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Wind Energy Improves Grain Drying

Apr 12, 2018

Video: Wind Energy Improves Grain Drying

Aflatoxin is a major issue in seed crops in developing countries because of the lack of modern drying systems. As a result, aflatoxin is produced by the mold aspergillus at high temperature and moisture, the major cause of sickness and death among livestock and people when they consume aflatoxin contaminated food. But researchers at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment are working to change that using technology that allows wind to be harnessed for forced air generation into a solar dryer thereby increasing the rate of heat transfer and moisture removal during the drying process