Grain-drying facilities

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9719722-B2
Application number	US-201114352051-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 21, 2011
Priority date	Oct 21, 2011
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

The present invention provides grain-drying facilities which can effectively use the heat energy of biomass combustion hot-air that has been generated in a biomass combustion furnace. The grain-drying facilities 1 include: a biomass combustion furnace 3 provided with a heat exchanger 24 for generating a hot air from a combustion heat of a biomass fuel and an outside air which has been taken in from the outside; and a circulation type grain-drying apparatus 2 provided with a grain-drying portion 7 to which the hot air that has been generated in the biomass combustion furnace 3 is supplied through a pipe 15 for supplying a hot air, wherein the circulation type grain-drying apparatus 2 has a plurality of warming pipes 6 a in the grain-drying portion 7 , and an exhaust hot-air is supplied to the warming pipes 6 a from the biomass combustion furnace 3 through a pipe 11 for supplying the exhaust hot-air.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. Grain-drying facilities comprising:
a biomass combustion furnace; and
a circulation type grain-drying apparatus, wherein
the biomass combustion furnace is provided with a heat exchanger which warms an outside air that has been taken in from the outside by the combustion heat of a biomass fuel, and generates hot air, and with an exhaust pipe; and
the circulation type grain-drying apparatus is provided with a main body and an elevator, wherein the main body has a grain-circulating tank, a grain-drying portion provided with a plurality of hollow-shaped hot air bodies that are formed of a perforated iron plate, and a lower hopper portion disposed at a bottom of the main body and having a grain-drawing portion, which are arranged so as to be sequentially stacked from the upper side to the lower side, wherein
the grain-drying portion is a portion to which the hot air that has been generated in the heat exchanger of the biomass combustion furnace is supplied through a pipe for supplying a hot air, in which the hot air passes among grains, and from which the hot air is discharged outside; and
a warming pipe is arranged so as to penetrate each of the plurality of the hot air bodies of the grain-drying portion, an exhaust hot-air is introduced into the warming pipe from the exhaust pipe of the biomass combustion furnace through a pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air, and an exhaust port of the warming pipe is opened to the outside of the circulation type grain-drying apparatus,
further comprising air volume adjustment portions for adjusting the quantity of a supplied air provided in the pipe for supplying the hot air and the pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air, respectively.

2. Grain-drying facilities comprising:
a biomass combustion furnace; and
a circulation type grain-drying apparatus, wherein
the biomass combustion furnace is provided with a heat exchanger which warms an outside air that has been taken in from the outside by the combustion heat of a biomass fuel, and generates hot air, and with an exhaust pipe, and
the circulation type grain-drying apparatus is provided with a main body and an elevator, wherein the main body has a grain-circulating tank, a grain-drying portion provided with a plurality of hollow-shaped hot air bodies that are formed of a perforated iron plate, and a lower hopper portion disposed at a bottom of the main body and having a grain-drawing portion, which are arranged so as to be sequentially stacked from the upper side to the lower side, wherein
the grain-drying portion is a portion to which the hot air that has been generated in the heat exchanger of the biomass combustion furnace is supplied through a pipe for supplying a hot air, in which the hot air passes among grains, and from which the hot air is discharged outside; and
a warming pipe is arranged so as to penetrate each of the plurality of the hot air bodies of the grain-drying portion, an exhaust hot-air is introduced into the warming pipe from the exhaust pipe of the biomass combustion furnace through a pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air, and an exhaust port of the warming pipe is opened to the outside of the circulation type grain-drying apparatus, further comprising air volume adjustment portions for adjusting the quantity of a supplied air provided in the pipe for supplying the hot air and the pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air, respectively,
further comprising outside air intake portions for taking in an outside air provided in the pipe for supplying the hot air and the pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air respectively, wherein the outside air intake portions have outside air intake quantity adjustment portions provided therein.

3. Grain-drying facilities comprising:
a biomass combustion furnace; and
a circulation type grain-drying apparatus, wherein
the biomass combustion furnace is provided with a heat exchanger which warms an outside air that has been taken in from the outside by the combustion heat of a biomass fuel, and generates hot air, and with an exhaust pipe, and
the circulation type grain-drying apparatus is provided with a main body and an elevator, wherein the main body has a grain-circulating tank, a grain-drying portion provided with a plurality of hollow-shaped hot air bodies that are formed of a perforated iron plate, and a lower hopper portion disposed at a bottom of the main body and having a grain-drawing portion, which are arranged so as to be sequentially stacked from the upper side to the lower side, wherein
the grain-drying portion is a portion to which the hot air that has been generated in the heat exchanger of the biomass combustion furnace is supplied through a pipe for supplying a hot air, in which the hot air passes among grains, and from which the hot air is discharged outside; and
a warming pipe is arranged so as to penetrate each of the plurality of the hot air bodies of the grain-drying portion, an exhaust hot-air is introduced into the warming pipe from the exhaust pipe of the biomass combustion furnace through a pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air, and an exhaust port of the warming pipe is opened to the outside of the circulation type grain-drying apparatus,
further comprising air volume adjustment portions for adjusting the quantity of a supplied air provided in the pipe for supplying the hot air and the pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air, respectively,
further comprising outside air intake portions for taking in an outside air provided in the pipe for supplying the hot air and the pipe for supplying the exhaust hot-air respectively, wherein the outside air intake portions have outside air intake quantity adjustment portions provided therein,
further comprising: a drying portion temperature sensor which measures the temperature of the hot air that has been supplied to the drying portion provided in the grain-drying portion; and a control section provided therein which drives the air volume adjustment portion and the outside air intake quantity adjustment portion, on the basis of the temperature that has been measured by the drying portion temperature sensor, and adjusts the quantity of the supplied hot air and the quantity of the taken-in outside air.

4. The grain-drying facilities according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an exhaust hot-air temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the supplied exhaust hot-air arranged in the vicinity of a supply side opening of the warming pipe.

Assignees

• Fujitomo Hirota
• Satake Eng Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fujitomo Hirota

Classifications

• F26B17/1408 Primary

  the gas being supplied and optionally extracted through ducts extending into the moving stack of material (in combination with fluid-heated closed tubes or other heating elements in contact with the stack of material F26B17/16) · CPC title

• F26B2200/06

  Grains, e.g. cereals, wheat, rice, corn · CPC title

• F26B23/002 Primary

  recovered from dryer exhaust gases (F26B23/022 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F26B23/02

  using combustion heating ({F26B3/305, F26B13/186, F26B21/001, } F26B23/10 take precedence) · CPC title