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Course code: RTSS10215o12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Drying Equipment
Major: Agricultural and Forestry Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Marian Szarycz
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: The aim of teaching is to acquaint students with the basics of drying facilities, basic systems, dryers, and indicators of their work.
Competences: Student knows basic drying facilities and the construction and operating principles of agricultural dryers
Prerequisites: mathematics, physics biology and chemistry.
Course content: Fundamentals of drying facilities. The properties of dried materials, the basic phenomena occurring during drying, the movement of moisture in the material. Moist gases, basic terms of thermodynamics of moist air. Types of heat transfer. Kinetics of the drying process, influence of external conditions on the drying process. Methods of drying. Indicators of Classification and dryers. Dryers equipment: chamber, tunnel, belt, gravity, machines, pneumatic, fluidized bed and fountain, a special purpose. Technical equipment of the dryers, automatic drying process. Technology drying agricultural products. Campaign Planning drying, active ventilation, extra drying devices. Selection of dryers, energy and safety at work dryers.
Recommended literature: - Kneule F. 1970: „Drying”. Arkady, Warszawa 1970. - Pabis S. 1965: „Drying of agricultural products”. PWRiL, Warszawa 1965. - Strumiłło C. 1983: „Basic theory and techniques for drying”. WNT, warszawa 1983. - Strutyńska K. 1972: „Grain dryers and facilities for active ventilation \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"” WNT, Warszawa 1972.
Assessment methods: Passing on the basis of tests
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