Sentence examples for drying paddy from inspiring English sources

Energy consumption and rice milling quality upon drying paddy with an industrial horizontal rotary dryer (IHRD) developed in northern Iran were investigated and compared with those of the conventional industrial batch-type bed dryer (IBBD) at five paddy final moisture levels (8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, and 12.0%, w.b).

Study parameters are based on an annual cropping cycle, with continuous flooding during the growing season and soil incorporation of straw post-harvest, and yields of 9.3 Mt ha−1 dried paddy rice.

A simple exergy balance reveals that only 31.18 37.01%% exergy are utilized for drying of paddy and the remaining large amount of exergy are wasted.

A simulation model for deep-bed batch drying of paddy was developed to predict the profiles of grain moisture content, grain temperature, air temperature and air humidity during the drying process.

Dry paddy soils and wet paddy fields exhibited relatively lower Hg fluxes than other agricultural soils.

Dry paddy soils had low soil porosity which might minimize the interface of soil to the atmosphere.

The average fluxes of Hg from agricultural bare soils, dry paddy soils, and wet paddy fields were in the ranges of 18.2 135, 2.7 14.2, and 1.4 22.8 ng m−2 h−1, respectively.

Besides, low penetrations of solar radiation and relevant biotic activities in dry paddy soils might also result in low air Hg concentrations in soil pool which in turn result in minimal diffusions of Hg to the atmosphere.

In the second wintering test, the seeds were placed under flooded and dry paddy conditions.

The seed viability of cultivated rice was 5% in dry paddy and 0.5% in flooded paddy, but weedy rice maintained a high viability during winter of 90% in the dry paddy and 61% in the flooded paddy.

Therefore, the second field experiment for seed wintering was carried out in a flooded paddy as well as in a dry paddy field.