Denmark-based Landia is providing its fourth BioChop unit to Faroe Islands-based P/F Luna, increasing the salmon producer’s biosecurity.
Designed with Landia’s chopper pump, the BioChop will be used for the safe and efficient processing of fish morts into silage at Vestmanna on the island of Streymoy.
The Landia BioChop bound for Vestmanna is effectively a ‘plug and play’ unit, with a long-shaft acid-resistant chopper pump handling the entire process of breaking down and mixing whole salmon. All components that are in contact with the silage are produced in acid-resistant materials to protect them from the corrosive additive.
Comprising the chopper pump, PLC (programmable logic controller) and separate acid-dosing pump to ensure proper pH balance in the tank, the new 5m³ Landia Biochop processes the salmon morts into silage.
After transportation to a central storage facility on the Faroe Islands, the silage is then shipped to Norway where it can be used for biogas production, as a starter feed for piglets and chickens or used as an ingredient for pet food.
Landia delivered its first acid-resistant Biochop 5m³ silage tank to P/F Luna in 1997 and has also supplied chopper pumps and mixers for integrated Faroe Islands factory trawlers. The pumps chop the fish by-products, whilst the mixers ensure that processed silage stays homogeneous in tanks.
