This Standard is intended to promote uniformity and consistency in the terms used to describe, rate andevaluate crop dryers, dryer components, and crop dryer operation.
This Standard is intended to promote efficiency and safety in the design, construction, and use of heatedaircrop dryers.
This Standard gives minimum requirements. Where local codes are more stringent, they should be followed.
This Standard refers to equipment in which heated air or artificially generated radiation is used to reducethe moisture content of grain, hay, and other farm crops. These units, hereinafter referred to as dryers, includethe batch type units, continuous-flow type units, heated-air units and supplemental-heat units and fans.
Within the scope of this Standard a dryer shall be understood to include the grain-holding compartment inwhich the product is confined while being dried, together with its source of heat or radiation, fuel supply, fueltransmission system, burner, vaporizer, heat exchanger, air moving device (AMD), control system, power source,materials handling system, and AMD tube or other discharge ducts which are integral parts of the basic dryer.
- Published:
- 05/01/1976
- Number of Pages:
- 21
- File Size:
- 1 file , 270 KB
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