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Evaluation the effectiveness of an indirect solar dryer under Aswan governorate conditions

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Environmental engineering

Abstract

This paper presents an evaluation of an indirect solar dryer consisting of a solar collector, trays located in the drying chamber, and an air outlet opening above the drying chamber. The solar collector consists of a Corrugated galvanized steel panel painted black and covered with sheets of transparent glass, 3 mm thick from the top, and with dimensions of 2400 x 1100 mm. The side walls of the solar collector are made of wood, are the insulation is thermal wool with a 50 mm thickness and are painted black from the outside. The drying room measures 1100 x 1200 mm, is made of wood, is thermally insulated from the inside, and contains a number of shelves. The solar dryer was tested with a load of henna leaves, it was exposed to solar radiation from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. A leaves of henna drying test is used to evaluate solar dryers, with a maximum average temperature of 56.2°C for the load test. 3000 g of henna leaves were used in the load test to gauge how well the solar dryer worked. For the solar drying test, 3000 g of henna leaves were dried from a starting moisture content of 74% W.b to a final moisture content of 8.4% in 7 hours of sunlight. The drying rate was calculated to be 306.7 g/h for the load test. The drying efficiency was calculated to be 19.5%. The average collector efficiency was also discovered to be 79.7% for the load test.

DOI

10.21608/aujes.2023.214979.1159

Keywords

performance evaluation, Drying, Solar Radiation, leaves of Henna

Authors

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Hassan

MiddleName

Omar

Affiliation

الصدقة الجديدة

Email

mostafaomarhassaan@gmail.com

City

اسوان

Orcid

29610012612534

First Name

Loai

Last Name

Nasrat

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Aswan University, Aswan , Egypt

Email

loainasrat@aswu.edu.eg

City

اسوان

Orcid

-

First Name

Wael

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Abou El-magd

Affiliation

faculty of Agricultral Engineering Al azhar university Assuit Branch

Email

waelshaban.50@azhar.edu.eg

City

Assuit

Orcid

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First Name

Hassan

Last Name

Taraby

MiddleName

Haffez Hassan

Affiliation

Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Engineering and Biosystems, Aswan University

Email

htarabye@agr.aswu.edu.eg

City

Aswan

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Volume

4

Article Issue

5

Related Issue

44774

Issue Date

2023-12-01

Receive Date

2023-06-04

Publish Date

2023-12-01

Page Start

315

Page End

332

Print ISSN

2735-4229

Online ISSN

2735-4237

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https://aujes.journals.ekb.eg/article_329530.html

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1,615

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Publication Title

Aswan University Journal of Environmental Studies

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https://aujes.journals.ekb.eg/

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Evaluation the effectiveness of an indirect solar dryer under Aswan governorate conditions

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28 Dec 2024