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INTERMITTENT DRYING OF GUAVA FRUIT USING SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ASSISTED DRYER

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K. Shekar, Prasad B Rampure, Rakesh P Tapaskar, P.P. Revankar
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si5.222

Abstract

The intermittent drying behaviors of guava were experimentally studied using a Solar Photovoltaic assisted dryer. This research aimed to investigate the performance of dryer for drying applications utilizing a Taguchi design of experiment (DoE), ANOVA analysis. The drying experiments was carried for drying guava fruit of varying thickness from 2 to 7 mm and with different intermittent ratios (α =Tr/ (Tt)), where Tr and Tt are the rest time and total (heating and tempering) time for each 60 minutes’ duty cycle α=0, 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75, respectively. The drying regime was observed all through a major falling rate. The study articulates that intermittent ratio and fruit thickness considerably effects dehydration process. The intermittency ratio of 0.25 resulted in optimum drying rate, reducing the effective drying time. Solar radiation is measured was ranged from 251 to 956 W/m2. The maximum collector & dryer efficiency was 70% & 18% respectively. The biological test resulted showed the suitability of safe consumption. The statistical analysis shows, that the Henderson & Pabis and logarithmic model is a preferred to explain intermittent drying nature of Guava fruit.

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