Post-harvest equipment that reduces the moisture content of freshly harvested grain, typically from a range of seventeen to thirty percent down to eight to fifteen percent, so it can be stored safely without spoiling. Fuelled by gas, electricity or other heat sources, grain dryers process hundreds of millions of tonnes of wheat, maize, soybeans, rice and other grains every year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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OriginNo single invention date or inventor is named by the available source for grain-drying equipment itself. 1 Industrial-scale grain drying became widespread in the years after the Second World War, as combine harvesting spread into humid and cooler regions where air-drying alone could not bring grain to a safe storage moisture, but the source names no single invention date or inventor for the equipment itself. Connections
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grain is dried before it goes into a silo for storage; the two are sequential steps in the same handling chain
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1. Grain Dryer (Wikipedia)
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Drying is essential for safe storage, as it inhibits the growth of microorganisms.
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The era in which millions of tons of grain are dried by fuel-powered or electric-powered dryers at industrial scale as a routine matter of course did not begin until the postwar era after World War II.
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