Tomohiko Ichikawa

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2004, Ottawa, Canada August 1 - 4, 2004 | 2004

Yasuyuki Hidaka; Kotaro Kubota; Tomohiko Ichikawa

We developed a far-infrared radiation (FIR )grain dryer , with the FIR body built into a recirculating dryer that is used widely in Japan. This dryer converted thermal energy into FIR by heating a FIR body with a kerosene burner. Furthermore, exhaust heat was reused to increase drying efficiency. Using this method, we reduced electricity consumption by 30% and kerosene consumption by 10%, compared with heated-air (HA) dryers. Because the kerosene was burned in the FIR body with a burner, combustion noise was low. The germination rate was not decreased by FIR. The increase of cracking rate of rice was satisfactory at 2% or less. Rice dried by FIR had more viscosity and palatability has become good. The 34,000 FIR dryers produced in the project were distributed among individual farmers in Japan.

Jarq-japan Agricultural Research Quarterly | 1990

Tomohiko Ichikawa; T. Sugiyama; Hiroyuki Takahashi; S. Miyahara

Journal of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery | 1996

Koichi Tosaki; Sumihiko Miyahara; Tomohiko Ichikawa; Yoshiharu Mizukura

Archive | 2002

Takeo Ando; Masayuki Domon; Ippei Fujiwara; Yasuyuki Hidaka; Tomohiko Ichikawa; Satoshi Ikeda; Eiji Ito; Kotaro Kubota; Akiyoshi Matsuyama; Yoshikuni Miyatake; Yoshikazu Orui; 興太郎久保田; 栄二伊藤; 正幸土門; 良和大類; 武男安藤; 義邦宮武; 友彦市川; 靖之日高; 晃悦松山; 智池田; 逸平藤原

Journal of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery | 2005