Energy storage for agricultural product processing enterprises

Can a solar dryer be used to dry agricultural food products?

A great deal of experimental work over the last few decades has already demonstrated for drying of agricultural food products using solar dryer having solar thermal energy storage in the form of sensible heat storage and Latent heat storage. Heat storage using ‘phase change materials’ is a wise alternative.

What is in-built thermal-storage agro solar dryer?

A new type of solar dryer ( Fig. 21 ), i.e. in-built thermal-storage agro solar dryer, was conceived, mathematically modelled, designed, simulated, developed and investigated experimentally for agricultural products such as chillies and fenugreek leaves by Potdukhe and Thombre .

Does thermal energy storage affect drying during non-sunshine hours?

The thermal energy storage affects drying during the non-sunshine hours and is very pertinent in reducing the fluctuation in temperature for drying. The proposed mathematical model is useful for evaluating the performance of reversed absorber type collector and thermal storage with natural convective solar crop dryer.

Which organic materials are suitable for energy storage?

Abhat and Buddhi and Sawhney have conducted an extensive survey of organic materials and identified a number of esters, fatty acids, alcohol's and glycol's suitable for energy storage. These organic materials are further subgroups as fatty acids and other non-paraffin organic.