• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.64-76
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• 1978

A dimensional supply of petroleum fuels and increased competition for petroleum products has made the conservation of energy in grain drying an important cost and management factor. Research on solar grain drying is directed toward utilization of a renewable energy source as an alternative to petroleum fuels for drying. There are many technical and economic problems in accepting and adopting solor energy as a new energy source for grain drying. The purpose of this study are to assess the state of the art of solar grain drying and to find out the problems by reviewing literatures available. The results obtained may be summarized as follows; 1.It may be considered that the weather conditions in October of Korea was satisfactory for the forced natural air and solar heated air drying. 2. Solar energy is considered more applicable to low-temperature, In-storage drying systems than to high-temperature, high-speed drying systems. In-storage drying systems require low levels of heat input. The costs of collector systems to provide low temperature are considerably cheaper than for high-temperature systems. 3. Tubular type collector made of polyvinyle film seems to be the most practical at this stage of development and black-painted bare-plate collectors mounted on the outside of a typical, round, low-temperature drying bin can supply an appreciable amount of the energy efficiently needed for low-temperature grain drying at a lower cost. 4. All of the grains in solar drying tests was successfully dried up to safe storaged moisture levels without significant spoilage. Drying rates with solar system were faster than natural air drying systems, and usually a little slower than similar low-temperature electric drying systems. 5. Final grain moisture levels were lower in solar tests than in natural air tests, and generally higher than in tests with continuous heated air. 6. Savings of energy by use of solar collectors ranged from 23% to 55%, compared to the natural and electric ileated air drying systems. However, total drying cost effectiteness tvas not significant. Therefore, it is desirable that solar grain dry-ing sIFstems tvhich could be suitable for multiple heating purposes on farms shouldbe developed. 7. Supplemental heat with solar radiation did little to reduce air flow requirementsbut refuced drying time and increased the p\ulcornerobability of successful drying duringdrying poriod.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.3263-3291
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• 1974

Experimental work of grain bin was carried out to develop the methods of natural air in-bin drying and storage. The method is considered to be more economical, labour saving, and an effective countermeasure to grain loss. To examine the possibility of farm use of the grain bin and to analyze the related factors concerned with in-bin grain drying and storage, ambient air conditions (especially the change of air temperature and relative humidity) and grain quality during drying and storage periods were investigated. A laboratory model bin was constructed to investigate the effect of different forced air conditions on the drying characteristics of rice. In addition, a grain bin with 2.2m diameter and 1.8m height, considered to be the optimum size for the average Korean farm, was constructed and tested to examine the drying and storing characteristics of rice. The weather data analyzed in this study was the nine-year (from 1964 to 1972) record of air temperature and relative humidity in the Suweon area, and the thirty-year (from 1931 to 1960) record of pentad normal relative humidity and air temperature in the Seoul area. From the results of the weather data analyses, the adequate air delivery hours (which was arbitrary defined as the condition to give less than 75% relative humidity) to dry the rice during October were about nine hours (from approximately 10 A.M. to 7 P.M, ) a day, in which the average air temperature was about 15.9$^{\circ}C$ and average relative humidity was 66%. The occurence of days having three hours of such conditions was 1, 2, and 1-day within the 1st, 2nd add last 10-day periods for the month of October, respectively. Therefore, it may be considered that the weather condition in October was satisfactory for the forced natural air drying. The results of the laboratory model bin test were analyzed to obtain the drying curve and drying rate for different drying stages and grain layers in the bin corresponding to various conditions of forced natural air. A drying experiment with a prototype grain bin showed that an approximate 5 percent grain moisture gradient through a 1.6 meter grain deposit was observed after 80 hours of intermittent drying, giving an over dried zone in the lower grain layers and an extremely high grain moisture zone in the upper layers. This indicates that an effective measure should be taken to reduce this high moisture gradient. In order to investigate the drying characteristics of bulk grain in a layerturning operation a grain bin test was performed. This showed a significant improvement of uniform drying. In this test, approximate 107 hours were required to dry a depth of 1.6 meter of grain from an initial moisture content of 22.2 percent to a moisture content of 16.7 percent using an air delivery rate of 2.8 cubic meter per a minute per every cubic meter of grain. This resulted in a 2 percent moisture gradient from the top to the bottom of the bin. During storage period, till the end of June the average temperature of grain was 2~3$^{\circ}C$ higher than ambient air temperature. But during July when the grain moisture content went up slightly (less than 1 percent), the average temperature of the grain also increased to 3~5$^{\circ}C$ higher than ambient air temperature. It is therefore recommended that for safe grain storage, grain should not be stored in sheet metal bins after mid May. From the above results, in-bin rice drying and storage can be used effectively on Korean farms. It is strongly recommended that the use of grain-bin system should be implemented for farm use to improve farm drying and storage of rice.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.52-59
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• 2015

소경 참나무 횡절목을 열처리하여 브로치 등 악세사리용 소재로 개발하였다. 그러나 국산참나무는 난건조수종으로 특히 횡절 원판을 건조결함없이 건조하기 어렵다. 소경 굴참나무(Quercus variabilis)에서 얻은 원판(섬유방향 길이 7 mm)을 여름과 가을에 강제송풍천연건조하면서 여러 조건에 따른 건조수율을 조사하였다. 같은 조건에서 가을에 건조한 시편의 최종 평균함수율이 여름에 건조한 시편의 평균함수율보다 낮았다. 두 계절 모두 큰 직경의 시편은 풍속에 따른 차이를 보이지 않았으나 작은 직경의 시편은 풍속이 높았을 때 최종 평균함수율이 약간 낮았다. 두 계절 모두 직경이 큰 시편의 할렬 발생빈도가 직경이 작은 시편보다 높았는데 가을에는 2배 정도인데 반해 여름에는 4배가 넘었다. 여름에 낮은 풍속에서 건조한 큰 직경 시편의 할렬 발생빈도가 높은 이유는 여름의 높은 습도와 낮은 풍속으로 반복적인 수분 응축과 증발이 일어났기 때문으로 설명할 수 있다.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.3980-3990
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• 1975

This study was carried out to develop a method of grain drying ststem that can be done by forcing the heated-air directly into the grains within the sack. The air duct was pushed into the central position of the grain-deposited sack and the heated-air was forced to flow in the radial direction. The system is referred here as the unit sack drying system. At a first step of this study, an air flow resistance tester was constructed to measure the resistance of air flow to grains in cooperated with some different sack materials, the sack materials, the tested were rice-straw bag, sack of polyethylene film, and jute sack In addition, unit sack drying system was constructed to investigate the drying characteristics of the dryer. on this dryer, two kind of terminal air ducts were attached and tested to examine its effects on uniform drying, and also, aseries of drying test was performed to trace the effect of increasing air flow rate on uniform drying. The results are as follows: 1) Resistance of air flow for each sack material was increased almost proportional to the increasing rate of air flow. Experimental data showed little significant differences of the air flow resistance among the materials. 2) From the comparison with air flow resistance of sack material and that of roughrice, it was indicated that airflow resistance of sack material was much higher than that of rice rough Therefore, in the unit sack drying sysle in which air flow is destined to face the sach material after leaving the grain, it was suggested that air flow would be inuniform to each part of grain within sack because of much higher air flow resistance of sack material than that of grain, and the fact would results inuniform grain drying. 3) Drying test on the unit sack drying system in cooperated with different type of terminal air ducts showed that high speed air is better for uniform drying than in high pressure. with the drying system which was assembled with the air ducts delivering higher speed air, there also involved a problem of significant inuniform drying. Therefore, any means to improve the inuniform drying should be undertaken for practical use. 4) A series of drying test with in creasing air flow rate resulted that increasing air flow rate in the unitsack drying system gave little effect on uniform drying, therefore, it is recommened to change its drying system for drying grain uniformly.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.3293-3301
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• 1974

An experimental work was conducted by using a laboratory-made model dryer to investigate the effect of the rate of natural forced-air on the drying rate of rough rice which was deposited in the deep-bed. The dryer consisted of 8 cylinderical containers with grain holding screen at their bottoms, each of which having 30cm in diameter and 15cm in height. The containers were sacked vertically with keeping them air-tight by using paper tape during dryer operation. Two separate layers of containers were operated in the same time to have two replications. The moisture contents of grains within each bins after predetermined period of dryer operation were determined indirectly by measuring the weight of the individual containers. The air-rates were maintained at 6 levels, or 5, 8, 10, 15, 18 and 20 millimenters of static head of water. The roomair conditions during dryer operation were maintained in the range of 10-l5$^{\circ}C$ in temperature and 40-60% in relative humidity. The results of the study are summarized as follows: 1. Drying characteristics of the grains in the bottom layers were approximately the same regardless of airdelivery rates, giving the average drying rate as about 0.35 percent per hour after 40-hour drying period, during which moisture content (w. b.) reduced from 24 percent to about 10 percent. 2. After about 40-hour drying period, the mean drying rates increased from 0.163 percent per hour to 0.263 percent per hour as air-flow rates increased from 5mm to 87.16mm of static head of water. In the same time, the moisture differences of grains between lower and upper layers varied from 12.7 percent at the air rate of 5mm of water head to 7.5 percent at the air-flow rate of 20mn of water head. Thus, the greater the air-flow rate was, the more overall improvement in drying performance was. Additionally, from the result of ineffectiveness of drying grain positioned at 70cm depth or above by the air rate of 5mm of static head of water it may be suggested in practical application that the height of grain deposit would be maintained adequately within the limits of air-rates that may be actually delivered. 3. Drying after layer-turning operation was continued for about 30 hours to test the effectiveness of reducing moisture differences in the thick layers. As a result of this layer-turning operation, moisture distribution through layers approached to narrow ranges, giving the moisture range as about 7 percent at air-flow rate of 5mm head of water, about 3 percent at 10mm head about 2 percent at 15mm head, and less than 1 percent at 20mm head. In addition, from the desirable results that drying rate was rapid in the lower layers and dully in the upper layers, layer-turning operation may be very effective in natural air drying with deep-layer grain deposit, especially when the forced air was kept in low rate. 4. Even though the high rate of air delivery is very desirable for deep-layer natural-air drying of rough rice, it can be happened that the required air delivery rate could not be attained because of limitation of power source available on farms. To give a guide line for the practical application, the power required to perform the drying with the specified air rate was analyzed for different sizes of drying bin and is given in Table (5). If a farmer selects a motor of which size is 1 or {{{{1 { 1} over {2 } }}}} H.P. and air-delivery rate which ranges from 8~10mm of head, the diameter of grain bin may be suggested to choose about 2.4m, also power tiller or other moderate size of prime motor may be recommended when the diameter of grain bin is about 5.0m or more for about 120cm grain deposit.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.245-250
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• 1977

밀감 과피의 효율적인 건조방법과 건조특성을 알기 위하여 온도, 표면적의 변화, 종류, 화학적 및 물리적 처리후의 건조등에 대하여 열풍건조 실험을 하였다. (1) 상온하에서 자연건조시는 $3{\sim}6$일에 수분함량을 70%에서 20%까지 떨어뜨릴 수 있었다. (2) 온도에 따른 열풍건조는 $60^{\circ}C$에서 50분가량 소요되는 것을 관찰할 수 있었으며 $60^{\circ}C$이상에서는 별다른 건조속도의 증가를 볼 수없었다. (3) 표면적의 효과를 보기 위하여 256등분으로 하여 표면적을 약 2배로 한결과 건조시간이 50분에서 15분으로 단축되는 것을 볼 수 있었다. (4) 문단(文旦)과 병교을 제외하곤 밀감의 종류에 따른건조속도의 변화는 볼 수 없었다. (5) 소석회 처리와 압착후 건조는 둘다 건조시간을 단축시킬 수 있으나 생과피의 경우는 별다른 잇점이없고 최초수분함량이 $1200{\sim}1300%$인 경우는 유리하다고 보아진다. 결론적으로 온주밀감및 대부분의 감귤과피는 잘게 썰어서 $60^{\circ}C$에서 열풍건조 하면 15분정도에서 수분함량을 10%이하까지 건조할 수 있으며 연중을 통하여 유효성분을 추출할 수있는 원료가 될 수 있다고 판단된다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제22권11호
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• pp.1538-1546
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• 1998

The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics of the catalytic burner to bum LPG and toluene alternately which can be applied to the dryer of an acryl coating process of textile. It was difficult to obtain complete conversion when the catalytic burner was installed to downward direction. The catalytic burner was improved by introducing the forced diffusion combustion air and the premixing air. The optimal operating conditions for the newly improved catalytic burner were obtained. The catalytic burner for toluene mixture was also investigated to incinerate toluene mixture exhausted from drying process. Results showed that the catalytic burner could oxidize toluene mixture completely at the proper operating conditions. Finally, the catalytic burner to bum LPG and toluene alternately was applied to the dryer of acryl coating. By using the catalytic burner, benefits of energy savings and environmental protection were obtained.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.349-354
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• 1983

송풍식건조에 의한 어육건조중의 변색에 미치는 공기의 상대습도의 영향을 검토한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. $40^{\circ}C,\;55^{\circ}C$ 및 $70^{\circ}C$에서의 어육건조중 어육변색의 주된 원인은 지방산화였다. 지방함량이 높은 어육일수록 지방산화에 의한 변색이 심하였다. $40^{\circ}C$와 $55^{\circ}C$에서의 건조중에는 공기의 상대습도가 $30\%$ 정도일 때 지방산화가 가장 늦었으며, 상대습도가 $30\%$ 보다 낮아지거나 높아질수록 지방산화가 촉진되었다. $70^{\circ}C$에서의 건조중에는 상대습도의 지방산화에 대한 뚜렷한 영향이 확인되지 않았으며, 고온에서는 지방산화가 조조온도에 민감한 듯 하였다. Maillard반응에 의한 갈변은 건조중의 변색에는 큰 영향을 미치지 않았고, 상대습도 $10\%{\sim}50\%$의 범위에서는 상대습도가 높을수록 반응속도가 빨랐다.

• 한국식품과학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.805-813
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• 1994

호박 고지, 고구마 줄기, 토란대, 및 도라지를 citric acid 용액 침지, 아황산염 용액 침지, 또는 황 훈중 등의전처리를 하여 천일 건조하거나 서로 다른 온도(50, 70, 90, $150^{\circ}C$)에서 열풍 건조한 후에, 실온 저장 중에 곰팡이 발생, 건조 상태 및 수화 복원 상태에서의 관능적 품질을 조사하였다. 호박 고지는 수분 함량이 15% 이하, 고구마 줄기는 20% 이하, 토란대는 25% 이하, 도라지는 15% 이하로 건조하여 PE film에 포장하여 실온에 저장했을때 3 개월여 동안 곰팡이가 발생하지 않았다. 전처리. 방법으로는 채소를 건조 전에 아황산염에 침지하거나 황훈중 처리했을 때 곰팡이 발생이 저지되었다. 엽록소를 함유한 채소는 전반적으로 열풍 건조한 경우가 천일건조한 경우에 비하여 현저히 관능적 품질이 우수했으며, 아황산염 용액에 침지하여 oven에 건조할 경우에 다른 처리 제품보다 관능적 품질이 대체적으로 좋았다. 도라지의 경우는 황 훈증이나 아황산 용액 침지가 건조 후의 제품의 품질에 다소 좋은 영향을 보였으나 건조방법은 관능적 품질에 큰 영향을 미치지 않았다. 건조온도는 도라지를 제외하고는 대체척으로 건조 실험에 사용한 온도 중에서 가장 낮은 $50^{\circ}C$에서 가장 좋은 품질의 건조 채소 제품을 얻을 수 있었으며, 모든 품목에 대하여 $105^{\circ}C$에서 건한 제품은 관능적 품질이 매우 떨어졌다. 채소틀 낮은 온도에서 건조할 때 채소의 복원율이 높았으며 복원 후외 관능적 품질도 채소의 건조 온도가 낮을수륵 좋았다.

• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.52-58
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• 2006

A numerical investigation is made of air flow in a spinner equipment used for cleanning and drying flat display panels. A unique feature of the spinner under question is the placement of a torus plate cover over the rotating plate. The turbulent flow is driven by rotation of a large disk and suction by the exhaust system connected to vacuum chamber. The flow is modelled as an axisymmetric two-dimensional flow and computation is conducted by using the FLUENT package with a version of k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model. The required capacity of the exhaust system is assessed numerically. The usefulness of the cover in controlling air flow circulation is examined. A computational trouble shooting is attempted to resolve the problem of panel rising which occurred in real experiment.