Volume 25, Issue 2, July 2016, Pages 383–389
D. Abhiram1, M. Mithun Kumar2, G. Siva Santosh Kumar3, and M. Sreekanth4
1 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai Campus Chennai, Tamilnadu-600127, India
2 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai Campus Chennai, Tamilnadu-600127, India
3 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai Campus Chennai, Tamilnadu-600127, India
4 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A domestic scale fluidized bed dryer is designed, fabricated and used to measure the drying rates of wood chips and ground nuts at various operating conditions. Experiments were conducted at two different bed temperatures viz. 100C and 115C and also at three different fluidization velocities. The design was carried out using SOLIDWORKS and fabrication was done in a workshop using most basic processes. The purpose of keeping the cost of the facility was achieved. Different drying rates at different times, conditions, and materials were noticed. Drying times were lower for higher fluidization velocities and also at higher bed temperature. However, the influence of fluidization velocity is found to be greater than bed temperatures.
Author Keywords: Drying, Kinetics, Domestic, Fluidized Bed, Wood, Ground Nut.
D. Abhiram1, M. Mithun Kumar2, G. Siva Santosh Kumar3, and M. Sreekanth4
1 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai Campus Chennai, Tamilnadu-600127, India
2 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai Campus Chennai, Tamilnadu-600127, India
3 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Chennai Campus Chennai, Tamilnadu-600127, India
4 School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A domestic scale fluidized bed dryer is designed, fabricated and used to measure the drying rates of wood chips and ground nuts at various operating conditions. Experiments were conducted at two different bed temperatures viz. 100C and 115C and also at three different fluidization velocities. The design was carried out using SOLIDWORKS and fabrication was done in a workshop using most basic processes. The purpose of keeping the cost of the facility was achieved. Different drying rates at different times, conditions, and materials were noticed. Drying times were lower for higher fluidization velocities and also at higher bed temperature. However, the influence of fluidization velocity is found to be greater than bed temperatures.
Author Keywords: Drying, Kinetics, Domestic, Fluidized Bed, Wood, Ground Nut.
How to Cite this Article
D. Abhiram, M. Mithun Kumar, G. Siva Santosh Kumar, and M. Sreekanth, “Measurement of Drying Rates in a Domestic Scale Fluidized Bed Dryer,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 383–389, July 2016.
