Conduction Maize Drying for Emerging African Communities
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2019-04-19
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Van Dyke, Todd
Olson, Brett
Titmus, Jacob
Shippy, Michael
Chopra, Shweta
Koziel, Jacek
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Koziel, Jacek
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Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Abstract
Currently, in emerging African Communities, they are putting their maize out on mats to be dried under the sun. They are having problems with animals and humans stealing their produce along with maize weevils destroying their crops. Our objective is to create a mobile and efficient system that can dry grain on a need basis. It also needs to be made from materials that are easily obtained in these communities. The product will not be able to utilize electricity or gas to the main source of fuel will be fire. This is not the first time that this problem is a capstone project, and we have viewed some of the past results for reference, but we will need to collect our data to solve the problem.