Project Objectives
Applying technology to forage drying to save money and time, and improve product quality.
Dehydration of vegetable products can be very complex given great variations in humidity content. The resulting excessive desiccation of the product not only means a greater cost from energy used, but also degradation of the products nutritional content and weight loss which is seen in the final price of the product and in a reduction in the SME’s competitivity.
As such, this project proposes the following operational objectives to achieve the automatic control in the industrial processes of rotary vegetable product driers:
- Develop a prototype reliable measurement sensor for protein and humidity
- Develop a family of process models and algorithms
- To design a real-time controller system to satisfy the problem specifications
