Industrial paddy drying and energy saving options

Performance Study of Fluidized Bed Dryer with Immersed Heater for Paddy Drying

“…The energy consumption of commercial fluidized bed dryer decreased with increasing paddy moisture content and drying temperature [9]. Paddy drying is a highly energy-intensive process and sensitive to the quality of rice [10]. They recommend that the maximum drying temperature to reduce paddy moisture down become 22% (db) in a single pass is 150 0 C to achieve acceptable quality of product.…”

Paddy Drying in Batch Fluidized Bed and Scale-up Simulation in Continuous Operation Mode

“…Furthermore, paddydrying is a highly energy-intensive process and sensitive to thequality of rice [7]. They recommend that the maximum drying temperature to reduce paddy moisture become 22% (db) in a single pass is 150 ∘ C to achieve acceptable quality of product.…”

Physical, physicochemical and nutritional characteristics of Bhoja chaul, a traditional ready-to-eat dry heat parboiled rice product processed by an improvised soaking technique

“…For example, in the last few decades, high pressure steaming and mechanical roasting using electrically operated specialised machineries have been preferred over open steaming and sand roasting using wood fire (Kim et al, 2002;Unnikrishnan & Bhattacharya, 1987). Modern drying techniques are also being studied for efficient drying of parboiled paddy (Jittanit, Saeteaw, & Charoenchaisri, 2010).…”