Corn drying

Corn drying

In Austria, between 550,000 and 600,000 tonnes of grain maize are dried every year. Reducing the moisture content from 30 % at harvest to 14 % requires 25 to 30 litres of heating oil per tonne of maize. For Austria as a whole, this adds up to around 16 million litres of heating oil per drying season and approximately 42,000 tonnes of CO₂ emissions.

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Drying maize with biomass

Mais lässt sich mit verschiedenen Systemen trocknen. Auch die Trocknungstemperatur richtet sich nach der Anforderung und liegt zwischen 85 °C und 130 °C. Weil Hackgut günstiger ist als Heizöl und aus der Region stammt, setzen immer mehr Landwirte auf eine hackgutbefeuerte Warmluftheizung.
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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