PARBOILING AND DRYING OF PADDY PARBOILING AND DRYING OF PADDY

摘要

1372979 Parboiled rice M M H I FERNANDO 1 June 1973 [3 June 1972] 26352/73 Heading A2Q Moist rice paddy is parboiled and dried by passing it along a conduit externally heated by burning paddy husks. In a particular apparatus, the conduit is a tapering drum 7-Fig. 2-fitted with longitudinal fins 8 and rotating about a horizontal axis in the upper part of furnace 11. Moist paddy in hopper 1-Fig. 3- is supplied to one end of the drum via conveyor 3, funnel 5 and conduit 6. Paddy husks are fed from hopper (13)-Fig. 4, not showninto the air supply of blower 14 from which a blast of airborne husks are supplied via conduit 19 to the lower part of furnace 11. The rate of supply of air and husks is thermostatically controlled to ensure a constant temperature in drum 7. The treated paddy is discharged via chute (21)-Fig. 4, not shown-at the opposite end of the furnace.