Design Blueprint: Grain Aeration Cooling Bin
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121601): Aeration with cool night air is the standard low-cost defence of stored grain against weevils and other stored-grain insects, which largely stop developing below about 15 C. This study sizes the operation for cylindrical wheat bins 2.4 m deep using a cooling-front energy balance. At an airflow of 5 m3/h per tonne, the cooling front advances at 0.0085 m/h regardless of bin diameter, and the bulk mean reaches 15 C after 230.2 hours of suitable air — 28.8 nights at eight usable hours per night — whether the bin holds 5.8 tonnes (2 m diameter) or 52.3 tonnes (6 m). Total fan energy is 10.13 kWh fo Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225820942
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