A method for cell disruption and extraction of a plant, includes placing plant material on a porous container, placing the porous container into a reaction device, and producing water ion steam of an atmospheric pressure by a water ion generator. The water ion steam infiltrates the porous container and permeates the plant material. The water ion steam penetrate cells of the plant material and breaks the cell wall of the cells, to cause a cell disruption. The residual water ion steam is drained outward from the exhaust pipe of the box.

A system and method for drying individual biomass units. Turbine exhaust heats ambient air to produce heated air, which passes through a conveyor system that carries a quantity of biomass product to an endpoint collection area. Heated air with fine product particles is ducted to a series of cyclonic particle separators and collected.

A system and method for drying individual biomass units. Turbine exhaust heats ambient air to produce heated air, which passes through a conveyor system that carries a quantity of biomass product to an endpoint collection area. Heated air with fine product particles is ducted to a series of cyclonic particle separators and collected.

A portable system for monitoring and conditioning of agricultural assets in aerated storage bins. Sensor sticks combine rigid tubing with internal sensor cables to enable penetrative submersion of sensor nodes into an existing stored volume of grain. A control unit has input terminals for connection of sensor sticks and plenum sensors, and output terminals for connection of portable construction heaters, aeration fans and headspace exhaust fans. The terminals include multi-use terminals to which different sensor and equipment types are assignable to enable a variety of different operational scenarios with different quantities of bins, heaters, fans and sensor sticks. A headspace kit includes a fan unit mountable externally to the bin near ground level, and a flexible exhaust duct routable between the fan unit and a rooftop opening of the bin for fan driven evacuation of humid air from the headspace of the bin.

A vegetation tray includes a base. The base is formed from a thin wall having a plurality of spaced peaks and valleys. A plurality of apertures are in the base. The apertures enables passage of air for drying vegetation on the tray. A boundary wall extending from the base.

The disclosure provided herein is directed to a grain dryer, that dries grains such as soy, corn, rice, etc., that may comprise of three or more grain drying towers capable of being arranged in diverse geometric formats, for example, triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, etc. The grain drying towers may comprise airducts arranged transversally in relation to each other and with each airduct containing multiple openings that may be arranged in each of its six faces. Faces of the airducts have interspaced openings where some regions of the airduct may or may not have an opening.

A heating apparatus for supplying heated air to a grain dryer or the like. The apparatus features a biomass furnace with a burn chamber for combustible biomass material, a chimney having a lower end in fluid communication with the burn chamber interior, and air ducting that has a fresh air inlet, an output end connected to the dryer, and directs heated exhaust air from the chimney to the dryer. An airflow control system is configured to both control airflow to the dryer through the air ducting, and control a temperature of said airflow by varying a ratio between the fresh ambient air and the heated exhaust air. The burn chamber has a chain gate with overbed and underbed circulation fans that generate airflow up through the chain grate, as well as tumbling air currents above the chain grate for thorough combustion and cleaner exhaust that won't contaminate the grain.

A heating apparatus for supplying heated air to a grain dryer or the like. The apparatus features a biomass furnace with a burn chamber for combustible biomass material, a chimney having a lower end in fluid communication with the burn chamber interior, and air ducting that has a fresh air inlet, an output end connected to the dryer, and directs heated exhaust air from the chimney to the dryer. An airflow control system is configured to both control airflow to the dryer through the air ducting, and control a temperature of said airflow by varying a ratio between the fresh ambient air and the heated exhaust air. The burn chamber has a chain gate with overbed and underbed circulation fans that generate airflow up through the chain grate, as well as tumbling air currents above the chain grate for thorough combustion and cleaner exhaust that won't contaminate the grain.

A method and an apparatus are disclosed for processing plastics, in which the material in incoherent solid state is dehumidified in a hopper and is then melted in an extruder, after which the molten material is used in a moulding device for moulding by injection and/or by blow moulding and/or compression, and in which a set point pressure value of the molten material is set on the basis of a measured residual humidity value of the dehumidified incoherent solid material, so as to decrease the pressure value by a preset variation value if the measured residual humidity value is lower than a reference value and to increase the pressure value by a preset variation value if the measured residual humidity value is higher than said reference value.

A method and an apparatus are disclosed for processing plastics, in which the material in incoherent solid state is dehumidified in a hopper and is then melted in an extruder, after which the molten material is used in a moulding device for moulding by injection and/or by blow moulding and/or compression, and in which a set point pressure value of the molten material is set on the basis of a measured residual humidity value of the dehumidified incoherent solid material, so as to decrease the pressure value by a preset variation value if the measured residual humidity value is lower than a reference value and to increase the pressure value by a preset variation value if the measured residual humidity value is higher than said reference value.