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From vacant lots to vertical "pinkhouses," urban farmers are scouring cities for spaces to grow food. But their options vary widely from place to place.
While farmers in post-industrial cities like Detroit and Cleveland are claiming unused land for cultivation, in New York and Chicago, land comes at a high premium. That's why farmers there are increasingly eyeing spaces that they might not have to wrestle from developers: rooftops that are already green.
The green-roof movement has slowly been gaining momentum in recent years, and some cities have made them central to their sustainability plans. The city of Chicago, for instance, boasts that 359 roofs are now partially or fully covered with vegetation, which provides all kinds of environmental benefits — from reducing the buildings' energy costs to cleaning the air to mitigating the urban heat island effect.
Late this summer, Chicago turned a green roof into its first major rooftop farm. At 20,000 square feet, it's the largest soil-based rooftop farm in the Midwest, according to the Chicago Botanic Garden, which maintains the farm through its Windy City Harvest program.
"We took a space that was already a productive green roof, and we said, 'Why not take that one step further and grow vegetables on it?' " says Angie Mason, director of the Chicago Botanic Garden's urban agriculture programs. That required adding lots of soil amendment, or nutrients, to the rocky medium already up there.
The farm sits atop McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, and the goal is for it to supply the center's food service company, SAVOR... Chicago, with between 8,000 to 12,000 pounds of food a year — more than 10,000 servings. It sounds like a lot, but SAVOR serves about 3 million people a year at McCormick Place.
In the first season, Mason says the Windy City Harvest farmers, which include underemployed ex-offenders, will be growing kale, collards, carrots, radishes, peppers, beans, beets, cherry tomatoes and various herbs at the McCormick Place farm. The project's coordinators chose these crops because they're well-suited to a rooftop setting and they're fast-growing.
Over the next few years, Mason says, the plan is to expand the farm to other sections of the McCormick Center roof for a total of 3 acres of cultivation. That would make it the biggest rooftop farm in the U.S., bigger than Brooklyn Grange, which operates a farm of 2.5 acres, or 108,000 square feet, on two roofs in New York City.
Joe Nasr, with the Centre for Studies in Food Security at Ryerson University in Toronto, says projects like these are part of a larger trend toward expanding food production in cities.
"Rooftops will be part of the mix of urban spaces that will be increasingly used to 'scale up' urban agriculture," Nasr told The Salt in an email.
And roof farms in particular can offer a wide array of perks to the building owners.
"When it is feasible to do so, you would be adding benefits to whatever the green roof [already] provides: food, space for community gathering and teaching in many cases, increased biodiversity (depending on the roof) and care for the roof — many green roofs fail because they are out of sight, out of mind, thus neglected," Nasr says.
So why don't we see more of these rooftop urban farms?
According to Mason, urban farmers are just beginning to figure out how to make them work. And they're learning that not every green roof is well-suited for farming.
"You're looking at liability and insurance risk of having people on a rooftop, and then you've got to make sure it's structurally sound enough to withstand the extra soil weight for production," says Mason. "And you've got to make sure that you're training people so that they aren't compromising the rooftop membrane" and damaging it.
Nasr agrees that there are many obstacles to transforming more green roofs into farms: from permitting, to delivering soil and water to the roof, to dealing with growing conditions that are typical of roofs (sun, wind, snow).
But for urban farmers who can find a roof and building owners who will get on board, the potential benefits are worth pursuing, he says. And Mason says she sees plenty of opportunity in Chicago to convert more green roofs into farms — and plenty of building owners interested in burnishing their green credentials.
Of course, you don't have to go as big as a farm to take advantage of the space and sunlight on a roof to grow food. People have been container-gardening on roofs for a long time, and as we reported, this form of micro-gardening is taking off.
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Job Description Summary: The Veterinary Assistant is a key member of the hospital team who supports and assists the veterinarians and veterinary technicians, ensuring the safety of pets, clients and other associates, and the continuity of quality veterinary care.
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Every associate including the Vet Assistant has an important contribution to make to the veterinary team. We're looking for Vet Assistants who are dedicated to their work, have a positive attitude and use our Five Principles — Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – as their guide. In addition, our Vet Assistants are:
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The 'custodians of the sea' claim 'a seat at the table'
The world's largest Spanish-speaking newswire EFE produced a TV piece featuring small-scale fishers discussing the significance of attending the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Lisbon
The world's largest Spanish-speaking newswire EFE produced a TV piece featuring small-scale fishers discussing the significance of attending the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) in Lisbon
The Guardian featured the voices and calls of fisher and civil society representatives we supported to attend and speak at the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC)
Loop wrote about the small-scale fishers and community representatives who had come to the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon to address their exclusion from the
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Blue Ventures and the ICCA Consortium held a panel session for Too Big Too Ignore's Small-Scale Fishers Open House as part of World Ocean Week 2021 to address the impacts 30×30 may have on small-scale fishers.
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Strengthening relationships in the final week of training for the first cohort of the African Marine Conservation Leadership Programme
In an interview for Forbes, Blue Ventures' Executive Director celebrates small-scale fishers as the unsung heroes of marine conservation
In an article for Mongabay, experts from Blue Ventures, Maliasili, Lion Guardians and the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation explore the potential for a more resilient, diverse, and effective conservation movement in 2021.
Blue Ventures' marine conservation expeditions feature in a blog from the Girls That Scuba community profiling the three best diving experiences within a marine conservation project.
At the European Coral Reef Symposium in Oxford in December 2017, we shared positive lessons learnt on the benefits that volunteers can bring to marine conservation, using our efforts to address Belize's lionfish invasion as a case study.
Shrimp is one of Madagascar's most lucrative exports, but small-scale fishers and environmental groups say that shrimp trawlers are harming the marine environment.
The Velondriake Locally Managed Marine Area in southwest Madagascar was featured in a short film from The Economist that debuted on March 8th at their 5th World Ocean Summit.
Coral reefs are facing increasing global threats, but there's still hope for these vital ecosystems…
Amos Da Costa's family has always relied on the sea for their food and livelihood, but he believes they must look to the future.
Blue Ventures' work with coastal communities in Madagascar was recently featured in Mongabay.
A new resource toolkit distills over a decade of learning into a series of practical guides covering how to establish and maintain successful Locally Managed Marine Areas (LMMA).
The community of Ilik-namu have decided to take control of their future and begin managing their marine resources.
Jemima Gomes was the first female scuba diver on Ataúro Island, and she is now advocating for marine conservation in her community.
An opinion piece from Blue Ventures' Alasdair Harris and WWF's John Tanzer gives two examples of successful community-led coastal conservation efforts in Madagascar and Indonesia.
Scientists from the University of Southampton have found that corals survive in deep water by making a special type of fluorescent protein.
In the 7th issue of the Save Our Seas Magazine, Alasdair Harris speaks about the importance of living "with and within communities" when it comes to devising models for marine conservation.
Belize volunteer Jane Stephens describes her expedition experience and how she overcame her scuba diving nerves at Bacalar Chico Dive Camp.
Our partner WWF Mozambique has recently facilitated two community-led octopus closures following a learning exchange to Velondriake, Madagascar.
Scuba Diver Life have been profiling conservation organisations, and they recently talked with Richard Nimmo, Blue Ventures' Managing Director, about our mission and how to get involved.
The Stanford Social Innovation Review has published an article, written by Blue Ventures' Steve Rocliffe, that focuses on the effectiveness of marine conservation models that put communities first.
LINI, our inspirational new partner, is developing a new catalyst for conservation on Banggai Island, Sulawesi
Tyrell Reyes, our Science Coordinator in Belize, tells the story of how his evolving role with Blue Ventures has given him opportunities to contribute to the conservation of his country's coral reefs.
Oxford Today has published an interview with Oxford University alumnus and Blue Ventures Executive Director Alasdair Harris that covers the stories behind Blue Ventures' foundation, growth and holistic approach.
In collaboration with partners AMA and CORDIO, and as part of the Our Sea Our Life project, Blue Ventures recently hosted a training workshop for village technicians in the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique.
At least 6,000 fishers and 3,500 processors – mostly women – and sellers are active in the fisheries sector. Almost all artisanal-caught fish is sold and consumed locally, but fish from the distant-water industrial fleet accounts for 80% of exports from Cabo Verde.
BV works closely with the local NGO Fundaçao Maio Biodiversidade to support communities to use robust data to inform fisheries management and improve value chains. Our partnership has so far focussed on Maio island, but we have plans to scale this approach to at least five of the ten islands that make up the archipelago.
Unlike other countries in West Africa, there is no practice of community management in Cabo Verde, although there are a variety of community associations on the islands that represent fishers' interests. BV is supporting partner organisations to strengthen the capacity of these groups to move towards the co-management of marine resources and the development of community-driven protected areas.
The Gambia's coastline is only 80km long, but is home to a rich mangrove ecosystem that supports locally important fisheries. Sadly, much of the coastline has been devastated by sand and ilmenite mining, uncontrolled property development (including in protected areas), and a rapid ratcheting up of industrial fishing effort, largely to feed the country's three fishmeal and fish oil factories.
Our approach in The Gambia is to empower local actors including CETAG and Gambian Environmental Alliance to raise their voices against these drivers of environmental destruction, and find community-led solutions. BV is also working with the well-respected youth and women groups SANYEPD and Hallahin Women Oyster Farmers to help communities secure preferential access to fish and shellfish.
Fishing and the collection of shellfish is central to the lives of most coastal dwellers in Senegal, and seafood is part of almost every meal in the country.
But massive overfishing by both industrial and artisanal fleets, as well as increasing exports of fishmeal for aquaculture, is threatening the way of life and food security in the country. As fish stocks dwindle, the staple National dish of Senegal "Thiebou Djeun" – "Fish and Rice" – is becoming a luxury for many.
Blue Ventures' work in Senegal is focused mainly in the Sine-Saloum and Casamance deltas of the country, home to hundreds of thousands of hectares of fish-rich mangroves. We have teamed up with Kawawana, Senegal's oldest LMMA (known locally as APAC), to support the protection of 18,000 hectares of mangroves, and to help monitor and manage the rich fisheries they contain. Through our partners Nebeday and EcoRurale, we are also working with other communities, and especially women groups, to put in place community-based fisheries management systems, focusing particularly on the oyster and shellfish collection that are major sources of income in estuaries and deltas.
We're new to Senegal but working to scale our communities-first approach to more partners and communities. We're also aiming to build alliances with grassroots, national, regional and other like-minded organisations to advocate for better marine protection and to strengthen national inshore exclusion zones for small-scale fishers in which industrial fishing is restricted.
The West African country of Guinea-Bissau is home to the unique Bijagos archipelago, a network of some ninety mangrove-fringed offshore islands and extensive mudflats supporting large amounts of migratory bird species, as well as megafauna such as manatees, dolphins, and sea turtles. The Bijagos people continue to live a very traditional lifestyle, where the collection of marine invertebrates plays an important role in food security and cultural traditions. The country is also home to extensive mangrove-fringed river systems that support rich fisheries.
Blue Ventures has been working with Tiniguena, one of the oldest conservation groups in Guinea-Bissau, to support the establishment of the country's first community-led MPA, in the Bijagos islands. Guinea-Bissau is a new venture for us, and we envision scaling to new partners and communities in the coming years. Our focus is on data-driven community-led management of fisheries, which are of enormous importance to coastal communities, in particular women.
Thailand's small-scale fisheries are the cornerstone of social, economic and nutritional health for the communities living along the majority of the country's nearly 3,000 kilometre coastline.
In the southernmost Trang province we are supporting communities reliant on nearshore fisheries − in particular for crab, shrimp and squid − in partnership with the Save Andaman Network (SAN). The region is renowned for its vibrant seagrass meadows and vast mangrove forests, which provide essential ecosystem services to coastal communities. We're providing training and tools to aid community- led fisheries monitoring and ecosystem management, and building community-owned social enterprises that fund and sustain local conservation efforts.
Since 2016, our work in Timor-Leste has evolved into a dynamic movement supporting community-led marine management and coastal livelihood diversification in Asia's newest country. From our origins on Atauro Island, considered to harbour the most diverse coral reefs on earth, we're now working with numerous communities on the island and the mainland to help improve management of critical coral reefs and seagrass ecosystems.
We're helping communities reinvigorate traditional community governance practices − known as Tara Bandu − to support marine conservation, in particular through the use of temporary and permanent fishing closures, and community-led monitoring of marine ecosystems and fisheries.
We're helping communities come together to exchange their experiences of conservation across their shared coastline, building a new movement of local support for systems change in the management and conservation of Timor-Leste's coastal waters.
Alongside our community conservation efforts, we have also pioneered Timor-Leste's first homestay association, which has provided income from visiting ecotourists on Atauro Island.
Our team in Timor-Leste's capital Dili works closely with government, civil society organisations and NGO partners.
Like its neighbours within the Northern Mozambique Channel marine biodiversity hotspot, Tanzania harbours some of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the Indian Ocean. These habitats are facing unprecedented challenges from overfishing and climate change.
The Government supports the use of co-management to improve the management of marine resources, but a community's ability to be meaningfully involved in this partnership approach is all too often hampered by the capacity of its institutions, to organise and to acquire the skills and resources they need.
Our Tanzanian team has worked with communities and local organisations to support locally led marine conservation since 2016. Our work has expanded from Zanzibar to the mainland regions of Tanga, Lindi and Kilwa. Our technicians work with local partners to help communities strengthen co-management systems, through Beach Management Units (BMUs), Shehia Fishing Committees (SFCs), and Village Liaison Committees.
We have three types of partners in Tanzania: NGOs, CSOs and government. Our NGO implementing partners Mwambao Coastal Community Network, Sea Sense, and Jongowe Development Fund have spearheaded a remarkable acceleration in the uptake of community-based fisheries management and conservation in recent years, notably through the use of short-term fisheries closures to catalyse broader community conservation.
Our CSO partners include Kilwa BMU Network, NYAMANJISOPOJA CFMA and Songosongo BMU, while our government partners comprise the Ministry of Fisheries in Mainland Tanzania, and the Ministry of Fisheries in Zanzibar, as well as local government authorities in Pangani and Kilwa.
Following the conclusion of the SWIOFish project in 2021, we are also working with partners on an initiative to support the establishment and functioning of a fisheries co-management forum. The forum will facilitate engagement between national and local government authorities and NGOs involved in fisheries co-management initiatives along the Tanzania mainland coast, with the aim of enhancing networking and strengthening management and governance.
With one of Africa's longest coastlines, Somalia's diverse marine environment supports enormously productive coastal and offshore fisheries. Decades of conflict have undermined the country's capacity for fisheries management, with many foreign industrial vessels fishing with impunity, and little regard for the critical importance of Somalia's coastal fisheries for local livelihoods and food security.
A period of relative political and social stability unprecedented in recent decades is now presenting new opportunities to address past challenges, and to realise the considerable opportunities that well-managed coastal fisheries and conservation can offer Somalia. We are forging partnerships with community organisations in Somalia to build their capacity and skills to help coastal communities manage their fisheries for food security, livelihoods and conservation.
The Philippines forms part of the 'coral triangle' epicentre of global marine biodiversity, with unparalleled diversity of marine species. Over half of the country's 107 million people live in rural areas, and approximately three quarters depend on agriculture or fisheries as their primary source of livelihoods.
Through our partnership with People and the Sea, we are supporting communities in the eastern Visayas to set up and utilise participatory data systems to monitor and understand the status of their fisheries, in a way that is meaningful for them. Through provision of access to strong data systems and training in data collection this year, these communities will soon have access to real time fisheries data and visualisations that will enable them to make informed decisions around the management of their fisheries.
Indonesia comprises almost 17,500 islands stretching across three time zones. This archipelagic nation has the 2nd longest coastline in the world − and the largest coastal fisheries resource − of any country on Earth. More than ninety per cent of Indonesia's seafood production comes from small-scale fisheries, which are underpinned by the planet's most biodiverse marine ecosystem, known as the Coral Triangle.
We have supported community-led marine conservation in Indonesia since 2016. Our team works in close partnership with 17 Indonesian organisations supporting community-based approaches to coral reef and mangrove conservation across 81 communities in fourteen provinces, collectively reaching over 80,000 people.
Since 2019 we have brought these partners together within a peer learning network of Indonesian organisations specialised in supporting community-based marine conservation. The network is based on the shared values of the organisations, including a commitment to promote the rights of traditional fishing communities in conservation. Our support across these communities is customised to each context − the local fisheries, community stakeholders, seafood supply chains, legal frameworks and customary traditions governing fisheries management and conservation.
In Sumatra and Kalimantan we are strengthening our work in community conservation of globally important mangrove forests. We are supporting and strengthening community-forest management and supporting local partners who are adapting our catalytic model for temporary fishery closures to mangrove-dependent fisheries like mud crab.
We are working closely with our local partners Forkani, Yayasan LINI, Yapeka, Yayasan Planet Indonesia, Foneb, Komanangi, JARI, Ecosystem Impact, Yayasan Tananua Flores, Yayasan Baileo Maluku, AKAR, Japesda, Yayasan Citra Mandiri Mentawai, Yayasan Mitra Insani and Yayasan Hutan Biru, Yayasan Pesisir Lestari and Lembaga Partisipasi Pembangunan Masyarakat (LPPM) Ambon.
We continue to work in India with our long term partner the Dakshin Foundation. We are collaborating in three distinct locations; the archipelago of Lakshadweep, coastal regions of Odisha and the Andaman Islands.
Overfishing has led to a reduction in fish catches, challenging the future of many traditional fishing communities.
Our partnership is working to build the capacity of communities to manage coastal fisheries, and improve the health of fishing communities, for the long-term wellbeing of both the communities and their fishing grounds.
Kenya's coast supports an extraordinary diversity of tropical marine and coastal habitats. These waters are threatened by a proliferation of destructive fishing practices and over-harvesting within the artisanal and commercial fishing sectors.
Our approach in Kenya focuses on strengthening Beach Management Units (BMUs) to improve fisheries management. Since 2016 our Mombasa-based technical team has provided support, mentoring and assistance to local partners including Coastal and Marine Resource Development (COMRED), the Lamu Marine Conservation Trust (LAMCOT), Bahari Hai, and Kwale Beach Management Unit Network (KCBN), a network of 23 BMUs in Kwale County
These partnerships have seen notable achievements in community-led fisheries management and conservation, including training and mentoring BMU leaders in eighteen communities in Kwale and Lamu Counties.
The Comoros islands are located in the northern Mozambique Channel, a region home to the world's second highest marine biodiversity after the Coral Triangle. This globally important biodiversity underpins coastal livelihoods and food security, but is at risk from climate change and overexploitation of inshore fisheries.
We have maintained a presence supporting locally led marine conservation and fisheries management in Comoros since 2015, providing support to local partners, governmental institutions and communities.
On Anjouan, the second largest and most densely populated island in the Comoros archipelago, we work closely with national NGO Dahari. Our partnership has developed a replicable blueprint for community-based marine management, which has included a number of temporary and permanent marine closures − designed to safeguard the coral reef ecosystems underpinning the archipelago's coastal economy.
This approach, which is expanding rapidly across the Comoros, is also demonstrating the importance of inclusive conservation in empowering women − through local women's fisheries associations − to play a leading role in fisheries monitoring and decision making.
Belize's marine environment encompasses some of the most diverse marine ecosystems in the Caribbean Sea, including vast coral reefs, mangrove forests and seagrass beds. We have maintained a permanent presence in Belize since 2010, supporting diverse fisheries and conservation efforts.
We work in close partnership with the Belize Fisheries Department, MPA managers, fishing cooperatives and fishers' associations, and championed the establishment of a national scale domestic fishery targeting the invasive lionfish. We are actively promoting community led fisheries management, building on the success of our pioneering work with management of invasive lionfish.
We've led a decade-long MPA monitoring and evaluation programme in Bacalar Chico Marine Reserve, and provide regular training in coral reef monitoring methods to MPA authorities across Belize, including helping establish management targets for Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve, Belize's largest MPA.
Our team supports and strengthens fishing associations that advocate for the rights of their communities to be involved in decision making around access and use of coastal fisheries and to be key members of MPA management groups. Across the country we are working to ensure that fishers interests are mainstreamed in the design and implementation of marine conservation and fisheries management, improving the effectiveness of co-management of coral reef, mangrove and seagrass areas.
Extending for some 2,700km, Mozambique's coastline is the third longest in the Indian ocean and supports millions of people with food and income.
Our Mozambican team has worked with communities to develop locally led approaches to fisheries management and marine conservation since 2015. Our approach is focused on supporting and strengthening local organisations and Community Fisheries Councils (CCPs) to better understand their local fisheries, make informed management decisions to rebuild fisheries, and assess the impact of management actions. This work is developed in close collaboration with our partners Oikos- Cooperação e Desenvolvimento in Nampula province and Love the Ocean in Inhambane province.
Ongoing security challenges have afflicted coastal communities and emerging marine conservation efforts in several areas of Cabo Delgado, where our work is regrettably now on hold.
Blue Ventures' journey began in Madagascar in 2003, and we've been supporting communities in marine conservation across the country ever since. We have five regional field programmes along Madagascar's west coast, as well as regional offices in the towns of Ambanja, Mahajanga, Morondava and Toliara. Our national headquarters is located in the capital Antananarivo.
Across all these sites we support communities with the establishment of locally managed marine areas (LMMAs), and work with government partners to secure national recognition for community conservation initiatives. First developed in Madagascar by Blue Ventures in 2006, the LMMA concept has since been replicated by communities at hundreds of sites over thousands of kilometres of coastline, now covering almost one fifth of Madagascar's inshore seabed. Our research in Madagascar has demonstrated globally important evidence of the benefits of LMMAs to fisheries and conservation.
Our work focuses on strengthening community institutions in marine management and governance, and pioneering new approaches to catalyse community engagement in ocean conservation. These innovations have included establishing community led ecological monitoring and the country's first mangrove blue carbon project.
At the national level, we partner with the LMMA network MIHARI, which brings together 25 partner conservation organisations supporting 219 LMMA sites across the country. Our policy team is also actively involved in advocating for more robust legislation to safeguard the rights and interests of fishing communities, and to remove destructive industrial fishing from coastal waters. In 2022 we supported the launch of Fitsinjo, an industrial fisheries watchdog organisation. The network highlights industrial fishing and IUU activities in Madagascar and the broader Western Indian Ocean region.
Given the lack of basic services in remote coastal regions in Madagascar, we also help communities access basic healthcare through training and supporting women to serve as community health workers. We do not replace government health systems, but work to strengthen existing structures in close collaboration with government health actors and specialist NGOs. We also incubate Madagascar's national health-environment network, which brings together 40 partner organisations to address the health needs of communities living in areas of conservation importance across the country.


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In countries where dementia appears to be declining, the rise in obesity and diabetes threatens to undo progress.
"It may be that what we have now is a sweet spot," where people with these problems are still relatively young, said Anderson, of the National Institute on Aging. "They're not in the dementia range yet, but what's going to happen? We know they're all in the pipeline."
National Institute on Aging: https://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers
Patient, family info: https://www.alzheimers.gov/
Alzheimer's Association: https://www.alz.org
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Product Details
Condition: | New | Type: | Drying Oven, Drying Oven, Microwave dryer | Place of Origin: | Shandong, China (Mainland) |
Brand Name: | LD Brand | Model Number: | Ring type blet conveyor | Voltage: | 380v |
Power(W): | 2000 | Dimension(L*W*H): | 1550*500*875(mm) | Weight: | 175kg |
Certification: | CE,ISO, CE/ISO | Warranty: | 12 months | After-sales Service Provided: | Engineers available to service machinery overseas |
Product Name: | Microwave Squid drying equipment | Usage: | Drying tea | Dryer material: | 304 stainless steel |
Microwave frequency (MHz): | 2450±50 | Inside tempreture(℃): | ≤45 | Moisture (%): | ≤78 |
Material application: | All solid, powder etc. illiquid material | Manufacturing experience: | 20 years experience in machine |
Product Description
popular hot sale Microwave Squid drying equipment
Microwave Squid drying equipment characteristics:
1. Mini size, light weight, easy mobile;
2. Power is flexible, precise control;
3. Non-contact infrared temperature measurement;
4. Ring type blet conveyor, Intermittent and continous operation;
5. PLC control, easy programme;
6. Touch screen control, easy operate.
This Microwave Squid drying equipment is suitable for low temperature dry of thermal sensitive materials, especially for sold Chinese medicine, honey, bee products, etc. Adjustable vacuum is with this equipment and get high dry speed, it can advance more for product quality and get features of equal heating, easily control and convenient installation, etc. It is widely used in heating sterilizing, ripped of medicine, biology product and forming products. It has special excellent efficient for several kinds of pellet, granule drying., As same, this Microwave Squid drying equipment comes sterilizing function and has features of adjustable power, intelligent control. Safety and sanitation product will be produced by it with long storage period.
Microwave Squid drying equipment specifications:
Type |
Ring type blet conveyor |
Microwave frequency (MHz) |
Microwave output power (KW) |
2 |
Machine Size (L*W*H) |
1550*500*875(mm) |
Weight (KG) |
175 |
Speed (m/s) |
0-5 |
Input voltage (V) |
Three phase AC 380V |
Machine material |
Stainless steel |
Inside tempreture(âÂÂ) |
Moisture (%) |
Material application |
All solid, powder etc. illiquid material |
Working principle:
This Microwave Squid drying equipment is suitable for low temperature dry of thermal sensitive materials, especially for sold Chinese medicine, honey, bee products, etc. Adjustable vacuum is with this equipment and get high dry speed, it can advance more for product quality and get features of equal heating, easily control and convenient installation, etc. It is widely used in heating sterilizing, ripped of medicine, biology product and forming products. It has special excellent efficient for several kinds of pellet, granule drying., As same, this Microwave Squid drying equipment comes sterilizing function and has features of adjustable power, intelligent control. Safety and sanitation product will be produced by it with long storage period.
Raw materials of Microwave Squid drying equipment :
Packaging & Shipping
All the goods exported are packed in wooden case or carton with export standard except naked package when necessary.We have our own professional shipping company which could deliver the goods to every corners in the world with safety and speed, and aslo can supply the services of solving the problems occured during the transaction, such as customs cleaning.
Our Services
Pre-sale services:
Act as a good advisor and assistant of clients; enable them to get rich and competitive
from the returns of their investment.
1) Select suitable equipment model.
2) Design and manufacture products according to clientsâ special requirements.
3) Train technical personnel for clients.
4) Professional suggestion for customer
Services during the sale:
Respect clients; devote ourselves to improving the total value of clients.
1)take photos(including raw material, semi-products, final products, and loading products)
2) Pre-check and accept products ahead of delivery.
3) Prepare all clearance documents, so that the customer clearance smoothly.
After-sale services:
Provide considerate services to minimize clientsâ worries.
1) Provide civil engineering drawings of the equipment.
2) Free training(including installation,maintenace) to every customer.
3) Install and debug the equipment, ensure the dryer running smoothly.
4) Examine the equipment regularly.
5) Take initiative to eliminate the troubles rapidly at site.
6) Distribute the guarantee fittings door-to-door.
7) Provide technical exchange and support.
8) Provide maintenance for big items.
9) The most preferential prices to provide customers the quick-wear parts.
Company Information
Shandong LD Mechanical Equipment Co,Ltd. Is a professional manufacturer of microwave dryer, We have been in microwave dryer manufactuering industry for 40 years. With rich experiences, our engineer team helps customers design different microwave dryer machines with different capacities .
1.What is microwave?
Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic energy with frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz, generated by magnetrons under the combined force of an electric and a magnetic field perpendicular to each other.
2. What is the advantage of microwave equipment compare to Conventional equipment?
Microwave is a direct method of drying and sterilization. Energy is transferred through the material electro-magnetically, not as a thermal heat flux. Therefore, the effect of drying and sterilization is uniformity and process time is short.
Microwave mushrooms sterilizer and dryer could completely preserve the original color, fragrance, nutrition and other properties of spices.
3. How about safety?
Using scientific structure and patented suppression system,industrial microwave drying machine no threat of electromagnetic radiation to the health and safety of equipment operators.
4.What about maintenance?
For microwave dryer and sterilizer, the only part that requires maintenance is the magnetron. In the event of a malfunction or misuse through incorrect operation, this can easily be replaced in less than thirty minutes. Generally,werecommends that the magnetron of industrial microwave dryer and microwave sterilizer be replaced annually or after 8,000 hours of operation, whichever is sooner.
Any more question about Microwave Squid drying equipment , please feel free to contact us at any time.
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1.What's your raw material? How about the form of your products?
2.How much moisture content before drying and after drying?
3.How many input and output capacity per hour?
Once confirm above details,we can provide a suitable solution for you.
In addition,Shandong industrial microwave oven not only manufacture Microwave Dryer ,but also have oil press and refined oil equipment for peanut, soybean, rapeseed, cottonseed, sunflower, sesame, animal,grape seed, acer truncatum, peony seed, walnut, hemp seed, pine, tea seed, papaya, milk thistle seed, and other special material.
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