Low Temperature Drying Systems - Insights on the Evaluation of Their Performance

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 1987

Authors

Armando Oliveira (Author) FEUP; Armando Santos (Author) FEUP; Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes (Author) FEUP

Book

Title: Solar Energy Fundamentals and Applications (NATO-Advanced Studies Institute Series)

Pages: 656-678

Publisher: M. Nijhoff

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Abstract (EN): Low temperature drying systems are commonly used for the drying of agricultural products. The ones which use solar energy as a heat source have been developed and diffused in the past few years. The evaluation of drying systems1 performance involves consideration of all the components of the system: solar collectors, driers, etc. The correct understanding and modelling of drying phenomena is of fundamental importance to the system’s simulation. This way, the physical mechanisms involved in a drying process are referred, and methods for predicting the drying behaviour of materials are presented. The influence of various drying parameters — drying temperature, velocity, direct solar radiation incidence — are analysed, for a forced convection system. For a given solar drying system, the contribution of solar energy is quantified.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 23