Reduce Your Dryer Operating Costs With Grain Sentry

Grain Sentry is Perry of Oakley’s Award-Winning automated PLC moisture sampling & dryer control system. It uses moisture samples obtained from the dryer filling & discharge equipment to adjust the speed of the dryer to optimise the dryer performance.

How does it work?

The system uses pneumatic conveying to take a grain sample from the dryer filling and discharge equipment.

This sample is analysed using the very latest Near Infrared technology to ascertain the moisture content, which provides industry standard accuracy for the moisture measurement for every sample.

The Grain Sentry only requires a calibration check once a year (it’s a game changer) and as it takes the readings automatically there’s no manpower lost in ensuring accurate up to date data is being used to run the drier.  Just that alone saves £££££, plus the grain is returned to the system so it’s not lost in the process resulting in no loss of tonnage due to the frequency of the testing.

Our software, written by Perry engineers, uses the information in a series of calculations to determine the correct change needed to the dryer speed to maintain the best possible output grain moisture content.

The Grain Sentry is an intelligent dryer operator so lessens the impact if your experienced dryer operator leaves.

It also lessens the amount of time a farm operator needs to be checking the dryer.

How does it save me money?

The combination of the accurate moisture meter and the self- teaching algorithm system prevents the quite large financial losses associated with over-drying grain such as decrease in weight, extra fuel usage, labour, and electricity, for example. This means big savings and peace of mind can be achieved, especially when coupled with the manpower savings from using a moisture meter that only requires annual calibration.

How big are the savings?

Based on a 30tph throughput dryer, drying 6000T per season in average conditions the direct drying cost savings would be £21,500 per season.

This increases to over £40,000 per season on a 60tph throughput dryer, drying 15000T.

Contact us with your real-life data and we’ll run it through our calculator and show you how much you could save.

What products does it work on?

Products that can be measured as standard include: wheat, barley, oats, triticale, rye, corn, buckwheat, millet, sorghum, rice, coffee, peas, lupin, soybean, rape, sunflower, jojoba, seaweed.

What Dryer can it be used on?

It can be retro-fitted on to any roller or shutter discharge continuous flow Grain Dryer, and is a recommended optional extra on all Perry Savannah Series Dryers.

Yes, it can be retrofitted on to non-Perry dryers too.

Key Points

• The system is not affected by build up on the sensors.
• The sampled product is returned pneumatically to any suitable point.
• Sample intervals can be tailored but the minimum is approximately 2 minutes.
• The system controls both drying temperature and discharge speed

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