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Course code: RTSS10215f14Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Drying Equipment
Major: Agricultural and Forestry Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Marian Szarycz
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Students acquire basic knowledge about drying facilities, basic systems dryers and indicators of their work. Skills: Student is able to prepare a study on the selection of agricultural dryers and knows the structure and principles of their operation.
Competences: The student is aware of the validity of education and self-improvement in engineering processing of agricultural and food production, and understands the need for learning throughout life in order to improve the skills acquired during their studies.
Prerequisites: Mathematics, physics, technique of heat
Course content: Basics of drying facilities. Properties of dried materials, the basic phenomena occurring during drying, the moisture movement in the material. Moist gases, basic determination of thermodynamics humid air. The types of heat exchange. The kinetics of the drying process, Influence of external conditions on the drying process. Methods of drying. Classification and indicators of the driers. Dryers equipment: ventricular tunnel, belt, gravity, drum, pneumatic, fluidized bed and fountain, special purpose. Technical equipment dryers, automatic control of the drying process. Technology drying of agricultural products. Campaign Planning drying, active ventilation, low temperature drying device. Selection dryers, energy and safety dryers.
Recommended literature: 1. Kneule F. 1970: „Suszenie”. Arkady, Warszawa 1970. 2. Pabis S. 1965: „Suszenie płodów rolnych”. PWRiL, Warszawa 1965. 3. Strumiłło C. 1983: „Podstawy teorii i techniki suszenia”. WNT, warszawa 1983. 4. Strutyńska K. 1972: „Suszarnie zbożowe i urządzenia do aktywnego wietrzenia"” WNT, Warszawa 1972.
Assessment methods: Passing on the basis of tests. Examination after semester 4.
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