TY  - SER
AU  - Sahu,Mahesh Kumar
AU  - Illangantileke,Sarath G.
AU  - Athapol Noomhorm,
AU  - Jindal,Vinod Kumar
AU  - Waibel,Hermann
ED  - Royal Government of The Netherlands., 
TI  - Comparative analysis of condition and convection drying of paddy in a rotary dryer
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Rice
KW  - Drying
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the  degree of Master of Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development; Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1989
N2  - The performance of an axial flight prototype rotary dryer  using heated air for driving paddy was investigated. Drying air  temperature in the range of 60 to 100 ·c was used for paddy  having initial moisture content in the range of 18 to 24% w. b.  A two stage paddy drying operation was found suitable to  minimise the reduction in head yield with provision of tempering  inbetween the drying stages. Paddy could be dried to about 14%  w.b . and. the driving characteristics could be well represented by  simple logarithmic model.  For comparison paddy was dried using conduction heating .  Also a combination drying consisting of first stage conduction  heating and second stage heated air drying was tried. The  moisture canoe used was same in all the systems but the  temperature used was different in conduction heating depending on  the optimum conditions found from the earlier studies on  conduction drying to paddy.  The milling quality was found to be same in all the systems.  The drying efficiency was higher in heated air drying than in  conduction heating. The energy efficiency was almost same in all  the systems . Cost comparison showed t h at conduction drying  incurred minimum operating cost per ton of paddy followed by  combination drying. Heated air drying incurred maximum cost.
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