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Abstract

Terminal velocity of agricultural products is important factor in pneumatic conveying, separating and cleaning actions to avoid grain losses. Grain terminal velocity measuring apparatus was fabricated with locally available material and the terminal velocity of wheat at five different levels of relative humidity (RH) and grain moisture contents (MC) was measured. A 5x5 factor factorial analysis was carried out to find the impact of MC and RH on terminal velocity of grains. The study showed that MC and RH had significant effect on terminal velocity of wheat grains. The increase in MC increased the terminal velocity of wheat grains while RH had inverse effect on terminal velocity. The increase in RH decreased the terminal velocity significantly.