Determination of design and operation parameters influence of screw type pelletizer on crumbling and temperature of soybean chaff pellets

This article presents the study of significant factors influence on the pelletizing process of soybean chaff. The aim of the research was to determine the operating modes of the screw providing chaff soybean pellets output with a crumbling of not more than 12% at the optimum pelletizing temperature of 70 — 80°C. To study the significant factors influence - such as the flight screw step, the screw rotation speed, chaff moisture - on the process of soybean chaff pelletizing, as well as the optimal values variation of these factors, search experiments were conducted on the screw type laboratory pelleting press XP-3. Regression equations were calculated as a result of the studies, which are adequately describing the influence of significant factors on the output of proper quality pellets; this will allow to develop the technology for chaff compacting in the process of stationary processing of the grain and soybean heap, which allows to reduce the costs of transportation and storage of soybean chaff

The array for investigations of EAS neutron component

The neutron component of EAS has not been practically studied for many years. Creation of the neutron detector arrays PRISMA-32 and PRISMA-YBJ demonstrated the effectiveness of such investigations. It is important to underline that recording the EAS neutron component is carried out over the whole array area. Development of a new larger scale neutron detector array (URAN) in MEPhI will continue these studies. During the construction of the URAN array, a new design of en-detectors based on the scintillator with natural boron and new electronics was developed. The use of new electronics with a switchable sampling rate allows one to reach EAS fast timing accuracy up to 10 ns. The en-detectors of the URAN are located on the roofs of the buildings. The sensitive area of each detector is 0.36 m2, while the array's starting area is ∼ 103 m2. Total number of the initial array detectors is 72. They are subdivided into 6 independent clusters each of 12 en-detectors, connected with the central data acquisition station

The array for investigations of EAS neutron component

The neutron component of EAS has not been practically studied for many years. Creation of the neutron detector arrays PRISMA-32 and PRISMA-YBJ demonstrated the effectiveness of such investigations. It is important to underline that recording the EAS neutron component is carried out over the whole array area. Development of a new larger scale neutron detector array (URAN) in MEPhI will continue these studies. During the construction of the URAN array, a new design of en-detectors based on the scintillator with natural boron and new electronics was developed. The use of new electronics with a switchable sampling rate allows one to reach EAS fast timing accuracy up to 10 ns. The en-detectors of the URAN are located on the roofs of the buildings. The sensitive area of each detector is 0.36 m2, while the array's starting area is ∼ 103 m2. Total number of the initial array detectors is 72. They are subdivided into 6 independent clusters each of 12 en-detectors, connected with the central data acquisition station

The array for investigations of EAS neutron component

The neutron component of EAS has not been practically studied for many years. Creation of the neutron detector arrays PRISMA-32 and PRISMA-YBJ demonstrated the effectiveness of such investigations. It is important to underline that recording the EAS neutron component is carried out over the whole array area. Development of a new larger scale neutron detector array (URAN) in MEPhI will continue these studies. During the construction of the URAN array, a new design of en-detectors based on the scintillator with natural boron and new electronics was developed. The use of new electronics with a switchable sampling rate allows one to reach EAS fast timing accuracy up to 10 ns. The en-detectors of the URAN are located on the roofs of the buildings. The sensitive area of each detector is 0.36 m2, while the array's starting area is ∼ 103 m2. Total number of the initial array detectors is 72. They are subdivided into 6 independent clusters each of 12 en-detectors, connected with the central data acquisition station