Eventos Anais de eventos
ENCIT 2018
Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering
EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BANANA DRYING IN AN ELECTRIC HYBRID SOLAR DRYER
Submission Author:
Elvis Mayk Chaves Barbosa , MG
Co-Authors:
Elvis Mayk Chaves Barbosa, Cristiana Brasil Maia, Diogo Zidan, Rêydila Barbosa, Vinicius Augusto Camatta Santana, Antonia Sonia Cardoso Diniz
Presenter: Elvis Mayk Chaves Barbosa
doi://10.26678/ABCM.ENCIT2018.CIT18-0575
Abstract
It is estimated that 25% of the world food production since its crop until its consumption is lost, a fact that may be explained by losses in transport, storage, contamination by insects, weather, and the way of production. The drying of products is the oldest method known to the preservation of food, and it is suitable to the reduction of losses for most products. The dryers are divided into solar dryers (the drying airflow is heated by the solar radiation), artificial dryers (the drying airflow is generated by other sources of heating) and hybrid dryers (other sources of heating are used to complement the solar radiation). In this work, it was developed an experimental analysis of the drying of bananas in a hybrid solar dryer, which has an electrical auxiliary heater to complement the solar radiation. It is presented a comparison between the drying performed in the hybrid solar dryer and direct sun drying.
Keywords
hybrid solar dryer, drying, experimental analysis, bananas
