Models to minimize output of manure-bearing wastewater from milking parlours at conceptual designing stage of dairy farms
2019
Gordeev, V., Federal Scientific Agroengineering Centre VIM, Moscow (Russian Federation) | Mironova, T., Federal Scientific Agroengineering Centre VIM, Moscow (Russian Federation) | Khazanov, V., Federal Scientific Agroengineering Centre VIM, Moscow (Russian Federation) | Mironov, V., Federal Scientific Agroengineering Centre VIM, Moscow (Russian Federation)
The main waste generated in the milking parlours is manure-bearing wastewater. Its amount governs the total volume of manure output from the farm and the costs of its storage, processing and disposal. The aim of the research was to create models to minimise the output of this wastewater at the conceptual designing stage of dairy farms. The relevant technological, technical and organizational factors were analysed. Based on regulatory data, the encoded regression equations were obtained by computation for the daily output of manure-bearing wastewater from the milking parlours with herringbone, parallel and carousel (rotary) milking installations depending on the technological group size, milking installation capacity, number of floor washings and the milking time of the herd. The number of floor washings was found to have the greatest effect on the specific output of manure-bearing wastewater. The encoded equations were also obtained for determining the maximum number of cows to be milked on one milking installation that also depended on the technological group size, the milking installation capacity, and the time of one milking of the herd. The obtained equations were used to find the optimal solutions at the conceptual designing stage, to choose the technological parameters of the cow barn and the milking parlour by the criterion of the minimum output of manure-bearing wastewater, and to reduce the anthropogenic load on the environment. For the herd of 600 heads with 5-hour milking twice a day, the minimum specific output of manure-earing wastewater of 5.4l•headE−1•day E−1 was estimated for the case of the herringbone milking installation. The technological group should be of 60 heads, and the installation should have 40 milking units.
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