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Whaat is it and why
w does it work?
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The Allquip
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Smarrt Cooler is a simple piece of machineery which wh
hen utilised with
w a workiing diesel engine in agricultural
cool
and
con
situaations is ablee to capture,
ndense dieseel engine exh
haust emissio
ons into a nu
utrient rich, moist
m
carbon
nic acid
vapo
our and throu
ugh the use of commonlyy used agricu
ultural seeding equipment can deliveer this wastee atmospheriic
pollu
utant deep into the soil where
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it has an incrediblle stimulatin
ng effect on soil
s biology, triggering a rapid and lasting
bene
eficial effect on soil healtth and nutrittion transferrring directly to strong an
nd pest free crop
c
growth..
It is common
c
kno
owledge thatt many fertilisers are a by‐product off petroleum and gas refin
neries. Durin
ng the processs of oil
and gas
g refinery certain elem
ments are pro
oduced as waste and mu
ust be capturred and remo
oved from th
he chemical
reacttions. These elements caan be refined
d further to produce
p
prod
ducts which are in demand. Modern agriculture has
h
deve
eloped a stro
ong demand for these pro
oducts for usse as fertiliseers to increase crop yield
ds.
Durin
ng the proceess of creatin
ng these agricultural fertiilisers raw fu
uel products are subjecteed to conditio
ons of extrem
me
pressure and heaat and subse
equent coolin
ng during wh
hich moleculees are broke
en down into
o their compo
onent elemeents
whicch through ch
hemical proccesses can bee separated, collected an
nd reconstitu
uted as fertiliser.
The conditions
c
w
within the combustion ch
hamber of an
ny diesel engine very clossely replicatee those withiin fuel refine
eries and
fertiliser factoriees. Fuel and air
a compresss and explodee creating exxtreme presssure and heaat, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon
atom
ms are freed of their moleecular bondss and as presssure is releaased and coo
oling begins are
a attracted
d to one another to
rapid
dly reform in
nto new mole
ecular structtures as in fertiliser facto
ories.
Scien
ntists do nott dispute thatt exhaust em
missions are rich
r in nutrieents but it is well accepte
ed among aggricultural sciientists
that the amount of fertiliser produced in the common heavy dutyy diesel engine when app
plied per hecctare during seeding
is on
nly a fraction of the amou
unt generallyy accepted as being neceessary to achieve profitab
ble crop yield
ds.
Therre is also a grrowing realissation amongg agronomistts worldwidee that the cu
urrently accepted practise of applyingg the
heavvy rates of high concentration chemiccal fertiliserss required to
o produce currently profittable yield taargets are reeleasing
store
ed soil carbo
on, dismantling soil structtures and deecimating soiil biology at an
a alarming and unsustainable rate. There is
also a grass rootss realisation among farm
mers worldwiide that by reeducing fertiilisers dramaatically and concentrating
c
g on
prom
moting biologgical soil heaalth by inoculating with beneficial
b
soiil biology target yields caan be maintained while
incre
easing organic soil carbon
n and remnaant nutrient availability
a
so much so th
hat only a fraaction of thee amount of fertiliser
f
tradiitionally applied is requirred to produce target yie
elds.
Currently accepted best pracctice farmingg methods off no till, high rate, high co
oncentration
n chemical feertiliser and chemical
c
herb
bicide applicaation (Conventional Meth
hods) are haaving another unintended
d and little understood
u
d
detrimental
effect
e
on
soil health
h
and plant nutrition. Most farm
mers are familiar with thee effect of nitrogen draw
wdown causeed by high orrganic
mattter bacterial decomposition within th
he soil. Whatt is less undeerstood by faarmers and agronomists
a
alike is that fungus
can and
a should also
a play a siggnificant rolee in decomposition of organic matterr and that un
nlike bacteriaa, fungal
deco
omposition d
does not resu
ult in the losss of any soil nitrogen at all,
a in fact alm
most all the nitrogen
n
min
neralised by fungi
durin
ng the decom
mposition prrocess is storred within the fungal organic structurre and can be made available in crop
p to the
grasss host crop. Instead of prromoting thee vital soil ro
oot fungus co
onventional fertiliser
f
app
plications stro
ongly promo
ote
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bacterial populattion growth within the so
oil, outperforming sloweer growing fu
ungus and ou
ut competingg for resources at the
expe
ense of funggus and supp
pressing the establishment of healthyy fungal populations.
In a healthy
h
soil iit is accepted
d that 50% of
o decomposition should result from bacterial acttivity and 50%
% from fungal
activvity. This reduces nitrogeen draw down and allowss for slow rellease of stored fungal nittrogen to thee host crop right
r
through the grow
wing season.
Allquip Smartt Cooler in co
onjunction with
w a program of biologiccal inoculatio
on it is possible to apply low
By uttilising the A
ratess of fertiliserr at nano parrticle size at extremely
e
lo
ow concentraation but at massive
m
coveerage not po
ossible with granular
g
or liq
quid applicattion methods and at minimal cost. Byy combining this method
d of nutrient application, coating soil particles
and seed with a nutrient rich
h moisture vaapour with a mycorrhizall fungi seed treatment we
w can avoid overstimulaating the
bacterial populattion and we can assist in the establishment of a strong
s
and active soil fun
ngi.
Myco
orrhiza, (roo
ot fungi) havee a symbioticc relationship
p with their ggrass plant hosts.
h
Since the
t fungi livee in the soil they
t
have
e no capacityy for photosyynthesis whicch is the process that plaants use to caapture energgy from lightt which is sto
ored
within the plant as sugar or carbohydrate
c
es, thereforee fungus is en
nergy poor. Mycorrhiza
M
d have an amazing
do
a
ability
through enzymes they produ
uce which haave the capaccity to unlock nutrients such
s
as phosphate from molecular
m
bo
onds
form
med through soil chemistry with other elements such
s
as iron. As such we have the eneergy poor bu
ut nutrient ricch
fungus forming a mateship with
w the enerrgy/sugar rich but nutrient poor grass host. The knowledge
k
of this processs is
some
ething that h
has unfortun
nately been neglected
n
in the educatio
on of farmers during the green revolu
ution created
d by
fertilisers and their sales persons of the last century.
basic of the syymbiotic ben
nefits gained
d by both orgganisms from
m this relatio
onship. Plantss in their effo
orts to
This is only the b
attraact and prom
mote healthy soil root fun
ngi deliberate
ely leak sugaars and other stimulants from their ro
oots. These sugars
s
or caarbohydratess are carbon rich and can
n rapidly incrrease the orgganic carbon
n content of the
t soils theyy grow in. Th
his
carbon acts as a major soil im
mprover, reducing non wetting,
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assistting amelioration of fertiliser sterilisaation and nu
utrient
reten
ntion. Apartt from the beenefits to both, the plantt, soil and fungi from thiss relationship
p is the sequestration of massive
quan
ntities or carbon from the
e atmospherre. It has bee
en shown thaat soil carbon can be incrreased rapid
dly and that the
t soil is
the largest poten
ntial carbon sink
s of the global environ
nment.
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