Design and fabrication of grain dryer utilizing charcoal as fuel
International Journal of Development Research
Design and fabrication of grain dryer utilizing charcoal as fuel
Received 19th June, 2019; Received in revised form 26th July, 2019; Accepted 04th August, 2019; Published online 28th September, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Etoamaihe, U.J. and Udensi N.K. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A grain dryer that uses charcoal as fuel was constructed. The dryer has three component parts namely: drying chamber, heating chamber and heat exchanger The dimensions of the dryer are; height 124.5cm, breadth 41.5cm and length 51.5cm respectively. The body of dryer was made with mild steel and lagged with paper and cotton material. Drying efficiency of the dryer was 63%, while the average drying rate was 0.12g/sec, with a moisture content reduction of 14.2% over period of 70minutes.
