Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs

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  • Humberto Rodríguez-Fuentes Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6060-4146
  • Juan Arredondo-Valdez Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8448-8354
  • Wilgince Apollon Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3790-3807
  • Urbano Luna-Maldonado Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6195-2003
  • Héctor Flores-Breceda Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0876-5924
  • Uziel Francisco Grajeda-González Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2933-8550
  • Alejandro Isabel Luna Maldonado Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Faculty of Agronomy, Francisco Villa S / N, C.P. 66050 Col. Ex-Hacienda El Canadá, General Escobedo, Nuevo León https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9528-3052

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24925/turjaf.v10i2.142-146.4448

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Dryer prototype- corn- moisture content- modelling- kerosene

Özet

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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2022-02-28

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Rodríguez-Fuentes, H., Arredondo-Valdez, J., Apollon, W., Luna-Maldonado, U., Flores-Breceda, H., Grajeda-González, U. F., & Luna Maldonado, A. I. (2022). Design and Manufacture of a Dryer for Corn Grains, Ears and Cobs. Türk Tarım - Gıda Bilim Ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 10(2), 142–146. https://doi.org/10.24925/turjaf.v10i2.142-146.4448

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