Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs
A corn dryer prototype was manufactured for Mexican small-scale farmers in order to avoid them paying fines for corn with a high-moisture content when selling their corn on to stores. The dryer comprised two large boxes perforated by round holes and containing stainless steel trays subjected to a ho...
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| author | Humberto Rodríguez-Fuentes Juan Arredondo-Valdez Wilgince Apollon Urbano Luna-Maldonado Héctor Flores-Breceda Uziel Francisco Grajeda-González Alejandro Isabel Luna Maldonado |
| author_facet | Humberto Rodríguez-Fuentes Juan Arredondo-Valdez Wilgince Apollon Urbano Luna-Maldonado Héctor Flores-Breceda Uziel Francisco Grajeda-González Alejandro Isabel Luna Maldonado |
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| description | A corn dryer prototype was manufactured for Mexican small-scale farmers in order to avoid them paying fines for corn with a high-moisture content when selling their corn on to stores. The dryer comprised two large boxes perforated by round holes and containing stainless steel trays subjected to a hot air temperature of 45°C within the batch. The accumulated grain in both boxes was 200 mm and the airflow rate were 0.56 m3 s-1. The corn ears layer was of 80 mm of depth in each of the boxes. The airflow rate was 0.34 m3 s-1. Within eight hours, we sampled corn grain in nine points of each box and found that the mean corn grain moisture content was reduced from 30.36% to 10.47% for box 1 whereas for box 2 it was reduced until 14.72%. The fuel consumption for drying was 0.55 kg h-1 of kerosene. In Box1, the exponential regression model for corn grain moisture content had an R² of 0.9143 whereas Box 2 exponential regression model had an R² was of 0.6642. In Box 1, the exponential regression model for corn ear moisture content had an R² of 0.9616 whereas Box 2 had an R² was of 0.9400. Both models for corn cob moisture content had an R² of 0.9639. Two-layer corn dryers can be used to harness gas or fuel energy to speed up drying for storage. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-414bdffba37140fcaa602cfe1b0816512023-02-15T16:09:44ZengTurkish Science and Technology Publishing (TURSTEP)Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology2148-127X2022-02-0110214214610.24925/turjaf.v10i2.142-146.44482370Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and CobsHumberto Rodríguez-Fuentes0Juan Arredondo-Valdez1Wilgince Apollon2Urbano Luna-Maldonado3Héctor Flores-Breceda4Uziel Francisco Grajeda-González5Alejandro Isabel Luna Maldonado6Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo LeónAutonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo LeónAutonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo LeónAutonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo LeónAutonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo LeónAutonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo LeónAutonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo LeónA corn dryer prototype was manufactured for Mexican small-scale farmers in order to avoid them paying fines for corn with a high-moisture content when selling their corn on to stores. The dryer comprised two large boxes perforated by round holes and containing stainless steel trays subjected to a hot air temperature of 45°C within the batch. The accumulated grain in both boxes was 200 mm and the airflow rate were 0.56 m3 s-1. The corn ears layer was of 80 mm of depth in each of the boxes. The airflow rate was 0.34 m3 s-1. Within eight hours, we sampled corn grain in nine points of each box and found that the mean corn grain moisture content was reduced from 30.36% to 10.47% for box 1 whereas for box 2 it was reduced until 14.72%. The fuel consumption for drying was 0.55 kg h-1 of kerosene. In Box1, the exponential regression model for corn grain moisture content had an R² of 0.9143 whereas Box 2 exponential regression model had an R² was of 0.6642. In Box 1, the exponential regression model for corn ear moisture content had an R² of 0.9616 whereas Box 2 had an R² was of 0.9400. Both models for corn cob moisture content had an R² of 0.9639. Two-layer corn dryers can be used to harness gas or fuel energy to speed up drying for storage.http://www.agrifoodscience.com/index.php/TURJAF/article/view/4448dryer prototypecornmoisture contentmodellingkerosene |
| spellingShingle | Humberto Rodríguez-Fuentes Juan Arredondo-Valdez Wilgince Apollon Urbano Luna-Maldonado Héctor Flores-Breceda Uziel Francisco Grajeda-González Alejandro Isabel Luna Maldonado Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology dryer prototype corn moisture content modelling kerosene |
| title | Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs |
| title_full | Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs |
| title_fullStr | Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs |
| title_short | Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs |
| title_sort | design and manufacture of a dryer for corn grains ears and cobs |
| topic | dryer prototype corn moisture content modelling kerosene |
| url | http://www.agrifoodscience.com/index.php/TURJAF/article/view/4448 |
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