The drying of wheat. Part I. The further drying of manitoba wheat

✍ Scribed by Mounfielc, H. D.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1943
• Weight: 587 KB
• Volume: 62
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000620701

✦ Synopsis

hmplea of Manitoba wheat at their nntud moisture content of 13-1% haro heqn dried to sub-normal moisture contenta (to nbout 7%) in a batch dryor under controlled conditions at diffemnt rates of air flow and at sir temperatures of 1W0, 180°, and 200" F. After dryiig the ahoat shbwed improved milling chsracteriatica and yidded a higher pereentoge of endoeperm than tho control whcnt. Bnking and oxtennometor testa showed thnt undor tho drying condition6 unnd in theno *testa them is no ovidenm of marked chango in bnking qunlity on drying down to a moisture content of nbout 7% in spite of the fact thnt tho whent in the most ertremo:caae atteined a h a 1 temperature of 185' P.