International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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CFD Analysis of Drying Chamber for Solar Dryer Shantanu S. Kulkarni1, Prof. S.M. Ranade2 1PG
- Student, Mechanical- Heat Power Engineering, Walchand College of Engineering Sangli, Maharashtra, India 2Professor – Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering Sangli, Maharashtra, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------2. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP Abstract - This research paper presents analysis of solar drying chamber for the drying of agricultural products. The design and analysis was done in ANSYS FLUENT. ANSYS FLUENT is Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software in which flow fields and some physical quantities are calculated in detail for engineering applications. The analysis was carried out to analyze temperature and velocity distribution. Temperature and velocity are termed as most important parameters that affect the drying rate of product. The analysis results are then compared with experimental results. Coriander leaves were used as a drying material to carry out the experiments. These coriander leaves were kept inside drying chamber in three trays. To generate 3D model of the drying chamber the basic information of drying chamber is required such as dimensions of drying chamber inlet air temperature and velocity. CFD is good quantitative and qualitative technique for analyzing effect of variation of temperature and velocity on drying of the product inside said drying chamber.
Fig. 1 Solar Dryer experimental setup Fig. 1 shows the experimental setup of solar dryer. This setup mainly consists of a blower, evacuated tube collector, a collector with PCM and drying chamber. As appeared in figure the system is sun based collector and it will warm the air through characteristic sun oriented radiation. The heated air flows to drying chamber by using blower. This blower is operated by using electric supply. The hot air is passes to drying chamber to dry the products with same drying rate. We are going to analyze the effect of forced convection on the product.
Key Words: Solar Drying Chamber, ANSYS FLUENT, CFD, Drying Chamber, Coriander
1. INTRODUCTION
Sun drying is most normal technique used to preserve agricultural item generally in tropical and subtropical region. Open sun drying is most commonly utilized strategy for drying to produce ever known to man and it include basically laying to the agricultural items in sun on mats, rooftops and drying floor. This has numerous disadvantages in sight of the fact that the farm produce dried in open sky and there is danger of spoilage because of adverse climatic condition, loss of item to creepy crawlies, flying creature, absolutely relying upon climatic condition and moderate drying rate with threat of shape development subsequently causing deterioration of item. The procedure is requiring exceptionally huge region of land, require significant investment and profoundly labor incentive.
2.1 DRYING CHAMBER The drying chamber is insulated enclosed structure. The drying material is placed in the drying chamber. Trays are present in the drying chamber for placing drying material. There is one door for loading and unloading drying material. To reduce heat losses to the surrounding drying chamber must be insulated.
Another choice to open sun drying is solar dryer, improve drying by controlling airflow and hoisting the temperature of drying air utilizing sun based insulation. It occupies less room, time and generally economical contrasted with artificial mechanical drying. The drying time can be abbreviated to 65% contrasted with sun drying since, inside dryer is hotter the outside; the nature of dried items can be improved as far as cleanliness, safe dampness substance, shading and taste.
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