DryPro
In dryer moisture monitoring and control - preventing the problems of over & under drying in a large variety of crops.
The Sinar DryPro heralds a breakthrough in crop moisture control, providing real time moisture content & temperature readings, which allows fine-tuning of the dryer to maximize throughput and minimize fuel wastage.
Manual sampling of the crop as it exits the dryer is time consuming, and relies on small samples to represent the moisture content of the grain remaining in the dryer. Also, you are always looking back at what has already happened inside your drier, making fine control of the drier a matter of trial and error.
The Sinar DryPro, based on proven capacitance technology, continually reads the moisture of the grain as it passes the sensors positioned throughout the dryer. This gives you real-time moisture and temperature readings as the grain is still in the drier, allowing much tighter control of your drying operation. By taking hundreds of readings per hour the Sinar DryPro gives you the data to make the correct drier management decisions. Alternatively, using the optional analogue outputs, let the Sinar DryPro make the adjustments for you.
Easily installed into existing dryers, the Sinar DryPro can be configured to trigger high and/or low moisture alarms, continually log moisture and temperature results and provide a variety of outputs which can be used to monitor or directly control the drier. The Sinar DryPro also uses the same standard calibrations developed for use in the Sinar Technology’s range of hand held moisture analysers. This gives the system great flexibility as it can be calibrated for any of the hundreds of commodities listed in our calibration library, as well as allowing easy checking and adjustment.
Typically these include:
- Wheat
- Barley
- Oilseed Rape
- Maize
- Soya Bean
- Rice
- Coffee
- Pulses
- Linseed
- Oats
- With many more available
Technical Description:
The Sinar DryPro is a unique, multi-sensor, moisture & temperature-monitoring system, designed specifically to cope with the harsh environment found inside modern grain drying facilities. Up to four sensors can be connected to the central control unit enabling precise measurements to be taken at different points within the dryer. These sensors are easily mounted, with no re-engineering of the dryer required.
One 4-core cable is run from each sensor back to the control unit, which is powered from a 100-240v AC supply. Each sensor can be situated up to 100m away from the control unit. From the control unit the operator can: Continually display the moisture reading from any sensor, display the temperature reading from any sensor OR sequentially cycle through, and display, the moisture readings from all available sensors, using a variable time interval.
Using either an RS232 or RS485 port, the control box outputs: Moisture reading displayed on the readout, Sensor number which is generating the reading, Current date - in dd/mm/yy format, Current time – in hr/min/sec format, Temperature of each sensor, Name of the crop calibration currently selected, Current alarm state for selected crop (high or low).
A data logger, a PC running Sinar Technology MLog software or a serial printer/chart recorder, can be used to pick up all this data. In this way a permanent drying record can be easily kept. The control box also incorporates up to eight analogue outputs, one moisture output & one temperature output for each sensor installed. Connections are made via internal, clip on, terminals. This allows the Sinar Drypro to interface with: A PLC for control purposes, which enables the dryer to be controlled directly from the readings of the DryPro sensors and a chart recorder.
System Components:
To allow the flexibility needed to meet the requirements of many different dryer designs the Sinar Technology DryPro is supplied in modular form, allowing the perfect configuration for any dryer.
Sinar Order Code
- 7080-001 - Display unit complete with
1 sensor Without DCS (Control Board)
- 7081-001 - Display Unit, One sensor with DCS Board
- 1900-7080 - Additional sensor
- 1900-6781 - Sensor installation kit - 100m of cable, tie wraps & connectors
100m of cable, tie wraps & connectors
- 1900-7081 - RS 485 converter kit
- 1900-6362 - MLog data capture software
