearing dairy cattle, harvesting dairy product from cows should be done twice or thrice in a day, the process of milking has been mechanized today reducing the time taken for milking.

There are lacteal secretion silos which are so big and can take more than ten thousand liters suitable for large scale producers. They are designed to be strong and they are installed outside but should be adjacent or close to dairy, that is if all the controls and milk pipe outlet are situate or fitted installed in dairy.

These storage tanks consist of outer and inner wall both of which are made of stainless steel of high quality. The two layer of wall create a space which is filled or isolated using polyurethane foam. In the event that power fails the exterior temperature will warm the content only by a little Celsius of about one degree.

To facilitate and accelerate rapid and adequate cooling of all the content inside a storage facility, the container is fitted with one or two agitator. To make sure that entire content in the container is of uniform temperature and homogeneous, it is recommended to stir the content regularly.

Cooling containers for dairy products come into two different types, you can have open tanks convenient for liters below three hundred, or one can have closed containers which has the capacity to hold large liters of about ten thousand.

Direct expansion is one of the types for cooling, here a container is fitted with pipes carrying refrigerant which are attached to the outside chamber. Direct expansion cannot be carried out in the absence of content or lacteal secretion inside the container, in case it is done without, walls of the container will automatically freeze. The silo is quickly cooled as warm content flows in. The container is then cooled at a slow rate to maintain that low temperature.

At least more than half of the containers should be fitted with control box, these control box regulates cooling process using a thermostat. This allows the user to turn off and on to have time to clean these containers, turn it off when they want to stir the content properly and to turn it off when they want to reset the system in the event of failure.




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