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| We had a batch that you had to be there to switch and now we've got a dryer, CF/AB 270 that can run automatic batch or continus flow.
As far as quality of product coming out we feel like the CF process gets us a little more even product without sacrificing speed. If you run it on auto batch and make it clean out every batch that would be similar in quality, but you lose a lot of speed. If you run it on auto batch and let it fill while the old batch is going out so the burner can stay on the entire time you end up with corn a little dryer at the start of the batch and a little wetter at the end just before it shuts down the unload to finish drying the new batch.
With it in CF mode the moisture coming out is more even across the board. The down side is the leg is running the whole time. On the other side if you're running AB and come in to unload sometimes you can get part of a truck unloaded between batches and not interupt the dryer as much as you would if you had to shut it down when you first started to unload. If the dryer is not keeping up that is what we will do to try and get as much out of it as possible.
I think the biggest problem with fires is not keeping things clean and having clean grain. Around here most of the fires come from elevators running milo through with a bunch of trash in it. | |
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Grain Dryers
