Method for fumigating grain including the application of liquid CO.sub.2
AssigneeDead Sea Bromine Company Ltd.
InventorsShlomo Cohen, Zeev Gollop, Levi Klein
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for fumigating grain stored in bins by the gravity penetration method comprising applying methyl-bromide and liquid CO.sub.2 to the upper layer of grain stored therein wherein the liquid CO.sub.2 is applied to said upper layer of grain through a conduit having an inner cross-sectional area at least about twelve times as great as the cross-sectional area of the outlet.
Claims3
A method for fumigating grain stored in a bin by the gravity penetration method comprising applying methyl-bromide to the top of said bin and spraying liquid CO.sub.2 at the top of said bin at the upper layer of grain stored therein by providing a liquid CO.sub.2 container with a delivery conduit in fluid communication therewith and providing said delivery conduit with an outlet remote from said container wherein the inner cross-sectional area of said conduit is at least about 12 times as great as the cross-sectional area of said outlet and passing liquid CO.sub.2 from said container through said delivery conduit to the outlet of said delivery conduit under such conditions that liquid CO.sub.2 emerges from the outlet and flows without the formation of solid CO.sub.2 in gaseous form by gravity together with the methyl bromide to the bottom of the bin.
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