About the Book
Seed conditioning removes undesirable material including debris and stray seeds from selected raw harvested seed, so as to create planting seed that delivers high yielding crops. This two-volume set describes the essential information needed to understand this process and the machinery involved. It describes the machines available to conditioners and explains how they can be installed, operated, and maintained to give quality service. The machines are described in detail, sometimes with the help of models. The book also details the operating sequence used to prepare seed for conditioning.
Table of Contents:
Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, List of Tables, PART A, Seed Quality, Supplying High-Quality Seed, Role and Principles of Seed Conditioning, Handling Bulk Seed, Receiving Raw Seed, Determining Conditioning Requirements and Lab Model Cleaning, Seed Moisture, Drying Seed, Moving Seed in Conditioning, Elevators, Airlift Elevator, Conveyors, Surge or Hopper Feed Bins, Extracting Vegetable Seed, Pre-Cleaning and Scalping, Debearder, Brush Machine, Scarifier-Huller, Corn (Maize) Sheller, Sugarbeet Seed Decorticator, Cottonseed Delinting, Peanut (Groundnut) Sheller, Basic Cleaning—Air-Screen Cleaner, Length Separators, PART B, Gravity Separator, Stoner, Width and Thickness Grading, Roll Mill, Magnetic Separator, Color Sorter, Aspirators and Pneumatic Separators, Spiral Separator, Draper (Inclined Belt) Separator, Table Separator, Picking Tables or Belts, Vibrator Separator, Friction Separator, Buffelgrass Seed Cleaners, Buckhorn Machine, Timothy Bumper Mill, Horizontal Disk Separator, Horizontal Blower Separator, Brine and Flotation Separations, Needle Cylinder Separator, Dockins Red Rice Separator, Electrostatic Seed Separator, Resilience Separator, Polisher, Installing Conditioning Machines, Controls and Control Systems, Operating and Monitoring Machines, Seed Treating, Seed Coating and Pelletizing, Dehumidified Drying, Bagging and Weighing, Weighing, Forming Final Clean Seed Lots, Vaporproof Packaging, Handling Clean Seed, Seed Cleaning Sequence, Small-Scale and Portable Seed Cleaning, Designing A New Conditioning Line, Mobile Cleaning Facilities, Seed Priming, Index
About the Author :
Dr. Bill Gregg has managed seed conditioning programs, done research on development and design of machines, helped manufacturers of equipment, written operation and maintenance manuals, trained managers and operators, and helped design and install many seed plants in several countries.
Gary Gillups is President of Crippen International which has installed seed plants in all continents except Antarctica. The level of technology provided ranges from simple portable equipment to large fully-automated conditioning plants for organizations ranging from small-to-large private companies to governments and international agencies.
