The GRAPAS Award for innovation 2016

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Peer Hansen, Director of Marketing and Sales at Eye-Grain, Denmark(left) receives the 2016 GRAPAS Innovation Award for the iGrain-Crop Protector technology based on ozonation technology fromRoger Gilbert of Milling and Grain with Eloise Hillier-Richardsonattending.Yiannis Christodoulou of Agentis Innovations, Thailand (see pictureoverleaf), accepted the ‘runner-up’ award for his company’s M007Real-Time In-Line Feed Reformulation equipment.Milling and Grain magazine, the world’s oldest milling magazine stillin print, sponsors the GRAPAS Innovation Awards. The Award is made

to the most innovative and economically benecial equipment,process or service.Entries cover three categories:

1. A milling technology development (for our, rice or other cereal)2. A production process or renement that makes for more

efcient and/or safe production3. A service (online or otherwise) that helps millers achieve their

goals more efcientlyThe following were considered innovative and were awarded:‘commended’; ‘highly commented; ‘runner-up and ‘winner’ by theindependent judging panel.

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Judging panel’s comment“The applicant proposes the use of oxonation by applying ozone (O3)for the controlof insect infestation and unwanted biologic activity in stored cereal and othergrains. Infestation is one of the major causes of the degradation or even total loss of grain in

storage.

“Ever since Methyl Bromide (CH3Br), an ozone depleting and hazardous gas, was disallowed asa fumigant under the Montreal Protocol the industry has struggled to nd viable alternatives, such asphosphine, which are similarly hazardous.“The Applicant has described in detail, not only the principles of the new process but also means for its application. Theclaims are backed up by a number of respected references and at least one learned paper. ( the Journal of Stored ProductsResearch, 7th May 2013). “The fact that Ozone is highly oxidative and unstable, decomposing rapidly to oxygen withoutleaving residues is a highly attractive characteristic. “If the process proves to be practical in common use then it will constitutean innovative and valuable advance in protecting food grains.”

WINNEREye-Grain APS, Denmark- iGrain and Crop-Protector based onozonation technology“We believe ozonation technology will replace conventional use offumigants in the coming years,” says Eye-Grain APS of Denmark

The advantage of this product:Ozonation technology offers so many advantages over other waysof dealing with infestation and unwanted biologic activity in storedcrops.It is actually the only known technology that efciently terminates alltypes of pathogens in stored grain, including insects, fungus, bacteria, etc.The iGrain© and Crop-Protector © organisations under Eye-Grain APShas been one of the leading frontiers in acquiring know-how on practicalapplication of the ozonation technology for the last 15 years.

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The iGrain in the food and feed industries“We have been involved in the development of ozonation technology for 15 years, and supplied some systems and lotsof know-how to the grain industry on this technology. We have recently taken the decision to move forward and design awhole series of ozonation machines to cover many of the obvious applications in the grain industry.” – Eye-GrainGrain stores are a perfect habitat for insects that live on dry seeds: they are protected from weather extremes and theyoffer an unlimited food resource as well as an undisturbed long time span.Insect infestation in stored grain can result in economic losses up to nine percent in developed countries and 20 percent,locally much higher, in developing countries.

Furthermore, the presence of insects and their remains in grain may pose a health risk to humans and livestock.

At present the available control methods, are decreasing due in some cases to environmental and safety concernsamong consumers and the society, thus stressing the demand for alternative control methods.

Gaseous ozone (O3) is highly oxidative, unstable and decomposes rapidly to oxygen without leaving residues. It is apowerful disinfectant used in water treatment and in the food industry and has recently received increasing interest forcontrol of insect pests in stored grain. Several papers report on the potential of ozone to control stored product pests and

it has also shown potential for control of insect strains that are resistant to the fumigant phosphine.Lethal doses and exposure times for ozone vary – and have been reported to range between ve parts per million byvolume (ppm)/ve days to 300ppm/18 hours for insects living among kernels. Ozone can also inactivate storage fungi ingrain.

Recent studies show that all life stages of some of the economically most important pests of stored grain worldwide havestages that develop, concealed within kernels, such as eggs, larvae and pupae of primary pests, including insects thatattack whole kernels: the weevils Sitophilus Granarius L., S. Oryzae L. and S. Zeamais Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Curculion-idae) and the Lesser Grain Borer, Rhyzopertha Dominica F. (Coleoptera: Bostrychidae) can be treated and terminatedwith the use of ozone including all life stages and their ‘internal stages.’

‘Internal stages’ are to some extent protected from exposure to ozone, however with the newly acquired knowledge ithas been possible to design a Crop-Protector Ozonator machine so that the treatment dose and time are matched toterminate these life stages as well.

Safety issuesUnfortunately, traditional fumigation has in many cases lead to tragic lethal incidents with Methyl Bromide (now a redun-

dant fumigant), Phosphine and other chemicals.Fortunately, ozone is not toxic to humans in the doses required for ozonation of stored commodities. The scienticliterature describes only a few incidents with ozone in the wastewater industry. None of these were lethal and in waste-water applications the ozone concentration is 100–1000 times higher than in the Crop-Protector Ozonator machine.The toxicity to humans illustrated below, with indication of the ozone concentrated generated inside the closed loopsystem (blue circle), and the expected ambient concentration (brown circle).

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CommendedMatador (Jiangsu) Machinery Engineering Co Ltd, China - Feed Machines; turnkey feed plants and biomass machines

Matador designs and builds key process machines, but also offers complete plant solutions for the global animal feed and biomasspellets industries. Its business is based on a competitive approach to matching the requirements of successful livestock feed, aquaticfeed, pet food and biomass pellets companies. When designing new technologies or customer specic plant solutions, Matadorhas to take account of the demand for reliable processing, cost efciency, uniform quality and high-performance animal feedand biomass pellets, considering the shifting availability of feed ingredients, the increasing number of environmental standards andhygiene regulations and the requirement for traceability in the interests of food safety.

CommendedNorvidan A/S, Denmark - TADS (Temperature At the Die System)The Norvidan TADS was introduced in 2015 is a system developedto ght salmonella in the animal feed milling industry. Measuringthe temperature of pellets immediately when they are producedat the die of the press can establish and record the true, highest

pellet temperature of the pellet and display and lock it into adatabase for documentation, QA purposes.The TADS is a on-line measuring mechanical device easilymounted on the pellet press door. Via a PLC the signal isprovided to at PC for displaying and logging. It is the fullyautomatic, logging of critical temperature data and hence itreduces the task of staff in the mill and can potentially lead tofree staff for other tasks.TADS also gives information on how well the conditioner(s)are working since the temperature of the meal and thetemperature of the leaving the die can be compared and the“Temperature across the Die” is known.

CommendedIMAS, Turkey - Multimilla Roller MillJust over a year ago in April 2015, Imas introduced its castiron Multimilla Roller Mill. The roller mill body is made of lamelblack-lead cast iron. This material is used to absorb knocks andvibration in machine bodies. This has advantage over steel.

Inox contact surfaces, Inox main walls: In addition to contactsurfaces in other roller mills, Multimilla roller mill main side wallsare also completely Inox. This is very important for hygiene andsanitation.The dimensions are accurate in cast iron bodies as the parts aremachined in CNC machines rather than being welded. As aresult, the parallelity of roll housings is excellent.Turbo-negative pressure to eliminate dusting at feed gate: 1)Evacuates trapped dusty air from the inlet hopper to the outlethopper by using pneumatic system and 2) adjustable turbosystem creates negative pressure around the break rolls.Dust around the rolls is sucked in preventing it from escaping.

Highly CommendedBastak, Turkey - Sampler Cleaner - Brand 13500Through its rotatable cylinder sieve inside the device, a samplecan sifted and classied. The sample is then collected in thebalanced drawers for impurity.Through the LCD touchable screen, the process can becontrolled including sieve turning speed, feeding gate opening,blowing power and process time and language selection,reports and logs.Light materials, broken materials, good materials and foreign

materials can be separated easily and classied for: wheat,barley, maize, rye, oats, etc. Before buying raw materials,this device informs you about the quality of the products byanalyzing quality control and impurity. The product has 10-inchtouch screen whereas other machines don’t – everything onthe machine can be controlled by the touch screen. All resultscan be printed out and all results are saved in a bulletin log.

Highly CommendedDinnissen, The Netherlands - Hamex® Hammermill with semi-automatic sieve exchangerThe screens are positioned in a screen holder on a guidingsystem. This holder can move outwards over a horizontal slide.However, the mill housing is fully closed in its extended endposition. The pneumatic screen clamp can be released, afterwhich the screens are to be exchanged manually.The screen holder locks the screens in a hinged clamp thatopens up wide during screen exchange, so they slide in

easily. The operator only needs to be physically present atthe machine when sliding the screens out and in. The guidingsystem is motorised and being operated in the safety zone.Due to the very precise t between the screens and the clamp,product leakage is minimised. The machine is characterized byhigh capacity, efciency, very ne and precise grinding anduniformity of the processed end-product

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Agentis Innovations, Thailand- M007 Real-Time In-Line Feed ReformulationToday, there is no other technology or method that can deliver a solution to the ageold problem of moisture variation in the raw material. As such, the industry continuesto suffer the consequence of formulating and dosing moisture sensitive material basedon a xed moisture value. The M007 Real Time In Line Reformulation technology will notonly instantly and accurately measure the moisture of raw material during the weighingprocess of batching, but will also instantly and accurately auto-correct the raw materialweights to reect the true dry matter as specied by the formulation.

This sophisticated and intelligent system, identies each formulation and its original dry mattertarget for each specied raw material. The auto correctionsare real time, meaning that the system will perform this actionfor each and every batch of feed produced. Importantly, anyauto weight corrections are completed without any delayto the usual batching process and all changes made to theraw material inclusion by the system are captured, stored andreported for verication, traceability and stock reconciliationpurposes.For the rst time, feed companies are able to accuratelycontrol the true dry matter entering the mixer, produce feedthat is to the correct nutrient density and make signicant costsavings by avoiding nutrient giveaway and stock losses.Agentis Innovations’ M007 Real Time In Line Reformulationtechnology has been developed in such a way that is

versatile and exible, meaning that the same technology caneasily be modied to work and deliver the same results toother milling industries such as our milling.

Judging panel’s comment“The applicant is offering a system to optimise the proportionsof materials in a feed, taking into account and compensatingfor the variations of moisture content in the raw materials. “Moisture variations in raw materials used in the feed millingindustry normally adversely affects the ability to optimise theleast-cost formulation of feeds.“Agentis Innovations claims to have a unique ability tocompensate for these variations with its real-time and in-linemeasurement capability. “The resulting consistent productionof feed at the correct dry matter and formulated cost wouldprovide signicant economic benets “It is anticipated that

the technology could be modied to work and deliver similarbenets to other milling industries including our milling.”

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