Effective mixing of different-sized aggregates in mobile asphalt plant dryers is crucial for ensuring high-quality, consistent asphalt production. This study explores the application of spatial analysis techniques, particularly the Discrete Element Method (DEM), to understand and optimize the mixing process of aggregates in drum dryers. The research emphasizes the importance of proper mixing to achieve uniform moisture removal and heating across various aggregate sizes. Larger aggregates heat more slowly, while finer particles risk overheating or being carried away by air currents, necessitating careful management of the mixing process. Using LIGGGHTS, an open-source simulation framework, we conducted DEM simulations to analyze the spatial distribution and behavior of aggregates within a 3D model of a drum dryer. The study considered multiple factors affecting mixing efficiency, including drum inclination, rotational speed, and aggregate feeding frequency. Results indicate that the rotational speed of the drum dryer has the most significant impact on mixing effectiveness. The DEM simulations provided valuable insights into particle movement, heat transfer, and potential segregation issues within the dryer. Further investigations into additional factors that may influence aggregate mixing in drum dryers is recommended, paving the way for improved efficiency and quality in asphalt manufacturing.

In this study, the operating performance of the heat pump dryer using the PF heat exchanger was experimentally studied. The capacity, COP, drain, SMER and operating status of the cooling cycle of the heat pump dryer were investigated according to the temperature, relative humidity and flow rate of the indoor air. Heat pump dryers are refrigerant-air system. For the dryer performance experiment, an air enthalpy calorimeter was used. From the experimental results, as the temperature, relative humidity, and flow rate of the inlet air increased, the capacity, COP, drain, SMER of the dryer increased. The change in the performance of the dryer was most affected by temperature. The P-h diagram of the cooling system showed that the operation status of the dryer was greatly affected by the indoor temperature. In addition, the SMER of the dryer showed a drying performance of about 3.38 kg/kWh or more within all experimental ranges.

This experiment was conducted to confirm the possibility of preparing Sorghum×sudangrass hybrid artificial hay using far-infrared rays in Korea. The machine used in this experiment is a drying device based on far-infrared rays, and is designed to control temperature, air flow rate, far-infrared radiation amount, and air flow speed. The Sorghum×sudangrass hybrids harvested in late September were wilted in the field for one day, and a drying test was performed on them. Conditions for drying were performed by selecting a total of 7 conditions, and each condition induced a change in radiation amount in a single condition (42%) and two steps (4 treatments) and three steps (2 treatments). The speed of the air flow in the device was fixed at 60 m/s, and the run time was changed to 30, 60, and 90 minutes. The average dry matter (DM) content was 82.84%. The DM content was 59.94 and 76.91%, respectively, in drying conditions 1 and 3, which were not suitable for hay. In terms of drying rate, it was significantly higher than 80% in the 5, 6 and 7 treatment, and power consumption was slightly high with an average of 5.7 kw/h. As for the feed value according to each drying condition, the crude protein (CP) content increased as the drying time increased, and there was no significant difference between treatments in ADF, NDF, IVDMD and TDN content. In terms of RFV, treatment 1, which is a single condition, was significantly lower than the complex condition. Through the above results, it was determined that the drying conditions 4 and 5 were the most advantageous when considering the drying speed, power consumption, and quality.

본 시험은 우리나라에서 원적외선을 이용한 이탈리안 라이그 라스 인공건초 조제 가능성을 확인하기 위해 수행되었다. 본 시험 에 사용된 기계는 온도, 송풍량, 원적외선 방사량을 조절할 수 있 는 원적외선 건조기로 5월에 수확한 이탈리안 라이그라스를 대상 으로 실시하였다. 건조를 위한 조건은 전체 9개의 조건을 선택하 여 수행하였으며 각각의 조건은 방사율 42∼45 %로 설정을 하였 으며 내부 온도는 65℃로 설정하였다. 기기내의 기류의 속도는 40 ∼60m/s로 하였으며, 전체적인 건조시간은 방사량 42%는 30분, 43%는 25분 그리고 45%는 20분으로 하여 수행하였다. 각각의 건조조건에 따른 최종 건물함량은 평균 88.5%로 나타났으며 전 처리에서 건초에 적합한 건물함량을 나타내었다. 건조 조건에 따 른 전력 소비량을 보면 45% 방사량에서 20분간을 건조한 처리구 에서 가장 낮게 나타났다. 건조율에 있어서는 1∼5번 건조 조건에 서는 차이가 없었으나 6∼7조건에서는 유의적으로 낮은 경향을 보였다. 사료가치에 있어서는 대부분의 건조조건에서 원물보다 CP, IVDMD는 높았고 ADF, NDF 함량은 낮게 나타났으며 대체 적으로 4, 7 및 8번 건조 조건에서 높은 경향을 보였다. 이상의 결과를 통하여 건조속도, 전력량, 품질 등을 고려할 때 7 및 8번 건조조건이 가장 유리한 것으로 판단되었다.

This experiment was conducted to establish the technology for artificial hay preparation in Korea. Using far-infrared heater, a device that can control temperature, airflow, and far-infrared radiation was produced and conducted on the fourth harvested alfalfa. The drying conditions were carried out by selecting a total of four conditions. For each condition, the radiation rate was set to around 40% (33-42%), and the temperature was set at 58~65℃, and the speed of the airflow was fixed at 60m/s. The overall drying time was set to 30 min in the single and 60 min (30-30 min) and 90 min (30-30-30 min) in the complex condition, and the radiation rate and temperature were changed by time period. In the case of drying condition 1, the final dry matter (DM) content was 46.26%, which did not reach a DM suitable for hay. However, all of the alfalfa corresponding to the remaining drying conditions 2 to 7 showed a DM content of 80% or more, resulting in optimal alfalfa hay production. In power consumption according to the drying conditions, the second drying condition showed the lowest at 4.7 KW, and the remaining drying conditions were as high as 6.5 to 7.1 KW. The crude protein content was found to be high at an average of 25.91% and it showed the highest content in the 5th drying condition (26.93%) and the lowest value in the 6th drying condition (25.16%). The digestibility showed a high value with an average of 84.90%, and there was no significant difference among treatments (p>0.05). Considering the above results, it was judged that drying condition 2 was the most advantageous.

In order to study the drying performance of the dryer, the performance characteristics of the heat pump dryer applied a PF heat exchanger is applied were experimentally investigated. The capacity, COP, drain and SMER of the dryer were measured by the refrigerant charge and EEV opening. Heat pump dryers are refrigerant-air systems. For the dryer performance test, an air enthalpy calorimeter was used. From the experimental results, the heat exchanger performances according to the change in the refrigerant charge and EEV opening were the maximum at 0.5kg refrigerant and 30% EEV opening, respectively. In addition, SMER suggested a satisfactory level of drying performance. This shows that the refrigeration cycle of the dryer must be operated at an appropriate refrigerant amount and EEV opening degree to secure optimal drying performance. On the other hand, the time to reach the target setting temperature of the dryer was increased by about 2.5 times depending on with/without the sample.

본 연구에서는 곡물건조기의 사용 연식에 따른 이산화탄소 배출농도 차이를 비교함으로써 농업 분야의 온실가스 배출 현황을 파악하고자 한다. 사용 연식의 기준을 5년 이하, 6-10년, 10년 초과의 3단계로 구분하였고, 간헐 포집 방법을 선택하였다. 포집 방법은 EPA Method 18에 해당하는 방법론을 따라 수행하였으며, 이는 흡입장치가 음압을 이용하여 간헐적으로 포집하는 원리이다. 포집 장치에 연결되는 보관 용기는 모든 기체에 우수한 차단성이 있어 화학적으로 안정한 테드라백을 사용하였다. 포집 된 가스는 미량분석용인 Gas Chromatograph System을 사용하여 분석하였으 며, 이산화탄소 배출농도 분석결과 평균적으로 5년 이하는 847.4423μ㏖/㏖, 6-10년은 919.2811μ㏖/㏖, 10년 초과는 1137.8560μ㏖/㏖으로 분석되었다. 이산화탄소 배출에 차이가 있는지 검증하기 위해 유의수준 0.05로 일원분산분석을 수행하였다. 분산분석의 결과 연식이 비슷한 그룹 간의 배출농도의 차이가 없다고 나타났지만, 이는 연식의 차이가 크지 않을 때 그룹 간의 비교에 대해서는 더 많은 표본이 필요할 것으로 판단되며, 연식의 차이가 큰 그룹 간의 배출농도에 유의한 차이가 있다고 나타났다.

This study was conducted to develop a high-moisture food waste dryer that uses steam as a direct heat source to improve the drying speed. Another objective was to verify its performance through experiments. A dryer with a drying capacity of 10,000 kg/hr, which uses steam from an incineration plant as a drying heat source, was fabricated. The performance and applicability of the dryer were verified through drying experiments, in which the food waste collected from large restaurants near the incineration plant was used as the experimental material. The drying experiment results showed that the input steam temperature increased by 21℃ from approximately 145℃ to 166℃ compared to the case in which drying was performed by converting steam into heated air. The drying speed increased by 1.5 times from approximately 0.63 to 0.94 %/hr, and drying up to approximately 20%(wb) moisture content was possible. The drying energy rate, which represents the ratio of the energy consumed for drying to the input energy, increased by approximately ten times from 7.17% to 70.87%. The total drying time still remained approximately 100 hr due to the re-condensation of moisture. When steam was directly used as a drying heat source to improve the drying speed of food waste containing high moisture, the drying speed, water content after drying, and drying energy rate were clearly improved compared to the case in which steam was converted into heated air for use. Therefore, it was deemed necessary to develop a dryer that directly uses steam from an incineration plant for drying. To shorten the total drying time, it is necessary to develop a device that solves the problem of moisture condensation in the dryer.

In this study, the uniformity of the horizontal velocity and the temperature of each zone were investigated by computerized analysis method to divide the drying room into three multi - rooms to ensure the uniformity of flow inside the forced convection hot air dryer. The internal structure of the drying room of the dryer was modeled using Solidworks. In order to control the flow of hot air circulating in the drying chamber, the possibility of controlling the horizontal flow inside the drying room was verified by using a perforated plate, a guide vane, and a vertical plate. From the results of the flow visualization in the drying room, it was understood that the internal flows of the dryer models 1, 2 and 3 change from ununiform flow to uniform flow. From the analysis of velocity and temperature fluctuation, the results of the analysis of the dryer model 3 satisfied the design conditions.

하이브리드 감압 열펌프 건조기의 효과를 파악하기 위하여 건조된 굴 제품을 8주간 저장하면서 일반 성분의 변화와 글리코겐 함량의 변화 등을 조사하였다. 일반세균의 변화는 18~19×103 CFU/g으로 기존제품의 27~30×103 CFU/g 보다 안전하였다. 주요 지방산의 함유량은 건조기에서 건조한 시료의 DHA 및 EPA 함량은 L1-1, L1-3 및 R2-2에서 각각 17.87% 및 14.80%, 17.46% 및 14.38%, 17.89% 및 14.99%이었고, 반면 CD-1은 각각 15.41% 및 13.20%로 약간의 차이를 보였다. 각 시료의 유리아미노산 함량에는 큰 차이를 보이지 않아 1325.2~1360.4 mg/100 g으로 나타났다. 그리고 선도를 나타내는 K 값에서는 하이브리드 건조기에서 건조한 시료가 저장기간 동안 매우 우수한 신선도를 나타낸 반면, 시판 굴의 시료에서는 34.0~42.1%로 나타났다.

본 연구에서는 단순 폐기 되는 농업폐기물(토마토, 고추, 파프리카)을 고형연료로 재활용하기 위한 열 풍건조장치를 개발하고 실험을 통해 그 성능을 확인하고자 하였다. 연구를 위해 건조용량 500 kg/hr인 쓰레기소각장 폐열을 열원으로 사용하는 건조기를 제작하였다. 경상남도 진주시 농산물 시장에서 구입 한 남해산 시금치를 실험원료로 사용하였다. 열교환기에서 스팀 열교환에 의해 가열된 건조공기를 열풍 으로 사용하여 절단 원료 투입량(126, 250, 300 kg), 원료교반여부(수동 교반, 수동 비교반), 건조방식 (건조물 정치, 건조물 이송), 건조시간(0.25, 0.5, 0.6 hr)에 따른 건조특성을 파악하였다. 투입 원료의 함수율은 85.65%로 측정되었으며, 소각장 공급 스팀에 의해 열교환기에서 가열된 건조공기온도는 건조 기에 투입된 실험원료의 퇴적고에 따른 압력저항에 의해 다소 차이를 보였으며 약 108 내지 144℃로 측정되었다. 동일 건조방식, 투입량, 건조시간, 건조공기온도에서 상하층간 원료를 교반하는 하는 경우가 그렇지 않은 경우에 비해 약 2배 정도의 높은 건조속도를 보였다. 각 실험에서 건조용량은 약 500 kg/hr으로 나타났다. 국내 농산물 건조기 157개의 농업실용화재단 검사성적서를 기준으로 투입 에너지에 대한 건조 소요에너지 비를 나타내는 건조효율을 비교한 결과 국내 농산물 건조기 57.76%, 개발 된 농업폐기물 건조기 33.46%로 기존 농산물 건조기에 비해 낮게 나타났다. 개발된 농업폐기물 건조기는 건조시간이 1시간 이내로 건조시간이 짧으며, 건조 중 많은 풍량이 손실되어 건조효율이 저하된 것으로 판단되었다. 소각장 폐열을 직접 건조열원으로 사용하는 경우 건조공기온도는 최저 160℃ 이상으로 예상 되는 바 건조용량이 크게 향상될 것으로 예측된다.

Optimizing energy usage for maximum efficiency is an essential goal for manufacturing plants in every industrial manufacturing sector. The generation and distribution of purifying compressed air is a large expense incurred in practically all manufacturing processes. Not only is the generation and treatment expensive equipment of compressed air, but frequent maintenance and effective operation is also required. As a plant’s compressed air system is often an integral part of the production process, it needs to be reliable, efficient, and easy to be maintain. In this paper, we study to find operating method to save energy from the adsorption dryer in the process of purifying compressed air, which is required for a clean room production site in “A” company. The compressed air passes through a pressure vessel with two “towers” filled with a material such as activated alumina, silica gel, molecular sieve or other desiccant material. This desiccant material attracts the water from the compressed air via adsorption. As the water clings to the desiccant, the desiccant particle becomes saturated. Therefore, Adsorption dryer is an extremely significant facility which removes the moisture in the air 70℃ below the dew point temperature while using a lot of energy. Also, the energy consumption of the adsorption dryer can be varied by various operating conditions (time, pressure, temperature, etc). Therefore, based on existing operating experiments, we have searched operating condition to maximize energy saving by changing operating conditions of the facility. However, due to a short experiment period (from September to October), further research will be focused on considering seasonality.

멤브레인 드라이어는 일부의 공기와 수증기만을 상변화 없이 회수하는 기술로서 건조공정에 적용할 경우 타 제습기술 대비하여 폐열회수율을 높이고 에너지 사용율을 저감할 수 있는 기술이다. 멤브레인 드라이어의 성능은 기체분리막 의 특징에 따라 크게 달라지는데, 기체분리막은 선택도와 투과도에 Trade-off관 계가 있어 선택도가 높아지면 투과도가 낮아진다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 건조공 정에 멤브레인 드라이어를 적용하기 위한 기초 테스트로 선택도가 다른 2종의 막을 선정하여 멤브레인 드라이어의 성능을 관찰하였다. 그 결과, 선택도가 높 은 기체분리막을 사용한 경우 에어 회수율은 증가하였지만 수분제거 성능은 하락하였다. 따라서 건조공정에 적용하기 위해선 적절한 선택도를 가진 기체분리 막을 선택해야 한다.

In this paper, we investigate how the power consumption of a heat pump dryer depends on various factors in the drying process by analyzing variables that affect the power consumption. Since there are in general many variables that affect the power consumption, for a feasible analysis, we utilize the principal component analysis to reduce the number of variables (or dimensionality) to two or three. We find that the first component is correlated positively to the entrance temperature of various devices such as compressor, expander, evaporator, and the second, negatively to condenser. We then model the power consumption as a multiple regression with two and/or three transformed variables of the selected principal components. We find that fitted value from the multiple regression explains 80~90% of the observed value of the power consumption. This results can be applied to a more elaborate control of the power consumption in the heat pump dryer.

The need of reusing sewage sludge is highly increasing as the amount of domestic sewage sludge is growing and sewage management strategies were reinforced. Accordingly, in this research, we studied the composting possibility of sludge in sewage treatment plant J, using dryer facility with indirect system by conducting component analysis of dried sludge and experiment on cultivating crops. It was observed from the component analysis, that the dried sludge is appropriate for both decomposed manure standard of Ministry of Environment and fertilizer standard of Rural Development Administration. Besides, in the experiment on cultivating lettuce, the experimental group(soil + dried sludge) was superior to the control group(soil + bed soil) in apparent condition of leaves tensity and damage by disease and pest. In case of cultivating tomato, the experimental group showed stronger durability of fruits dangling on stems compared to the control group after 9 weeks. Consequently, the excess sludge dried by indirect heating system in the sewage treatment plant J is appropriate for the standard of both Ministry of Environment and Rural Development Administration and show good result in experiment on cultivating crops therefore it can be reused for composting.

An experiment was carried out to evaluate the anchovy dryer performance using heat pump. We manufactured single stage refrigeration system using R22 and the dryer objects is frozen an anchovy. According to frame mobile method of the drying room inside divided at 3 drying rooms. After operating 13 hour machineries and accomplished a dryness experiment. The result which accomplishes an experiment, the dry condition which follows in frame movement of the drying room did not appear. According to the tray which is being put but in the frame the condition of anchovy dryness appeared different. It is concluded that the mean moisture evaporation rate is 60.7%, and the mean production of dryer an anchovy is 1.62 ton/day per dryer room.

오늘날 대부분의 공압시스템에 압축공기 드라이어가 설치되어 있는데 이는 공압장치가 적절히 그리고 신뢰성 있게 작동되기 위해서는 제습된 공기를 사용해야 할 필요가 있을 뿐 아니라 이외에도 많은 이점을 더 가지고 있기 때문이다. 현재 사용되고 있는 압축공기드라이어는 전력이나, 흡착제의 사용으로 경제성이 떨어지며, 냉매제 등 환경적인 제약을 받고 있다. Membrane dryer는 경제적, 환경 친화적으로 이로우며, 각 산업체 뿐만 아니라 제습기능과 정수 기능이 합쳐진 에어정수기의 새로운 응용으로 물이 부족한 열대 우림지역에서 사용될 수 있다.