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Heat required to evaporate the six days until required good quality raisins were obtained.
3 54083.14 KJ
water Moreover three sprays of chemical treatment were carried
4 Collector area 0.9 m2 during this span. After this final weight of resins was done
5 Air flow rate 0.04165 m3/s and the netting procedure was carried out to separate the
6 Mass of air 0.047 kg/s raisins according to quality. The sample of raisins was again
Table 2: Calculating parameters tested in laboratory.
Collector Inlet Collector Outlet Cabinet Outlet
Time
V. MATERIALS AND METHOD Temp 0c Temp 0c Temp 0c
10:00
A schematic diagram of the forced convection solar drier is 32.9 38.7 38.1
am
shown in Fig. 3. The solar drier consists of flat plate solar 11:00
air heater of area 0.9 m2 connected with drying chamber. am
34.2 41.9 40.8
The solar air heater has 3 mm thick G.I. absorber plate 12:00
coated with black paint to absorb the incident solar 34.8 42.3 41.3
pm
radiation. The absorber plate is placed directly behind the 01:00
transparent cover (glass) with a layer of air separating it 36.2 42.6 41.2
pm
from the cover. The air to be heated passes between the 02:00
transparent cover (glass) and the absorber plate. To increase 35.5 44.9 40.8
pm
the temperature of air by green house effect, a glass cover of 03:00
35.4 45.7 40.8
5 mm thickness was placed. The gap between the glass and pm
the absorber surface was maintained at 25 mm for air 04:00
35.2 46.8 39.5
circulation. One side of the collector was connected to the pm
blower with the help of reducer and the other side was Table 3: Average temperature variation in different location
attached with drier cabin. The drying chamber is made up of of collector and cabinet (one day)
mild steel sheet of 3 mm thickness with width, depth and
height of (762×762×889) mm respectively. The drier is
capable of holding about 30 kg of grapes per batch.
The drying chamber was insulated with thermocol
of 10 mm thickness. The solar air heater was tilted to an
angle about 25o with respect to horizontal. The system is
oriented to face south to maximize the solar radiation
incident on the solar collector, where the experiment was
conducted had about 10 hours 30 min of sunshine, but
potential sunshine duration was about 8 hours per day only.
Three Digital thermometer are used with temperature range
(-50 to +800C) were fixed at different locations. The solar
intensity was measured using solar intensity meter having
accuracy of about ± 10W/m2. A digital electronic balance of Graph 1 Temperature vs time
1 kg capacity having an accuracy of ±0.01 g was used to
weight the samples.
location where ambient temperature is about 300C as the new natural convection solar dryer. Energy
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Fig. 4: Photograph of Experimental Set- up
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Fig. 6: Raisins
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