Practical applications of ozone in poultry

Practical applications of ozone in poultry

Ozone has a high oxidation potential (second only to fluorine radicals and unstable), simplicity, affordability, cheapness and availability by electro synthesis of the air at the place of consumption. But the most important is the fact that ozone environmentally compatible, and it's one (except oxygen) participates in bio processes of environment surrounding. It has many properties: bactericidal, fungicidal, anti-virus, deodorizing, insecticidal, demercurization, incentives etc. This diversity of properties inherent in the ozone, has much to offer its wide application in agriculture.

1.             Disinfection of hatching and table eggs ozone: the result is the high degree of decontamination of shells from various types of microflora, including salmonella. The use of other means for disinfection of eggs is dangerous for health: formalin is carcinogenic, chlorine gives the side effects of many drugs contain detergents, SURFACTANTS and have a cumulative effect. In this regard, for disinfection of eggs to date, the best way is to handle them.

2.              stimulation of embryonic development: handling eggs ozone (~ 10 mg/m3) increases the output of calves with subsequent high vitality. During incubation of eggs in the confined space of the incubator is likely oxygen starvation of the embryos, and the lack of background ions reduces gas exchange. Ozone as a derivative of oxygen as the primary air ions improves the air environment in an incubator and getting through the shell nourishes embryos with oxygen.

Type of poultry	Number of microflora on the shell of the colonies on 1 cm2		Output,%		Safety of livestock%
	ozone	without ozone	ozone	without ozone	ozone	without ozone
Hens egg	12	780	86,4	83,9	97,8	97,0
Meat chickens	24	913	81,8	79,4	94,8	93,9

Thus when handling eggs ozone achieved 92-98% disinfection effect, increases output and its safety on -2.0 0.8%. Currently, the use of ozone for disinfecting eggs introduced more than 150 poultry enterprises with a total annual volume of incubation over 300 million. eggs.

3. decontamination of feed. Microflora in General and mould fungi in particular produce toxins that pose a threat to the health of the birds. Feed handling ozone can significantly reduce the presence of microflora and toxins, improves biological value of feed.

Indicator	Wheat		Fodder mixed for animals
	source	ozonized	source	ozonized
Microflora, colonies in 1 g	946	63	27840	91
Toxins, mg/kg	5,11	0,12	4,87	0,18

4.              Ozone treatment of poultry ,meat and products from it significantly increases security and reduces losses during processing and storage associated with the activity of microflora.

Method of processing by ozone	Microflora, colonies in 1 ml flush		Weight loss,%	Tenderness, mm	Shelf life (days)
	prior to storage	After storage
Before ripening, 1 h	677/590	75/130	6,4/12,0	3,24/3,13	30/22
After maturation, 1 h	1820/1770	165/220	7,6/9,4	2,95/2,50	28/25
During storage, constantly	1240/1030	150/50	6,6/10,7	2,9/2,54	26/21
При охлаждении, в воде	790/840	70/55	7,2/8,6	2,35/2,73	28/21
Without ozone	1880/2450	2120/2970	11,9/10,2	2,75/2,65	7/5

 (view the carcass: gutted/drawn)

After ozone preservation of chilled meat (+4° c) increased in 4 times. For 20-30 days to keep the meat preserves its original freshness and tenderness and had no smell. Without ozone processing it acquired a greenish color and a musty smell after 5 days of storage.

5.   Sewage treatment waste water agricultural production contain large amounts of harmful substances and cannot be dumped in the water. Among the most harmful substances present in waste water include Inorganic Sulfides, sulfur-containing organic compounds mercaptans, nitrogenous compounds, etc., which is highly toxic and cannot be fully cleared by conventional methods with bioremediation. In this connection, ozone treatment of sewage farms (pig farms, poultry farms, farm, etc.) proved to be an effective tool for cleaning followed by dumping reservoir.

Comparative evaluation of different methods for wastewater treatment

Indicator	Source water	Water after centrifugation	Water after biological treatment	Ozone water
Chroma, GAD	300	170	125	45
Transparency, see	0	1,7	1,5	8,2
рН	6,9	6,9	7,2	6,8
Cod mg/l	44200	31700	992	18
BOD mg/l	2360	1211	426	412
Dissolved oxygen, mg/l	1,2	1,7	3,4	9,3
The smell, the score	5	4	3	0
Salt content	1075	891	650	1780
Organic compounds, mg/l	949	653	124	23
Reflectors. dirt ,colonies/ml	4300	3200	2800	100

6.             Disinfection, deodorizing and air cleaning livestock buildings. Livestock and poultry with a high concentration of livestock per unit area, the air indoors is considerably polluted inorganic and organic dust, organic compounds, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and other harmful substances. Currently, the usual way of removing harmful substances from livestock buildings is forced ventilation, which entails high costs of energy. A scheme for using ozone in the closed cycle of building ventilation, using washing systems to remove inorganic and organically compounds. With this scheme, sulfur compounds pass into sulphate form nitrogen in the nitrate, the dust is deposited in the sump and is used as a fertilizer . Sulfate and nitrogen compounds and carbon dioxide subsequently converted into carbonate of soda-alkaline compounds are used as detergents. As a result of the application of such a scheme for air creation.

Indicator	The original air	Treated air
Hydrogen sulfide, mg/l	0,15	0,0002
Ammonia, mg/l	0,12	0,004
Carbon dioxide, g/l	14,2	0,2
Organic compounds, mg/l	0,2	0,0
Methanol, mg/l	0,1	0,0
Oxygen,% volume	21,2	21,7
Ozone, mg/m3	-	0,05
Temperature, 0С	17,9	18,8
Humidity,%	71,0	64,0
Microflora, colonies/M3	27480	200

When adding 0.01 M3 ozonized air at 1 m3 of air be cleared at the first step in purified air ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide was below MPC, dust completely did the flushing device. Calculations made under this scheme, show that 1:00 in the standard House (18x96 m) deposited up to 65 kg of carbonates, 18 kg of ammonium nitrate. Solubility of ammonium salts listed together as show calculations, allows for a year to get up to 400 thousand. M3 ammonium ammonium fertilizer in liquid form. Thus the above ozone technology showing ample opportunities of effective application in agricultural production.