Design and Development of a Gas Fueled Hot Air Blower for Multiple Dryer Hoppers

Against the Grains Malt Ltd. （ATG）是安大略省Petrolia的一家微型麦芽公司，为微型啤酒厂，微型蒸馏厂和家庭酿造市场提供本地种植和麦芽的优质产品。随着精酿啤酒行业的不断扩张，安大略省出现了严重的麦芽短缺。ATG目前每月有7500磅的基础麦芽酿造能力，并打算将其产能翻一番，达到每月15,000磅，并配备2个发芽桶。通过与Lambton学院的合作，ATG正在寻求为其新的和现有的设施增加关键的仪器和控制系统，以优化生产和提高效率。目前，由于缺乏一致和可靠的控制和监测过程，可能导致整批麦芽被处理掉，造成巨大的利润损失和工时浪费。为了防止此类损失的发生，必须安装具有远程监控功能的自动化系统，以便加工人员能够随时访问和控制加工参数。为此，这个合作项目的主要目标是为ATG创建一个小规模的特种麦芽系统，以便与精酿啤酒厂更紧密地合作，提高他们的生产潜力。利用适当和先进的仪器和控制系统，嵌入先进的过程控制、监测和自动化元件，将使麦芽酿造过程更有效，最大限度地减少劳动力和空间，同时使用更少的能源和水，使其更容易、更快、更安全、更容易操作。该项目的成功将有助于ATG优化其工艺，从而增加产品产量，最终提供更多的资源和可用性，以满足精酿啤酒对麦芽的日益增长的需求。我们期待与兰姆顿学院合作。

Against the Grains Malt Ltd. (ATG) is a micro malt company in Petrolia, Ontario, servicing the micro-brewery, micro-distillery and home brew markets with locally grown and malted, premium quality products. With the continued expansion of the craft beer industry, there is a significant malt shortage occurring in Ontario. ATG currently has a 7500 lbs per month capacity for malting base malt, with the intent to double its capacity to 15,000 lbs per month with 2 germinator drums. In partnership with Lambton College, ATG is looking to add critical instrumentation and control systems to its new and existing facilities to optimize production and enhance efficiency.Currently, lack of consistent and reliable control and monitoring processes can result in disposing entire batches of malt, causing a huge profit loss and wasted work hours. To prevent such losses from happening, an automated system with remote monitoring capability must be installed so that malters have access and control ability to process parameters at all times. To that end, the main goal of this collaborative project is to create a small-scale specialty malt system for ATG to work more closely with craft breweries and enhance their production potential. Utilizing proper and advanced instrumentation and control systems with embedded advanced process control, monitoring and automation elements will make the malting process more efficient by minimizing labour and space while using less energy and water, making it easier, faster, safer and more accessible to operate.The success of this project will help ATG optimize their process and consequently, increase the amount of product produced, ultimately providing greater resources and availability to satisfy the growing demand for malted barley for craft beer making. We look forward to collaborating with Lambton College.