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Abstract Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of industrial drying and the quality of soybean grains using a direct-fire furnace automatically fed by wood chips. To represent the grains before drying, four samples were collected together with the sampling of the loads in the trucks carried out to classify the product in the storage unit. At drying, performance evaluations and specific energy consumption were carried out. The grains were evaluated for moisture content, germination, electrical conductivity, apparent specific mass, color, acidity index, and PAHs. Drying showed an average efficiency of 75.50%. The average chip consumption was 0.4403 kg of chip/kg of evaporated water. The specific energy consumption was 8,099.50 kJ/kg of evaporated water. The grains showed differences after drying in the characteristics of germination, electrical conductivity, and chroma. Six PAHs were detected in the samples before drying: (B(a)A, Chr, 5 MC, B(j)F, Dib(ai)P, and IcdP). After drying, in addition to the PAHs obtained before drying, five more were detected (B(b)F, B(k)F, B(a)P, Dib(al)P, and Dib(ah)A). Mean PAH concentrations were higher than the maximum values allowed by European Union legislation. Thus directfire direct fire chips unit content germination conductivity mass color index 7550 75 50 75.50% 04403 0 4403 0.440 chipkg water 809950 8 099 8,099.5 kJkg kJ chroma BaA, BaA B A, A (B(a)A Chr MC BjF, BjF j F, F B(j)F DibaiP, DibaiP Dib ai P, P Dib(ai)P IcdP. IcdP . IcdP) BbF, BbF b (B(b)F BkF, BkF k B(k)F BaP, BaP B(a)P DibalP, DibalP al Dib(al)P DibahA. DibahA ah Dib(ah)A) legislation 755 7 75.50 0440 440 0.44 80995 09 8,099. Dib(ah)A 75.5 044 44 0.4 8099 8,099 75. 04 4 0. 809 8,09 80 8,0 8,