Article
Technical Notes: Aspiration Cleaning of Soybeans
Applied Engineering in Agriculture
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-1996
Abstract
Soybean samples containing 0.5 to 4.0% foreign material and 3 to 22% splits were aspiration cleaned at air velocities of 19 m/s (3500 ft/min) and 10 m/s (1970 ft/min). Both airflow rates removed 80% of the total non-soybean material, and removed similar amounts of splits. The high airflow rate removed 1.1% of whole soybeans compared to 0.4% at low airflow rate. At either airflow rate, the aspirator removed less saleable material and more non-grain material than previously reported for screen cleaning. Aspiration could be an acceptable method for meeting reduced foreign material requirements for soybeans.
Access
Open
Copyright Owner
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Copyright Date
1996
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Charles R. Hurburgh, Jeff Buresch and Glen R. Rippke. "Technical Notes: Aspiration Cleaning of Soybeans" Applied Engineering in Agriculture Vol. 12 Iss. 5 (1996) p. 585 - 586 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charles_hurburgh/36/
This article is from Applied Engineering in Agriculture 12 (1996): 585–586. Posted with permission.