Gas concentration in the interstitial atmosphere of a wheat silo-bag. Part I: Model development and validation
R. Abalone, A. Gastón, R. Bartosik, L. Cardoso andJ. Rodríguez
Journal of Stored Products Research,Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 268-275
2011
บทคัดย่อ
The silo-bag is a hermetic storage system of about 200 tonnes of capacity widely adopted in Argentina for storing dry grains.
A heat and mass transfer model which predicts grain storage temperature and moisture content (MC) as function of weather conditions was applied in combination with a lumped-capacity differential equation for gas transfer to simulate the gas exchange in silo-bags. CO2 production rate based on variable grain storage temperature, MC and storage time was taken into account and evaluated using the correlation developed by