Performance of paddy dryer with screw conveyor assisted parabolic cylinder collector as thermal generator

Sari Farah Dina; Jufrizal; R Siti Masriani; Edwin H Sipahutar; Harry P Limbong; Erni Misran

doi:10.17485/IJST/v13i43.1385

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Performance of paddy dryer with screw conveyor assisted parabolic cylinder collector as thermal generator

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/IJST/v13i43.1385

Year: 2020, Volume: 13, Issue: 43, Pages: 4446-4453

Original Article

Performance of paddy dryer with screw conveyor assisted parabolic cylinder collector as thermal generator

Sari Farah Dina^1*, Jufrizal², R Siti Masriani¹, Edwin H Sipahutar¹,Harry P Limbong¹, Erni Misran³

¹Center for Research and Standardization of Industry Medan, Indonesia
²Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Medan Institute of Technology, Medan, Indonesia
³Department of Chemical Engineering, Universitas Sumatera Utara

*Correspondence Author
Email: [email protected]

Received Date:31 October 2020, Accepted Date:16 November 2020, Published Date:09 December 2020

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Objectives: This study aims to develop better solar dryer for paddy drying. Methods and Analysis:The design and fabrication of a parabolic cylinder type collector-drying unit has been developed. Paddy is dried by the variation which took place into four batches starting from batch 1 (08:30 - 09:20), batch 2 (09:30- 10:10), batch 3 (10:20 - 11:10) and batch 4 (11:40 - 12:20) Western Indonesia Time (GMT +7), with a capacity of 5 kg of paddy/batch and solar radiation is in the range of 408.5 - 547.2 Watt/m2. The highest irradiation takes place in batch 2 with the maximum temperature inside the dryer reaching 74◦C. Findings: Overall the experiments achieved that paddy temperature are in the range of 43 – 45◦C, with the shortest drying time achieved in batches 2 and batch 4 i.e. 40 minutes. Thermal efficiency are in the range of 37.91% - 50.35%, SEC of 5.318 - 7.042 MJ/kg H2O evaporated and drying rate of 1.06 - 1.38 kg/hrs. Thus, this solar dryer is more effective than industrial inclined bed dryer or theindustrial horizontal rotary dryer. Novelty: The solar dryer using a parabolic cylinder type solar collector with a screw conveyor has been designed which can reduce drying time and moisture content better.

Keywords: Solar dryer; parabolic collector; paddy; efficiency

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