Drying Performance of Jackfruit Dodol Using Rice Husk Energy on Household in Lombok, Indonesia

Abstract

Rice husk is a cheap fuel source and it is abundantly available in Indonesia. The heat exchanger mechanism was used in other to, the dried material was not contaminated by the combustion gases. The drying system consists of three components which include the furnace, heat exchanger pipe, and drying chamber. The heat exchanger pipe connects the furnace with the drying chamber and transfers the heat generated from rice husk burning to the drying chamber. The drying chamber was the section for drying the jackfruit dodol. It consists of 4 shelves and is equipped with an exhaust fan. The results showed capable that the dryer decreases moisture faster than conventional methods. The moisture content of jackfruit dodol reduced from 29% to 23.7% within 600 minutes and the average drying chamber efficiency was 25.3%.

Design, development, and testing of rice-husk fueled mixed-flow rice dryer for small-scale rice producer farmers

“…In the past, many researchers tried to design, develop, and evaluate the performance of a mixed-flow grain dryer that uses different energy sources mostly electric heaters. Scholars design and develop different grain dryers using rice husk as an energy source for hot air generation and these researches showed that rice husk is an alternative solution to other expensive energy sources [ [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] ]. develop and evaluated the performance of rice husk fueled shelf type dryers for corn, jackfruit, cassava, and rice drying.…”