Design and installation of a solar-gas tunnel dryer: Comparative experimental study of two scenarios of drying

Author

Oueslati, Hatem ; Ben Mabrouk, Salah ; Marni, Abhiram

Author_Institution

Lab. for Energy & ThermalProcess, Centre for Res. & Technol. of Energy, Hammam-Life, Tunisia

fYear

2014

fDate

25-27 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A tunnel dryer using different sources of energy (solar, gas, electric) has been conceived to dry wet agricultural products. First object we will enjoy the use of solar energy provided by solar air panels for drying a wet agricultural product, then the adding of an auxiliary heating system allows the use of the dryer in unfavorable weather conditions. In this paper we have made a comparative study of two scenarios of drying: solar drying and hybrid drying with the characterization of the dried product that are tomatoes.

Keywords

agricultural products; drying; solar cells; solar heating; solar power; energy sources; hybrid drying; solar air panels; solar drying; solar energy; solar gas tunnel dryer installation; wet agricultural product; Agricultural products; Mathematical model; Moisture; Solar heating; Solar radiation; Temperature measurement; drying rate; hybrid dryer; moisture content; solar dryer; temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), 2014 5th International

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2196-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IREC.2014.6826970

Filename

6826970