Performance evaluation of a mobile dryer for field corn production

Juharidan, Fatin Nabihah (2019) Performance evaluation of a mobile dryer for field corn production. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

The reduction of moisture content (MC) is important for the field corns to reserve the quality of the product. Typically the moisture content for harvest the field corn is around 25%. But to keep the quality of corn from the fungal problem, it need to be dry until 13% of MC. The fungal problem usually happen if the corns has higher of MC. Thus, the usage of mobile dryer is needed for the farmers to dry the corns from 25% of MC to 13% of MC. This preliminary research aimed to evaluate the performance of the mobile dryer in drying field corn at different operational conditions. Among the parameters to be measured are drying time, drying cost of MC and harvesting capacity for combine harvester. The drying time was measured to identify how much time is needed to reduce MC until it reach minimum MC which is 13%. From the result, the total drying time needed to reduce MC is around five hours. Besides, the total drying cost is measured for these dryer and tractor such as MATHARU dryer, Kubota tractor and New Holland tractor. It was found that the total drying cost for both dryer and tractor is RM223.62 per moisture reduction. Lastly, harvesting capacity of combine harvester such as Kubota and World Star also was measured. From the result obtained, the average harvesting capacity of Kubota is 2.76 tons/hr while for World Star is 2.32 tons/hr. It show that the average capacity of Kubota is higher than World Star combine harvester.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Engineering
Depositing User:	Ms Siti Mariam Giman
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2022 07:12
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2022 07:12
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/591

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