Thursday, May 21, 2015

Prevent Damage By Use Of Milk Tank And Silo

By Tammie Caldwell


A container is equipment used to store contents for a short period of time, so for farmers with large herd of cattle they need to invest in these container fitted with cooling system to prevent their content from going bad. These containers exist in many type, there is single, triple and double walled containers, there is jacketed and lastly the insulated containers fitted with outdoor and indoor installation necessary to cool, store and heat liquids. To have your dairy products properly stored use milk tank and silo.

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.

After milking your cows the next stop is storing it in the storage silos which are refrigerated and are of several sizes and shapes. The lacteal secretion is stored at very low degrees in the cooler but only forty eight hours or less. Silos and containers are agitated to ensure the content is cold and to prevent milk from separating from fat.

The containers are constructed with two walls made of steel, the walls are some few inches apart from each other, and space in between them is filled with foam known as polyurethane. This foam is used to regulate the temperature from outside and inside the container.

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.

Milk has the ability to resist bacteria naturally immediately after milking, but it is only speedy cooling to bring down temperatures to around four degrees Celsius that enable it to further stop bacteria activities.

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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