Solar Assisted Drier for Seeds

Imre, László; Fábri, László; Gémes, L.; Hecker, G.E.

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“…The drying process is very often carried out with hot air by means of different equipment and drying strategies (Imre, 1987;Sodha et al, 1987: Imre et al, 1990Tsamparlis, 1990). For this purpose, solar energy can of course, be a source of energy.…”

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Analysis of Open Sun Drying Experiments

Mulet¹,

Berna²,

Rosselló

et al. 1993

Drying Technology

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ANALYSIS OF OPEN SUN DRYING EXPERIELBNTS lnulet, A.; 2~erna, A.; 3~osse116, C. and 3~a~ellas, J.Open sun drying has lost its previous importance due to the fact that different factors affect its reliability and the quality of the products obtained.One of the set-backs for the analysis of solar drying experiments is their dependence on a non-controlled source of enerw, i.e. solar radiation de~ends on climatic conditions and 2 . . experiments are difficult to compare. It is thus necessary to investigate the advantages of a particular set up as w l l as the climatic influences. Open sun drying could constitute the natural reference, allowing the comparison of different drying strategies.A new way of standardizing drying times, baaed on solar radiation input, is proposed, to allow better evaluation of the exDeriments. An eauivalent time is defined. allowincl comnarison of experiments carried out under different circumstances. Carrots and potatoes were used in these experiments.The use of the average daily solar radiation 15.28 MJ m-2.d-1 in Palma de nallorca (39.33-N, 2.37°E), is proposed for comparison purposes. An improvement of more than 12 % in the explained variance was observed, the unexplained variance being lower than 1 % .

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