Lanodir applies pure cylindered Phosphine through the Horn Diluphos System™.
The Horn Diluphos System™ is a
revolutionary equipment for stored product fumigations in closed spaces, silos, warehouses, sheds, cold storage chambers and adapted reefers containers. This innovative equipment dilutes pure cylindered Phosphine directly with air in a completely safe way.
Phosphine, a well known insecticide Hydrogen phosphide is an ideal product for the protection of stored products. It is known worldwide and used in most countries of the world. It also has a series of advantages over the other fumigating agents. Phosphine kills insects only where these should be killed, in this case, in stored products. Once it is liberated or released to the atmosphere, sun light converts it quickly into phosphoric acid, which has no ecological or environmental effects.
Method
This is an automated system, which allows the dilution of pure phosphine directly with air below the lower flammability limit (LFL), allowing the injection of a mixture of air and phosphine into the fumigation facility without risk of ignition. This system relies on several safety mechanisms, which have been proven safe even in serious incidents
such as the loss of electrical power.
Some advantages of the Horn Diluphos System™
- Reduced gas distribution time compared to other Phosphine formulations
- Reduced fumigation time compared to other Phosphine formulations
- It is not necessary to place the fumigant in various locations of the facility
- Eliminates confined space entry issues
- There is no necessity to collect, deactivate and dispose of spend material following the fumigation
- There are no environmental problems as only hydrogen phosphide is applied, which is readily deactivated by sunlight upon release into the atmosphere
- Reduced risk of ignition since the phosphine concentration never reaches the LFL of 18.000 ppm
- Phosphine generation does not depend on temperature or moisture levels of air
- The required concentration of gas for the fumigation is reached early during the fumigation period
- The gas concentration can be changed at any time during the fumigation
- There are no residues in the application, neither solid nor liquid
- The amount of gas applied will be exactly the amount needed. If the concentration is lower than required, it is possible to redose from outside at any time
- The gas can be applied to a totally sealed structure, as the gas from the cylinders is mixed with air taken from the inside of the structure to be fumigated and therefore only a very slow increase of pressure is developed
- It requires much less manual labor
- No ammonia and CO2 emissions
In this way, with this new technology, fumigations with Phosphine can be made much more efficiently, completely different from what has been applied until now, with a method that is revolutionary to human knowledge of phosphine, in the last 75 years.
Only by Cytec™ and Fosfoquim™ certified and trained fumigators are allowed to use Horn Diluphos System™.