Slurry in a hurry

JANUARY 2015
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Slurry in a hurry
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ECYCLING, waste management and industrial services company Transpacific
is using a high-tech slurry
tanker-tractor combination to
inject up to 300,000 litres of liquid organic waste into subsoils
on NSW farms every day.
The
$800,000
machine,
believed to be the only one of
its type in the southern hemisphere, is capable of loading
and injecting a staggering
24,000 litres of nutrient-rich
solution every 10 minutes.
Transpacific’s organic land
application
business
has
worked in partnership with
local councils, water authorities
and environmental regulators to
develop new ways to blend and
use by-products from food manufacturing and sewage treatment as injectable fertilisers.
A growing queue of farmers is
vying to have it injected on
their land.
“We call ourselves ‘industrial
farmers’ – we’re providing a
service that meets the needs of
both our industrial and farming
clients,” said Transpacific
organics regional manager,
Adrian Taylor.
“Food production can often
generate considerable volumes
of liquid organic waste as byproduct – anything from beer
with the wrong label on it to
waste from dairy processors.
“However, this waste has valuable properties in terms of
nutrients, water and organic
matter that are a recognised
resource, particularly in agriculture.
“Soil injection recycles these
resources by delivering them
directly to the root zone of pas-
ture and fodder crops, where
soil microbes break down the
waste and make it available for
plant growth.
“We can deliver the equivalent
of up to 30 millimetres of rain
with a nutrient profile that’s high
in nitrogen, potassium, sulphur,
minerals and organic matter –
all expensive to add as conventional synthetic fertilisers.”
Technical operations manager, Chris Hetherington, said the
operation was a complex logistical exercise.
“We’re talking about 50 tanker
loads a week of product that
needs to be picked up in a matter of hours or a whole factory
may have to close down,” he says.
“Wherever possible, we run
self-loading tankers straight out
to the paddock for loading into
the injector.”
Last year Transpacific Organics
January Specials
added an integrated Claas Xerion
3800 Trac advanced technology
tractor and Kaweco 24,000L
slurry tanker to the line-up.
“The utilisation of liquid byproducts as an injectable fertiliser is quite common in Europe
and Kaweco is a leader in this
field,” Mr Hetherington said.
“The Xerion has four equalsized tyres, all-wheel power and
all-wheel steering, which means
we can operate under any conditions.
“The trailer has the same-sized
tyres and positive steering on
the rear axle, so we’re leaving
as little footprint as possible.”
Co-developed by Kaweco and
Claas, the swan neck trailer was
designed specifically to fit the
Xerion platform.
The tanker, which is connected to the tractor via a factoryfitted 110mm ball head cou-
pling, is equipped with a high
capacity Borger FL1036 liquid
displacement pump powered
by the tractor’s high-flow auxiliary hydraulic system.
“The hydraulic drive from the
tractor ensures a consistent
flow and is way more fuel-efficient than a PTO drive,” Mr
Hetherington said.
“It delivers a hydraulic flow of
235L/minute on demand, even
at a relatively low engine speed
of just 1600rpm.”
Nine tynes set 400mm apart
inject waste product at a depth
of 35 centimetres.
Unlike most conventional tractors, the Xerion features a full
chassis frame, with its 8.8 litre
six-cylinder 379hp Caterpillar
engine and ZF Eccom 3.5 CVT
continuously variable transmission mounted as non-loadbearing modules.
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