Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 31, 2022 erstellt
Beschreibung:
A significant amount of time is consumed in the traditional drying of food products and also to maintain the required environment all leading to increases in labor cost, space, and time. Shifting towards conventional dryers has also led to an increase in electricity requirements. So, reduction of electricity us- age is a must which is not obtained by conventional air drier. The dryer’s main purpose is to heat the air flowing into the chamber and during this part maximum energy is wasted. So, to overcome this fact solar air drier comes into the picture. Solar air dryer uses solar rays to heat the air in the solar collector which requires no electricity. Also, by using solar panels other equipment which is operated by electricity can function, which eventually saves electricity, and ultimately leads to profit. One more disadvantage of solar drying is overcome by adding a PCM chamber in the setup, which utilized its energy during off-sunshine hours for drying of the air. The objective of this project is to maximize the usage of renewable source (sun rays) by using solar collector which heats the air and also keeps working during off-sunshine hours; the main purpose of the solar dryer is accomplished. An additional PCM chamber used in this project, which eventually increase the usage of solar energy and ultimately becomes an eco-friendly system