THE EFFECT OF MOISTURE CONTENT ON SOME PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CORN GRAIN
Journal Title: ISB-INMA TEH AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The knowledge of physical properties of grains are fundamentals in order to optimize the design of equipment of the processing technological flow. A study was conducted to evaluate some physical properties that affect transportation, storage, processing of grist corn (Baragan 48) as a function of moisture content varying from 11 to 15%. It was correlated the moisture content of the initial material with the mean diameter of the particles, by its granulometric analysis and the grinding index. This correlation is expressed by linear, power and exponential type distribution functions, the correlation coefficients having relatively high values (R2 > 0.89). For bulk density and natural slope angle, the correlation was tested by linear distribution function and the correlation coefficient having values of R2 = 0.9447 and R2 = 0.9244, respectively. The granulometric distribution of corn grist (particle size distribution) has been described with good results by the Rosin- Rammler function, which the correlation coefficient values have been R2> 0.996.
Authors and Affiliations
E. M. Stefan, Gheorghe Voicu, Gabriel Constantin, Mariana Ferdes
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