Diseño de un secador tipo túnel para la deshidratación de la harina de sangre en el Camal Frigorífico Riobamba

Abstract

The design of a tunnel dryer for the dehydration of blood meal in the Riobamba meat processing plant was carried out using the inductive method by taking samples, which were later analyzed in the laboratory, the data was tabulated and sized through engineering calculations based on tests carried out in the Industrial Chemistry laboratory of the ESPOCH and also using field methods such as the numbering of flocks to be slaughtered in the meat processing plant. Basically it is based on an equipment design with a rectangular structure of 2 meters long and 0.50 m wide and a conveyor belt height of 4 m long, in addition to product feeding hoppers, fans, digital sensors to control the temperature and pressure of the equipment, Within the characteristics itself would consist of a load capacity of 0.167 kg / h, based on the results of the calculations presented in the research, the equipment is fed with steam to be supplied in the copper coils of 0.06 kg / h, at a pressure given by the pressure gauge of the boiler of 14.3 PSI. Concluding the drying of blood flour is done in a total time of 1,333 hours with an initial humidity of 39.34% and reaching its final humidity of 11.47%, giving us an efficiency of 86%. Recommending that the design of this equipment foresees a product that improves its quality and degree of asepsis at the moment of its sale to the consumer.