Using paddy husk as the replacement of gas & fuel for drying grains

Digital Re-print - January| February 2011 Using biomass waste- paddy husk, to completely replace gas or diesel in grain drying Grain & Feed Mil ing Technology is published six times a year by Perendale Publishers Ltd of the United Kingdom.Al data is published in good faith, based on information received, and while every care is taken to prevent inaccuracies, the publishers accept no liability for any errors or omissions or for the consequences of action taken on the basis of information published. ©Copyright 2010 Perendale Publishers Ltd. Al rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission of the copyright owner. Printed by Perendale Publishers Ltd. ISSN: 1466-3872www.gfmt.co.ukNEXT PAGEFEATURESUNCUE Company Ltd, a leading FEATUREmanufacturer of grain dryerscombustion” technology. Husk milled from per barrel in the near future. As a result, the design, grain quality can be enhanced while 1 hectare of paddy can be used to dry 3 costs of drying increase and create a major significantly reducing drying cost. Regarding hectares of paddy; and husk from 1 ton of burden for farmers. For those countries with the application of negative pressure for husk wet paddy can be used to dry 3 tons of wet lower grain prices, farmers can afford to furnace, tar is not easily produced, thus there paddy. This triples the efficiency !buy grain dryers, but have little money to will be no contamination to grains nor cor-What makes the SUNCUE SB rice purchase fuel for operating the dryers.rosion to the dryers. In order to lighten the husk furnace uniquely superior is the Hot air temperature control is crucial to operational and management loading, the fact that it is the only furnace in the quality grain drying. When the hot air tem-Suncue rice husk furnace is also equipped world that can overcome the handling perature is too high, it easily causes fissure with multiple safety devices and error proof problem of black smoke air pol ution grains. On the other hand, when the tem-designs, so operation is simple. Thousands of without using a smoke wash system. In perature decreases, the drying rate slows. tons of grains can be dried by a single opera-Using biomass wasteaddition, the SUNCUE rice husk furnace Therefore, the only solution for providing tor every day. is the only furnace that has passed not steady hot air, ensuring fine grain quality and In particular, ash after complete combus-only strict performance testing but also enhancing drying efficiency is the Rice Husk tion has economical values. It can be used stringent air pol ution testing in both Furnace Grain Dryer. as an industrial insulation material, organic Japan and Taiwan. Hot air temperature generated by the SB fertilizer, soil improvement mechanism, deo-- paddy husk, to completely replace gas or rice husk furnace can be controlled precisely dorant or other agricultural use media. The Dominating world technology within the range of ±1 degree C due to utilization of paddy husk is 100%.diesel in grain dryingSUNCUE dominates the world technol-SUNCUE’s proprietary computerized micro ogy by providing steady and even indirect air adjusting system.Drying theoryhot air.Each unit of the SUNCUE rice husk When it comes to grain drying, it Conventional grain dryers are fuel con-furnace can connect to more than one is important to refer to drying theory. By Suncue Company Ltd, Taiwansuming. International oil prices are constantly grain dryer and still supply constant hot air Among al kinds of grain, paddy is the increasing and they surely will reach US$100 for drying. By applying the indirect heating most difficult grain to dry. Since only 20 The most innovative technology in the world GFMT will be dBurning paddy husk in a rice husk approximate 620 million istrifurnace can be a complete substitute btons. Considering each utefor gas or diesel by burning paddy ton of paddy requires 20 d at Vhusk to provide necessary thermal energy. liters of diesel for drying, IVThis not only increases the farmer’s this results in an annual income through significantly reducing diesel consumption of drying cost and improving grain quality, 12.4 billion liters, which it is also an important 21st century emits approximately 33.5 GFMT AROUND THE WORLDdrying industry breakthrough.billion tons of CO2. This emission would be equal Grain & Feed Mil ing Technology is dedicated to the global mil ing Paddy husk had long been considered to the CO2 consumption rural waste, but with this technical innova-from a 1.68 million hectare industry. Whether you are a subscriber, online reader or advertiser - you tion it can produce amazing thermal energy. of forest. A small increase The thermal energy generated by 1 kilogram of 1 degree Celsius reduc-can meet the team at various key industry events throughout 2011. of paddy husk is about 3,000~3,500 kcal. es global crop production For a full list of events that we will be attending this year, please take a Therefore, only 2.5 kilograms of paddy husk by 10 percent. For this can provide the equivalent thermal energy reason, the only solution look at our editorial pages of the gfmt website. produced by one liter of diesel. Paddy husk for reducing pollution and drying cost is to years with customers in over 40 countries is a valuable biomass energy and its net CO2 make good use of a rice husk furnace. around the world, has successfully developed www.gfmt.co.uk/editorial.phpemission is zero. SUNCUE Company Ltd, a leading devel-the SB Rice Husk Furnace Grain Dryer The annual world production of paddy is oper of drying technology for more than 44 and has earned the patent on “complete 38 | January - february 2011Grain&feed millinG technoloGyGrain&feed millinG technoloGyJanuary - february 2011 | 39 FEATUREFEATURESuncue SB-130 rice husk furnace connected with SUPER-300 re-circulating lating paddy-wheat grain of grain dryer with superior research & grain dryer for 4 units (120ton/batch) in dryer can be operated develop capability. There are hundreds of Bulgariaindependently or con-systems implemented successful y world-nected together as a wide ranging from several tons to sev-large-scale drying center. eral thousands of tons of handling capacity percent of paddy’s moisture is on the husk, Grains can be dried right every day. For satisfying big capacity corn less moisture can be vaporized from the after harvest immediately drying customers, SUNCUE also has the husk surface. The remaining 80 percent of so the opportunity of re-circulating dryer especial y for maize. the moisture is inside the paddy, and the producing aflatoxin can waxy testa that coats the outside of the be reduced.The futurepaddy prevents moisture from vaporizing, Each SUNCUE low Looking to the future, SUNCUE will therefore that 80 percent of the paddy’s temperature re-circulat-continuously manufacture value added moisture can be released only from the ing paddy-wheat grain products and bring the most benefits to embryo. dryer is embedded with customers. When the paddy is heated, the mois-Consider a 30 ton capacity dryer con-a computerized moisture meter, which Our vision wil always be to become ture closes to the embryo wil be dried taining around one billion paddy kernels can automatical y detect the grain moisture the world–leading pioneer in quality and rapidly, however, the level of the moisture for example. How do you make each ker-value. Dryers stop operation automati-performance, to satisfy customer needs, inside the paddy remains high. This results nel circulate evenly with uniform moisture? cal y when the grain moisture reaches a set and to continue its leadership wel into in uneven moisture distribution. If the It requires special drying technology. Each moisture value. No professional operator the future.paddy is heated SUNCUE mesh type re-circulating dryer is is required. Grains can maintain at the continuously, fis-benefit from good drying results because rate and lower quality grains, with those equipped with a distributing spreader on the same quality level from each batch without sure wil occur of high paddy prices, low drying cost, easy dried grains turning to animal feeds. Thus, top of the dryer, and can distribute grains worrying about over-drying, uneven drying and there will operation and maintenance. adapting low drying hot air temperature with different weights evenly in the temper-and yel owish rice in storage.More inforMation:be cracked SUNCUE low temperature re-circulat-and low grain temperature can guarantee ing bin.kernels. ing paddy-wheat dryers have been suc-the high quality grains and create a high Also, there are various rotary valves at Utilizing innovative green Suncue Company LtdHence, cessful y exported to Japan, Korea, Europe, germination rate.the bottom of the dryer which ensure even technology 396 Min Sheng Rd Wu Fengdryers Central & South America, and South East circulation to facilitate even circulation and SUNCUE utilises innovative green tech-Taichung, 413 Taiwanwith a Asian nations.B: Even dryingTel :+ 886 4 23397171uniform grain moisture content. nology to achieve environmental protec-Fax:+ 886 4 23302939temper-The advantages of mesh type re-circu-Even drying implies: even circulating, even tion, energy conservation, low CO2 emis-Email: suncue@ms10.hinet.neting design lating grain dryer can be summarized as moisture, even hot air temperature.C: Importance of automatic moisture sions and earth care goals.Website: www.suncue.comare the fol ows :controlSUNCUE, a Taiwanese company, estab-most suit-SUNCUE’s low temperature re-circu-lished in 1966, is the leading manufacturer able ones A: Low drying for drying high temperature & quality grains. speedy drying The re-circulating What is a mesh type grain dryer insists re-circulating grain dryer ?on utilizing “low The design concepts of re-circulating drying temperature type grain dryers are low temperature, fast & speedy drying” drying, and the ability to keep the grain because fissure temperature less than 38 degree C for and broken kernels better quality and higher seed germination occur easily when rates.using a high air tem-Continuous type grain dryers that perature. Moreover, supply higher hot air temperatures and they also experience a speedier cooling system find it dif-a lower germination ficult to control the temperature and moisture content of grains evenly. This is not a problem for our mesh type re-circulating grain dryer which is designed with a drying section and a tempering section. Grains are heated at the drying section for few minutes and then are carried up through a bucket elevator and a distributing spreader. They then travel to the tempering bin to evenly balance the moisture content and then return to the drying section once more. Circulation wil continue and the drying process wil stop automatical y when the moisture reaches its target mois-ture rate.SUNCUE’s low temperature re-cir-culating grain dryer, for both paddy and wheat, adapts low temperature drying and big air volume design. 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