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EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DRYING OF BLANCHED BITTER GOURD SLICES IN A TRIPLE PASS SOLAR DRYER
This paper involves with the experimental performance study of a triple pass solar flat plate collector integrated with thermal energy storage medium for drying of blanched bitter gourd slices. The experimental setup consists of a blower, triple pass flat plate collector and a drying chamber. The experimets were carried out in the meterological conditions of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The mass flow rate of air through the system was set as 0.06 kgs-1. From the results, it could be comprehended that, (i) triple pass arrangement of air improves the performance of flat plate collector (ii) thermal energy storage medium played an important role in consistent outlet air temperature and the thermal efficiency (iii) triple pass solar dryer took 5 hours to reach the final moisture content of bitter gourd (9% on wet basis) which is 29 % and 37.5% faster than without thermal storage and open sun drying system. It could be concluded that triple pass solar air collector performs better than without thermal storage and open sun drying.
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DRYING OF BLANCHED BITTER GOURD SLICES IN A TRIPLE PASS SOLAR DRYER
This paper involves with the experimental performance study of a triple pass solar flat plate collector integrated with thermal energy storage medium for drying of blanched bitter gourd slices. The experimental setup consists of a blower, triple pass flat plate collector and a drying chamber. The experimets were carried out in the meterological conditions of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The mass flow rate of air through the system was set as 0.06 kgs-1. From the results, it could be comprehended that, (i) triple pass arrangement of air improves the performance of flat plate collector (ii) thermal energy storage medium played an important role in consistent outlet air temperature and the thermal efficiency (iii) triple pass solar dryer took 5 hours to reach the final moisture content of bitter gourd (9% on wet basis) which is 29 % and 37.5% faster than without thermal storage and open sun drying system. It could be concluded that triple pass solar air collector performs better than without thermal storage and open sun drying.
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DRYING OF BLANCHED BITTER GOURD SLICES IN A TRIPLE PASS SOLAR DRYER
Kesavan, S. (author) / Arjunan, T.V. (author) / Vijayan, S. (author)
2017-02-15
doi:10.24297/jac.v13i7.5796
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY; Vol. 13 No. 7 (2017); 6369-6375 ; 2321-807X
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DRYING OF BLANCHED BITTER GOURD SLICES IN A TRIPLE PASS SOLAR DRYER
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