Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Process – Gas or vapor contact with treated material
Patent
1994-07-01
1996-09-03
Nguyen, Hoang
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Process
Gas or vapor contact with treated material
34492, 34497, 34429, 34554, 34168, F26B 300, F26B 1900
Patent
active
055511686
ABSTRACT:
A continuous-flow, slow grain cooling process including the charging of hot, partially dried grain from a heated-air grain dryer into the top of a grain container in an even layer. The downward flow of grain through the grain container is regulated at a rate that allows the grain to remain in a top steeping zone for from four to twelve hours. After the initially charged grain is held at the steeping temperature for a predetermined steeping time, a controlled upward flow of ambient air is provided to cool the grain in a bottom cooling zone. The air flow is provided at a rate that allows grain to remain in the cooling zone until it is cooled close to the ambient air temperature, but the upward flow is controlled such that it will not cool any grain until it has been properly steeped. Cooled dry grain from a layer near the bottom is then discharged from the bottom of the grain container.
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Iowa State University & Research Foundation, Inc.
Nguyen Hoang
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