{"title":"Flat plate solar air heater with helical integrated fins for drying processe","authors":"I. Farkas, M. A. Al-Neama","doi":"10.4995/IDS2018.2018.7767","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this study, an experimental investigation was carried out on solar system consists of many main components; solar air collector, drying chamber and air blower. Manufacturing and an analysis of two active double-pass solar air collector integrated with unfinned and helical finned absorbers have been carried out. The helical fins increased the standers solar collector (unfinned) efficiency by about 6%. In five hours for 2 kg of apple slices drying, the final weight of the dried product is 1.237 kg using an unfinned solar collector, while 1.039 kg using helical finned solar collector. Keywords: solar drying, air heater, thermal performance, helical fins.","PeriodicalId":107148,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 21th International Drying Symposium","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 21th International Drying Symposium","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4995/IDS2018.2018.7767","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this study, an experimental investigation was carried out on solar system consists of many main components; solar air collector, drying chamber and air blower. Manufacturing and an analysis of two active double-pass solar air collector integrated with unfinned and helical finned absorbers have been carried out. The helical fins increased the standers solar collector (unfinned) efficiency by about 6%. In five hours for 2 kg of apple slices drying, the final weight of the dried product is 1.237 kg using an unfinned solar collector, while 1.039 kg using helical finned solar collector. Keywords: solar drying, air heater, thermal performance, helical fins.