Corn drying

Corn drying

Between 550,000 to. and 600,000 to. of grain maize is dried annually in Austria alone. Assuming an average import moisture content of 30% residual moisture and drying down to 14% residual moisture, between 25-30 liters of heating oil are required for one ton of corn.

Converted to the whole of Austria, this results in a heating oil requirement of approx. 16 million liters during the corn drying period. The combustion of the oil producesCO2 emissions of around 45,000 tons.

Drying maize with biomass

Corn can be dried using different systems. And the drying temperature is also individual, depending on requirements, and is between 85° C and 130°C. Due to the savings in heating costs compared to fossil fuels and not least because of environmental concerns, more and more farmers are turning to a chaff-fired hot air heating system.
Landritherm warm air heaters are available in a wide range of performance classes and offer great savings in heating costs compared to heating oil.

High inlet temperatures due to air heat exchanger

The big difference between LandriTherm heating systems and conventional biomass heating systems is that hot air is produced directly via an air heat exchanger and not, as is usually the case, via the carrier medium of water.

Corn drying with an LA750 biomass hot air oven.
LA750 warm air oven in front of a corn drying tower

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