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By collecting brochures and data from various manufacturers, a spreadsheet has been generated in order to perform a mathematical analysis that would compare the energy cost of drying grain for each candidate vendor to remove 5 and 10 points of moisture from corn. The main contributor to drying cost is the energy required to heat the amount of air each manufacturer delivers per bushel per second. Therefore, it is possible to compare each vendor on an equal footing using their air data, published bushel per hour throughput data, and holding capacity. For this analysis we have given some manufacturers an advantage if their system uses heat reclaim to recycle drying air back into the system in order to be more efficient. Even though