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Some control strategies in agricultural grain driers: A review.


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Lutfy, Omar Farouq and Mohd Noor, Samsul Bahari and Abbas, Kassim Ali and Marhaban, Mohammad Hamiruce (2008) Some control strategies in agricultural grain driers: A review. Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment, 6 (2). pp. 74-85. ISSN 1459-0255

Abstract

Significant developments and technical trends in the area of grain drying technology are reviewed. In particular, the innovations in different control strategies applied to grain driers along with the modelling and simulation techniques developed for different grain driers are reviewed. The review concentrates also on the analysis, investigation, assessment and performance evaluation of existing real-time grain drying systems in terms of energy consumption, grain quality and all the issues that aid in optimizing their operating efficiency. The increase in demand for energy as well as the persistent efforts to keep the environment as clean as possible has provided the impetus to search for alternative energy sources. Solar dryers represent a good substitution to conventional energy sources, and hence, this research area is also reviewed in this paper.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Publisher: Wfl Publisher
Keywords: Grain quality; Energy consumption; Energy sources, modelling and simulation techniques; Operating efficiency; Solar grain dryers
Depositing User: Mardhiah Mat Jusoh
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2010 04:47
Last Modified: 05 Oct 2015 08:30
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/7989
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