Engineering and economic impacts of prohibiting recombination recirculation dust at export elevators /
(0.8 cents/bu) annually.
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1994.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | (0.8 cents/bu) annually. 1000 m3 ($2.89 to $8.34 per 1000 bu). Also, elevators 106 MI (SOx 106 bu) would pay as much as 13 times more captured dust from the filters to dust storage tanks. Data captured dust were collected to storage bins. It was comply with disallowed R/R, and to estimate the equipment, costs to operate dust systems ranged from $82.3 to $238 per cubic meters (4.8 x 109 bu) per year, the grain export Data were collected from seven terminal export elevators, a descriptions of dust control systems currently being used in disallowed R/R. Also, elevators handling less then 1.76x downstream. The third system, a bin dust system, employed dust motivators (high pressure blowers) to convey the electrical energy per unit volume than those handling larger elevators with larger percentages of bin dust systems. elevators. Based on a total export volume of 168 million estimated that the industry would spend $29 million to from the pick-up points, or reintroduced the captured dust from the seven elevators revealed that electrical energy grain export facilities, to determine the retrofit handling lower volumes of grain per year would pay more for industry would spend 17 cents per m3 (0.6 cents/bu) to It was determined, from data from the seven elevators and manufacturers data for dust control equipment were collected. more in annual expenditures than larger, higher volume of dust per I 000 kg (3.2 lb per ton) of grain if all operation, and maintenance costs that would be incurred by per volume of grain handled in capital costs and 2 times quantities of grain. Electrical energy costs were higher for questionnaire was sent to all 63 export elevators, and requirements of the dust control and handling systems to retrofit and $35.8 million annually to comply with retrofit facilities and approximately 23 cents per m3 systems were R/R which either recombined the dust upstream the industry as a result of complying with disallowed R/R. The objectives of this research were to develop engineering the questionnaire, that a facility would collect 1. 6 kg There were three basic types of dust control systems. Two |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Agricultural Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 67 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |