Dehumdifier Heat Pump Dryer for Corn Drying and Process Characterization

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10.2991/icst-18.2018.190How to use a DOI?

Keywords

corn; dehumidifier heat pump dryer; relative humidity

Abstract

How to build a corn dryer that is not weather dependent yet energy efficient? And how the characteristics of corn dryer?. This research objectives are: Design and develop a dehumidifier heat pump dryer for corn drying. Observing the characteristics of drying time, temperature and humidity of drying air and consumption of drying energy. This study consists of two stages. First, design and build a dehumidifier heat-pump dryer for corn and instrumentation to monitor the drying process parameters. Second, characterizing the process of drying the corn using a dehumidifier heat-pump dryer to build a knowledge base for the corn drying. The results of the study were concluded. The lower the speed setting of blower fan, the higher the air temperature of the dehumidifier heat pump dryer. The highest drying air temperature in this study was only 53C. The lower the evaporator temperature setting, the lower the drying air humidity. The lowest drying air humidity in this study reached 19%.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anis Arendra
AU  - Sabarudin Akhmad
AU  - Ida Lumintu
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Dehumdifier Heat Pump Dryer for Corn Drying and Process Characterization
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 945
EP  - 948
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icst-18.2018.190
DO  - 10.2991/icst-18.2018.190
ID  - Arendra2018/12
ER  -