BS 3986-2:1998 - Methods of test for drying performance of agricultural grain dryers - Additional procedures and crop specific requirements
Current, Under Review
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This Part of BS 3986 specifies additional procedures
and gives guidance for testing and evaluating the
drying performance of continuous-flow and batch
grain dryers for specific grain crops including wheat,
barley, oats, maize, rice, sorghum and rape. It
supplements the general procedures given in
BS 3986 : Part 1 that are based on drying only wheat
over a limited range of moisture content of 20 %
to 15 % wet basis.
Methods and data are given for:
a) determining the evaporation rate of dryers when
drying grain crops under steady state conditions;
and
b) correcting the main dryer performance
characteristics, including evaporation rate, grain
flow rate, drying time and specific energy and fuel
consumption, to reference and other ambient
conditions.
Procedures are given for sampling input and output
grain to assess changes in grain quality
