Characteristic Analysis of Heat Loss in Multistage Counter-Flow Paddy Drying Process

Energy Reports 6 (2020) 2153–2166
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Characteristic analysis of heat loss in multistage counter-flow paddy

drying process
∗
Tao Li 1 , Changyou Li ,1 , Bin Li 1 , Chengjie Li 1 , Zhuangdong Fang 1 , Zhiheng Zeng 1 ,
Wenyan Ou 1 , Juanying Huang 1
Key Laboratory of Key Technology on Agricultural Machine and Equipment, Ministry of Education, South China Agricultural
University, Guangzhou 510642, China
article info a b s t r a c t
Article history: Drying is one of the most important and high-energy consumption unit operations in post-harvest
Received 10 February 2020 treatment and storage of paddy, and heat loss is a major factor affecting drying efficiency and
Received in revised form 19 June 2020 energy consumption of paddy drying process. To reveal the heat loss characteristics of paddy drying
Accepted 9 August 2020
system, a multistage counter-flow drying process of industrial scale dryer was designed based on
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the conservations of energy and mass, thermodynamics theory and mechanisms of heat and mass
Keywords: transfer. And variation characteristics of heat loss in multistage counter-flow paddy drying process
Paddy were investigated using psychrometric chart. Meanwhile, parameters of heat and mass transfer were
Heat loss characteristics used to analyse the experimental results of heat loss in multistage counter-flow drying. Results
Multistage counter-flow drying indicated that the method of analysing the variation characteristics of heat loss by using psychrometric
Industrial dryer
chart was feasible, and heat losses of drying system were significantly affected by paddy properties,
state parameters of drying medium and flow state. Furthermore, the specific heat losses of paddy
warming, evaporated water vapour warming, exhaust and other were respectively in ranges of 75.33–
238.92 KJ/kg, 2.61–4.67 KJ/kg, 54.34–757.76 KJ/kg and 33.44–236.28 KJ/kg. In high temperature drying
segment, the maximum heat losses of the first high temperature drying chamber and other high
temperature drying chambers were the heat loss of paddy warming and other heat loss, respectively.
The maximum heat loss in all low temperature drying chambers was the heat loss of exhaust, and the
heat loss for evaporated water vapour warming was the smallest in any drying chamber. Additionally,
energy-saving measures were proposed based on the heat loss characteristics in industrial scale dryer.
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
1. Introduction a direct manifestation of whether thermal energy is fully uti-

lized. Scientific management of thermal energy in drying system
Drying is an essential part of post-harvest handling of paddy, can not only reduce the heat loss of drying process, but also
and is an important unit operation for achieving spontaneous de- effectively reduce the investment cost of energy. Because heat
hydration of paddy. This process consumes much energy loss is affected by many factors such as heating pattern, mate-
(Chauhan and Kumar, 2016; Jokiniemi and Ahokas, 2014; Sarker rial characteristics, drying medium state, flow state, mechanical
et al., 2014; Weng et al., 2014) and generates a large amount of structure and drying process, the heat losses of different parts in
heat loss (Kato, 1983, 1982), which is a major problem needed to different drying process are different (Li et al., 2014a,b; Li, 2012).
be solved in the field of paddy drying (Mujumdar, 2007; Syahrul Therefore, investigating and analysing the heat loss characteris-
et al., 2002a). Heat loss is an important contributory factor which tics of different parts in drying system have great significance for
leaded to high energy consumption and low efficiency of paddy optimizing drying process, realizing intelligent control, reducing
drying, and it mainly includes heat loss of exhaust, heat loss for energy consumption and perfecting energy management of paddy
paddy warming, heat loss for evaporated water vapour, inertial drying system.
heat loss of drying medium and heat dissipation on the wall In order to solve the problem of heat loss, and realize the
of dryer. If the value of heat loss is too large, drying efficiency full use and reasonable management of energy in paddy drying
and utilization rate of energy will be reduced, so heat loss is system, scientists conducted a large number of analyses and
studies, and provided some feasible suggestions (Kumar et al.,
∗ Corresponding author. 2016; Prakash et al., 2016). Some domestic and international
E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Li). researchers (Morey et al., 1987, 1976; Tohidi et al., 2017; Wang
1 All authors read and contributed to the manuscript. and Liu, 2012) had achieved the goal of reducing heat loss by
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Energy Reports 6 (2020) 2153–2166

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Characteristic analysis of heat loss in multistage counter-flow paddy

1. Introduction a direct manifestation of whether thermal energy is fully uti-

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