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    This document provides instructions for coating solid fertilizer at a pilot scale with BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice. It details the equipment, materials, and step-by-step procedure for coating a minimum of 50kg of fertilizer including calculating amounts, mixing, spraying on the coating, and allowing it to dry before storage.

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    This document provides instructions for coating solid fertilizer at a pilot scale with BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice. It details the equipment, materials, and step-by-step procedure for coating a minimum of 50kg of fertilizer including calculating amounts, mixing, spraying on the coating, and allowing it to dry before storage.

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    This document provides instructions for coating solid fertilizer at a pilot scale with BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice. It details the equipment, materials, and step-by-step procedure for coating a minimum of 50kg of fertilizer including calculating amounts, mixing, spraying on the coating, and allowing it to dry before storage.

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    This document provides instructions for coating solid fertilizer at a pilot scale with BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice. It details the equipment, materials, and step-by-step procedure for coating a minimum of 50kg of fertilizer including calculating amounts, mixing, spraying on the coating, and allowing it to dry before storage.

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    Technical Bulletin

    BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid and BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice: Pilot
    Scale Fertilizer Coating
    Introduction
    This technical bulletin provides a step-by-step protocol for pilot scale (less than one metric ton) coating of
    BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid and BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice onto solid fertilizer.
    Equipment
    • Mixer (rotary, paddle, ribbon).
    • Sprayer (hand pump or air driven) with fine mist spray pattern. No other tools such as eye dropper, pipet, etc.
    should be used.
    • Scale or balance for weighing.
    • Buckets and weigh boats or cups for weighing material.
    Materials
    • BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice
    • Solid fertilizer sample (urea, ammonium sulfate, DAP, MAP, fertilizer blends, compound fertilizers, biosolids,
    limestone, etc.)
    • Drying agent (calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, bentonite)

    Procedure
    1. Make sure all the equipment is thoroughly clean and dry.
    2. Due to the heterogeneous nature of BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid and BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice, a
    minimum of 50kg of fertilizer should be used for small scale coating trials. This will require a minimum of
    100mL of BiOWiSH® for the coating process. If smaller amounts of BiOWiSH® coated fertilizer are required for
    subsequent testing, it is recommended that these be sub-sampled from the 50kg batch.
    Weight based delivery
    Using a bucket, weigh out the amount of solid fertilizer to be coated. For this example we will use 50kg of solid
    fertilizer.
    Calculations for 50kg of solid fertilizer:
    • BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice is applied at 0.2% by weight 0.2% * 50kg =
    0.1kg or 100g of BiOWiSH® per 50kg of fertilizer.
    • Drying agent is applied at twice the level of the BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green
    Choice: 0.4% * 50kg = 0.2kg or 200g drying agent per 50kg of fertilizer.
    Volume based delivery
    Measure out the volume of solid fertilizer to be coated.
    Calculations for volumetric dosing:
    • BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice is applied at the equivalent of 2L per 1000 kg.
    For 50kg of fertilizer apply 100mL of BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice.
    • Drying agent is applied at 0.4% by weight or 4g/kg. When dosing by volume, this weight needs to be
    divided by the density of the drying agent to get the number of cubic centimeters of drying agent required
    (e.g. (4/g/kg) / (density, g/cm3) = cm3/kg).

    Drying Agent Density


    calcium sulfate 0.72g/cm3
    calcium carbonate 0.70g/cm3
    bentonite 0.80g/cm3

    Biological Help for the Human Race®

    biowishtech.com ○ [email protected] ○ 1.312.572.6700 1221-06-EN


    Technical Bulletin
    BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid and BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice: Pilot
    Scale Fertilizer Coating
    3. Place the solid fertilizer into the mixer.
    4. Measure out the required amount of drying agent (either in grams or cubic centimeters).
    Before dispensing, vigorously mix the container of BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice.
    a. For 2.5 gallon (9.46L) jugs refer to the technical bulletin, BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid & BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid
    Green Choice 9.46L (2.5 gal) Jug Mixing Instructions.
    b. For 190L drums refer to the technical bulletin, BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid and BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green
    Choice 190L (50.2 gal) Drum Mixing Instructions
    c. For totes (1,000L), refer to the technical bulletin, BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid and BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid
    Green Choice 1,000L (264 gal) Totes Mixing Instructions.
    8. Add the recommended amount of BiOWiSH® to the sprayer. Use a sprayer with a fine mist spray, never
    droplets. Fully assemble the sprayer and prime it. If using weight based dosing, weigh and record the weight
    of the sprayer. If using volume based dosing, note the starting volume and define where the final volume
    should be after delivery.
    9. Turn on the mixer.
    10. Begin spraying the BiOWiSH® onto the rotating solid fertilizer bed. Avoid spraying onto the mixer blades or
    sides of the mixer. To avoid settling in the spray tank, continuously shake the handheld sprayer while
    applying BiOWiSH®.
    a. For weight based dosing, frequently stop spraying and re-weigh the sprayer unit. Subtract the weight
    from the initial weight recorded in Step #6. The goal is to deliver the equivalent of 0.2% or 100g of
    BiOWiSH® per every 50kg of solid fertilizer.
    b. For volume-based dosing, spray until the volume in the sprayer has dropped to the final level. Goal is to
    deliver 100mL or 100cm3 per every 50kg of solid fertilizer.
    13. Once the required amount of BiOWiSH® has been added (for 50kg of solid fertilizer the required amount
    is 100g or 100cm3), stop spraying and allow the mixer to run for two minutes.*
    14. After 2 minutes of mixing, with the mixer still running, add the required amount of drying agent (for 50kg of
    solid fertilizer the required amount is 200g or the equivalent volume based on density).
    15. Allow the mixer to run for another two minutes.*
    16. Coating is complete. Empty the coated solid fertilizer into buckets or other holding container until ready for
    use. Keep the containers sealed until use. Do not store the coated fertilizer above 40°C for extended periods.
    17. Collect one 200mL subsample of the mixed BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid or BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice
    used in the coating trial. Also collect 1kg of the uncoated solid fertilizer sample and 1kg of the coated solid
    fertilizer. If multiple different types of fertilizers were coated, collect 1kg each of the uncoated and coated
    materials. Send these samples, along with the appropriate sample submission form, to the BiOWiSH
    approved laboratory supporting your region. Contact [email protected] for the laboratory
    nearest you.

    * For full scale production, the rotational speed of your production mixer may allow reduction in the required
    retention time for coating.

    For coating fertilizer batches of one metric ton or greater please refer to the User Guide, BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid:
    Large Scale Fertilizer Coating.

    Note: BiOWiSH® Crop Liquid Green Choice is used for coating urea and ammonium sulfate. The application
    process is the same as defined above.

    Biological Help for the Human Race®

    biowishtech.com ○ [email protected] ○ 1.312.572.6700 1221-06-EN

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