scholarly journals Separation characteristic of hot air heavy medium fluidized bed

Author(s):  
Lingyue Li ◽  
Shenglun Zhou ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Jiangjiang Qu ◽  
Chuan Liu ◽  
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Author(s):  
Lingyue Li ◽  
Jiangjiang Qu ◽  
Shenglun Zhou ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Chuan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hot Air ◽  

Today many industries now use the dryer as a part of grain-drying process even during wet and dry seasons. This helps in reducing spoilage and wastage of paddy. Mostly the available industrial dryers are expensive to purchase and to maintain its smooth functioning. This study therefore is a step to design a simple Plug flow fluidized dryer that can lead to introduce small scale dryers to paddy process industry. The Plug flow fluidized bed dryers are designed and fabricated in this study consists of the drying chamber, hot air distributer plate, hot air inlet and exit system, paddy entry and exit system, fluidization chamber unit with temperature control unit and the centrifugal fan. The evaluation of dryer is based on drying time and reduction in moisture content and outlet temperature of paddy on quality parameters. Dryer dimensions are very important to analyze heat and mass transfer analysis of the Plug flow fluidized bed drying process of paddy grains. It was found d that heat and mass transfer properties of paddy grains in fluidized bed dryer was decreases as the time of drying passes and very rapid at the start of drying. The model present here predicts about dryer dimensions along safe zone of rough rice moisture content with other parameters. Simulation results show a good agreement between the simulation model and the existing simulation models


2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 1462-1470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaiwat Rattanamechaiskul ◽  
Nittaya Junka ◽  
Chalermchai Wongs-Aree ◽  
Somkiat Prachayawarakorn ◽  
Somchart Soponronnarit

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZENNOSUKE TANAKA ◽  
JUN OSHITANI ◽  
TOYONOBU NAKAMURA ◽  
TAKAYUKI SYOUJI ◽  
AYAKA HORIUCHI
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Proper drying methods can prevent the damage of food grains by changing in physic-chemical properties and minimize the spoilage during storage and improve the nutrition quality of grain. Thus proper drying methods are very important to choose based on operating conditions and cost. In present work, the typical variations in physico-chemical properties of mustard seeds obtained from Varshakonda Village in Telangana State were investigated during drying in Hot Air Oven, Tray Drier and Fluidized Bed drier. Removal of moisture during fluidized bed drying is observed very effective. Also, nutritional properties like fat, protein, phosphorous & iron contents were found to decrease considerably low during drying in Fluidized bed comparatively in hot air oven and tray drier. Therefore, mustard seeds can effectively dried in Fluidized Bed. The fluidization characteristics of mustard seeds under different operating conditions were investigated in order to find out best drying method to dry mustard seeds.


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