5-6T/H Floating Fish Aqua Feed Plant in Iran

This is an expansion project of an Iranian aquatic feed factory.

The client of this 5-6t/h floating fish feed mill project is mainly engaged in the production and sales of livestock and poultry, fresh water, and special water feed, and also involves aquaculture business.

The feed company of the client of this project originally had a livestock and poultry feed production line with an annual output of 120,000 tons and a shrimp feed production line with an annual output of 15,000 tons.

In order to better integrate production, sales, and raw material resources, reduce comprehensive technical costs, and expand and stabilize the company's market share, the customer of this project invested US$800,000 to add a 6t/h aquatic expanded feed production line to the existing feed workshop.

After the aqua feed mill project is completed and put into operation, it will have an annual production capacity of 25,000 tons of extruded feed.

• Feed type: sturgeon and trout
• Annual output: 25,000 tons of extruded feed
• Water consumption: 640t/a
• Power consumption: 7550000 kwh/a
• Gas consumption: 20000t/a
• Working system: The production of this 5-6t/h floating fish feed plant in Iran project adopts a two-shift system (each shift is about 10 hours), and the annual effective working days are 200 days.
• Labor capacity: 40 existing employees, 10 new employees will be added for this Iran aqua feed plant in project.

The main engineering and product plans of this 5-6t/h floating fish aqua feed plant in Iran project are shown in the table below:

• Raw material warehouse: 2000 m2, relying on the existing one, adding 2*50m3 oil tanks to store soybean lecithin oil
• Finished product warehouse: 1000m2, relying on existing

This 5-6t/h floating fish aqua feed plant in Iran project uses a lot of raw materials. The main raw materials and consumption are as follows:

The main production equipment we configure for our Iran customer are as follows:

• The southeast side of the factory area of this aqua feed production line in Iran project is a 2F office building and 3F building (the first floor is a canteen, and the second and third floors are dormitories);
• On the east side is a 5F building with an original 120,000 tons/year livestock poultry chicken feed mill in Iran project workshop, 1F raw material warehouse, and 1F finished product warehouse;
• The central and northern part of the factory area is the boiler room;
• On the west side of the factory area are the 5F shrimp feed factory building, 1F raw material warehouse, and 1F finished product warehouse.

The production line process designed by RICHI for customers is as follows:

1. Raw material reception and initial cleaning: Soybean meal and other raw materials are sent to the bucket elevator via a scraper conveyor, lifted to a cleaning screen to remove debris, and then removed through a permanent magnet cylinder to remove ferromagnetic debris and transported to the batching bin. This process will produce dust, waste straw rope, sand and gravel, etc.
2. Primary batching, mixing, primary crushing, and secondary crushing: Various raw materials are weighed and batched under computer control and then enter the double-shaft high-efficiency mixer for primary mixing. The mixed materials are transported into the pulverizer for secondary crushing.
3. Secondary batching and mixing: Various auxiliary materials are weighed and batched under computer control, and then enter the mixer together with the primary premix for secondary mixing.
4. Extrusion: The mixed materials enter the warehouse to be expanded, undergo high-temperature treatment through the floating fish feed machine, and use steam conditioning to mature the feed and achieve a certain uniformity.
5. Drying: After puffing is completed, it must be dried to remove moisture.
6. Grease spraying: The dried materials are screened and mixed evenly with grease through a spraying machine.
7. Air transportation: After spraying is completed, it enters the cooler to cool and air-dry.
8. Screening: From the elevator to the grading screen, the qualified products enter the packaging process. This process will produce unqualified products.
9. Packaging and warehousing: finished products are automatically stacked by robots and palletizers and transported to the warehouse for storage.

It can be seen from the engineering analysis that this 5-6t/h floating fish aqua feed plant in Iran project has adopted more effective pollution prevention and control measures based on the characteristics of pollutant emission, and all types of pollutants can be discharged up to the standard:

The dust generated during the crushing process of the 5-6t/h floating fish feed mill plant in Iran project is processed by the "pulse dust collector + spray tower" and then discharged through the 40-meter-high exhaust pipe.

The total amount of organized dust emissions from the two crushing processes is 0.337t/a, the emission rate is 0.0842kg/h, and the emission concentration is 1.65mg/m3, both of which can meet the "Comprehensive Emission Standard of Air Pollutants" .

The solid waste of this 5-6t/h floating fish aqua feed plant in Iran project will be properly disposed of and will not have any adverse impact on the local environment.

Corresponding noise reduction measures have been taken for each noise source in this Iran floating fish food processing line project, mainly focusing on building sound insulation, supplemented by distance attenuation, and rationally laying out fish feed production equipment to achieve factory boundary compliance.

Iran's aquaculture production has increased significantly in recent years, and the country is now the world's third largest supplier of caviar and third in the world in sturgeon farming and processing.

Iran has also made good progress in trout farming and is currently the world's largest producer of rainbow trout. The country's annual fisheries and aquaculture production will exceed the target of 1.505 million tons.

The average consumption of seafood reached 12.1 kilograms per capita last year, an increase of more than 50% compared with a few years ago. Supporting aquaculture and encouraging seafood and white meat consumption to reduce the annual import of 150,000 tons of red meat has become a policy of the Iranian government.

Seafood products account for nearly 10% of Iran’s annual agricultural export value. In the past six months, the country has exported more than $80 million worth of seafood, a 20% increase compared to the same period last year.

Golestan Province in northern Iran is one of the country's main areas for the production and breeding of aquatic animals and seafood (especially shrimp). About 80% of the shrimp it produces is exported abroad.

The prosperity of the aquaculture industry will inevitably drive the development of Iran's aquatic feed industry. Not only the processing of fish feed, but also the processing of shrimp feed is very promising in Iran.

To start an aqua fish feed plant in Iran as business successfully, you should know more about the process of making aqua feed at first, then is the cost and machinery selection.

As mentioned above, fish feed is divided into sinking and floating types. you should make sure which kind of fish feed you are going to produce. and the process can be customized according to your requirement. such as, liquid adding, curing etc.

Whatever kind of business you plan to start, you should do market research, so does starting a aqua feed plant in Iran. Making the research about how many people have fish feeding industry?

How much is one bag of fish feed? And how many people have the aqua feed plant in your local place? And some other questions about starting aquatic feed production projects.

Cost of starting aqua feed plant in Iran projects is affected by many factors, including factory building cost, raw material cost, machinery cost, energy consumption cost, labor cost etc.

When you decide to start an aqua feed plant in Iran, the related equipment is a large part of the whole production. Choosing a reliable shrimp and fish feed machine manufacturer or supplier is very important.