(Полтавський державний аграрний університет, 2026-06-08) Ryzhkova,Т.Yu; Ovsiienko, Yu. I.; Burlaka, O. A.
In the current context of restoring Ukraine's agricultural infrastructure, minimizing capital expenditures at the stage of creating grain storage facilities has become a key factor in the financial sustainability of grain business. Metal grain silos (MGS) account for 30-40% of the capital budget of grain storage complexes. However, their design is based on unified geometric parameters that do not consider economic optimization for specific volumes and climatic operating conditions.
This approach leads to excessive consumption of structural steel, increased weight of the structure, and a longer payback period for investments. It is important to provide an economic and technological rationale for analytically optimised geometric solutions in the design of metal grain silos in order to reduce capital expenditure for agricultural enterprises without compromising functional and operational characteristics. Which directly aligns with the priorities of engineering and technological support for agricultural production.