| Autor: |
Terry A. Isbell, Benjamin A. Lowery, Judd E. Isbell, Amy B. Deppe, Gregory G. Akerman, Steven C. Cermak |
| Rok vydání: |
2005 |
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| Zdroj: |
Industrial Crops and Products. 21:353-359 |
| ISSN: |
0926-6690 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.indcrop.2004.05.003 |
| Popis: |
Fresh mechanically harvested cuphea seed from the Midwest contains more than 50% moisture. Such high moisture leads to challenging drying problems. Cuphea seeds must be dried immediately to reduce moisture before destructive seed mold and material-clumping develop. A method had to be developed to batch dry large quantities of cuphea seeds. The freshly harvested, wet, uncleaned seeds were dried using a Grain Technology 245XL Dryer. Drier conditions were optimized over a 2 year period to yield a procedure for a batch drying process. In this process, the grain dryer was modified to help meet the demands of a small seed that has greater than 50% moisture at harvest. The seed moisture data was collected on a low-cost, commercially available G-7 Grain Moisture Meter, which can be used for different crops. The meter showed a strong correlation between the soybean setting and actual cuphea moisture content (%) measured in the lab when seed moisture was less than 20%. The cuphea seeds were dried to about 12% for storage. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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