Corn Quality Distribution within a Continuous Crossflow Dryer
ABSTRACT ABSTRACT Com quality within a commercial continuous crossflow dryer was investigated during fall 1988 by sampling 15 points in the dryer and by monitoring grain moisture, grain temperature, and air temperature. Grain mass temperature variations corresponded most closely to moisture changes near the inside wall of the cooling zone which suggests that temperature sensors for moisture control systems would be most sensitive and accurate if located there. Com at the inside layer of the dryer lost about twice as much moisture as that in tfie outside layer, and com at the inside layer of the cooling zone exhibited the most stress cracks and the highest breakage susceptibility. Broken com and foreign material (BCFM) did not vary significantly throughout the dryer.