This paper considers and analyzes a relevant issue of treatment of disturbed soils. The equipment to carry out various processes of mining reclamation of waste heaps and quarries with a significant reduction in the level of environmental risks through the operation of an energy-saving small-sized apparatus has been designed. The use of the developed soil reclamator is also adequate for pre-sowing and other types of agrotechnical tillage, plant care in agricultural fields, as well as in areas with a heterogeneous landscape. The functionality of the unit is able to provide energy autonomy and automation of the technological process. The low weight of the device makes it possible to reduce the pressure on the soil, which minimizes the environmentally hazardous formation of dust during the treatment of waste heaps, the destruction of its structure, the machine degradation of the fertile layer during the processing of all types of territories. The device also reduces the risk of fertile soils slipping from the slopes of mine dumps due to the fact that the soil reclamator is self-propelled and functions without the need to involve a heavy tractor. The mathematical modeling of the operation of the proposed technical support for the treatment of waste heap reclamation in comparison with the opposed analog proves the ecological and economic efficiency of the eco-adaptive soil reclamator. The average value of profit ratios, when using the proposed soil reclamator, is 121.82 % higher than with the involvement of opposed equipment. Indicators of the negative environmental impact of the designed equipment are 100 % lower than the environmental impact when operating the analog. The proposed technical solution can be effectively applied both in schemes of sanitary cleaning of settlements, and in the process of modernization of agricultural machinery
The object of this study is the operating parameters of the anaerobic digestion unit. The study aims to increase the potential of biogas production. The task to select the optimal parameters of the working process of anaerobic digestion has been solved. A model of cumulative biogas and methane output in the process of anaerobic waste digestion has been constructed, which is conceptualized using the method of artificial neural network. The model is built on the basis of 11 process-related variables, such as hydraulic retention time, pH, operating temperature, etc. The plant parameters, leading to the highest volume of biogas production, were selected. It was determined that the optimal amount of biogas can be brought to 90 %, which exceeds the maximum value obtained from factory records by 12.6 % to 700 m3/t. Working conditions that led to optimal methane production were defined as the temperature of 39 °C, the total solids of 4.5 %, the organic percentage of 97.8 %, and pH 8.0. It was found that biogas production is the highest at temperature within the thermophilic range while the local maximum is achieved in the mesophilic temperature range. The model built serves to determine the optimal operating parameters for maximum biogas production and could be used to optimize biogas production productivity using limited experimental data. The model also makes it possible to predict the performance of anaerobic digestion under untested conditions. It is possible to practically use the developed biogas production model when monitoring the operation of the anaerobic digestion unit, to increase the efficiency of the process, and when adjusting the working conditions of the methane tank
In the article is considered the one of aspects of nature management regulation – an account of successive transformation of pollutants in a water body, that come with waste waters of industrial, municipal and agricultural enterprises. It is necessary at the determination of permissible pollutants emission with waste waters that doesn’t allow the excess of the permissible level of substances content in the control point of a water body. This problem is considered on the example of successive transformation of nitrogen-containing substances in the following transformation order: organic nitrogen – ammonium nitrogen - nitrite nitrogen – nitrate nitrogen. The topicality of the modeling of nitrogen-containing substances is conditioned by their role in water ecosystems functioning. At that existent mathematical models of natural water quality formation that take into account substances transformation contain the large number of unknown parameters. So, the use of such models in problems of nature management regulation is problematic, because identification of model parameters is a separate very complicated scientific problem. And existent models with relatively small number of parameters don’t take into account the natural pollution of water bodies, caused by the life activity of organisms; substance losses in the transformational chain are also possible. The improved matrix mathematical model of nitrogen-containing substances transformation without the indicated shortcomings is offered.
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