In Part 1 of this series of three papers , it was shown that the moisture content in maize reaching a dryer is approximately normally distributed . In Part 2 , stochastic drying models are developed for grain with an initial normal distribution in moisture content . It is shown that the moisture con
Stochastic Modelling of Grain Drying: Part 3. Analysis of Crossflow Drying
โ Scribed by F.W. Bakker-Arkema; Qiang Liu
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 231 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8634
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โฆ Synopsis
In Part 3 of the papers on stochastic dryer modelling of grain drying , the MSU stochastic drying model is used to investigate the distribution of the kernel moisture content during the crossflow drying of maize .
It is shown that the standard deviation of the moisture content gradually increases during the drying process , and becomes larger when the drying temperature is increased or the airflow rate is decreased . A graininverter placed in a crossflow dryer is demonstrated to have a beneficial ef fect on the grain quality by decreasing the value of the standard deviation of the moisture content of the grain leaving the dryer .
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The term ''grain moisture content'' refers in the grain market , and in grain-drying technology , to the average moisture content of a sample of kernels . Recent studies have established that a significant variance in moisture content exists among individual grain kernels . 1 Thus , the variation i