Indonesia is an agrarian country rich in agricultural produce because some of its inhabitants have farmers' livelihoods. One of the agricultural products that often suffers damage in agricultural products during post-harvest is grain. Mechanical drying is needed to solve the problem because drying can be done without depending on the weather and more efficiently. The purpose of this study…
The utilization of solar thermal energy is very important in Indonesia because it is a tropical climate. Most community activities utilize heat energy derived from sunlight to support their activities. solar dryer is a device made for the process of drying foodstuffs, with the aim to speed up the drying process without reducing the quality of the dried plantation / agricultural products. The m…
One of the crops which is mostly planted in the country of Indonesia is a rice plant. One of post-harvest process is the drying process. Growing technology in agriculture and food, created grain drying technology better and more efficient than conventional drying, on of them with a mechanical dryer. Mechanical dryer basically done using heat from combustion and air is blown through heater or di…
Post-harvest handling of grain before being ground or stored for a long time is drying or reducing water content. To dry the grain to be more effective by using a mechanical dryer. In this study, grain drying was carried out using a continuous vertical dryer by varying the grain mass to determine the effect of grain mass variation on the grain drying time. Mass variations observed were 10 kg,…
In Indonesian Corn is an abundant crop. Postharvest handling aims that corn can be stored for a long time. One method with conventional drying. The weakness of this method depends on the weather and requires a large place for drying. One effort to overcome the disadvantages of conventional drying is by using a dryer made from rice husk. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of t…
One of the crops which is mostly planted in the country of Indonesia is a rice plant. One of post-harvest process is the drying process. Growing technology in agriculture and food, created grain drying technology better and more efficient than conventional drying, on of them with a mechanical dryer. Mechanical dryer basically done using heat from combustion and air is blown through heater or di…
There are two methods used in drying rice grain; traditional drying and artificial drying (mechanical drying). Traditional drying is drying process done by using sun rays as source of energy, while mechanical drying is done using any tools (dryer). The best temperature to dry rice grain is at a temperature of 650C. Besides, the best condition of the drying is also influenced by air flow rate an…
Rice is one of the important food crop in Indonesia. Rice is known as a principal food of Indonesian society. The pattern of consumption of rice is slowly but surely increasing in line with rising incomes, education and easy access to information. Increased demand for grain in the country reached 1.6% per year. One problem appearing in the grain production process is the drying process. Commonl…