FC COOP ELEVATOR FINDS ADVANTAGES TO DELUX MODEL OVER TOWER DRYER

That dryer had been in service since 1979 and “was on its last legs,” says Location Manager Willie Smith, who manages four locations around the town of Afton with a combined storage
capacity of about 1 million bushels. On a good day, he says, the old dryer could remove five points of moisture per hour at a rate of 2,500 bph, but there hadn’t been any days that good in a long time.

Prior to selecting a new dryer, Smith dis-cussed the matter with Tim Hunter, president of T&S Industries Inc., a local millwright firm in Afton. Hunter suggested that instead

of looking at a tower dryer, which many nearby facilities had done, that the cooperative instead take a look at a dryer model from Delux Mfg. Co., Kearney, NE (800-658-3240).

In August 2013, FC Coop installed a Delux DPX16GT Series dryer rated at 3,200 to 3,500 bph at five points of moisture removal depending on the com- modity being dried and fueled by natural gas.

“It fit our needs better than a tower dryer,” Smith comments. “For one thing, it fit our space and could be built right on the foundation of the old dryer. Also, we could continue to use our existing leg, while with a tower dryer, we would have had to put in a new leg.”

The coop did, however, have new motors and buckets installed on the existing leg to boost its capacity to 5,000 bph.

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