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Why are QED Grain Dryers the Most Efficient Grain Dryer in the Industry?

First, let's take the typical screen and/or racked dryer drying in 60 degrees F weather. The dryer has to take the outside air and heat it to 180 to 200 degrees F, give or take where the heat sensor is in your dryer. Because it is just screens, all the heated air escapes causing the burner to continually heat the outside air 140 degrees F to take the dryer to temperature. This requires more fuel to be burned at a faster rate.

However, with the screened, racked, and enclosed grain dryer from QED, the scenerio is different. At first, we take the outside 60 degrees F air and heat it to 200 degrees F, then that heated air is RECYCLED back down to the burner section creating about 130 to 150 degrees air to be heated to 200 degrees. Only a third of the airflow is exhasted from the top. Because the burner heats the recycled air only 50 to 70 degrees to take it to temperature, there is a huge difference between the typical screen and/or racked dryer compared to the QED grain dryer.

The Science for using Dust Burning as Bio-Fuel

Dust Burning: Injection of dust into the gas flame using profiling of special high air flow top dust retention burner.

Example: 1000 Bu x 56 lbs corn or wheat = 56,000 lbs product. At 1% removal of dust this equals 560 lbs of dust (both corn & field).

From testing, QED recieves 5700 BTU of usable energy per pound of dust, which equals 3,192,000 BTU. Every dryer and product yeilds different results.

Actual field tests at an outside ambient temperature of 30 degrees F have shown less than 3,000,000 BTU of gas being used instead of the 5,400,000 BTU that would be required if a perfectly dust free product was dried. Your results will vary depending on amount of dust and crop type.

	Efficiency Specifications of Industry

Efficiency Chart for 1,000 Bu/Hr.	QED	Mathews Company	Brock	Farm Fans	Sukup
Model Number	MM1000 Magnum	101050 M-C	1000S Brock	CF850H FFI Stacked	T205 Sukup Stacked
Capacity (BPH) 20% to 15% moisture removal	1,000	1,175	1,000	1,040	1,050
Burner Capacity (BTU/Hr.)	6,000,000	11,220,000	Unknown	15,200,000	16,500,000
Average Heat (BTU/Hr.)	3,900,000	6,171,000	6,290,000	Unknown	Unknown
QED's Average BTU Savings (BTU/Hr.)		2,271,000	2,390,000	11,300,000	12,600,000
Seasonal LP Cost at $2.30 per gallon	$58,500.00	$92,565.00	$94,350.00	$228,000.00	$247,500.00
QED's Seasonal LP Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$34,065.00	$35,850.00	$169,500.00	$189,000.00
Seasonal Natural Gas Cost at $1.68 per therm	$39,312.00	$62,203.68	$63,403.20	$153,216.00	$166,320.00
QED's Seasonal Natural Gas Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$22,891.68	$24,091.21	$113,904.00	$58,500.00
Percentage of the Extra Fuel Used by QED's Competition		37%	38%	74%	76%

Efficiency Chart for 2,000 Bu/Hr.	QED	Sukup	Mathews Company	GSI	Zimmerman
Model Number	MM2000 Magnum	U2012 Sukup	2000 M-C	2000 GSI	Z-2018 Z-Tower
Capacity (BPH) 20% to 15% moisture removal	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000	2,000
Burner Capacity (BTU/Hr.)	12,000,000	20,434,000	21,780,000	21,298,000	21,298,000
Average Heat (BTU/Hr.)	7,800,000	11,749,000	11,880,000	12,246,000	12,246,000
QED's Average BTU Savings (BTU/Hr.)		3,949,000	4,080,000	4,446,000	4,446,000
Seasonal LP Cost at $2.30 per gallon	$117,000.00	$176,235.00	$178,200.00	$183,690.00	$183,690.00
QED's Seasonal LP Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$59,235.00	$61,200.00	$66,690.00	$66,690.00
Seasonal Natural Gas Cost at $1.68 per therm	$78,624.00	$118,429.92	$119,750.40	$123,439.68	$123,439.68
QED's Seasonal Natural Gas Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$39,805.92	$41,126.40	$44,815.68	$44,815.68
Percentage of the Extra Fuel Used by QED's Competition		34%	34%	36%	36%

Efficiency Chart for 3,000 Bu/Hr.	QED	Sukup	GSI	Zimmerman	Brock
Model Number	MM3000 Magnum	U3018 Sukup	GSI 3000	Z-3026 Z-Tower	BCT3000 Brock
Capacity (BPH) 20% to 15% moisture removal	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000	3,000
Burner Capacity (BTU/Hr.)	18,000,000	32,011,000	31,360,000	31,360,000	33,242,000
Average Heat (BTU/Hr.)	11,700,000	18,406,000	18,034,000	18,034,000	18,948,000
QED's Average BTU Savings (BTU/Hr.)		6,706,000	6,334,000	6,334,000	7,248,000
Seasonal LP Cost at $2.30 per gallon	$175,500.00	$276,090.00	$270,510.00	$270,510.00	$284,220.00
QED's Seasonal LP Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$100,590.00	$95,010.00	$95,010.00	$108,720.00
Seasonal Natural Gas Cost at $1.68 per therm	$117,936.00	$185,532.48	$181,782.72	$181,782.72	$190,995.84
QED's Seasonal Natural Gas Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$67,596.48	$63,846.72	$63,846.72	$73,059.84
Percentage of the Extra Fuel Used by QED's Competition		36%	35%	35%	38%

Efficiency Chart for 4,000 Bu/Hr.	QED	Mathews Company	Sukup	Brock	GSI
Model Number	MM4000 Magnum	4000 M-C	U4018 Sukup	BCT4000 Brock	4000 GSI
Capacity (BPH) 20% to 15% moisture removal	4,000	4,000	4,000	4,000	4,000
Burner Capacity (BTU/Hr.)	24,000,000	42,460,000	44,582,000	43,438,000	41,634,000
Average Heat (BTU/Hr.)	15,600,000	25,480,000	25,635,000	27,266,000	23,940,000
QED's Average BTU Savings (BTU/Hr.)		9,880,000	10,035,000	11,666,000	8,340,000
Seasonal LP Cost at $2.30 per gallon	$234,000.00	$382,200.00	$384,525.00	$408,990.00	$359,100.00
QED's Seasonal LP Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$148,200.00	$150,525.00	$174,990.00	$125,100.00
Seasonal Natural Gas Cost at $1.68 per therm	$157,248.00	$256,838.40	$258,400.80	$274,841.28	$241,315.20
QED's Seasonal Natural Gas Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$99,590.40	$101,152.80	$117,593.28	$84,067.20
Percentage of the Extra Fuel Used by QED's Competition		39%	39%	43%	35%

Efficiency Chart for 5,000 Bu/Hr.	QED	Sukup	Zimmerman	GSI	Brock
Model Number	MM5000 Magnum	U5024 Sukup	Z-5046 Z-Tower	GSI 5000	BCT5000 Brock
Capacity (BPH) 20% to 15% moisture removal	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
Burner Capacity (BTU/Hr.)	32,000,000	59,422,000	60,192,000	60,192,000	60,939,000
Average Heat (BTU/Hr.)	19,500,000	34,167,000	35,024,000	35,024,000	34,735,000
QED's Average BTU Savings (BTU/Hr.)		14,667,000	15,524,000	15,524,000	15,235,000
Seasonal LP Cost at $2.30 per gallon	$292,500.00	$512,505.00	$525,360.00	$525,360.00	$521,025.00
QED's Seasonal LP Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$220,005.00	$232,860.00	$232,860.00	$228,525.00
Seasonal Natural Gas Cost at $1.68 per therm	$196,560.00	$344,403.36	$353,041.92	$353,041.92	$350,128.80
QED's Seasonal Natural Gas Savings (at 600 hrs./season)		$147,843.36	$156,481.92	$156,481.92	$153,568.80
Percentage of the Extra Fuel Used by QED's Competition		43%	44%	44%	44%

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