Improve Sugar Beet Storage in Open Piles by Efficient Aeration

通过高效通气改善甜菜在露天堆中的储存

• 批准号: 556634-2020
• 负责人: Corscadden, Kenneth
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Lethbridge Community College
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=706431
• 关键词: Improve; Sugar; Beet; Storage; Open

Lethbridge College (LC) is building research capacity in postharvest technology to develop engineering solutions for minimizing postharvest losses of grains, horticulture, and tuber crops. Southern Alberta, which is among the most fertile and productive regions in Canada with diverse crop production including wheat, canola, pulses, corn, potatoes, sugar beets in addition to significant livestock and dairy production, generates farm revenues of over $3.11 billion (Alberta Southwest, 2019). Southern Alberta farms provide high quality raw material for over 120 established agri-food businesses in the Lethbridge Region, including world leading food processors. Lantic Inc.'s plant in Taber, AB is the only sugar beet refinery in Canada. This plant processes one hundred percent of all sugar beets grown in Alberta (Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, 2017). There is an intensive focus on sugar beet production in the southern Alberta region. After harvest and during the winter months, sugar beets are stored in open ground piles before processing. Significant losses occur in these non-aerated piles due to self-heating caused by respiration. The current project aims to improve storability of sugar beets by temperature monitoring and automated aeration of sugar beet piles.

莱斯布里奇学院（LC）正在建立采后技术的研究能力，以开发工程解决方案，最大限度地减少谷物，园艺和块茎作物的采后损失。阿尔伯塔省南部是加拿大最肥沃、最多产的地区之一，除了大量的牲畜和乳制品生产外，还拥有多种作物生产，包括小麦、油菜、豆类、玉米、土豆、甜菜，农业收入超过31.1亿美元（阿尔伯塔西南部，2019年）。南阿尔伯塔农场为莱斯布里奇地区120多家已建立的农业食品企业提供高质量的原材料，其中包括世界领先的食品加工商。