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US 2023/0059285 A1Published application
Grain drying system with air injection and extraction
OwnerDwayne Pincemininventor
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Abstract
A system for drying grain in a storage bin, having an air injector for injecting external air into the bin interior to displace moist warm air toward an air extractor and the air extractor for extracting moist warm air from the bin interior and directing it outside the bin.
Claims24
A system for drying grain housed in a storage bin, the storage bin having a peripheral wall defining an interior space, the system comprising:
- an air injector configured to inject dry external air at least halfway across the interior space;
- and
- an air extractor configured to extract moist warm internal air from at least halfway across the interior space;
- one of the air injector and the air extractor positioned centrally within the interior space, and the other of the air injector and the air extractor positioned adjacent the peripheral wall in the interior space;
- such that the air injector injects the dry external air through the grain at least halfway across the interior space toward the air extractor, and the air extractor extracts moist warm internal air through the grain from at least halfway across the interior space from the air injector.
2 more elements
A system for drying grain housed in a storage bin by removing moist air from the bin, the system comprising:
- a plurality of peripherally-disposed air injectors spaced around the storage bin to inject external air towards a centre of the interior space and displace the moist air;
- and
- an air extractor positioned centrally within the bin to extract the moist air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.