Treatment of seeds and feed with ozone
Recently, more and more attention has been drawn to technologies using ozone, the advantage of which is their high efficiency, versatility, environmental cleanliness and low energy consumption. Ozonation contributes to the disinfection of grain and grain products, improving their nutritional properties, but requires compliance with certain processing modes of the object. Currently, we have accumulated a lot of experience in ozonation of bulk feed in poultry farms. Dangerous micro-organisms that develop in feed, the varieties of which are mold fungi, cause mycoses, mycotoxicoses. The consequence of the growth and reproduction of mold fungi is a decrease in the energy and nutritional value of feed, deterioration of taste, changes in the physical parameters of raw materials, infection of feed with mycotoxins. Therefore, despite a large number of scientific studies, the development of new technologies for decontamination of feed aimed at efficiency and energy saving while maintaining environmental safety is an urgent scientific and technical task. Technologies for disinfection of combined feeds are presented. As initial data, data from the work of Gulyaev P.V., Ozerov I.N., Gulyaev T.V. and others were taken and their correlation analysis was carried out between the influence of ozone concentration on the studied factors (total contamination and mold fungi, polluted grain of colonies in 1 ml of extract) by a well-known method. The concentration of ozone affects the overall contamination and mold fungi, which is 91.9 and 98.4 %. With an increase in the studied factors, the concentration of ozone decreases and vice versa, with their decrease, its concentration increases. The efficiency of grain treatment with ozone affects the overall contamination and mold fungi increases when they are 442.8 and 88 ml, respectively.