Separation processes of wet dispersed systems are quite common in the food, processing and other industries. In particular, these include processes related to the production of fruit and vegetable juices, jams, sunflower and olive oil, the extraction of fat from meat rinds in meat production, the separation of whey from cheese mass in the production of cheese, the separation of grated cocoa into butter and pulp, dehydration of wet dispersed waste of food production (alcohol grain, beer pellets, beet pulp, coffee and barley sludge). These processes are quite energy-intensive and have low-productivity, therefore, much attention is paid for modernization of equipment for their implementation in the direction of improving the indicated efficiency characteristics, as well as increasing reliability and reducing material consumption, complexity and price of working machines. At the same time, the known hydraulic static presses do not provide of low final moisture content of the product and the required productivity of the working process. Vibratory pressing equipment is often quite complex, unreliable and generates intense noise and vibration during of operation. Screw presses with an electromechanical drive, despite of their advantages, do not allow to achieve of the necessary degree of separation of the components of the dispersed system, in addition, their actuators are structurally quite complex and wear out quickly. The authors propose improved schemes of hydraulic presses for separation of wet dispersed systems, which can provide high rates of efficiency of the working process and have a simple and reliable design. The article also presents equations for calculating of the main operating parameters of the proposed equipment.

There is known equipment for mixing of heterogeneous food mixtures analyzed in this article. Some part of this equipment provides qualitative mixing at macro-level (mixing of large portions of processed material), for example, paddle, propeller, turbine, anchor, screw, gravitation and drum mixers. Another part of mixing machines on the contrary, allows to achieve of effective micro-level mixing (mutual movements of adjacent particles of material) – vibratory and centrifugal mixers. In some cases there is important to provide well mixing both at macro- and at micro-level, when it is accompanied by thermal, diffusion or chemical processes and from its efficiency depend energy expenses and qualitative characteristics of product. Therefore, a task of elaboration of schemes of improved apparatuses for effective macro- and micro-mixing of dry and liquid multi-component food materials is resolved in the article. Authors are proposing to create these apparatuses at the base of well known equipment – gravitation and screw mixers by way of their additional equipping with serial electromagnetic vibro-exciters of ultrasonic oscillations. As a result, a main drive of a base mixer will provide working process at macro-level and an additional drive – micro-level movements of material particles. The proposed apparatuses have a simple and reliable construction, don’t consist of original parts and at the same time, provide necessary efficiency of working process. Equations of movements of processed components particles in course of their different loading stages, with examination of physical-mechanical properties of the components are also presented in the article. These equations can be used as a base for further creation of methods of design calculation of proposed apparatuses.

The processes of grinding dry and wet dispersed materials are common in alcohol, beer, sugar, meat, bakery, feed, chemical and a number of other industries, as well as in construction. Relevant for these processes, especially recently, in connection with the rise in the cost of energy resources, is the problem of reducing energy costs during their implementation, subject to high productivity, sufficient degree and uniformity of grinding and moderate cost of equipment for the process. The article proposes scientifically substantiated dependencies for calculating the minimum required electrical power of an experimental industrial grinder, which is considered as a replacement for hammer crushers, when used to grind wet grain of wheat, rye or corn and ensure the specified performance, taking into account the daily volume of raw materials processed at the enterprise. as well as the permissible degree of its refinement. In particular, equations were obtained to determine the power consumption for bringing the raw material in the grinder into rotary motion, for the friction between the grains of the raw material and the grinder discs, as well as the internal surfaces of its working chamber, for the friction between the grains themselves, the power required for grinding. The electric power of the grinder, the effective efficiency (41%) and the total efficiency (14%), by which it is superior to hammer crushers, have been calculated. In this work, based on the theory of contactless hydraulic seals, the analysis of possible trajectories of the particles of the processed raw materials in the working chamber of the grinder (grains of wheat, rye or corn moistened with water) is carried out, the forces acting on the particles of the raw material in the process of their movement from the axis of the grinder to the periphery of the working chamber are determined, as well as the analysis of the interaction of particles during their grinding, based on the theoretical provisions of the mechanics of quasi-solid and quasi-liquid bodies.