Estudo sobre o entupimento na descarga de silos de produto acabado em empresa de alimentos para cães e gatos
Resumo
Industries producing food for dogs and cats, belonging to the pet sector
food, are extremely relevant to the Brazilian economy and have shown growth
year after year, but despite this positive scenario, factors such as the increase in the value of raw materials
and the general cost of living in Brazil, in addition to the increase in the number of competitors,
make them need increasingly efficient processes to maintain their
profitability. The clogging of finished product silos, which happens when the unloading
of the product suffers a partial or total stoppage, it is one of the causes of considerable loss
efficiency in dry feed industries and in other sectors dealing with solids
granular or powdery, being also a critical problem from the point of view of
safety. The profile of the flow of stored products, the geometry of the silos
and environmental factors, such as temperature and humidity, are directly related to the
occurrence of clogging. Due to the diversity of products made in the plant that was subject to
of study in the present work, implying in the existence of several profiles of flow of
flow, and the impossibility of abruptly changing the geometry of the installed silos,
it was decided to analyze the influence of environmental factors, where it is concluded that the increase in
temperature is directly related to the increase in the occurrence of clogging due to
to the coating properties of kibbles.
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