Shevchenko M.V., Voyakin S.N., Reshetnik E.I., Shchitov S.V., Kuznetsov E.E.

Reducing energy costs with active ventilation of grain mass

Currently, small peasant farms (PFs) play an important role in preserving the country's food security. In the Amur region, they account for about 25 ... 30% of the total received agricultural products. At the same time, an important task in these farms is to preserve the harvested crop. This is due to the fact that during the harvesting period about 65 ... 70% of the annual precipitation falls, in connection with which the harvested grain mass has a high moisture content. The main way to preserve the received grain products is their timely drying. At the same time, it should be noted that peasant farms do not always dry the obtained agricultural products in full due to the high financial costs of this process, and in particular where electric energy is used as an energy carrier for drying, given that it’s cost for the consumer rises every year. This article presents the results of research on reducing energy consumption for drying agricultural products by optimizing the consumption of electricity.

Keywords:Keywords: DRYING, VENTILATION, FAN, ELECTRICAL ENERGY, GRAIN MASS