Drum Silo Unloader and Feeding System

Drum Silo Unloader and Feeding System
T H E IN N O V A T IO N
M A R K E T O B S E R V A T IO N
Silage is an agricultural waste typically from oil palm leaves,
The self-sufficiency level of meat in Malaysia is about 28.6% in
branches and fruit bunches shredded into smaller pieces and
2010, and Malaysia has targeted to achieve 32% in year 2015.
allowed to ferment with the existence of bacterial activity. The
The cost of ruminant feed is increasing and silage is an alternative
resulting silage maintains its freshness and more importantly, its
option as cheaper feed. The use of drum silos for silage
nutrition value necessary for animal feed. Conventionally, the
production has been widely accepted, however handling and
silage is deposited and allowed to cure outdoors in large horizontal
conveying silage to animals, especially goats, is done manuary
bunk silos, which can attain height, width and depth dimensions on
and is tough. Therefore the current automated system for
the order of 3 – 5 metres or more. Bunk silos are usually confined
unloading and feeding silage from drum to the feeding trough has
on either side by a pair of vertical side walls and a back wall with
a high market potential. It can be used by commercial farms of
the top and front thereof remaining open for the deposit and later
Malaysia as well as overseas, which in return will provide great
retrieval of silage from the stack. As the stack is formed and
impact on ruminant industry.
allowed to cure, it becomes heavily packed and dense which
presents handling difficulties at the time of retrieving the silage
SNAPSHOT
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from stack. The silage must be removed from the stack and
for ultimate distribution to the animal feed situations.
drum silo unloader for retrieving and
Bunk silo is only suitable in temperate and cold countries, where
discharging silage from a drum silo to
yearly rain and thunderstorm are comparatively low and very
a feeding station at various points of
predictable. It is always dry during harvesting season and so
height.
therefore, weather is not an issue for preparing silage. However in
The invention has been filled for
Malaysian patent.
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W H A T ’S N E X T ?
The
technology
is
ready
for
commercialisation.
The
inventors
would like to talk to companies
interested in licensing and marketing
the products. The selling price
depends on the users’ requirement
either as a complete system (prime
mover, conveyors and unloader) or by
component
eg.
unloader
and
conveyor mounted on a tractor.
pulverised so that it may be mixed with other supplemental fodder
The current invention relates to a
IN T E L L E C T U A L P R O P E R T Y
equatorial countries, where the rain and thunderstorms are
frequent and unpredictable, this system of preparing silage is
inappropriate as the bunk will be frequently flooded and the wet
climate will damage the agricultural waste and thus hinder the
formation of silage.
C O M P E T IT IV E A D V A N T A G E S
For equatorial countries and other places having high and
DSUFS comprises three main components, which are
unpredictable rainfall, a method for managing bulk silo in an
unloader, conveyor and prime mover. The unloader is
effective way is needed. Researchers at the Malaysian Agricultural
designed to receive and hold a compacted drum and later
Research and Development Institute (MARDI) have come up with
to lift the drum upwards. A motorised auger is introduced
an invention named Drum Silo Unloader and Feeding System
into the drum, which would scrape the compacted silage
(DSUFS) to overcome these problems. DSUFS is capable of
and flush it out from the drum to conveyor, and then
retrieving the silage from the drum silo to be dispensed to the
transport the silage to the feed trough. The unloader and
animal feed station. It is simple in design for easy construction but
conveyor are built onto the prime mover, which would
at the same time is very versatile, and can be driven to any
carry the system around the shed. With such components
destination for operation at different heights and locations without
being incorporated, the time taken and the manpower to
much hassle.
unload and distribute silage to the feed trough is greatly
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reduced.
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